James Pierson

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

James Pierson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Pierson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Atmospheric Science, 9 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in James Pierson's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers) and Aeolian processes and effects (6 papers). James Pierson is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers) and Aeolian processes and effects (6 papers). James Pierson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. James Pierson's co-authors include Steven L. Forman, Michael R. Waters, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Scott Waitukaitis, Victor Lee, Lee C. Nordt, P. Y. Amoako, R. P. Lyons, Andrew S. Cohen and Christopher A. Scholz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

James Pierson

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

2007 350 citations Christopher A. Scholz, Thomas C. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Pierson United States	17	819	387	366	327	223	26	1.3k
John A. Peck United States	21	1.3k 1.5×	497 1.3×	516 1.4×	331 1.0×	373 1.7×	34	1.8k
Danièle G. Questiaux Australia	15	609 0.7×	226 0.6×	207 0.6×	214 0.7×	209 0.9×	28	969
Christa Placzek United States	17	705 0.9×	272 0.7×	384 1.0×	366 1.1×	201 0.9×	27	1.1k
Jean Nicolas Haas Austria	22	1.4k 1.7×	318 0.8×	324 0.9×	484 1.5×	308 1.4×	50	1.8k
Chunhai Li China	24	1.0k 1.3×	230 0.6×	307 0.8×	356 1.1×	327 1.5×	78	1.7k
Jean‐Jacques Delannoy France	20	600 0.7×	362 0.9×	515 1.4×	442 1.4×	168 0.8×	118	1.4k
Salvatore Valastro Italy	24	779 1.0×	335 0.9×	349 1.0×	388 1.2×	422 1.9×	76	1.7k
Philippe Duringer France	27	661 0.8×	385 1.0×	659 1.8×	789 2.4×	275 1.2×	78	1.9k
R. A. Perrott United Kingdom	16	1.2k 1.5×	378 1.0×	338 0.9×	331 1.0×	526 2.4×	25	1.6k
G. Rajagopalan India	20	833 1.0×	435 1.1×	165 0.5×	175 0.5×	296 1.3×	49	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Pierson

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Ahlborn, Marieke, Torsten Haberzettl, Junbo Wang, et al.. (2015). Holocene lake level history of the Tangra Yumco lake system, southern-central Tibetan Plateau. The Holocene. 26(2). 176–187. 44 indexed citations

Yang, Shengli, Steven L. Forman, Yougui Song, et al.. (2013). Evaluating OSL-SAR protocols for dating quartz grains from the loess in Ili Basin, Central Asia. Quaternary Geochronology. 20. 78–88. 51 indexed citations

Forman, Steven L., et al.. (2012). Episodic eolian deposition in the past ca. 50,000years in the Alto Ilo dune field, southern Peru. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 346-347. 12–24. 12 indexed citations

Wood, John R., et al.. (2010). Lacustrine sediments in Porter Cave, Central Indiana, USA and possible relation to Laurentide ice sheet marginal positions in the middle and late Wisconsinan. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 298(3-4). 421–431. 15 indexed citations

Forman, Steven L., et al.. (2009). Late Holocene dune migration on the south Texas sand sheet. Geomorphology. 108(3-4). 159–170. 43 indexed citations

Wood, John R., et al.. (2009). New insights on Illinoian deglaciation from deposits of Glacial Lake Quincy, central Indiana. Quaternary Research. 73(2). 374–384. 11 indexed citations

Forman, Steven L., et al.. (2008). Late Quaternary eolian sand depositional record for southwestern Kansas: Landscape sensitivity to droughts. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 265(1-2). 107–120. 46 indexed citations

Scholz, Christopher A., Thomas C. Johnson, Andrew S. Cohen, et al.. (2007). East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(42). 16416–16421. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

Wright, David, et al.. (2007). Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya. Geoarchaeology. 22(7). 709–728. 11 indexed citations

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Forman, Steven L., et al.. (2006). Luminescence geochronology for sediments from Lake El’gygytgyn, northeast Siberia, Russia: constraining the timing of paleoenvironmental events for the past 200 ka. Journal of Paleolimnology. 37(1). 77–88. 34 indexed citations

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Forman, Steven L., et al.. (2005). Aeolian sand depositional records from western Nebraska: landscape response to droughts in the past 1500 years. The Holocene. 15(7). 973–981. 56 indexed citations

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Pierson, James, K. A. McKinney, D. W. Toohey, et al.. (1999). An Investigation of CIO Photchemistry in the Chemically Perturbed Arctic Vortex. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 32(1). 61–81. 28 indexed citations

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Pierson, James & S. R. Kawa. (1999). The Influence of Airmass Histories on Radical Species during POLARIS. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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Waters, Michael R., Steven L. Forman, & James Pierson. (1999). Late Quaternary Geology and Geochronology of Diring Yuriakh, An Early Paleolithic Site in Central Siberia. Quaternary Research. 51(2). 195–211. 13 indexed citations

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McKinney, K. A., James Pierson, & D. W. Toohey. (1997). A wintertime in situ profile of BrO between 17 and 27 km in the Arctic vortex. Geophysical Research Letters. 24(8). 853–856. 24 indexed citations

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Waters, Michael R., Steven L. Forman, & James Pierson. (1997). Diring Yuriakh: A Lower Paleolithic Site in Central Siberia. Science. 275(5304). 1281–1284. 41 indexed citations

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Rodbell, Donald T., Steven L. Forman, James Pierson, & Warren C. Lynn. (1997). Stratigraphy and chronology of Mississippi Valley loess in western Tennessee. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 109(9). 1134–1148. 58 indexed citations

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Forman, Steven L., James Pierson, Richard P. Smith, William R. Hackett, & Greg A. Valentine. (1994). Assessing the accuracy of thermoluminescence for dating baked sediments beneath late Quaternary lava flows, Snake River Plain, Idaho. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 99(B8). 15569–15576. 24 indexed citations

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Forman, Steven L., Kenneth Lepper, & James Pierson. (1994). Limitations of infra-red stimulated luminescence in dating high Arctic marine sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 13(5-7). 545–550. 13 indexed citations

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Pierson, James, et al.. (1994). A variable narrow bandpass optically stimulated luminescence system for quaternary geochronology. Radiation Measurements. 23(2-3). 533–535. 7 indexed citations

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