Gordon D. Love

9.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
100 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Gordon D. Love is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Paleontology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon D. Love has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 52 papers in Paleontology and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gordon D. Love's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (55 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (51 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Gordon D. Love is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (55 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (51 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Gordon D. Love collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Gordon D. Love's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gordon D. Love

100 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Photic Zone Euxinia Durin... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2010 2009 2005 2011 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Photic Zone Euxinia During the Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event
    2005 663 citations Kliti Grice, Gordon D. Love et al. profile →
  2. A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean
    2010 556 citations Gordon D. Love, Timothy W. Lyons et al. profile →
  3. Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period
    2009 519 citations Gordon D. Love, Emmanuelle Grosjean et al. profile →
  4. Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea
    2005 443 citations Jochen J. Brocks, Gordon D. Love et al. profile →
  5. Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean
    2011 410 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Christopher T. Reinhard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gordon D. Love United States 44 4.3k 2.3k 2.1k 1.8k 1.2k 100 7.1k
Kliti Grice Australia 50 2.9k 0.7× 3.7k 1.6× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 949 0.8× 237 8.6k
J. M. Hayes United States 31 3.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 2.7k 1.5× 1.0k 0.8× 75 6.3k
Ian Jarvis United Kingdom 45 3.2k 0.7× 886 0.4× 1.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 1.8k 1.5× 117 6.1k
M. J. Kennedy United States 35 3.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 2.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.4× 69 5.8k
Graham A. Logan Australia 37 2.0k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 739 0.4× 1.5k 0.8× 691 0.6× 72 5.3k
Armelle Riboulleau France 28 3.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 3.0k 1.5× 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.4× 65 6.0k
Paul Farrimond United Kingdom 40 1.6k 0.4× 2.7k 1.1× 548 0.3× 1.7k 0.9× 624 0.5× 76 5.2k
Jochen J. Brocks Australia 34 2.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 659 0.3× 1.3k 0.7× 520 0.4× 101 4.9k
David Selby United Kingdom 58 3.2k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 2.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.1× 6.7k 5.6× 258 10.2k
David A. Fike United States 44 5.4k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 2.7k 1.3× 3.3k 1.9× 1.8k 1.5× 147 8.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Love, Gordon D., et al.. (2025). Chemical characterization of C 31 sterols from sponges and Neoproterozoic fossil sterane counterparts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(41). e2503009122–e2503009122. 2 indexed citations
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Planavsky, Noah J., Dan Asael, Alan D. Rooney, et al.. (2022). A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle. Geobiology. 21(2). 168–174. 25 indexed citations
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Duda, Jan‐Peter, et al.. (2020). Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia). Geobiology. 18(6). 643–662. 13 indexed citations
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Love, Gordon D., J. Alex Zumberge, Amy E. Kelly, et al.. (2019). Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid‐Proterozoic habitability. Geobiology. 17(3). 247–260. 43 indexed citations
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Love, Gordon D., А. Б. Кузнецов, V. N. Podkovyrov, et al.. (2018). Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1807–1807. 59 indexed citations
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Zumberge, J. Alex, Gordon D. Love, Paco Cárdenas, et al.. (2018). Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(11). 1709–1714. 86 indexed citations
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Naafs, B. David A., et al.. (2018). Astronomically Driven Variations in Depositional Environments in the South Atlantic During the Early Cretaceous. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 33(8). 894–912. 16 indexed citations
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Sephton, Mark A., Jonathan S. Watson, William Meredith, et al.. (2015). Multiple Cosmic Sources for Meteorite Macromolecules?. Astrobiology. 15(10). 779–786. 6 indexed citations
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Meredith, William, Colin E. Snape, Andrew D. Carr, Hans Peter Nytoft, & Gordon D. Love. (2008). The occurrence of unusual hopenes in hydropyrolysates generated from severely biodegraded oil seep asphaltenes. Organic Geochemistry. 39(8). 1243–1248. 44 indexed citations
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Cohen, Phoebe, Alexander S. Bradley, Andrew H. Knoll, et al.. (2008). Tubular compression fossils from the Ediacaran Nama group, Namibia. Journal of Paleontology. 83(1). 110–122. 61 indexed citations
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Meredith, William, et al.. (2008). Release of bound aliphatic biomarkers via hydropyrolysis from Type II kerogen at high maturity. Organic Geochemistry. 39(8). 1119–1124. 43 indexed citations
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Hays, L. E., Gordon D. Love, C.B. Foster, Kliti Grice, & R. E. Summons. (2006). Lipid Biomarker Records Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary from Kap Stosch, Greenland. AGUFM. 2006. 2 indexed citations
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Meredith, William, et al.. (2006). The use of model compounds to investigate the release of covalently bound biomarkers via hydropyrolysis. Organic Geochemistry. 37(12). 1705–1714. 23 indexed citations
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Brocks, Jochen J., Gordon D. Love, Colin E. Snape, et al.. (2003). Release of bound aromatic hydrocarbons from late Archean and Mesoproterozoic kerogens via hydropyrolysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 67(8). 1521–1530. 79 indexed citations
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Meredith, William, Christopher A. Russell, Mick Cooper, et al.. (2003). Trapping hydropyrolysates on silica and their subsequent thermal desorption to facilitate rapid fingerprinting by GC–MS. Organic Geochemistry. 35(1). 73–89. 46 indexed citations
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Love, Gordon D., Colin E. Snape, & Michael C. Jarvis. (1998). Comparison of leaf and stem cell-wall components in barley straw by solid-state 13C NMR. Phytochemistry. 49(5). 1191–1194. 53 indexed citations

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