Gordon D. Love

9.6k citations

100 papers · 7.1k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 44

Co-authors: Roger E. Summons Colin E. Snape Timothy W. Lyons David A. Fike Emmanuelle Grosjean Xuelei Chu Chao Li Changqun Cao
Topics: Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (55 papers)Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (51 papers)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers)
Cited by: Paleontology Geochemistry and Petrology Geology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

In The Last Decade

Gordon D. Love

100 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Photic Zone Euxinia During the Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event

2005 663 citations Kliti Grice, Changqun Cao et al. profile →
A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

2010 556 citations Gordon D. Love, Timothy W. Lyons et al. profile →
Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

2009 519 citations Gordon D. Love, Emmanuelle Grosjean et al. Nature profile →
Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea

2005 443 citations Jochen J. Brocks, Gordon D. Love et al. Nature profile →
Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

2011 410 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Christopher T. Reinhard et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chemical characterization of C ₃₁ sterols from sponges and Neoproterozoic fossil sterane counterparts 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),Gordon D. Love,(unknown),(unknown),Paco Cárdenas,José‐Luis Giner,Roger E. Summons	2
2	U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircon from the Ediacaran and Cambrian sedimentary successions of NE Estonia and Volyn region of Ukraine: Implications for the provenance and comparison with other areas within Baltica 2023 ·Precambrian Research ·(unknown),Leonid Shumlyanskyy,Алвар Соэсоо,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Gordon D. Love,Andrey Bekker	5
3	A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle 2022 ·Geobiology ·Noah J. Planavsky,Dan Asael,Alan D. Rooney,Leslie J. Robbins,Benjamin C. Gill,Carol M. Dehler,Devon B. Cole,Susannah M. Porter,Gordon D. Love,Kurt O. Konhauser,Christopher T. Reinhard	25
4	Preservation and Distributions of Covalently Bound Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons in Ancient Biogenic Kerogens and Insoluble Organic Macromolecules 2021 ·Astrobiology ·(unknown),(unknown),Andrew Bishop,Frantz Ossa Ossa,William Meredith,Andrey Bekker,Gordon D. Love	4
5	Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia) 2020 ·Geobiology ·Jan‐Peter Duda,Gordon D. Love,Vladimir I. Rogov,(unknown),Martin Blumenberg,Dmitriy Grazhdankin	13
6	Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid‐Proterozoic habitability 2019 ·Geobiology ·(unknown),Gordon D. Love,J. Alex Zumberge,Amy E. Kelly,Jeremy D. Owens,Megan Rohrssen,Steven M Bates,Chunfang Cai,Timothy W. Lyons	43
7	Free and kerogen‐bound biomarkers from late Tonian sedimentary rocks record abundant eukaryotes in mid‐Neoproterozoic marine communities 2019 ·Geobiology ·(unknown),(unknown),Gordon D. Love	61
8	Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica 2018 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown),Gordon D. Love,А. Б. Кузнецов,V. N. Podkovyrov,Christopher K. Junium,Leonid Shumlyanskyy,(unknown),Andrey Bekker	59
9	Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals 2018 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·J. Alex Zumberge,Gordon D. Love,Paco Cárdenas,Erik A. Sperling,Sunithi Gunasekera,Megan Rohrssen,Emmanuelle Grosjean,J. P. Grotzinger,Roger E. Summons	86
10	A stable and productive marine microbial community was sustained through the end‐Devonian Hangenberg Crisis within the Cleveland Shale of the Appalachian Basin, United States 2018 ·Geobiology ·(unknown),Diana L. Boyer,Mary L. Droser,Craig D. Barrie,Gordon D. Love	31
11	Lipid biomarker stratigraphic records through the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary: Comparison of high- and low-latitude epicontinental marine settings 2016 ·Organic Geochemistry ·(unknown),Michael Tuite,(unknown),Kenneth H. Williford,Diana L. Boyer,Mary L. Droser,Gordon D. Love	44
12	Multiple Cosmic Sources for Meteorite Macromolecules? 2015 ·Astrobiology ·Mark A. Sephton,Jonathan S. Watson,William Meredith,Gordon D. Love,I. Gilmour,Colin E. Snape	6
13	Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian periodbreakdown → 2009 ·Nature ·Gordon D. Love,Emmanuelle Grosjean,Charlotte Stalvies,David A. Fike,J. P. Grotzinger,Alexander S. Bradley,Amy E. Kelly,Maya P. Bhatia,William Meredith,Colin E. Snape,Samuel A. Bowring,Daniel J. Condon,Roger E. Summons	519
14	The occurrence of unusual hopenes in hydropyrolysates generated from severely biodegraded oil seep asphaltenes 2008 ·Organic Geochemistry ·William Meredith,Colin E. Snape,Andrew D. Carr,Hans Peter Nytoft,Gordon D. Love	44
15	Tubular compression fossils from the Ediacaran Nama group, Namibia 2008 ·Journal of Paleontology ·Phoebe Cohen,Alexander S. Bradley,Andrew H. Knoll,J. P. Grotzinger,Sören Jensen,John Abelson,K. P. Hand,Gordon D. Love,J. Metz,Nicola McLoughlin,Patrick Meister,(unknown),(unknown),Jonathan P. Wilson	61
16	Lipid Biomarker Records Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary from Kap Stosch, Greenland 2006 ·AGUFM ·L. E. Hays,Gordon D. Love,C.B. Foster,Kliti Grice,R. E. Summons	2
17	Compositional differences in biomarker constituents of the hydrocarbon, resin, asphaltene and kerogen fractions: An example from the Jet Rock (Yorkshire, UK) 2006 ·Organic Geochemistry ·Stephen A. Bowden,Paul Farrimond,Colin E. Snape,Gordon D. Love	69
18	Molecular evidence for prolonged photic zone euxinia at the Meishan and East Greenland sections of the Permian Triassic Boundary 2006 ·Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Roger E. Summons,Gordon D. Love,L. E. Hays,Changqun Cao,Yuxi Jin,Shu‐zhong Shen,Kliti Grice,C.B. Foster	9
19	Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic seabreakdown → 2005 ·Nature ·Jochen J. Brocks,Gordon D. Love,Roger E. Summons,Andrew H. Knoll,Graham A. Logan,Stephen A. Bowden	443
20	Release of covalently-bound alkane biomarkers in high yields from kerogen via catalytic hydropyrolysis 1995 ·Organic Geochemistry ·Gordon D. Love,Colin E. Snape,Andrew D. Carr,Richard Houghton	155

About Gordon D. Love

Gordon D. Love is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Mechanics of Materials, having authored 100 papers that have together received 7.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (55 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (51 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (4.3k citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (2.1k citations) and Geology (663 citations). Gordon D. Love has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Roger E. Summons, Colin E. Snape, Timothy W. Lyons, David A. Fike, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Xuelei Chu, Chao Li, Changqun Cao, Amy E. Kelly and Stephen A. Bowden. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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