B.J. McDonald

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

B.J. McDonald is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, B.J. McDonald has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Geophysics, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in B.J. McDonald's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (37 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (22 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (17 papers). B.J. McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (37 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (22 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (17 papers). B.J. McDonald collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and New Zealand. B.J. McDonald's co-authors include Noreen J. Evans, Christopher L. Kirkland, Richard Taylor, R.H. Smithies, Martin Danišík, Brent McInnes, Julie A. Hollis, I. C. W. Fitzsimons, Chris Clark and Thomas Becker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

B.J. McDonald

47 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Zircon Th/U ratios in magmatic environs

2014 431 citations Christopher L. Kirkland, R.H. Smithies et al. Lithos profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B.J. McDonald Australia	22	1.5k	724	194	181	131	48	1.6k
Christopher M. Fisher United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	905 1.3×	163 0.8×	309 1.7×	163 1.2×	81	2.1k
Theodoros Ntaflos Austria	31	2.2k 1.5×	559 0.8×	244 1.3×	314 1.7×	197 1.5×	132	2.4k
Todd B. Housh United States	21	1.8k 1.2×	597 0.8×	213 1.1×	229 1.3×	109 0.8×	31	2.0k
Ray Macdonald United Kingdom	19	1.1k 0.7×	400 0.6×	197 1.0×	169 0.9×	79 0.6×	59	1.3k
Teresa Ubide Australia	23	1.6k 1.1×	483 0.7×	226 1.2×	159 0.9×	84 0.6×	84	1.8k
Giada Iacono–Marziano France	23	1.6k 1.1×	351 0.5×	145 0.7×	160 0.9×	115 0.9×	37	1.8k
Dewashish Upadhyay India	28	2.1k 1.4×	733 1.0×	115 0.6×	282 1.6×	111 0.8×	96	2.4k
L. Gordon Medaris United States	29	1.8k 1.2×	373 0.5×	192 1.0×	370 2.0×	185 1.4×	68	2.0k
Daniel J. Dunkley Japan	27	2.4k 1.6×	789 1.1×	339 1.7×	261 1.4×	281 2.1×	97	2.5k
Susan M. Swapp United States	19	1.1k 0.7×	400 0.6×	92 0.5×	208 1.1×	127 1.0×	41	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B.J. McDonald

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kirkland, Christopher L., et al.. (2025). A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2224–2224. 3 indexed citations

Liebmann, Janne, David R. Mole, Christopher L. Kirkland, et al.. (2024). A crustal Pb isotope map of southeastern Australia. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1222–1222. 2 indexed citations

Quesnel, Y., P. Rochette, David Baratoux, et al.. (2023). New geophysical and zircon data support an impact hypothesis for the Velingara structure (Senegal). Journal of African Earth Sciences. 209. 105121–105121. 2 indexed citations

Turnbull, Rose, Joshua Schwartz, Marco L. Fiorentini, et al.. (2023). Mapping the 4D lithospheric architecture of Zealandia using zircon O and Hf isotopes in plutonic rocks. Gondwana Research. 121. 436–471. 8 indexed citations

Kinny, P. D., Chris Clark, Christopher L. Kirkland, et al.. (2022). How old are the Jack Hills metasediments really?: The case for contamination of bedrock by zircon grains in transported regolith. Geology. 50(6). 721–725. 7 indexed citations

Olierook, Hugo K.H., Fred Jourdan, Christopher L. Kirkland, et al.. (2021). Mafic intrusions in southwestern Australia related to supercontinent assembly or breakup?. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 69(2). 200–222. 2 indexed citations

Rankenburg, Kai, B.J. McDonald, Noreen J. Evans, et al.. (2021). Snake scales record environmental metal(loid) contamination. Environmental Pollution. 274. 116547–116547. 15 indexed citations

Volante, Silvia, Amaury Pourteau, William J. Collins, et al.. (2020). Multiple P–T–d–t paths reveal the evolution of the final Nuna assembly in northeast Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 38(6). 593–627. 36 indexed citations

Spencer, Christopher J., Martin Danišík, Hisatoshi Ito, et al.. (2019). Rapid Exhumation of Earth's Youngest Exposed Granites Driven by Subduction of an Oceanic Arc. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1259–1267. 21 indexed citations

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Danišík, Martin, Brent McInnes, Christopher L. Kirkland, et al.. (2017). Seeing is believing: Visualization of He distribution in zircon and implications for thermal history reconstruction on single crystals. Science Advances. 3(2). e1601121–e1601121. 111 indexed citations

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Kirkland, Christopher L., Julie A. Hollis, Martin Danišík, et al.. (2017). Apatite and titanite from the Karrat Group, Greenland; implications for charting the thermal evolution of crust from the U-Pb geochronology of common Pb bearing phases. Precambrian Research. 300. 107–120. 59 indexed citations

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Kirkland, Christopher L., Catherine Spaggiari, Tim Johnson, et al.. (2016). Grain size matters: Implications for element and isotopic mobility in titanite. Precambrian Research. 278. 283–302. 51 indexed citations

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Kirkland, Christopher L., R.H. Smithies, Richard Taylor, Noreen J. Evans, & B.J. McDonald. (2014). Zircon Th/U ratios in magmatic environs. Lithos. 212-215. 397–414. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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Danišík, Martin, et al.. (2013). (U–Th)/He chronology of the Robe River channel iron deposits, Hamersley Province, Western Australia. Chemical Geology. 354. 150–162. 47 indexed citations

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Danišík, Martin, Jaroslav Kadlec, Christoph Glotzbach, et al.. (2011). Tracing metamorphism, exhumation and topographic evolution in orogenic belts by multiple thermochronology: a case study from the Nízke Tatry Mts., Western Carpathians. Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 104(2). 285–298. 20 indexed citations

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Danišík, Martin, et al.. (2011). (U-Th)/He geochronology of channel iron deposits, Robe River, Hamersley Province, Australia - Implications for ore genesis. eSpace (Curtin University). 62011. 83–86. 1 indexed citations

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Danišík, Martin, Katharina Pfaff, Noreen J. Evans, et al.. (2010). Tectonothermal history of the Schwarzwald Ore District (Germany): An apatite triple dating approach. Chemical Geology. 278(1-2). 58–69. 32 indexed citations

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McInnes, Brent, et al.. (2008). Double dating of zircon via SHRIMP U/Pb and (U-Th)/He methods. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12). 1 indexed citations

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McDonald, B.J., et al.. (2000). . IN-SITU ENVIRONMENTAL XRF. 3 indexed citations

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McDonald, B.J. & W.I. Stuart. (1960). The crystal structure of some plutonium borides. Acta Crystallographica. 13(5). 447–448. 12 indexed citations

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