J. P. Grotzinger

40.2k citations

324 papers · 15.4k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 64

Paleontology top 0.01%
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils 115
Geochemistry and Petrology top 0.05%
Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 98
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.2%
- Planetary Science and Exploration 162
- Astro and Planetary Science 106
Earth-Surface Processes top 0.2%
- Geological formations and processes 36
Aerospace Engineering
- Space Exploration and Technology 65
Geophysics
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis 35
Mechanics of Materials
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis 28

Co-authors: Andrew H. Knoll David A. Fike Roger E. Summons Beverly Z. Saylor Samuel A. Bowring Alan J. Kaufman Woodward W. Fischer Lisa M. Pratt
Cited by: Paleontology Geochemistry and Petrology Atmospheric Science
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

J. P. Grotzinger

312 papers receiving 14.8k 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.

2010 Paleoclimate of Mars as captured by the stratigraphic record in Gale Crater
2009 Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period
2006 Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean
2004 In Situ Evidence for an Ancient Aqueous Environment at Meridiani Planum, Mars
1999 STROMATOLITES IN PRECAMBRIAN CARBONATES: Evolutionary Mileposts or Environmental Dipsticks?
1996 Comparative Earth History and Late Permian Mass Extinction
1995 Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

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1	Melting the Marinoan Snowball Earth: The impact of deglaciation duration on the sea-level history of continental margins Freya K. Morris,Tamara Pico,Jessica R. Creveling,J. P. Grotzinger	2024	2
2	Depth-dependent diffusion algorithm for simulation of sedimentation in shallow marine depositional systems Peter Kaufman,J. P. Grotzinger,David S. McCormick	2024	0
3	Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation Kelsey Moore,Antoine Crémière,Theodore M. Present,Andrew Barnett,Kristin Bergmann,Joachim E. Amthor,J. P. Grotzinger	2024	1
4	Sulfur geochemistry of the Salitre Formation phosphorites: Implications for the role of microbial ecology and sulfur cycling in phosphogenesis on an Ediacaran carbonate platform Cecilia Sanders,Theodore M. Present,Selva Marroquín,J. P. Grotzinger	2023	1
5	Diverse Lava Flow Morphologies in the Stratigraphy of the Jezero Crater Floor (unknown),B. Horgan,Arya Udry,Andreas Bechtold,S. A. Fagents,Eleni Ravanis,L. S. Crumpler,Nicole Schmitz,E. A. Cloutis,A. J. Brown,David Flannery,O. Gasnault,J. P. Grotzinger,Sanjeev Gupta,Linda C. Kah,P. B. Kelemen,K. M. Kinch,Jorge I. Núñez	2023	6
6	Early impacts of climate change on a coastal marine microbial mat ecosystem Usha Lingappa,Nathaniel Stein,Kyle Metcalfe,Theodore M. Present,Victoria J. Orphan,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,Elizabeth J. Trower,Maya Gomes,Woodward W. Fischer	2022	11
7	Canyon Wall and Floor Debris Deposits in Aeolis Mons, Mars M. N. Hughes,R. E. Arvidson,W. E. Dietrich,Michael P. Lamb,Jeffrey G. Catalano,J. P. Grotzinger,A. B. Bryk	2022	3
8	Geology and Stratigraphic Correlation of the Murray and Carolyn Shoemaker Formations Across the Glen Torridon Region, Gale Crater, Mars Christopher M. Fedo,A. B. Bryk,L. A. Edgar,K. A. Bennett,V. K. Fox,W. E. Dietrich,Steven G. Banham,Sanjeev Gupta,K. M. Stack,R. M. E. Williams,J. P. Grotzinger,N. Stein,David M. Rubin,Gwénaël Caravaca,R. E. Arvidson,M. N. Hughes,A. A. Fraeman,A. R. Vasavada,Jüergen Schieber,B. Sutter	2022	34
9	Microbial mats in the Turks and Caicos Islands reveal diversity and evolution of phototrophy in the Chloroflexota order Aggregatilineales Lewis M. Ward,Usha Lingappa,J. P. Grotzinger,Woodward W. Fischer	2020	19
10	A Lacustrine Paleoenvironment Recorded at Vera RubinRidge, Gale Crater: Overview of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Observed by the Mars ScienceLaboratory Curiosity Rover L. A. Edgar,Christopher M. Fedo,Sanjeev Gupta,Steven G. Banham,A. A. Fraeman,J. P. Grotzinger,K. M. Stack,N. Stein,K. A. Bennett,F. Rivera‐Hernández,V. Z. Sun,K. S. Edgett,David M. Rubin,Christopher H. House,Jason Van Beek	2020	73
