Gürsel Sunal

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Gürsel Sunal is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Gürsel Sunal has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Geophysics, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Gürsel Sunal's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (44 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (23 papers). Gürsel Sunal is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (44 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (23 papers). Gürsel Sunal collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and Germany. Gürsel Sunal's co-authors include Boris A. Natal’in, A. M. Celâl Şengör, Aral İ. Okay, Andrew Kylander‐Clark, Okan Tüysüz, Rob Van der Voo, Muharrem Satır, Sarah C. Sherlock, Erkan Toraman and Nalan Lom and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Earth-Science Reviews and Tectonophysics.

In The Last Decade

Gürsel Sunal

55 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

The Tectonics of the Altaids: Crustal Growth During the Construction of the Continental Lithosphere of Central Asia Between ∼750 and ∼130 Ma Ago

2018 184 citations A. M. Celâl Şengör, Boris A. Natal’in et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gürsel Sunal Türkiye	23	1.4k	607	165	150	95	57	1.6k
Thomas Will Germany	31	2.3k 1.6×	770 1.3×	168 1.0×	170 1.1×	127 1.3×	65	2.4k
Mehmet Keskin Türkiye	20	1.9k 1.3×	554 0.9×	68 0.4×	73 0.5×	50 0.5×	38	2.1k
S. L. Presnyakov Russia	17	893 0.6×	532 0.9×	133 0.8×	137 0.9×	140 1.5×	48	967
Dejan Prelević Germany	31	3.2k 2.3×	867 1.4×	116 0.7×	235 1.6×	73 0.8×	89	3.3k
Derya Gürer Netherlands	16	1.3k 0.9×	247 0.4×	106 0.6×	50 0.3×	114 1.2×	29	1.4k
Daniel Pastor‐Galán Spain	24	1.7k 1.2×	298 0.5×	242 1.5×	115 0.8×	140 1.5×	55	1.9k
Osman Candan Türkiye	29	2.0k 1.4×	586 1.0×	137 0.8×	118 0.8×	23 0.2×	64	2.1k
Han‐Yi Chiu Taiwan	15	1.4k 1.0×	495 0.8×	83 0.5×	115 0.8×	172 1.8×	21	1.6k
Talip Güngör Türkiye	17	1.2k 0.9×	290 0.5×	101 0.6×	85 0.6×	34 0.4×	35	1.4k
Trond Slagstad Norway	22	1.3k 0.9×	565 0.9×	111 0.7×	90 0.6×	136 1.4×	74	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gürsel Sunal

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Şengör, A. M. Celâl, et al.. (2025). Japan-like ribbon continent rifted from a Sumatra-like continental arc system: the Cimmerian Continent. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften. 176(1). 29–65.

Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2024). Late Holocene submerged beachrocks in the Sea of Marmara (Tekirdağ-Altınova, NW Türkiye): Revealing the tectonic uplift rate through radiocarbon dating. Quaternary International. 706. 32–48. 1 indexed citations

Önür, Mustafa, et al.. (2024). Geothermal energy production potential of an Eocene-aged, hot, and geopressured system; A case study of the Keşan Formation in Thrace Basin, Türkiye. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 246. 213577–213577. 1 indexed citations

Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2024). A new technique mapping submerged beachrocks using low-altitude UAV photogrammetry, the Altınova region, northern coast of the Sea of Marmara (NW Türkiye). Quaternary International. 712. 109579–109579.

Okay, Aral İ., Gültekin Topuz, Gürsel Sunal, et al.. (2023). Late Cretaceous arc magmatism in the Western Pontides (Turkey) – temporal and chemical changes. International Geology Review. 66(4). 947–970. 4 indexed citations

Şengör, A. M. Celâl, Boris A. Natal’in, Nalan Lom, Cengiz Zabcı, & Gürsel Sunal. (2023). How to make continental reconstructions: the importance of the knowledge of high strain along former plate boundaries. Istanbul Technical University Academic Open Archive (Istanbul Technical University). 5(2). 77–84. 1 indexed citations

Şengör, A. M. Celâl, Gürsel Sunal, Boris A. Natal’in, & Rob Van der Voo. (2022). The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation. Earth-Science Reviews. 228. 104013–104013. 36 indexed citations

Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2022). Paleo-exhumation histories of the Sakarya and the Istanbul Zones of the Western Pontides, the Almacık Block and its surroundings, NW Turkey. International Geology Review. 65(8). 1267–1288. 4 indexed citations

Şengör, A. M. Celâl, et al.. (2021). The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 111(8). 2885–2924. 17 indexed citations

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Erturaç, M. Korhan, Eren Şahi̇ner, Alper Gürbüz, et al.. (2020). Spatio-temporal variations on the vertical deformation rate of the NW Anatolian Block: Luminescence chronology of the Sakarya River terraces. Istanbul Technical University Academic Open Archive (Istanbul Technical University). 1 indexed citations

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Sunal, Gürsel, M. Korhan Erturaç, Gültekin Topuz, Aral İ. Okay, & Thomas Zack. (2019). The Early Eocene Ekmekçi granodiorite porphyry in the Karacabey region(Sakarya Zone, NW Turkey). TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES. 28(4). 589–602. 3 indexed citations

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Şengör, A. M. Celâl, et al.. (2019). On the nature of the Cimmerian Continent and the opening of the Neo-Tethys. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4310. 1 indexed citations

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Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2018). Metamorphism, magmatism, and exhumation history of the Tavşanlı Zone, NW Turkey: new petrological constraints. TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES. 27(4). 269–293. 8 indexed citations

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Lom, Nalan, et al.. (2018). A long-lived magmatic arc of the Hercynides: the Protogonos and its disruption during the formation of Pangaea. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10563. 2 indexed citations

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Yaltırak, Cenk, et al.. (2017). A new chronostratigraphy (40Ar-39Ar and U-Pb Dating) for the Middle Section of the Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone, SW Turkey. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 180. 1 indexed citations

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Natal’in, Boris A., et al.. (2016). Precambrian to Early Cretaceous rocks of the Strandja Massif (northwestern Turkey): evolution of a long lasting magmatic arc. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 53(11). 1312–1335. 37 indexed citations

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Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2013). Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the southern active margin of Eurasia: Central Pontides, Turkey. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15 indexed citations

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Toraman, Erkan, Muharrem Satır, Gürsel Sunal, & Boris A. Natal’in. (2012). Tectonics of the Strandja Massif, NW Turkey: History of a Long-Lived Arc at the Northern Margin of Palaeo-Tethys. Istanbul Technical University Academic Open Archive (Istanbul Technical University). 22 indexed citations

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Okay, Aral İ., Gürsel Sunal, & Sarah C. Sherlock. (2011). Jurassic Magmatism, Metamorphism and Basin Development in the Pontides: AN Early Black Sea?. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Sunal, Gürsel, et al.. (2011). Metamorphism and diachronous cooling in a contractional orogen: the Strandja Massif, NW Turkey. Geological Magazine. 148(4). 580–596. 51 indexed citations

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