D.C. Champion

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

D.C. Champion is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, D.C. Champion has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Geophysics, 38 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 15 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in D.C. Champion's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (60 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (38 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (36 papers). D.C. Champion is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (60 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (38 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (36 papers). D.C. Champion collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. D.C. Champion's co-authors include R.H. Smithies, Jean‐François Moyen, Hervé Martin, Robert P. Rapp, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, K.F. Cassidy, Arthur H. Hickman, J. W. Sheraton, David L. Huston and R.S. Blewett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

D.C. Champion

69 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution

2004 2.3k citations Hervé Martin, R.H. Smithies et al. Lithos profile →
Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust

2021 102 citations R.H. Smithies, Yongjun Lu et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.C. Champion Australia	32	5.9k	2.8k	697	428	388	70	6.3k
Jean H. Bédard Canada	41	5.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	519 0.7×	355 0.8×	364 0.9×	112	5.6k
C. Michael Lesher Canada	35	5.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	809 1.2×	465 1.1×	192 0.5×	91	5.6k
Svetlana Bogdanova Sweden	27	5.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	645 0.9×	934 2.2×	599 1.5×	72	5.6k
Xisheng Xu China	38	8.0k 1.4×	2.9k 1.1×	959 1.4×	333 0.8×	760 2.0×	117	8.5k
C.R. Anhaeusser South Africa	27	2.6k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	657 0.9×	442 1.0×	366 0.9×	76	3.1k
R.H. Smithies Australia	42	9.0k 1.5×	3.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	700 1.6×	438 1.1×	110	9.3k
Armin Zeh Germany	46	6.9k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	851 2.0×	328 0.8×	147	7.2k
R. Grant Cawthorn South Africa	36	3.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	633 0.9×	200 0.5×	393 1.0×	134	4.2k
Toshiaki Tsunogae Japan	45	6.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	387 0.6×	426 1.0×	273 0.7×	230	6.6k
Li Su China	46	6.5k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	825 1.2×	494 1.2×	414 1.1×	108	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D.C. Champion

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Schroder, Ivan, Patrice de Caritat, David L. Huston, & D.C. Champion. (2025). Multivariate compositional analysis of groundwater geochemistry in the Georgina Basin: New insights for sediment-hosted mineral systems. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 278. 107857–107857.

Woodhead, Jon, Patrice de Caritat, Roland Maas, et al.. (2024). The Pb, Sr and Nd isotopic composition of the upper continental crust: An Australian perspective. Chemical Geology. 672. 122503–122503. 4 indexed citations

Smithies, R.H., Klaus Gessner, Yongjun Lu, et al.. (2023). Geochemical mapping of lithospheric architecture disproves Archean terrane accretion in the Yilgarn craton. Geology. 52(2). 141–146. 13 indexed citations

Kirkby, Alison, Karol Czarnota, David L. Huston, et al.. (2022). Lithospheric conductors reveal source regions of convergent margin mineral systems. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8190–8190. 18 indexed citations

Caruso, Stefano, Marco L. Fiorentini, D.C. Champion, et al.. (2022). Sulfur isotope systematics of granitoids from the Yilgarn Craton sheds new light on the fluid reservoirs of Neoarchean orogenic gold deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 326. 199–213. 13 indexed citations

Smithies, R.H., Yongjun Lu, Christopher L. Kirkland, et al.. (2021). Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust. Nature. 592(7852). 70–75. 102 indexed citations breakdown →

Radke, Bruce, D.C. Champion, Stephen J. Gallagher, et al.. (2021). Geology, geochemistry and depositional history of the Port Campbell Limestone on the eastern flank of the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 69(4). 509–538. 6 indexed citations

Hofstra, Albert H., Vladimir Lisitsin, Louise Corriveau, et al.. (2021). Deposit classification scheme for the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative Global Geochemical Database. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 18 indexed citations

Pourteau, Amaury, Luc S. Doucet, Silvia Volante, et al.. (2020). TTG generation by fluid-fluxed crustal melting: Direct evidence from the Proterozoic Georgetown Inlier, NE Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 550. 116548–116548. 65 indexed citations

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Jarrett, A.J.M., D.C. Champion, Chris Carson, et al.. (2020). Shale geochemistry as an exploration tool in northern Australia: a comparison of the South Nicholson Basin and Lawn Hill Platform to the greater McArthur Basin. 1 indexed citations

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Smithies, R.H., Yongjun Lu, Tim Johnson, et al.. (2019). No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth’s crust in the Archean. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5559–5559. 121 indexed citations

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Skirrow, Roger G., et al.. (2018). Lithospheric Architecture and Mantle Metasomatism Linked to Iron Oxide Cu‐Au Ore Formation: Multidisciplinary Evidence from the Olympic Dam Region, South Australia. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 19(8). 2673–2705. 61 indexed citations

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Gibson, G. M., D.C. Champion, I. W. Withnall, Narelle Neumann, & L. Hutton. (2018). Assembly and breakup of the Nuna supercontinent: Geodynamic constraints from 1800 to 1600 Ma sedimentary basins and basaltic magmatism in northern Australia. Precambrian Research. 313. 148–169. 35 indexed citations

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Laurie, John R., S. Bodorkos, Robert S. Nicoll, et al.. (2016). Calibrating the middle and late Permian palynostratigraphy of Australia to the geologic time-scale via U–Pb zircon CA-IDTIMS dating. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 63(6). 701–730. 67 indexed citations

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Davis, B. K., R.S. Blewett, R. J. Squire, D.C. Champion, & Paul Henson. (2010). Granite-cored domes and gold mineralisation: Architectural and geodynamic controls around the Archaean Scotia-Kanowna Dome, Kalgoorlie Terrane, Western Australia. Precambrian Research. 183(2). 316–337. 28 indexed citations

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Blewett, R.S., Paul Henson, Indrajit Roy, D.C. Champion, & K.F. Cassidy. (2010). Scale-integrated architecture of a world-class gold mineral system: The Archaean eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research. 183(2). 230–250. 91 indexed citations

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Smithies, R.H., D.C. Champion, & Martin J. Van Kranendonk. (2009). Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 281(3-4). 298–306. 230 indexed citations

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Smithies, R.H., D.C. Champion, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Heather M. Howard, & Arthur H. Hickman. (2005). Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchaean: Geochemical evidence from the 3.12 Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 231(3-4). 221–237. 191 indexed citations

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Martin, Hervé, R.H. Smithies, Robert P. Rapp, Jean‐François Moyen, & D.C. Champion. (2004). An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution. Lithos. 79(1-2). 1–24. 2314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smithies, R.H. & D.C. Champion. (2003). Adakites, TTG and Archaean crustal evolution. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 1630. 1 indexed citations

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