Eric W. Portenga

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 793 citations indexed

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Eric W. Portenga is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric W. Portenga has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 793 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Atmospheric Science, 10 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Eric W. Portenga's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (16 papers), Geological formations and processes (10 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (4 papers). Eric W. Portenga is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (16 papers), Geological formations and processes (10 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (4 papers). Eric W. Portenga collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Eric W. Portenga's co-authors include Paul R. Bierman, Dylan H. Rood, Paul Bishop, Milan J. Pavich, Kathryn L. Hanson, Johann Neveling, Kira Westaway, Lee B. Corbett, Donna M. Rizzo and C. H. Duncan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Water Resources Research and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Eric W. Portenga

16 papers receiving 785 citations

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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.

Understanding Earth’s eroding surface with 10Be

2011 434 citations Eric W. Portenga, Paul R. Bierman GSA Today profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric W. Portenga United States	11	600	335	227	189	166	16	793
Itai Haviv Israel	15	450 0.8×	347 1.0×	199 0.9×	176 0.9×	182 1.1×	34	776
Romain Delunel Switzerland	17	728 1.2×	342 1.0×	211 0.9×	342 1.8×	116 0.7×	38	882
Ralph R. Shroba United States	13	527 0.9×	271 0.8×	139 0.6×	133 0.7×	151 0.9×	45	770
Andrew J. Cyr United States	8	496 0.8×	260 0.8×	315 1.4×	169 0.9×	91 0.5×	20	728
Florian Kober Switzerland	15	417 0.7×	174 0.5×	149 0.7×	191 1.0×	75 0.5×	37	611
Helena Rodnight Austria	15	558 0.9×	317 0.9×	97 0.4×	94 0.5×	202 1.2×	19	736
Philip M. Marren United Kingdom	18	689 1.1×	338 1.0×	65 0.3×	301 1.6×	279 1.7×	42	932
Laëtitia Léanni France	21	999 1.7×	383 1.1×	362 1.6×	383 2.0×	156 0.9×	47	1.3k
F. Charlet Belgium	12	597 1.0×	301 0.9×	286 1.3×	79 0.4×	114 0.7×	13	760
Ángel Rodés United Kingdom	21	1.0k 1.7×	320 1.0×	342 1.5×	248 1.3×	131 0.8×	57	1.2k

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16 of 16 papers shown

Portenga, Eric W., et al.. (2024). Quantifying the effects of carborundum rock surface smoothing for Schmidt hammer R‐value metrics measured on glacial erratics in the North American Great Lakes region. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(13). 4077–4087. 2 indexed citations

Portenga, Eric W., David J. Ullman, Lee B. Corbett, Paul R. Bierman, & Marc W. Caffee. (2023). Early Holocene ice retreat from Isle Royale in the Laurentian Great Lakes constrained with ¹⁰ Be exposure-age dating. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 413–431. 1 indexed citations

Portenga, Eric W., et al.. (2022). Comparison of basin-scale in situ and meteoric ¹⁰ Be erosion and denudation rates in felsic lithologies across an elevation gradient at the George River, northeast Tasmania, Australia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 153–176. 4 indexed citations

Portenga, Eric W., et al.. (2019). Erosion rates and sediment flux within the Potomac River basin quantified over millennial timescales using beryllium isotopes. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 131(7-8). 1295–1311. 34 indexed citations

Bierman, Paul R., Dylan H. Rood, Jeremy D. Shakun, Eric W. Portenga, & Lee B. Corbett. (2018). Directly dating postglacial Greenlandic land-surface emergence at high resolution using in situ¹⁰Be. Quaternary Research. 90(1). 110–126. 6 indexed citations

Reusser, Lucas J., Paul R. Bierman, Donna M. Rizzo, Eric W. Portenga, & Dylan H. Rood. (2017). Characterizing landscape‐scale erosion using ¹⁰Be in detrital fluvial sediment: Slope‐based sampling strategy detects the effect of widespread dams. Water Resources Research. 53(5). 4476–4486. 5 indexed citations

Portenga, Eric W., Paul Bishop, Damian B. Gore, & Kira Westaway. (2016). Landscape preservation under post‐European settlement alluvium in the south‐eastern Australian tablelands, inferred from portable OSL reader data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 41(12). 1697–1707. 15 indexed citations

Portenga, Eric W., Kira Westaway, & Paul Bishop. (2016). Timing of post-European settlement alluvium deposition in SE Australia: A legacy of European land-use in the Goulburn Plains. The Holocene. 26(9). 1472–1485. 21 indexed citations

Bierman, Paul R., et al.. (2016). Rates of erosion and landscape change along the Blue Ridge escarpment, southern Appalachian Mountains, estimated from in situ cosmogenic ¹⁰Be. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(6). 928–940. 26 indexed citations

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Portenga, Eric W., Dylan H. Rood, Paul Bishop, & Paul R. Bierman. (2016). A late Holocene onset of Aboriginal burning in southeastern Australia. Geology. 44(2). 131–134. 18 indexed citations

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Bierman, Paul R., et al.. (2015). Erosion rates in and around Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, determined using analysis of cosmogenic 10Be. American Journal of Science. 315(1). 46–76. 24 indexed citations

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Portenga, Eric W. & Paul Bishop. (2015). Confirming geomorphological interpretations based on portable OSL reader data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 41(3). 427–432. 28 indexed citations

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Portenga, Eric W., Paul R. Bierman, C. H. Duncan, et al.. (2014). Erosion rates of the Bhutanese Himalaya determined using in situ-produced 10Be. Geomorphology. 233. 112–126. 58 indexed citations

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Bierman, Paul R., et al.. (2014). A cosmogenic view of erosion, relief generation, and the age of faulting in southern Africa. GSA Today. 24(9). 4–11. 76 indexed citations

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Portenga, Eric W., Paul R. Bierman, Donna M. Rizzo, & Dylan H. Rood. (2012). Low rates of bedrock outcrop erosion in the central Appalachian Mountains inferred from in situ¹⁰Be. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 125(1-2). 201–215. 41 indexed citations

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Portenga, Eric W. & Paul R. Bierman. (2011). Understanding Earth’s eroding surface with 10Be. GSA Today. 21(8). 4–10. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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