Ali Polat

12.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
155 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Ali Polat is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Polat has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Geophysics, 63 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 27 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Ali Polat's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (154 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (101 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (99 papers). Ali Polat is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (154 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (101 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (99 papers). Ali Polat collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and Denmark. Ali Polat's co-authors include Timothy Kusky, Axel Hofmann, Robert Kerrich, Brian J. Fryer, R. Kerrich, Minik T. Rosing, Robert Frei, Brian F. Windley, Peter Appel and Derek A. Wyman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ali Polat

152 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Boninite-like volcanic rocks in the 3.7–3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland: geochemical evidence for intra-oceanic subduction zone processes in the early Earth

2002 752 citations Ali Polat et al. profile →
Alteration and geochemical patterns in the 3.7–3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland

2003 737 citations Ali Polat et al. Precambrian Research profile →
Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

2016 342 citations Timothy Kusky, Ali Polat et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →
Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8 billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

2013 288 citations Timothy Kusky, Brian F. Windley et al. Gondwana Research profile →
Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean

2020 198 citations Brian F. Windley, Timothy Kusky et al. Precambrian Research profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Polat Canada	60	10.0k	3.9k	1.6k	678	523	155	10.4k
Yusheng Wan China	61	10.6k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	690 1.0×	474 0.9×	163	11.0k
Jean‐François Moyen France	42	11.4k 1.1×	5.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	557 0.8×	364 0.7×	114	11.7k
R.H. Smithies Australia	42	9.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	700 1.0×	438 0.8×	110	9.3k
Xisheng Xu China	38	8.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	959 0.6×	333 0.5×	760 1.5×	117	8.5k
Zi‐Fu Zhao China	57	11.2k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	410 0.6×	426 0.8×	181	11.8k
Bruno Dhuime United Kingdom	33	6.5k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	942 1.4×	369 0.7×	63	7.0k
Tom Andersen Norway	39	7.8k 0.8×	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	857 1.3×	515 1.0×	133	8.2k
P. W. O. Hoskin Australia	22	8.7k 0.9×	4.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	416 0.6×	276 0.5×	35	9.1k
Xuan‐Ce Wang China	47	8.9k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	622 0.9×	591 1.1×	123	9.6k
Hugh Rollinson United Kingdom	39	6.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	451 0.7×	375 0.7×	110	7.4k

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Polat, Ali, et al.. (2025). Petrogenesis of a newly discovered ∼1.1 Ga aillikite, carbonate-rich kimberlite, and carbonatite association on the northern margin of the Mid-continental Rift System, Ontario, Canada. Precambrian Research. 420. 107736–107736.

Wang, Wei, Guocan Wang, Zhenyu Xuan, et al.. (2025). Tectonic setting and evolution of the Kangguer Ocean: New constraints from structural and geochemical analyses of the late Paleozoic Kangguer mélange belt in Eastern Tianshan, NW China. Gondwana Research. 149. 70–97.

Polat, Ali, et al.. (2024). Early terrestrial and lunar anorthosites: Comparative geochemistry and evolutionary processes. Geoscience Frontiers. 15(6). 101914–101914. 1 indexed citations

Polat, Ali, et al.. (2024). Petrogenesis and Geodynamic Evolution of the Archean Shawmere Anorthosite Complex and Associated Gneisses, Kapuskasing Uplift, Superior Province, Canada. Journal of Petrology. 65(6). 5 indexed citations

Deng, Hao, Timothy Kusky, Ali Polat, et al.. (2024). Growth of the Central Orogenic Belt, North China Craton through accretion of different Neoarchean arc terranes: Perspective from the Linshan complex. Precambrian Research. 412. 107555–107555. 1 indexed citations

Polat, Ali, et al.. (2023). Geochemistry of Archean anorthosite-bearing layered intrusions. Earth-Science Reviews. 249. 104654–104654. 6 indexed citations

Fu, Dong, Bo Huang, Simon A. Wilde, et al.. (2023). The tempo of back-arc basin evolution: Insights from the early Paleozoic Proto-Tethyan North Qilian orogenic belt, northeastern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 603. 117976–117976. 28 indexed citations

Huang, Bo, Tim Johnson, Simon A. Wilde, et al.. (2022). Coexisting divergent and convergent plate boundary assemblages indicate plate tectonics in the Neoarchean. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6450–6450. 36 indexed citations

Kusky, Timothy, Lu Wang, Ali Polat, et al.. (2021). Alpine-style nappes thrust over ancient North China continental margin demonstrate large Archean horizontal plate motions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6172–6172. 43 indexed citations

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Huang, Bo, Timothy Kusky, Tim Johnson, et al.. (2020). Paired metamorphism in the Neoarchean: A record of accretionary-to-collisional orogenesis in the North China Craton. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 543. 116355–116355. 79 indexed citations

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Huang, Bo, Timothy Kusky, Lu Wang, et al.. (2018). Structural relationships and kinematics of the Neoarchean Dengfeng forearc and accretionary complexes, southern North China craton. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 131(5-6). 966–996. 39 indexed citations

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Kusky, Timothy, Brian F. Windley, & Ali Polat. (2018). Geological Evidence for the Operation of Plate Tectonics throughout the Archean: Records from Archean Paleo-Plate Boundaries. Journal of Earth Science. 29(6). 1291–1303. 113 indexed citations

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Kusky, Timothy, Ali Polat, Brian F. Windley, et al.. (2016). Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents. Earth-Science Reviews. 162. 387–432. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Kun-Guang, et al.. (2016). The ∼860 Ma mafic dikes and granitoids from the northern margin of the Yangtze Block, China: A record of oceanic subduction in the early Neoproterozoic. Precambrian Research. 275. 310–331. 63 indexed citations

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Szilas, Kristoffer, J. Elis Hoffmann, Toni Schulz, et al.. (2016). Combined bulk-rock Hf- and Nd-isotope compositions of Mesoarchaean metavolcanic rocks from the Ivisaartoq Supracrustal Belt, SW Greenland: Deviations from the mantle array caused by crustal recycling. Geochemistry. 76(4). 543–554. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Junpeng, Timothy Kusky, Lu Wang, Ali Polat, & Hao Deng. (2015). A Neoarchean subduction polarity reversal event in the North China Craton. Lithos. 220-223. 133–146. 59 indexed citations

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Polat, Ali, et al.. (2015). Formation of the Neoarchean Bad Vermilion Lake Anorthosite Complex and spatially associated granitic rocks at a convergent plate margin, Superior Province, Western Ontario, Canada. Gondwana Research. 33. 134–159. 20 indexed citations

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Deng, Hao, Timothy Kusky, Ali Polat, et al.. (2014). Geochronology, mantle source composition and geodynamic constraints on the origin of Neoarchean mafic dikes in the Zanhuang Complex, Central Orogenic Belt, North China Craton. Lithos. 205. 359–378. 66 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım & Ali Polat. (2008). Suprasubduction zone ophiolites and Archean tectonics. Geology. 36(5). 431–431. 126 indexed citations

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Polat, Ali, Robert Kerrich, & Derek A. Wyman. (1999). Geochemical diversity in oceanic komatiites and basalts from the late Archean Wawa greenstone belts, Superior Province, Canada: trace element and Nd isotope evidence for a heterogeneous mantle. Precambrian Research. 94(3-4). 139–173. 161 indexed citations

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