11	Regional Structural Orientation of the Mount Sharp Group Revealed by In Situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge Nathaniel Stein,Daven P. Quinn,J. P. Grotzinger,Christopher M. Fedo,B. L. Ehlmann,K. M. Stack,L. A. Edgar,A. A. Fraeman,R. Deen	2020	23
12	Diagenesis of Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater, Mars, From Mastcam Multispectral Images B. Horgan,J. R. Johnson,A. A. Fraeman,M. S. Rice,Christina H. Seeger,J. F. Bell,K. A. Bennett,E. A. Cloutis,L. A. Edgar,J. Frydenvang,J. P. Grotzinger,J. L’Haridon,Samantha Jacob,N. Mangold,E. B. Rampe,F. Rivera‐Hernández,V. Z. Sun,L. M. Thompson,Danika Wellington	2020	30
13	Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars Steven G. Banham,Sanjeev Gupta,David M. Rubin,J. A. Watkins,D. Y. Sumner,K. S. Edgett,J. P. Grotzinger,K. W. Lewis,L. A. Edgar,K. Stack-Morgan,Robert Barnes,J. F. Bell,Mackenzie Day,R. C. Ewing,M. G. A. Lapôtre,N. Stein,F. Rivera‐Hernández,A. R. Vasavada	2018	141
14	Depositional History of the Hartmann's Valley Member, Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars Samantha Gwizd,C. Fedo,J. P. Grotzinger,K. S. Edgett,F. Rivera‐Hernández,N. Stein	2018	7
15	Classification scheme for sedimentary and igneous rocks in Gale crater, Mars N. Mangold,M. E. Schmidt,M. R. Fisk,O. Forni,S. M. McLennan,D. W. Ming,V. Sautter,D. Y. Sumner,Amy J. Williams,S. M. Clegg,A. Cousin,O. Gasnault,R. Gellert,J. P. Grotzinger,R. C. Wiens	2016	45
16	Linking the modern to the ancient with a comprehensive geobiological understanding of biosignature preservation in microbial mats M. L. Gomes,Usha Lingappa,Kyle Metcalfe,Shane S. O’Reilly,Leigh Anne Riedman,Marjorie Cantine,Border Ireland,R. J. Phillips,N. Stein,E. A. Orzechowski,J. V. Strauss,H. M. Grotzinger,Daven P. Quinn,Elizabeth J. Trower,Woodward W. Fischer,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,David A. Fike	2016	3
17	Landscape evolution on Mars - A model of aeolian denudation in Gale Crater Mackenzie Day,Gary Kocurek,J. P. Grotzinger	2015	1
18	The Chemostratigraphy of Lower Mt. Sharp: Using Rover-Scale Observations to Test Orbital-Scale Hypotheses R. E. Milliken,J. A. Hurowitz,J. P. Grotzinger,rer. pol. Marcus Wiens,D. Blaney,Javier Martín‐Torres,María‐Paz Zorzano	2015	1
19	Curiosity's Mastcam Images Reveal Conglomerate Outcrops with Water-Transported Pebbles R. M. E. Williams,W. E. Dietrich,J. P. Grotzinger,S. Gupta,M. C. Malin,M. C. Palucis,David M. Rubin,K. M. Stack,D. Y. Sumner,R. A. Yingst,J. C. Bridges,W. Goetz,Asmus Koefoed,Jacob Krüger Jensen,M. B. Madsen,S. P. Schwenzer,R. Deen,Oleg Pariser	2013	3
20	Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites Abigail C. Allwood,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,Ian W. Burch,M. S. Anderson,Max Coleman,I. Kanik	2009	176

About J. P. Grotzinger

J. P. Grotzinger is a scholar working on Paleontology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Earth-Surface Processes, having authored 324 papers that have together received 15.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Planetary Science and Exploration (162 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (115 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (106 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (98 papers), Space Exploration and Technology (65 papers), Geological formations and processes (36 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (35 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (8.5k citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (2.9k citations) and Atmospheric Science (5.8k citations). J. P. Grotzinger has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Andrew H. Knoll, David A. Fike, Roger E. Summons, Beverly Z. Saylor, Samuel A. Bowring, Alan J. Kaufman, Woodward W. Fischer, Lisa M. Pratt, W. A. Watters and R. E. Milliken.

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