J. P. Grotzinger

40.2k citations

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

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
Topics: Planetary Science and Exploration (162 papers)Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (115 papers)Astro and Planetary Science (106 papers)
Cited by: Paleontology Geochemistry and Petrology Atmospheric Science
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

J. P. Grotzinger

312 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean

2006 799 citations David A. Fike, J. P. Grotzinger et al. profile →
In Situ Evidence for an Ancient Aqueous Environment at Meridiani Planum, Mars

2004 697 citations J. P. Grotzinger, R. E. Arvidson et al. profile →
STROMATOLITES IN PRECAMBRIAN CARBONATES: Evolutionary Mileposts or Environmental Dipsticks?

1999 600 citations J. P. Grotzinger, Andrew H. Knoll profile →
Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

1995 559 citations J. P. Grotzinger et al. profile →
Comparative Earth History and Late Permian Mass Extinction

1996 536 citations Andrew H. Knoll, J. P. Grotzinger et al. profile →
Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

2009 519 citations David A. Fike, J. P. Grotzinger et al. profile →
Paleoclimate of Mars as captured by the stratigraphic record in Gale Crater

2010 323 citations R. E. Milliken, J. P. Grotzinger et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. P. Grotzinger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J. P. Grotzinger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J. P. Grotzinger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with J. P. Grotzinger. J. P. Grotzinger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Melting the Marinoan Snowball Earth: The impact of deglaciation duration on the sea-level history of continental margins 2024 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·(unknown),Tamara Pico,Jessica R. Creveling,J. P. Grotzinger	2
2	Depth-dependent diffusion algorithm for simulation of sedimentation in shallow marine depositional systems 2024 ·Bulletin (Kansas Geological Survey) ·(unknown),J. P. Grotzinger,David S. McCormick	0
3	Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation 2024 ·Sedimentology ·Kelsey Moore,Antoine Crémière,Theodore M. Present,Andrew Barnett,Kristin Bergmann,Joachim E. Amthor,J. P. Grotzinger	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 2023 ·Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·(unknown),Theodore M. Present,(unknown),J. P. Grotzinger	1
5	Diverse Lava Flow Morphologies in the Stratigraphy of the Jezero Crater Floor 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·(unknown),B. Horgan,Arya Udry,(unknown),S. A. Fagents,(unknown),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	6
6	Early impacts of climate change on a coastal marine microbial mat ecosystem 2022 ·Science Advances ·Usha Lingappa,(unknown),Kyle Metcalfe,Theodore M. Present,Victoria J. Orphan,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,Elizabeth J. Trower,Maya Gomes,Woodward W. Fischer	11
7	Canyon Wall and Floor Debris Deposits in Aeolis Mons, Mars 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·(unknown),R. E. Arvidson,W. E. Dietrich,Michael P. Lamb,Jeffrey G. Catalano,J. P. Grotzinger,A. B. Bryk	3
8	Geology and Stratigraphic Correlation of the Murray and Carolyn Shoemaker Formations Across the Glen Torridon Region, Gale Crater, Mars 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·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,(unknown),A. A. Fraeman,A. R. Vasavada,Jüergen Schieber,B. Sutter	34
9	Microbial mats in the Turks and Caicos Islands reveal diversity and evolution of phototrophy in the Chloroflexota order Aggregatilineales 2020 ·Environmental Microbiome ·Lewis M. Ward,Usha Lingappa,J. P. Grotzinger,Woodward W. Fischer	19
10	A Lacustrine Paleoenvironment Recorded at Vera RubinRidge, Gale Crater: Overview of the Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Observed by the Mars ScienceLaboratory Curiosity Rover 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·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	73
11	Regional Structural Orientation of the Mount Sharp Group Revealed by In Situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·(unknown),(unknown),J. P. Grotzinger,Christopher M. Fedo,B. L. Ehlmann,K. M. Stack,L. A. Edgar,A. A. Fraeman,R. Deen	23
12	Diagenesis of Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater, Mars, From Mastcam Multispectral Images 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Planets ·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	30
13	Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars 2018 ·Sedimentology ·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	141
14	Depositional History of the Hartmann's Valley Member, Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars 2018 ·LPI ·(unknown),(unknown),J. P. Grotzinger,K. S. Edgett,F. Rivera‐Hernández,N. Stein	7
15	Classification scheme for sedimentary and igneous rocks in Gale crater, Mars 2016 ·Icarus ·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	45
16	Linking the modern to the ancient with a comprehensive geobiological understanding of biosignature preservation in microbial mats 2016 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown),Usha Lingappa,Kyle Metcalfe,Shane S. O’Reilly,Leigh Anne Riedman,Marjorie Cantine,(unknown),R. J. Phillips,N. Stein,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Elizabeth J. Trower,Woodward W. Fischer,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,David A. Fike	3
17	Landscape evolution on Mars - A model of aeolian denudation in Gale Crater 2015 ·AGUFM ·Mackenzie Day,Gary Kocurek,J. P. Grotzinger	1
18	The Chemostratigraphy of Lower Mt. Sharp: Using Rover-Scale Observations to Test Orbital-Scale Hypotheses 2015 ·Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ·R. E. Milliken,(unknown),J. P. Grotzinger,(unknown),(unknown),Javier Martín‐Torres,María‐Paz Zorzano	1
19	Curiosity's Mastcam Images Reveal Conglomerate Outcrops with Water-Transported Pebbles 2013 ·Open Research Online (The Open University) ·R. M. E. Williams,W. E. Dietrich,J. P. Grotzinger,(unknown),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	3
20	Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Abigail C. Allwood,J. P. Grotzinger,Andrew H. Knoll,(unknown),M. S. Anderson,Max Coleman,I. Kanik	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) and Astro and Planetary Science (106 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. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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