Greg Balco

11.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
124 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Greg Balco is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Balco has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Atmospheric Science, 32 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Greg Balco's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (110 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (52 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (26 papers). Greg Balco is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (110 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (52 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (26 papers). Greg Balco collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Greg Balco's co-authors include John O. Stone, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Tibor J. Dunai, Paul R. Renne, K. R. Ludwig, Kyoungwon Min, Roland Mundil, Charles W. Rovey, David L. Shuster and Joerg M. Schaefer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Greg Balco

117 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from 10Be and 26Al measurements
    2008 1.7k citations Greg Balco, John O. Stone et al. profile →
  2. Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
    2010 734 citations Greg Balco et al. profile →
  3. Response to the comment by W.H. Schwarz et al. on “Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology” by P.R. Renne et al. (2010)
    2011 570 citations Greg Balco et al. profile →
  4. Geological calibration of spallation production rates in the CRONUS-Earth project
    2015 544 citations Greg Balco, Marc W. Caffee 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
Greg Balco United States 34 6.3k 2.4k 1.8k 1.2k 1.1k 124 7.7k
Tibor J. Dunai Germany 40 5.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 973 0.8× 906 0.8× 122 7.1k
Régis Braucher France 49 5.5k 0.9× 2.8k 1.2× 2.0k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 263 8.0k
Didier Bourlès France 63 8.9k 1.4× 4.4k 1.8× 2.9k 1.7× 1.9k 1.6× 2.3k 2.0× 315 12.4k
Darryl E. Granger United States 43 4.7k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 2.6k 1.5× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.2× 113 6.8k
John O. Stone United States 43 7.5k 1.2× 1.7k 0.7× 2.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 1.7k 1.5× 89 8.6k
Susan Ivy‐Ochs Switzerland 56 9.1k 1.4× 1.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.4× 2.5k 2.0× 2.7k 2.3× 232 10.3k
Nathaniel A. Lifton United States 28 5.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 78 5.6k
Manfred Frechen Germany 48 6.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 2.5k 1.4× 2.1k 1.8× 477 0.4× 253 7.9k
John Gosse Canada 34 4.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 865 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 108 5.1k
Marcus Christl Switzerland 38 4.6k 0.7× 706 0.3× 1.3k 0.7× 721 0.6× 803 0.7× 280 7.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Greg Balco

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Greg Balco

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Balco, Greg, et al.. (2025). Fission gas trapped in Chornobyl fuel microparticles reveals details of reactor operations. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 491. 137992–137992. 1 indexed citations
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Bromley, Gordon, et al.. (2025). East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability in the central Transantarctic Mountains since the mid Miocene. Climate of the past. 21(1). 145–160.
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Balco, Greg, et al.. (2024). Short communication: Cosmogenic noble gas depletion in soils by wildfire heating. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 71–76. 2 indexed citations
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Balco, Greg, et al.. (2024). Krypton-85 chronometry of spent nuclear fuel. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 571–584.
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Schaefer, Joerg M., Greg Balco, M. A. Kelly, et al.. (2024). The Laurentide Ice Sheet in southern New England and New York during and at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum: a cosmogenic-nuclide chronology. Climate of the past. 20(9). 2167–2190. 1 indexed citations
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Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W., et al.. (2023). Cosmogenic-nuclide data from Antarctic nunataks can constrain past ice sheet instabilities. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(4). 1623–1643. 1 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Joerg M., Roseanne Schwartz, Jennifer L. Lamp, et al.. (2023). Cosmogenic 10 Be in pyroxene: laboratory progress, production rate systematics, and application of the 10 Be– 3 He nuclide pair in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 301–321. 4 indexed citations
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Nichols, Keir A., Dylan H. Rood, Ryan A. Venturelli, et al.. (2023). Offshore-onshore record of Last Glacial Maximum–to–present grounding line retreat at Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. Geology. 51(11). 1033–1037. 5 indexed citations
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Feathers, James K., Joseph J. Talghader, J. P. Severinghaus, et al.. (2019). West Antarctic Ice Sheet History from a Subglacial Bedrock Core. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Padilla, Abraham J., et al.. (2014). Provenance of glacial tills in Ong Valley, Antarctica, inferred from quartz cathodoluminescence imaging, zircon U/Pb dating, and trace element geochemistry. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Balco, Greg, et al.. (2013). Erosional response to northward-propagating crustal thickening in the coastal ranges of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. American Journal of Science. 313(8). 790–806. 38 indexed citations
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Putkonen, Jaakko, Daniel Morgan, & Greg Balco. (2012). Landscape Degradation and Regolith Transport in McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Rood, Dylan H., et al.. (2012). Testing seismic hazard models with Be-10 exposure ages for precariously balanced rocks. EGUGA. 2012. 9152. 3 indexed citations
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Morgan, Daniel, Jaakko Putkonen, Greg Balco, & Jon Stone. (2008). Colluvium Erosion Rates in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Balco, Greg, Jaakko Putkonen, Daniel Morgan, Joerg M. Schaefer, & Gisela Winckler. (2008). Bedrock erosion rates in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12). 1 indexed citations
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Balco, Greg, Charles W. Rovey, & Darryl E. Granger. (2008). Multiple-cosmogenic-nuclide isochron methods. GeCAS. 72(12). 1 indexed citations
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Stone, John O., Greg Balco, David E. Sugden, et al.. (2001). Late Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 4 indexed citations

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