David A. Foster

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
230 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

David A. Foster is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Foster has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 195 papers in Geophysics, 67 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 64 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in David A. Foster's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (183 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (115 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (67 papers). David A. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (183 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (115 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (67 papers). David A. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Colombia. David A. Foster's co-authors include David R. Gray, Andrew Gleadow, Ben Goscombe, Barry P. Kohn, C. Mark Fanning, Richard Kolesnick, Sarah Spiegel, Barbara E. John, T. Mark Harrison and Catherine Spaggiari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David A. Foster

227 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northe... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David A. Foster United States 54 8.2k 2.7k 1.6k 1.6k 1.0k 230 9.9k
Michael McWilliams United States 54 8.8k 1.1× 2.2k 0.8× 853 0.5× 2.5k 1.6× 1.0k 1.0× 127 10.2k
W. S. F. Kidd United States 41 8.3k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 931 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 709 0.7× 103 9.8k
Nicolas Arnaud France 45 9.0k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 667 0.6× 92 10.4k
Ian W. D. Dalziel United States 52 7.5k 0.9× 2.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 3.1k 1.9× 2.1k 2.0× 146 9.2k
J.R. Wijbrans Netherlands 53 7.7k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 614 0.4× 2.7k 1.7× 1.2k 1.1× 207 9.2k
Zhenyu Yang China 49 5.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 183 7.4k
Paul Kapp United States 64 14.8k 1.8× 4.0k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 3.1k 1.9× 1.5k 1.4× 149 16.9k
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Netherlands 63 12.4k 1.5× 1.4k 0.5× 1.8k 1.1× 3.0k 1.8× 2.0k 1.9× 250 15.0k
Sergei Pisarevsky Australia 49 11.7k 1.4× 4.2k 1.6× 1.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 2.8k 2.7× 147 12.6k
Mark B. Allen United Kingdom 50 10.1k 1.2× 3.2k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 843 0.8× 180 12.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ochoa, Diana, Matthieu Carré, Thomas J. DeVries, et al.. (2025). Late Miocene greening of the Peruvian Desert. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Wang, Ce, et al.. (2024). Linking Taiwan to the Cathaysia Block during the Cenozoic: Evidence from Pb isotopes in detrital K-feldspar. Global and Planetary Change. 239. 104508–104508. 2 indexed citations
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Goscombe, Ben, et al.. (2024). Tectonic evolution of Macquarie Island: Oceanic crust, metamorphism, new-type of core complex and transpression. Gondwana Research. 131. 115–180. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Ce, et al.. (2023). Holocene provenance evolution of the northern South China Sea inferred from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes. Global and Planetary Change. 228. 104207–104207. 3 indexed citations
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Vinasco, C., et al.. (2023). Caribbean–South America interactions since the Late Cretaceous: Insights from zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopic data in sedimentary sequences of the northwestern Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 123. 104231–104231. 10 indexed citations
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2019). Monazite Growth in Response to Metamorphic and Deformation Events at Different Structural Levels. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Ce, Xinquan Liang, David A. Foster, et al.. (2019). Provenance and Drainage Evolution of the Red River Revealed by Pb Isotopic Analysis of Detrital K‐Feldspar. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(12). 6415–6424. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Chong, David A. Foster, Paul A. Mueller, & Bárbara L. Dutrow. (2017). Magma‐facilitated transpressional strain partitioning within the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: A zone accommodating Cretaceous orogen‐parallel translation in the Idaho batholith. Tectonics. 36(3). 444–465. 6 indexed citations
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Grimes, C. B., et al.. (2014). Alleghanian Magmatism in the Southern Appalachians: Geochronology of the Multi-Phase Danburg-Sandy Hill Intrusion and Coeval Mafic Enclaves. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Dutrow, B. L., et al.. (2012). U-Pb Geochronology of Detrital Zircon in Quartzites of the Sawtooth Metamorphic Complex, Sawtooth Range, Idaho, U.S.A. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 3 indexed citations
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2012). a Structural and Thermochronological Study of Santorini Detachment in Santorini Island, Aegean Sea. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A.. (2012). RODINIA-GONDWANA SUPERCONTINENT CYCLE REFINED BY DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM THE DAMARA OROGEN. 2012 GSA Annual Meeting in Charlotte. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A., et al.. (2011). Rapid Shift from Shortening to Extension in the Northern Rockies and Canadian Cordillera at 50 Ma Driven by Changes in Plate Dynamics. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Iriondo, Alexander, Gabriel Chávez‐Cabello, George D. Kamenov, et al.. (2009). Rocas graníticas pérmicas en la Sierra Pinta, NW de Sonora, México: Magmatismo de subducción asociado al inicio del margen continental activo del SW de Norteamérica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 48 indexed citations
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Iriondo, Alexander, Gabriel Chávez‐Cabello, George D. Kamenov, et al.. (2009). Gneises bandeados paleoproterozoicos (~1.76−1.73 Ga) de la Zona Canteras-Puerto Peñasco: Una nueva ocurrencia de rocas de basamento tipo Yavapai en el NW de Sonora, México. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 61(3). 375–402. 10 indexed citations
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Vogl, James J., et al.. (2009). Lu-Hf Analysis of Zircons in the Little Belt Mountains Suggest Paleoproterozoic Subduction in the Great Falls Tectonic Zone. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations
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Kohn, Barry P., David A. Foster, & Kenneth A. Farley. (2002). Low temperature thermochronology of apatites with exceptional compositional variations: the Stillwater Complex, Montana revisited. Geotemas ( Madrid ). 103–106. 3 indexed citations
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Kohn, Barry P., et al.. (2002). Post-Palaeoproterozoic thermochronology of the Precambrian northern Western Australian shield. Geotemas ( Madrid ). 167–170. 1 indexed citations
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Foster, David A. & David R. Gray. (2000). Timing of orogenic events in the Lachlan Orogen. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 813–818. 1 indexed citations
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Соэсоо, Алвар, Paul D. Bons, David R. Gray, & David A. Foster. (1998). Divergent double subduction: Tectonic and petrologic consequences: Reply. Geology. 1053–1054. 3 indexed citations

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