Jan Westerweel

602 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Jan Westerweel is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Westerweel has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Geophysics, 4 papers in Geology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jan Westerweel's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (7 papers), Geological and Geophysical Studies (4 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (4 papers). Jan Westerweel is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (7 papers), Geological and Geophysical Studies (4 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (4 papers). Jan Westerweel collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Jan Westerweel's co-authors include Alexis Licht, Zaw Win, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet, Day Wa Aung, Pierrick Roperch, Hnin Hnin Swe, Fernando Poblete, Gilles Ruffet, Huasheng Huang and Nathan Cogné and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth-Science Reviews, Nature Geoscience and Geological Society of America Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Jan Westerweel

11 papers receiving 428 citations

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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.

Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data

2019 218 citations Jan Westerweel, Pierrick Roperch et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Westerweel France	8	231	146	99	82	62	12	446
Hnin Hnin Swe Myanmar	3	187 0.8×	111 0.8×	77 0.8×	54 0.7×	35 0.6×	4	336
Congli Xu China	6	124 0.5×	137 0.9×	46 0.5×	95 1.2×	134 2.2×	21	383
Shichao Li China	4	114 0.5×	115 0.8×	47 0.5×	91 1.1×	129 2.1×	6	341
David Sunderlin United States	10	108 0.5×	144 1.0×	53 0.5×	169 2.1×	149 2.4×	18	420
Andrew Constantine Australia	9	172 0.7×	83 0.6×	96 1.0×	390 4.8×	60 1.0×	11	578
Anne-Claire Chaboureau France	6	102 0.4×	63 0.4×	63 0.6×	135 1.6×	67 1.1×	9	294
Sarah K. Martin Australia	8	53 0.2×	130 0.9×	54 0.5×	201 2.5×	29 0.5×	20	325
Guichun Liu China	13	320 1.4×	54 0.4×	79 0.8×	104 1.3×	24 0.4×	40	523
Xiangning Yang China	11	117 0.5×	38 0.3×	63 0.6×	267 3.3×	104 1.7×	16	347
Sergey Alexandrovich Afonin Russia	7	76 0.3×	143 1.0×	37 0.4×	249 3.0×	88 1.4×	27	368

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12 of 12 papers shown

Licht, Alexis, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet, Jan Westerweel, et al.. (2025). The missing arcs of the India-Asia collision. Gondwana Research. 147. 260–275.

Westerweel, Jan, Pierrick Roperch, Zaw Win, & Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet. (2024). Northward drift of the Burma Terrane with India during the Cenozoic and implications for the India–Asia collision. Geological Society London Special Publications. 549(1). 11–54. 3 indexed citations

Licht, Alexis, Grégoire Métais, Pauline Coster, et al.. (2022). Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure. Earth-Science Reviews. 226. 103929–103929. 19 indexed citations

Huang, Huasheng, Robert J. Morley, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2022). A proto-monsoonal climate in the late Eocene of Southeast Asia: Evidence from a sedimentary record in central Myanmar. Geoscience Frontiers. 14(1). 101457–101457. 8 indexed citations

Westerweel, Jan, Alexis Licht, Nathan Cogné, et al.. (2020). Burma Terrane Collision and Northward Indentation in the Eastern Himalayas Recorded in the Eocene‐Miocene Chindwin Basin (Myanmar). Tectonics. 39(10). 48 indexed citations

Licht, Alexis, Zaw Win, Jan Westerweel, et al.. (2020). Magmatic history of central Myanmar and implications for the evolution of the Burma Terrane. Gondwana Research. 87. 303–319. 46 indexed citations

Huang, Huasheng, Robert J. Morley, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2020). Eocene palms from central Myanmar in a South-East Asian and global perspective: evidence from the palynological record. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 194(2). 177–206. 25 indexed citations

Westerweel, Jan, Bora Uzel, Cor G. Langereis, Nuretdin Kaymakçı, & Hasan Sözbilir. (2020). Paleomagnetism of the Miocene Soma basin and its structural implications on the central sector of a crustal-scale transfer zone in western Anatolia (Turkey). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 193. 104305–104305. 7 indexed citations

Westerweel, Jan, Pierrick Roperch, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2019). Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data. Nature Geoscience. 12(10). 863–868. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Westerweel, Jan, Pierrick Roperch, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2019). Publisher Correction: Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data. Nature Geoscience. 12(11). 959–959. 1 indexed citations

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Licht, Alexis, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet, Zaw Win, et al.. (2018). Paleogene evolution of the Burmese forearc basin and implications for the history of India-Asia convergence. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 131(5-6). 730–748. 69 indexed citations

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Huang, Huasheng, Alexis Licht, Robert J. Morley, et al.. (2018). Palynology of the Central Myanmar Basin corroborates Eocene–Oligocene monsoonal conditions in South-East Asia. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 206. 2 indexed citations

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