J Beck

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

J Beck is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, J Beck has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in J Beck's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (32 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers) and Geological formations and processes (9 papers). J Beck is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (32 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers) and Geological formations and processes (9 papers). J Beck collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. J Beck's co-authors include George S. Burr, Paula Reimer, Édouard Bard, Konrad A Hughen, Gerry McCormac, J. van der Plicht, Minze Stuiver, Bernd Kromer, Marco Spurk and Julia E. Cole and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

J Beck

46 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP

1998 3.9k citations J Beck, George S. Burr et al. Radiocarbon profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
J Beck United States	28	5.2k	2.0k	1.8k	1.6k	1.2k	47	6.8k
Marco Spurk Germany	15	4.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	17	5.7k
R. Lawrence Edwards United States	43	6.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	159	8.8k
Frank Sirocko Germany	32	4.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	932 0.8×	87	5.1k
George S. Burr United States	39	6.9k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	173	9.2k
Steven L. Forman United States	50	6.7k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	240	8.8k
Jörg F. W. Negendank Germany	40	5.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	96	6.2k
Russell N. Drysdale Australia	46	5.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	196	6.6k
Dominique Blamart France	39	3.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	689 0.6×	115	4.9k
Matthias Bigler Switzerland	37	7.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.6×	67	7.8k
Victor J. Polyak United States	43	4.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	144	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J Beck

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Burr, George S., C. Vance Haynes, Chuan‐Chou Shen, et al.. (2015). Temporal Variations of Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages in the South Pacific Ocean during the Holocene. Radiocarbon. 57(4). 507–515. 10 indexed citations

Beck, J, et al.. (2013). RDC volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. Radiocarbon. 55(1). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

Shanahan, Timothy M., J Beck, Jonathan T. Overpeck, et al.. (2012). Late Quaternary sedimentological and climate changes at Lake Bosumtwi Ghana: New constraints from laminae analysis and radiocarbon age modeling. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 361-362. 49–60. 32 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Dirk L., J Beck, David A. Richards, et al.. (2009). Towards radiocarbon calibration beyond 28ka using speleothems from the Bahamas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 289(1-2). 1–10. 81 indexed citations

Beck, J, et al.. (2008). RDC volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter. Radiocarbon. 50(2). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

Xian, Feng, et al.. (2008). A simple model for reconstructing geomagnetic field intensity with 10Be production rate and its application in Loess studies. Science in China Series D Earth Sciences. 51(6). 855–861. 7 indexed citations

Burr, George S., D. J. Donahue, Yu Tang, et al.. (2007). Error analysis at the NSF-Arizona AMS facility. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 259(1). 149–153. 33 indexed citations

Zhou, Weijian, Alfred Priller, J Beck, et al.. (2007). Disentangling Geomagnetic and Precipitation Signals in an 80-kyr Chinese Loess Record of¹⁰Be. Radiocarbon. 49(1). 137–158. 52 indexed citations

Shanahan, Timothy M., Jonathan T. Overpeck, J Beck, et al.. (2006). Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 242(3-4). 287–302. 126 indexed citations

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Short, Martin B., James C. Baygents, J Beck, et al.. (2005). Stalactite Growth as a Free-Boundary Problem: A Geometric Law and Its Platonic Ideal. Physical Review Letters. 94(1). 18501–18501. 71 indexed citations

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Taylor, Frederick W., Paul Mann, Michael Bevis, et al.. (2005). Rapid forearc uplift and subsidence caused by impinging bathymetric features: Examples from the New Hebrides and Solomon arcs. Tectonics. 24(6). 80 indexed citations

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Corrège, Thierry, Michael K. Gagan, J Beck, et al.. (2004). Interdecadal variation in the extent of South Pacific tropical waters during the Younger Dryas event. Nature. 428(6986). 927–929. 99 indexed citations

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Cutler, Kirsten, S. C. Gray, George S. Burr, et al.. (2004). Radiocarbon Calibration and Comparison to 50 Kyr BP with Paired ¹⁴C and ²³⁰Th Dating of Corals from Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon. 46(3). 1127–1160. 61 indexed citations

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Jull, Andrew, et al.. (2003). RDC volume 45 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. Radiocarbon. 45(1). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

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Jull, Andrew, et al.. (2002). RDC volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Front matter. Radiocarbon. 44(2). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

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Overpeck, Jonathan T., et al.. (2002). The Varved Sediments of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana and Implications for a new Chronology of West African Hydrologic Change During the Late Quaternary. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 5 indexed citations

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Abram, Nerilie J., et al.. (2002). Coral Radiocarbon Record of Interannual Variability in Wind-induced Upwelling Along the Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Burr, George S., J Beck, D. J. Donahue, et al.. (2002). Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Arizona: Geochronology of the Climatic Record and Connections with the Ocean. The Scientific World JOURNAL. 2. 1579–1593. 2 indexed citations

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Jull, A. J. T., et al.. (1998). Carbon Isotopic Evidence for Terrestrial Organic Compounds Found in Some Martian Meteorites. LPI. 1184.

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Jull, A. J. T., et al.. (1998). Isotopic Evidence for a Terrestrial Source of Organic Compounds Found in Martian Meteorites Allan Hills 84001 and Elephant Moraine 79001. Science. 279(5349). 366–369. 100 indexed citations

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