Franco Pirajno

19.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
257 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Franco Pirajno is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Pirajno has authored 257 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 229 papers in Geophysics, 170 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 41 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Franco Pirajno's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (227 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (170 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (128 papers). Franco Pirajno is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (227 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (170 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (128 papers). Franco Pirajno collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United States. Franco Pirajno's co-authors include Yanjing Chen, Jingwen Mao, Yanbo Cheng, Mao Jingwen, Nuo Li, Maohong Chen, M. Santosh, Reimar Seltmann, Martin J. Van Kranendonk and Nuo Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Franco Pirajno

252 papers receiving 15.4k 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.

  1. Major types and time–space distribution of Mesozoic ore deposits in South China and their geodynamic settings
    2012 862 citations Franco Pirajno et al. profile →
  2. Hydrothermal Processes and Mineral Systems
    2008 815 citations Franco Pirajno profile →
  3. Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates
    2017 379 citations Matthew S. Dodd, Dominic Papineau et al. profile →
  4. A tectono-genetic model for porphyry–skarn–stratabound Cu–Au–Mo–Fe and magnetite–apatite deposits along the Middle–Lower Yangtze River Valley, Eastern China
    2011 350 citations Franco Pirajno et al. Ore Geology Reviews profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Franco Pirajno 14.1k 9.8k 2.4k 846 695 257 16.0k
L Danyushevsky 13.0k 0.9× 7.4k 0.8× 3.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 751 1.1× 199 15.0k
Yue‐Heng Yang 17.9k 1.3× 7.7k 0.8× 3.1k 1.3× 915 1.1× 451 0.6× 248 19.4k
Keqing Zong 11.8k 0.8× 5.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.8× 869 1.0× 430 0.6× 153 13.0k
Dunyi Liu 19.3k 1.4× 8.4k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 992 1.2× 372 0.5× 207 19.9k
Weidong Sun 12.1k 0.9× 6.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 609 0.7× 428 0.6× 307 13.6k
Yaoling Niu 25.4k 1.8× 8.5k 0.9× 2.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 716 1.0× 288 26.7k
A. J. Naldrett 10.8k 0.8× 6.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 506 0.6× 412 0.6× 149 12.0k
B. W. Chappell 24.5k 1.7× 11.5k 1.2× 3.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 535 0.8× 148 25.8k
Noreen J. Evans 8.1k 0.6× 4.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 529 0.6× 351 0.5× 308 9.0k
Yi‐Gang Xu 18.8k 1.3× 5.7k 0.6× 3.0k 1.2× 1.9k 2.2× 1.1k 1.6× 420 21.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Pirajno

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All Works

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Dodd, Matthew S., Chao Li, Zihu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Marine phosphorus and atmospheric oxygen were coupled during the Great Oxidation Event. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9151–9151.
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Su, Ben‐Xun, Franco Pirajno, Richard E. Ernst, et al.. (2025). Escape of magma flow along the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt prolonged the lifetime of the Tarim mantle plume. Geology. 53(9). 722–726.
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Zou, Hao, et al.. (2024). An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent. Earth-Science Reviews. 252. 104736–104736. 3 indexed citations
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Deng, Xiao‐Hua, et al.. (2024). Nature, source, and evolution of the ore-forming fluids in the Dunbasitao gold deposit, East Junggar, China: Constraints from geology, fluid inclusions, and C-H-O isotopes. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 258. 107399–107399. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Kui‐Feng, Hong‐Rui Fan, Franco Pirajno, & Xuan Liu. (2023). Magnesium isotope fractionation in differentiation of mafic-alkaline-carbonatitic magma and Fe-P-REE-rich melt at Bayan Obo, China. Ore Geology Reviews. 157. 105466–105466. 5 indexed citations
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Dodd, Matthew S., Dominic Papineau, Zhenbing She, et al.. (2019). Widespread occurrences of variably crystalline 13C-depleted graphitic carbon in banded iron formations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 512. 163–174. 28 indexed citations
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Dodd, Matthew S., Dominic Papineau, Franco Pirajno, Yusheng Wan, & Juha A. Karhu. (2019). Minimal biomass deposition in banded iron formations inferred from organic matter and clay relationships. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5022–5022. 12 indexed citations
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Dodd, Matthew S., et al.. (2018). Organic remains in late Palaeoproterozoic granular iron formations and implications for the origin of granules. Precambrian Research. 310. 133–152. 30 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco, et al.. (2000). Geology of the Fairbairn 1:100 000 sheet. 2 indexed citations
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Smithies, R.H. & Franco Pirajno. (1989). The alteration-mineralization of the Van Rooi's Vley W-Sn deposit, Namaqualand metamorphic complex, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 92(4). 427–435. 1 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1985). Porphyry Mo and greisen W metallogeny related to the Karamea Batholith, South Island, New Zealand (Note). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 28(1). 187–191. 3 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco, et al.. (1985). Greisen‐related scheelite, gold and sulphide mineralisation at Kirwans Hili and Bateman Creek, Reefton district, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 28(1). 97–109. 11 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1982). Geology, geochemistry, mineralisation, and metal zoning of the McConnochie greisenised granite, Reefton district, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 25(4). 405–425. 8 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1982). Lamprophyre dikes in the Victoria Range sector of the Karamea Batholith, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 25(4). 499–502. 2 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1981). Geochemistry and mineralisation of the southern part of the Darran Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 24(4). 491–513. 6 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1980). Subseafloor mineralisation in rocks of the Matakaoa Volcanics around Lottin Point, East Cape, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 23(3). 313–334. 10 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1979). Geology, geochemistry, and mineralisation of the Endeavour Inlet antimony–gold prospect Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 22(2). 227–237. 7 indexed citations
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Pirajno, Franco. (1979). Geology, geochemistry, and mineralisation of a spilite‐keratophyre association in Cretaceous flysch, East Cape area, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 22(3). 307–328. 11 indexed citations

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