Aubrey L. Zerkle

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Aubrey L. Zerkle is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aubrey L. Zerkle has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Paleontology, 28 papers in Atmospheric Science and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Aubrey L. Zerkle's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (36 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (15 papers). Aubrey L. Zerkle is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (36 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (15 papers). Aubrey L. Zerkle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Aubrey L. Zerkle's co-authors include James Farquhar, Donald E. Canfield, Mark W. Claire, Simon W. Poulton, Bruce W. Fouke, Andrey Bekker, George T. Bonheyo, Jorge Frias‐Lopez, David T. Johnston and Christopher H. House and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aubrey L. Zerkle

62 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation

2021 160 citations Simon W. Poulton, Andrey Bekker et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aubrey L. Zerkle United Kingdom	30	1.7k	1.3k	1.0k	975	785	65	3.6k
Eva E. Stüeken United Kingdom	31	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	957 0.9×	555 0.6×	536 0.7×	105	3.1k
Itay Halevy Israel	31	1.3k 0.8×	893 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	546 0.6×	466 0.6×	81	3.2k
Tanja Bosak United States	33	1.8k 1.1×	814 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	721 0.7×	444 0.6×	77	3.3k
Alexandra V. Turchyn United Kingdom	42	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	934 1.0×	912 1.2×	123	4.7k
Aivo Lepland Norway	37	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	497 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	164	4.4k
Benjamin Mills United Kingdom	36	2.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	375 0.4×	986 1.3×	98	4.0k
Magali Ader France	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	548 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	114	3.4k
Frank A. Corsetti United States	39	3.5k 2.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	606 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	126	4.4k
David Wacey Australia	31	1.7k 1.0×	689 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	412 0.4×	797 1.0×	82	3.0k
Christian J. Bjerrum Denmark	30	2.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	437 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	54	4.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Woitke, P., et al.. (2024). Habitability constraints by nutrient availability in atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. International Journal of Astrobiology. 23. 2 indexed citations

Walton, Craig R., Jihua Hao, Fang Huang, et al.. (2023). Evolution of the crustal phosphorus reservoir. Science Advances. 9(18). eade6923–eade6923. 22 indexed citations

Georgieva, Magdalena N., Crispin T. S. Little, Richard Herrington, et al.. (2022). Sulfur isotopes of hydrothermal vent fossils and insights into microbial sulfur cycling within a lower Paleozoic (Ordovician‐early Silurian) vent community. Geobiology. 20(4). 465–478. 4 indexed citations

Junium, Christopher K., Aubrey L. Zerkle, James D. Witts, et al.. (2022). Massive perturbations to atmospheric sulfur in the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(14). 18 indexed citations

Poulton, Simon W., Andrey Bekker, Vivien M. Cumming, et al.. (2021). A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation. Nature. 592(7853). 232–236. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

Fox‐Powell, Mark, Aubrey L. Zerkle, Fernando Gázquez, et al.. (2021). Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments. Geobiology. 19(5). 489–509. 14 indexed citations

Shen, Jianxun, Aubrey L. Zerkle, & Mark W. Claire. (2021). Nitrogen Cycling and Biosignatures in a Hyperarid Mars Analog Environment. Astrobiology. 22(2). 127–142. 11 indexed citations

Warke, Matthew R., Tommaso Di Rocco, Aubrey L. Zerkle, et al.. (2020). The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13314–13320. 118 indexed citations

Zerkle, Aubrey L., Runsheng Yin, Chaoyue Chen, et al.. (2020). Anomalous fractionation of mercury isotopes in the Late Archean atmosphere. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1709–1709. 69 indexed citations

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Zerkle, Aubrey L., et al.. (2019). Anaerobic nitrogen cycling on a Neoarchaean ocean margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 527. 115800–115800. 15 indexed citations

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Blättler, Clara L., Mark W. Claire, Anthony R. Prave, et al.. (2018). Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation. Science. 360(6386). 320–323. 112 indexed citations

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Izon, Gareth, Aubrey L. Zerkle, Kenneth H. Williford, et al.. (2017). Biological regulation of atmospheric chemistry en route to planetary oxygenation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(13). E2571–E2579. 64 indexed citations

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Zerkle, Aubrey L., Gareth Izon, & Mark W. Claire. (2016). State of the Haze: The Causes and Consequences of a Hydrocarbon-rich Neoarchean Atmosphere. AGUFM. 2016.

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Crowe, Sean A., Guillaume Paris, Sergei Katsev, et al.. (2014). Sulfate was a trace constituent of Archean seawater. Science. 346(6210). 735–739. 252 indexed citations

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Oduro, Harry, Alexey Kamyshny, Aubrey L. Zerkle, Yue Li, & James Farquhar. (2013). Quadruple sulfur isotope constraints on the origin and cycling of volatile organic sulfur compounds in a stratified sulfidic lake. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 120. 251–262. 14 indexed citations

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Zerkle, Aubrey L., Kathleen Scheiderich, Julia A. Maresca, Laura J. Liermann, & Susan L. Brantley. (2010). Molybdenum isotope fractionation by cyanobacterial assimilation during nitrate utilization and N2fixation. Geobiology. 9(1). 94–106. 47 indexed citations

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Farquhar, James, Aubrey L. Zerkle, & Andrey Bekker. (2010). Geological constraints on the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research. 107(1). 11–36. 157 indexed citations

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Zerkle, Aubrey L., Alexey Kamyshny, Lee R. Kump, et al.. (2009). Biogeochemical sulfur cycling in meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake NY. GeCAS. 73. 2 indexed citations

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Farquhar, James, Donald E. Canfield, Aubrey L. Zerkle, & K. Habicht. (2009). Isotope study of S-cycle of Lago di Cadagno. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 73. 1 indexed citations

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Junium, Christopher K., Aubrey L. Zerkle, & Michael A. Arthur. (2006). The Fix is On! Nitrogen isotope evidence for high surface-water iron availability during Oceanic Anoxic Event II. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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