Cees R. van Staal

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Cees R. van Staal is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cees R. van Staal has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Geophysics, 82 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 44 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Cees R. van Staal's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (136 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (82 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (60 papers). Cees R. van Staal is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (136 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (82 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (60 papers). Cees R. van Staal collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Cees R. van Staal's co-authors include W. S. McKerrow, N Rogers, V J McNicoll, Alexandre Zagorevski, John Dewey, Conall Mac Niocaill, J B Whalen, Pablo Valverde-Vaquero, J. Brendan Murphy and Sandra M. Barr and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Cees R. van Staal

140 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

  1. The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus
    1998 504 citations Cees R. van Staal et al. Geological Society London Special Publications profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Cees R. van Staal 4.8k 2.2k 1.2k 492 467 146 5.0k
J. Stephen Daly 4.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 477 0.4× 573 1.2× 502 1.1× 128 4.6k
Bert De Waele 5.6k 1.2× 2.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 482 1.0× 756 1.6× 70 6.1k
A Davidson 3.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 787 0.6× 518 1.1× 488 1.0× 31 4.4k
Dirk Frei 4.8k 1.0× 2.3k 1.1× 623 0.5× 391 0.8× 849 1.8× 169 5.3k
Keith Sircombe 3.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 590 0.5× 505 1.0× 513 1.1× 30 3.4k
Jiří Sláma 5.8k 1.2× 2.8k 1.3× 831 0.7× 470 1.0× 799 1.7× 107 6.1k
William C. McClelland 4.0k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 430 0.3× 511 1.0× 287 0.6× 128 4.3k
Jocelyn McPhie 3.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 538 0.4× 1.1k 2.2× 394 0.8× 112 3.8k
Gerald M. Ross 2.5k 0.5× 857 0.4× 642 0.5× 559 1.1× 375 0.8× 68 3.0k
Dov Avigad 4.2k 0.9× 988 0.5× 571 0.5× 460 0.9× 507 1.1× 84 4.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cees R. van Staal

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All Works

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Lin, Shoufa, Wenjiao Xiao, John M. Hanchar, et al.. (2024). Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry. Geology. 52(8). 577–582. 6 indexed citations
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Fyffe, L. R., et al.. (2023). An overview of Early Paleozoic arc systems in New Brunswick, Canada, and eastern Maine, USA. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 59. 1–28. 9 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, et al.. (2023). Evolving Permian magmatism associated with arc migration in the southern Beishan Orogenic Collage, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China. Geological Society London Special Publications. 542(1). 593–618. 2 indexed citations
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Bleeker, Wouter, Sandra L. Kamo, H A Sandeman, et al.. (2022). Latest Silurian syntectonic sedimentation and magmatism and Early Devonian orogenic gold mineralization, central Newfoundland Appalachians, Canada: Setting, structure, lithogeochemistry, and high-precision U-Pb geochronology. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 134(11-12). 2933–2957. 8 indexed citations
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Vries, Jordy de, Shoufa Lin, Cees R. van Staal, & Chris Yakymchuk. (2022). A structural–metamorphic study of the Gubaoquan eclogites and enveloping rock units in the Beishan Orogenic Collage, NW China, with emphasis on the structural evolution, nature of juxtaposition and exhumation. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 111(8). 2603–2632. 3 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, et al.. (2022). Permian back‐arc basin formation and arc migration in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Northwest China. Geological Journal. 58(2). 523–533. 4 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, et al.. (2022). Mapping uncovered a multi-phase arc–back-arc system in the southern Beishan during the Permian. National Science Review. 10(2). nwac204–nwac204. 5 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, R. A. Wilson, & William C. McClelland. (2015). Discussion: Taconian orogenesis, sedimentation and magmatism in the southern Quebec-northern Vermont Appalachians: Stratigraphic and detrital mineral record of Iapetan suturing. American Journal of Science. 315(5). 486–500. 5 indexed citations
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Wilson, R. A., Cees R. van Staal, & William C. McClelland. (2015). Synaccretionary sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the Ordovician Tetagouche backarc basin, New Brunswick, Canada: Evidence for a transition from foredeep to forearc basin sedimentation. American Journal of Science. 315(10). 958–1001. 19 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, A Zagorevski, S Castonguay, et al.. (2011). Variations in Tectonic Styles of Arc-Continent Collisions. AGUFM. 2011. 2 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, et al.. (2009). Neoproteozoic to Cambrian Tectonic Evolution of the Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana: Implications for the Opening of Iapetus. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations
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Zagorevski, A, Cees R. van Staal, N Rogers, & V McNicoll. (2008). Middle Cambrian to Ordovician Arc - Back-arc Development on the Leading Edge of Ganderia, Newfoundland Appalachians. AGUFM. 2008. 2 indexed citations
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Percival, J A, Wouter Bleeker, Frederick A. Cook, et al.. (2004). PanLITHOPROBE Workshop IV: Intra-Orogen Correlations and Comparative Orogenic Anatomy. Geoscience Canada. 31(1). 23–39. 37 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van. (2003). Tectonic evolution of the Notre Dame magmatic arc, Newfoundland Appalachians. AGUFM. 2003. 5 indexed citations
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Staal, Cees R. van, L. R. Fyffe, John Langton, & S. R. McCutcheon. (1992). The Ordovician Tetagouche Group, Bathurst Camp, northern New Brunswick, Canada; history, tectonic setting and distribution of massive-sulfide deposits. Exploration and Mining Geology. 1(2). 93–103. 33 indexed citations

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