J. Brendan Murphy

16.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
279 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

J. Brendan Murphy is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Brendan Murphy has authored 279 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 248 papers in Geophysics, 88 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 82 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in J. Brendan Murphy's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (245 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (87 papers). J. Brendan Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (245 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (87 papers). J. Brendan Murphy collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. J. Brendan Murphy's co-authors include R. Damian Nance, J. Duncan Keppie, Gabriel Gutiérrez‐Alonso, Javier Fernández‐Suárez, Sergei Pisarevsky, J. Dostál, Cecilio Quesada, William J. Collins, Rob Strachan and M. Santosh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

J. Brendan Murphy

274 papers receiving 12.7k 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.

Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

2009 578 citations R. Damian Nance, J. Duncan Keppie et al. profile →
The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay

2013 573 citations R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy et al. profile →
Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data

2011 359 citations William J. Collins, Елена Белоусова et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia assembly and breakup: Implications for models of supercontinent cycles

2016 358 citations Peter A. Cawood, Sergei Pisarevsky et al. profile →
Critical role of water in the formation of continental crust

2020 141 citations William J. Collins, J. Brendan Murphy et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
The supercontinent cycle

2021 130 citations Ross N. Mitchell, Yebo Liu et al. profile →
Gondwana's interlinked peripheral orogens

2021 112 citations Peter A. Cawood, Erin L. Martin et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
J. Brendan Murphy	12.4k	4.3k	3.1k	1.7k	1.1k	279	13.2k
Alan S. Collins	14.3k 1.2×	4.9k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	228	15.8k
Sandra L. Kamo	9.9k 0.8×	5.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	148	11.0k
Kent C. Condie	9.0k 0.7×	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	142	10.3k
R. Damian Nance	7.3k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	832 0.7×	134	7.9k
Sergei Pisarevsky	11.7k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	147	12.6k
Charlotte M. Allen	10.3k 0.8×	4.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	153	11.3k
Reinhardt A. Fuck	8.6k 0.7×	4.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	574 0.5×	238	9.5k
R. J. Korsch	8.9k 0.7×	4.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	3.1k 1.9×	1.0k 0.9×	112	10.2k
J. Duncan Keppie	7.3k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	728 0.6×	185	7.9k
Joachim Jacobs	5.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	631 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	109	6.4k

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Casas, Josep Maria, Alejandro Díez Montes, Joaquín A. Proenza, et al.. (2025). From the Upper Ordovician unconformity to the core-mantle boundary: A review of the Ordovician events in the Canigó massif, Pyrenees. Geologica Acta. 23. 1–48.

Žák, Jiří, Martin Svojtka, R. Damian Nance, & J. Brendan Murphy. (2025). Detrital zircon record of shutdown and migration of Cadomian volcanic arcs in the Bohemian Massif, with implications for Ediacaran to early Cambrian plate kinematics. Precambrian Research. 422. 107786–107786. 1 indexed citations

Murphy, J. Brendan, R. Damian Nance, Karel Schulmann, Yvette D. Kuiper, & José R. Martı́nez Catalán. (2025). Assembling Pangaea – The Complex Morphology of the Laurussia – Gondwana Collision. Elements. 21(6). 422–428. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Lei, Sergei Pisarevsky, Zheng‐Xiang Li, J. Brendan Murphy, & Yebo Liu. (2024). A new reconstruction of Phanerozoic Earth evolution: Toward a big-data approach to global paleogeography. Tectonophysics. 874. 230198–230198. 5 indexed citations

Heron, Philip J., Grace E. Shephard, Juliane Dannberg, et al.. (2023). The role of subduction in the formation of Pangaean oceanic large igneous provinces. Geological Society London Special Publications. 542(1). 105–128. 4 indexed citations

Casas, Josep Maria, J. Brendan Murphy, Alejandro Díez Montes, et al.. (2023). Does the Ollo de Sapo magmatic event support Furongian‒Tremadocian mantle plume activity fringing NW Gondwana?. International Geology Review. 66(10). 1956–1970. 5 indexed citations

Archibald, Donnelly B., J. Brendan Murphy, & Robert A. Creaser. (2023). The genetic relationship between coeval Ediacaran mafic and granitoid plutons in the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia. Geological Society London Special Publications. 542(1). 701–720. 3 indexed citations

Martin, Erin L., et al.. (2023). The tectonics of introversion and extroversion: redefining interior and exterior oceans in the supercontinent cycle. Geological Society London Special Publications. 542(1). 15–29. 8 indexed citations

Dien, Hamed Gamal El, Zheng‐Xiang Li, Mohamed Abu Anbar, et al.. (2021). The largest plagiogranite on Earth formed by re-melting of juvenile proto-continental crust. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 25 indexed citations

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Murphy, J. Brendan, et al.. (2018). A mantle source of water in the Late Neoproterozoic appinitic Greendale Complex, Nova Scotia: An O and H isotopic study on amphiboles provides evidence of asthenospheric upwelling. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9934. 1 indexed citations

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Spencer, Christopher J., J. Brendan Murphy, Christopher L. Kirkland, Yebo Liu, & Ross N. Mitchell. (2018). A Palaeoproterozoic tectono-magmatic lull as a potential trigger for the supercontinent cycle. Nature Geoscience. 11(2). 97–101. 106 indexed citations

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Keppie, J. Duncan, J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance, & J. Dostál. (2011). Mesoproterozoic Oaxaquia-type basement in peri-Gondwanan terranes of Mexico, the Appalachians, and Europe: T _DM age constraints on extent and significance. International Geology Review. 54(3). 313–324. 31 indexed citations

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Collins, William J., Елена Белоусова, Anthony I.S. Kemp, & J. Brendan Murphy. (2011). Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data. Nature Geoscience. 4(5). 333–337. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ortega‐Obregón, Carlos, J. Duncan Keppie, & J. Brendan Murphy. (2010). Geochemistry of Carboniferous low metamorphic grade sedimentary and tholeiitic igneous rocks in the western Acatlán complex, southern Mexico: deposition along the active western margin of Pangea. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations

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Murphy, J. Brendan. (2010). Early Paleozoic Peri-Gondwanan Terranes: New Insights from Tectonics and Biogeography. Geoscience Canada. 37(2). 3 indexed citations

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Murphy, J. Brendan. (2007). Igneous Rock Associations 8. Arc Magmatism II: Geochemical and Isotopic Characteristics. Geoscience Canada. 34(1). 7–35. 74 indexed citations

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Murphy, J. Brendan. (2006). Igneous Rock Associations 7. Arc Magmatism I: Relationship Between Subduction and Magma Genesis. Geoscience Canada. 33(4). 20 indexed citations

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Fuis, G. S., et al.. (2004). The Onshore-Offshore LARSE I Transect: San Clemente Island to the Mojave Desert--Crustal blocks and the Moho. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Murphy, J. Brendan, Georgia Pe‐Piper, J. Duncan Keppie, & David J. W. Piper. (1992). Correlation of Neoproterozoic III sequences in the Avalon Composite Terrane of mainland Nova Scotia: tectonic implications. Atlantic Geology. 28(2). 15 indexed citations

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Pe‐Piper, Georgia & J. Brendan Murphy. (1992). Late Proterozoic high-titanium basalts in the Avalon Zone of Nova Scotia. The Canadian Mineralogist. 30(4). 1167–1176. 6 indexed citations

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