Conall Mac Niocaill

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Conall Mac Niocaill is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Conall Mac Niocaill has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Geophysics, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 34 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Conall Mac Niocaill's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (54 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (34 papers). Conall Mac Niocaill is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (54 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (34 papers). Conall Mac Niocaill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Conall Mac Niocaill's co-authors include Rob Van der Voo, W. S. McKerrow, John Dewey, Joseph G. Meert, Cees R. van Staal, P. J. A. McCausland, Trond H. Torsvik, Ulla Preeden, Bernhard Steinberger and Carmen Gaina and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Conall Mac Niocaill

76 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

2012 1.1k citations Rob Van der Voo, Conall Mac Niocaill et al. profile →
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 Conall Mac Niocaill et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Conall Mac Niocaill United Kingdom	29	3.0k	1.5k	1.3k	958	615	77	4.1k
Tianshui Yang China	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	541 0.9×	140	4.0k
Malcolm S. Pringle United Kingdom	45	4.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.6×	851 0.6×	546 0.6×	842 1.4×	84	5.8k
Mark A. Smethurst Norway	25	2.7k 0.9×	661 0.4×	889 0.7×	723 0.8×	484 0.8×	46	3.4k
E. Tohver Australia	38	4.0k 1.4×	888 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	791 0.8×	1.5k 2.4×	95	4.9k
Mathew Domeier Norway	23	2.7k 0.9×	721 0.5×	917 0.7×	733 0.8×	436 0.7×	51	3.3k
Márcia Ernesto Brazil	23	2.4k 0.8×	634 0.4×	944 0.7×	560 0.6×	804 1.3×	75	3.0k
Sébastien Nomade France	41	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	488 0.5×	416 0.7×	164	4.8k
M. K. Watkeys South Africa	28	1.8k 0.6×	703 0.5×	476 0.4×	536 0.6×	588 1.0×	68	2.5k
Brooks B. Ellwood United States	39	2.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	2.0k 1.5×	2.0k 2.0×	283 0.5×	145	4.9k
Nicholas L. Swanson‐Hysell United States	30	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	751 0.8×	239 0.4×	75	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bryson, J. F. J., Claire Nichols, & Conall Mac Niocaill. (2023). A unified intensity of the magnetic field in the protoplanetary disk from the Winchcombe meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 59(5). 1194–1215. 8 indexed citations

Pickering, K.T., et al.. (2020). A revised age-model for the Eocene deep-marine siliciclastic systems, Aínsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees. Journal of the Geological Society. 178(1). 5 indexed citations

Hesselbo, Stephen P., et al.. (2019). The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada proximal ejecta blanket, NW Scotland: constraints on crater location from field observations, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, petrography and geochemistry. Journal of the Geological Society. 176(5). 830–846. 13 indexed citations

Gregory, L. C., et al.. (2018). Vertical axis rotation (or lack thereof) of the eastern Mongolian Altay Mountains: Implications for far-field transpressional mountain building. Tectonophysics. 736. 31–46. 6 indexed citations

Niocaill, Conall Mac, et al.. (2015). Long duration (>4 Ma) and steady-state volcanic activity in the early Cretaceous Paraná–Etendeka Large Igneous Province: New palaeomagnetic data from Namibia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 414. 16–29. 63 indexed citations

Niocaill, Conall Mac. (2013). Calling card of a ghost continent. Nature Geoscience. 6(3). 165–166.

Bourne, Mark D., Gideon M. Henderson, Alexander Thomas, & Conall Mac Niocaill. (2012). High-resolution palaeomagnetic records of the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion from ODP Sites 1061 and 1062. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

Bourne, Mark D., Conall Mac Niocaill, Alexander Thomas, Mads Faurschou Knudsen, & Gideon M. Henderson. (2012). Rapid directional changes associated with a 6.5kyr-long Blake geomagnetic excursion at the Blake–Bahama Outer Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 333-334. 21–34. 13 indexed citations

Taylor, John R., et al.. (2011). An Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Study of the Stac Fada Member Suevite: Constraints on the Impact Crater Location. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 74. 5089. 2 indexed citations

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Bourne, Mark D., Conall Mac Niocaill, Gideon M. Henderson, Alexander Thomas, & Mads Faurschou Knudsen. (2010). A New High-Resolution Record of the Blake Geomagnetic Excursion from ODP Site 1062. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2010(8). 5896–91. 1 indexed citations

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Paterson, Greig A., Andrew P. Roberts, Conall Mac Niocaill, et al.. (2009). Paleomagnetic determination of emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic deposits: an under-utilized tool. Bulletin of Volcanology. 72(3). 309–330. 53 indexed citations

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Niocaill, Conall Mac, et al.. (2008). The Neoproterozoic Drift History of Laurentia: a Critical Evaluation and new Palaeomagnetic Data from Northern and Eastern Greenland. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, Richard, Conall Mac Niocaill, James Hollingsworth, et al.. (2006). Geomorphology of the Doruneh Left-Lateral Strike-Slip Fault in Eastern Iran. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Niocaill, Conall Mac, et al.. (2004). Oroclinal bending in the Bolivian Andes: New evidence for post 10 Ma rotations linked to shortening gradients in the fold-and-thrust belt. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Niocaill, Conall Mac, et al.. (2004). Preliminary Paleomagnetic Results From the Late Neoproterozoic of Eastern Greenland: A low-latitude Sturtian Glaciation?. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 2004. 2 indexed citations

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Lamb, Simon, et al.. (2004). Cenozoic distributed rotational deformation, South Island, New Zealand. Tectonics. 23(2). 30 indexed citations

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McNamara, A. K., Conall Mac Niocaill, Ben A. van der Pluijm, & Rob Van der Voo. (2001). West African proximity of the Avalon terrane in the latest Precambrian. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 113(9). 1161–1170. 58 indexed citations

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Weil, Arlo Brandon, Rob Van der Voo, Conall Mac Niocaill, & Joseph G. Meert. (1998). The Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia: paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for 1100 to 800 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 154(1-4). 13–24. 321 indexed citations

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Li, Jijun, Xiaomin Fang, Rob Van der Voo, et al.. (1997). Magnetostratigraphic dating of river terraces: Rapid and intermittent incision by the Yellow River of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau during the Quaternary. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(B5). 10121–10132. 148 indexed citations

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Niocaill, Conall Mac, et al.. (1997). Application of Bingham statistics to a paleopole data set: Towards a better definition of APWP trends?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 146(1-2). 97–106. 4 indexed citations

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