Gordon Lister

20.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
179 papers, 16.2k citations indexed

About

Gordon Lister is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon Lister has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 16.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Geophysics, 41 papers in Geology and 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Gordon Lister's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (134 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (112 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (55 papers). Gordon Lister is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (134 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (112 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (55 papers). Gordon Lister collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and United States. Gordon Lister's co-authors include Gideon Rosenbaum, Marnie Forster, G. A. Davis, Arthur W. Snoke, Paul F. Williams, Peter Betts, B. E. Hobbs, Cécile Duboz, M. A. Etheridge and Philip A. Symonds and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Gordon Lister

174 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

S-C Mylonites 1977 2026 1993 2009 1984 1989 1986 2002 1984 250 500 750
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. S-C Mylonites
    1984 883 citations Gordon Lister et al. Journal of Structural Geology profile →
  2. The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during Tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A.
    1989 802 citations Gordon Lister et al. Journal of Structural Geology profile →
  3. Detachment faulting and the evolution of passive continental margins
    1986 729 citations Gordon Lister et al. profile →
  4. Relative motions of Africa, Iberia and Europe during Alpine orogeny
    2002 628 citations Gordon Lister et al. profile →
  5. Metamorphic core complexes of Cordilleran type in the Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
    1984 569 citations Gordon Lister et al. profile →
  6. Crystalline plasticity and solid state flow in metamorphic rocks
    1977 489 citations Gordon Lister profile →
  7. The simulation of fabric development during plastic deformation and its application to quartzite: the influence of deformation history
    1980 438 citations Gordon Lister et al. Journal of Structural Geology profile →
  8. A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes
    2006 436 citations Gordon Lister et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gordon Lister 14.3k 2.2k 2.1k 1.5k 1.5k 179 16.2k
Christopher Beaumont 12.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 161 14.8k
P.R. Cobbold 9.7k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 2.1k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 156 12.0k
M. P. Searle 19.5k 1.4× 3.8k 1.7× 2.1k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.3× 292 21.7k
Laurent Jolivet 19.2k 1.3× 1.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 894 0.6× 2.2k 1.5× 222 20.6k
Philip England 19.3k 1.3× 1.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 870 0.6× 3.5k 2.4× 142 21.8k
James Jackson 20.5k 1.4× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 2.7k 1.9× 188 22.5k
L. H. Royden 18.2k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 3.7k 2.5× 123 21.2k
B. C. Burchfiel 14.8k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 965 0.6× 3.4k 2.3× 130 17.4k
John Suppe 11.3k 0.8× 849 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 2.1k 1.5× 130 13.0k
P. Tapponnier 19.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 3.9k 1.9× 1.1k 0.7× 3.5k 2.4× 141 21.2k

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All Works

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Forster, Marnie, et al.. (2025). Giant Porphyry Copper Deposits Caused by a Slab Jamming in the Mantle Transition Zone. Terra Nova. 38(2). 106–115.
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Lister, Gordon & Marnie Forster. (2024). Low‐temperature thermochronology and the timing of motion on detachment faults. Terra Nova. 36(4). 306–314. 1 indexed citations
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Lister, Gordon & Marnie Forster. (2024). Quantitative modelling of the morphology of age plateaux in muscovite argon spectra and the implications for thermochronology. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 71(7). 950–964.
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Forster, Marnie, et al.. (2023). Direct dating of overprinting fluid systems in the Martabe epithermal gold deposit using highly retentive alunite. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 153–179.
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Forster, Marnie, et al.. (2021). Evidence for and significance of the Late Cretaceous Asteroussia event in the Gondwanan Ios basement terranes. Solid Earth. 12(10). 2255–2275. 3 indexed citations
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Pownall, Jonathan M., Robert Hall, Marnie Forster, & Gordon Lister. (2018). Insights from easternmost Tethys: Slab rollback, mantle exhumation, and UHT metamorphism in Eastern Indonesia. Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull). 1 indexed citations
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Lister, Gordon, et al.. (2018). Structural Geology and the Seismotectonics of the 2004 Great Sumatran Earthquake. Tectonics. 37(11). 4101–4119. 2 indexed citations
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Lister, Gordon, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Babak Hejrani, et al.. (2018). Lineaments and earthquake ruptures on the East Japan megathrust. Lithosphere. 10(4). 512–522. 7 indexed citations
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Pownall, Jonathan M., Gordon Lister, & Wim Spakman. (2017). Reconstructing subducted oceanic lithosphere by “reverse‐engineering” slab geometries: The northern Philippine Sea Plate. Tectonics. 36(9). 1814–1834. 10 indexed citations
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Forster, Marnie, et al.. (2017). The first direct dating of Main Central Thrust phyllonite demonstrates exhumation of the Greater Himalayan Crystalline had already taken place. EGUGA. 11265. 1 indexed citations
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White, Lloyd T., et al.. (2016). Pulses of earthquake activity in the mantle wedge track the route of slab fluid ascent. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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White, Lloyd T., et al.. (2014). Lithospheric-scale structures in New Guinea and their control on the location of gold and copper deposits. Solid Earth. 5(1). 163–179. 12 indexed citations
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O’Neill, Hugh, et al.. (2010). Diffusion in natural ilmenite. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 343. 2 indexed citations
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Hou, Guiting, M. Santosh, Xianglin Qian, Gordon Lister, & Jianghai Li. (2008). Configuration of the Late Paleoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia: Insights from radiating mafic dyke swarms. Gondwana Research. 14(3). 395–409. 403 indexed citations
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Forbes, Caroline, Peter Betts, & Gordon Lister. (2003). Synchronous development of Type 2 and Type 3 fold interference patterns: evidence for recumbent sheath folds in the Allendale Area, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. Journal of Structural Geology. 26(1). 113–126. 47 indexed citations
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Baldwin, Suzanne L. & Gordon Lister. (1998). Thermochronology of the South Cyclades Shear Zone, Ios, Greece: Effects of ductile shear in the argon partial retention zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(B4). 7315–7336. 77 indexed citations
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Lister, Gordon. (1997). A shortened intraplate rift system in the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrane. Tectonics. 425–441. 37 indexed citations
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Scott, Robert J. & Gordon Lister. (1992). The origin of detachment fault systems in core complexes. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States). 2 indexed citations

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