Heather K McCarren

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Heather K McCarren is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather K McCarren has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atmospheric Science, 5 papers in Oceanography and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Heather K McCarren's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (3 papers). Heather K McCarren is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (3 papers). Heather K McCarren collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Heather K McCarren's co-authors include James C. Zachos, Ursula Röhl, Thomas Westerhold, Daniel Clay Kelly, Ellen Thomas, Isabella Raffi, David A Hodell, Stephen A. Schellenberg, Dick Kroon and Appy Sluijs and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

Heather K McCarren

10 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

2005 871 citations James C. Zachos, Ursula Röhl et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather K McCarren United States	7	1.4k	895	503	433	292	10	1.7k
Stephen A. Schellenberg United States	16	1.3k 1.0×	811 0.9×	631 1.3×	476 1.1×	239 0.8×	26	1.8k
Erica M. Crouch New Zealand	19	1.4k 1.0×	857 1.0×	474 0.9×	432 1.0×	275 0.9×	35	1.9k
Micah J Nicolo New Zealand	5	956 0.7×	601 0.7×	405 0.8×	308 0.7×	213 0.7×	7	1.2k
Stefan Schouten Netherlands	13	1.1k 0.8×	715 0.8×	304 0.6×	350 0.8×	351 1.2×	18	1.6k
Karen L. Bice United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	340 0.7×	265 0.6×	254 0.9×	22	1.6k
Hiroshi Nishi Japan	24	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	486 1.0×	384 0.9×	270 0.9×	111	2.0k
Hugh E. G. Morgans New Zealand	20	1.1k 0.8×	652 0.7×	360 0.7×	337 0.8×	163 0.6×	46	1.5k
Joyce M. Singano United Kingdom	11	931 0.7×	766 0.9×	314 0.6×	326 0.8×	134 0.5×	11	1.3k
Rosemarie E Came United States	14	1.0k 0.8×	632 0.7×	246 0.5×	473 1.1×	217 0.7×	17	1.5k
Christopher J. Nicholas United Kingdom	8	886 0.7×	677 0.8×	289 0.6×	311 0.7×	132 0.5×	15	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather K McCarren

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10 of 10 papers shown

Westerhold, Thomas, Ursula Röhl, Barbara Donner, Heather K McCarren, & James C. Zachos. (2011). A complete high‐resolution Paleocene benthic stable isotope record for the central Pacific (ODP Site 1209). Paleoceanography. 26(2). 157 indexed citations

Zachos, James C., Heather K McCarren, Brandon Murphy, Ursula Röhl, & Thomas Westerhold. (2010). Tempo and scale of late Paleocene and early Eocene carbon isotope cycles: Implications for the origin of hyperthermals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 299(1-2). 242–249. 264 indexed citations

Kelly, Daniel Clay, et al.. (2010). Spatiotemporal patterns of carbonate sedimentation in the South Atlantic: Implications for carbon cycling during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 293(1-2). 30–40. 55 indexed citations

Westerhold, Thomas, Ursula Röhl, Heather K McCarren, & James C. Zachos. (2009). Latest on the absolute age of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): New insights from exact stratigraphic position of key ash layers + 19 and − 17. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 287(3-4). 412–419. 140 indexed citations

McCarren, Heather K, Ellen Thomas, Takashi Hasegawa, Ursula Röhl, & James C. Zachos. (2008). Depth dependency of the Paleocene‐Eocene carbon isotope excursion: Paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208, Walvis Ridge). Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 9(10). 99 indexed citations

Zachos, James C., et al.. (2007). The Palaeocene–Eocene carbon isotope excursion: constraints from individual shell planktonic foraminifer records. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 365(1856). 1829–1842. 94 indexed citations

Murphy, Brandon, et al.. (2006). High Resolution Records of the Elmo Event from Shatsky Rise, IODP Sites 1209 &1211. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 2 indexed citations

McCarren, Heather K, et al.. (2005). Long Term Paleoceanographic Variability Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: Correlating Orbital Scale Trends in the North Pacific and South Atlantic. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

Zachos, James C., Ursula Röhl, Stephen A. Schellenberg, et al.. (2005). Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science. 308(5728). 1611–1615. 871 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zachos, James C., David A Hodell, Ellen Thomas, et al.. (2004). Extreme Acidification of the Deep Sea at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: New Constraints From Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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