David Selby

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
258 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

David Selby is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Selby has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Geophysics, 111 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 71 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in David Selby's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (176 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (111 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (71 papers). David Selby is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (176 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (111 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (71 papers). David Selby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. David Selby's co-authors include Robert A. Creaser, Alan D. Rooney, Brian Kendall, Jianwei Li, V. Mlynski, Michael Guilhaus, Darren R. Gröcke, Yang Li, Alexander J. Finlay and Bruce E. Nesbitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Selby

247 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Giant Mesozoic gold provinces related to the destruction of the North China craton

2012 315 citations David Selby et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Selby United Kingdom	58	6.7k	4.1k	3.2k	2.5k	1.9k	258	10.2k
Robert A. Creaser Canada	65	10.4k 1.6×	5.7k 1.4×	3.6k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	317	14.0k
Xiaoming Liu China	64	11.2k 1.7×	4.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	227	14.9k
Shao‐Yong Jiang China	68	12.9k 1.9×	6.6k 1.6×	2.4k 0.8×	4.6k 1.8×	1.3k 0.7×	510	16.2k
Matthew Horstwood United Kingdom	54	10.8k 1.6×	4.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	131	12.8k
J. Barry Maynard United States	38	3.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	3.1k 1.0×	4.2k 1.7×	1.5k 0.8×	98	7.8k
Ross R. Large Australia	54	8.9k 1.3×	7.6k 1.9×	1.5k 0.5×	3.8k 1.5×	485 0.3×	194	11.2k
Janet Hergt Australia	51	14.0k 2.1×	6.5k 1.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	116	15.9k
L Danyushevsky Australia	63	13.0k 1.9×	7.4k 1.8×	1.1k 0.3×	3.3k 1.3×	726 0.4×	199	15.0k
Zhaochu Hu China	63	17.2k 2.6×	8.5k 2.1×	1.4k 0.4×	3.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.6×	331	20.9k
Axel Hofmann South Africa	52	7.8k 1.2×	3.0k 0.7×	3.3k 1.1×	3.9k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	259	11.2k

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Plint, A. Guy, Darren R. Gröcke, David Selby, et al.. (2025). The Cenomanian–Turonian boundary interval in the Western Canada Foreland Basin: Stratigraphy, geochemistry, geochronology and sea‐level changes recorded in expanded and condensed clastic successions. The Depositional Record. 11(5). 1200–1258.

Singer, Brad S., Reishi Takashima, Youjuan Li, et al.. (2025). Radioisotopic age, osmium isotopes, and global correlation of the Albian-Cenomanian boundary. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Lim, Dhongil, Zhaokai Xu, Wei Wang, et al.. (2024). Enhanced volcanic activity and long-term warmth in the middle Eocene revealed by mercury and osmium isotopes from IODP Expedition 369 Site U1514. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 627. 118565–118565. 4 indexed citations

Rossetti, Federico, et al.. (2024). Formation and degradation of a porphyry occurrence: The Oligocene Khatoon-Abad porphyry Mo-Cu system, NW Iran. Ore Geology Reviews. 174. 106330–106330.

Holdsworth, R. E., Edward D. Dempsey, Anna Bird, et al.. (2023). Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry Coupled with In Situ Fieldwork and U-Pb Geochronology to Decipher Multi-Phase Deformation Processes: A Case Study from Sarclet, Inner Moray Firth Basin, UK. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 695–695. 4 indexed citations

Holdsworth, R. E., Edward D. Dempsey, Anna Bird, et al.. (2023). Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(5). 7 indexed citations

Holdsworth, R. E., John R. Underhill, Edward D. Dempsey, et al.. (2022). Correlating deformation events onshore and offshore in superimposed rift basins: The Lossiemouth Fault Zone, Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Basin Research. 34(4). 1314–1340. 9 indexed citations

Dempsey, Edward D., et al.. (2021). A revised age, structural model and origin for the North Pennine Orefield in the Alston Block, northern England: intrusion (Whin Sill)-related base metal (Cu–Pb–Zn–F) mineralization. Journal of the Geological Society. 178(4). 3 indexed citations

Holdsworth, R. E., John R. Underhill, Edward D. Dempsey, et al.. (2021). New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(2). 12 indexed citations

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Sheldrake, Tom, et al.. (2021). Synsedimentary to Diagenetic Cu±Co Mineralization in Mesoproterozoic Pyritic Shale Driven by Magmatic-Hydrothermal Activity on the Edge of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone–Black Butte, Helena Embayment, Belt-Purcell Basin, USA: Evidence from Sulfide Re-Os Isotope Geochemistry. Lithosphere. 2021(1). 2 indexed citations

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Sen, Indra Sekhar, et al.. (2021). Melting of the Chhota Shigri Glacier, Western Himalaya, Insensitive to Anthropogenic Emission Residues: Insights From Geochemical Evidence. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(19). 6 indexed citations

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Lang, Jürgen, et al.. (2020). The vein-hosted copper deposits of the Allihies mining area, SW Ireland; a new structural and chronological evaluation. Journal of the Geological Society. 177(4). 671–685. 5 indexed citations

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Бакшеев, И. А., et al.. (2020). The latest Aptian/earliest Albian age of the Kekura gold deposit, Western Chukotka, Russia: implications for mineralization associated with post-collisional magmatism. Mineralium Deposita. 55(7). 1255–1262. 7 indexed citations

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Sen, Indra Sekhar, V. Vinoj, Valier Galy, et al.. (2020). Biomass-Derived Provenance Dominates Glacial Surface Organic Carbon in the Western Himalaya. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(14). 8612–8621. 16 indexed citations

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Feely, Martin, et al.. (2019). A review of molybdenite, and fluorite mineralisation in Caledonian granite basement, western Ireland, incorporating new field and fluid inclusion studies, and Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology. Lithos. 354-355. 105267–105267. 3 indexed citations

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Hilton, Robert, Mathieu Dellinger, Edward T. Tipper, et al.. (2019). Carbon dioxide emissions by rock organic carbon oxidation and the net geochemical carbon budget of the Mackenzie River Basin. American Journal of Science. 319(6). 473–499. 56 indexed citations

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Huang, Shaopeng, et al.. (2018). Geochemistry characteristics and Re-Os isotopic dating of Jurassic oil sands in the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 5 indexed citations

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Jarvis, Ian, et al.. (2018). Linking sea level, climate, and palaeocirculation change during Mid-Cenomanian Event I (MCE I, 96 Ma): elemental and osmium isotope evidence from southern England. EGUGA. 7132. 2 indexed citations

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Ploeg, Robin van der, David Selby, Marlow J. Cramwinckel, et al.. (2018). Middle Eocene greenhouse warming facilitated by diminished weathering feedback. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2877–2877. 50 indexed citations

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Hilton, Robert, David Selby, Chris J. Ottley, et al.. (2017). Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon. Science Advances. 3(10). e1701107–e1701107. 69 indexed citations

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