Joel E. Saylor

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Joel E. Saylor is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel E. Saylor has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Geophysics, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Joel E. Saylor's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (49 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (33 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (23 papers). Joel E. Saylor is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (49 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (33 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (23 papers). Joel E. Saylor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Joel E. Saylor's co-authors include Kurt E. Sundell, Brian K. Horton, Junsheng Nie, Andrés Mora, Daniel F. Stöckli, Maurício Parra, Jay Quade, Meredith A. Bush, Lin Ding and Peter G. DeCelles and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Joel E. Saylor

81 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-der... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment
    2015 346 citations Junsheng Nie, Daniel F. Stöckli et al. profile →
  2. Quantifying comparison of large detrital geochronology data sets
    2016 270 citations Joel E. Saylor, Kurt E. Sundell Geosphere profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joel E. Saylor United States 35 2.6k 1.4k 676 665 665 84 3.9k
Bárbara Carrapa United States 41 3.6k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 926 1.4× 504 0.8× 951 1.4× 127 4.5k
Brian R. Jicha United States 43 4.1k 1.6× 2.7k 2.0× 656 1.0× 1.2k 1.7× 949 1.4× 240 6.2k
Klaudia F. Kuiper Netherlands 35 3.2k 1.2× 2.6k 1.9× 678 1.0× 1.3k 2.0× 593 0.9× 111 4.8k
Peter Copeland United States 28 4.6k 1.8× 1.3k 0.9× 576 0.9× 436 0.7× 909 1.4× 52 5.7k
Paul van den Bogaard Germany 45 5.5k 2.1× 1.7k 1.2× 562 0.8× 597 0.9× 904 1.4× 109 7.0k
Peter K. Zeitler United States 46 4.5k 1.7× 1.8k 1.3× 711 1.1× 527 0.8× 939 1.4× 109 5.8k
J. W. Geissman United States 35 3.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 431 0.6× 1.2k 1.8× 643 1.0× 189 4.6k
Matthew T. Heizler United States 37 4.6k 1.8× 1.2k 0.8× 306 0.5× 730 1.1× 1.5k 2.2× 150 5.5k
Marcelle K. BouDagher‐Fadel United Kingdom 33 2.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 622 0.9× 1.2k 1.8× 464 0.7× 121 4.0k
Mark D. Feigenson United States 42 4.2k 1.6× 1.3k 0.9× 414 0.6× 806 1.2× 1.2k 1.7× 70 5.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Saylor, Joel E., N. Richardson, Noah Graham, Robert G. Lee, & Michael P. Friedlander. (2025). Tracking Cu‐Fertile Sediment Sources via Multivariate Petrochronological Mixture Modeling of Detrital Zircons. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 130(10).
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Sundell, Kurt E., Richard Styron, Joel E. Saylor, et al.. (2025). Tectonic and climatic controls on late Cenozoic intra-arc basin development in the central Andes of southern Peru. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 666. 119487–119487. 1 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2024). Shortening and asthenospheric flow drove Miocene vertical-axis rotations in the northern Tibetan Plateau: A palaeomagnetic study of the northeast Qaidam Basin of China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 647. 112263–112263. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Baotian, Jian Zhang, Haopeng Geng, et al.. (2024). Stratigraphic record of tectonic and climatic impact on orogenic growth: An example from the Hexi Corridor Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(1-2). 712–724. 1 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2023). Basin formation, magmatism, and exhumation document southward migrating flat-slab subduction in the central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 606. 118050–118050. 13 indexed citations
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Murphy, Michael A., David Whipp, Joel E. Saylor, et al.. (2022). Megathrust Heterogeneity, Crustal Accretion, and a Topographic Embayment in the Western Nepal Himalaya: Insights From the Inversion of Thermochronological Data. Tectonics. 41(7). 11 indexed citations
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Tian, Yuntao, Guangsheng Zhuang, Junsheng Nie, et al.. (2022). Introduction to the special issue “Tibetan tectonics and its effect on the long‐term evolution of climate, vegetation and environment”. Terra Nova. 34(4). 265–270. 1 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E., et al.. (2022). Crustal Thickening of the Northern Central Andean Plateau Inferred From Trace Elements in Zircon. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(3). 26 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E. & Joel E. Saylor. (2021). Two‐Dimensional Quantitative Comparison of Density Distributions in Detrital Geochronology and Geochemistry. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(4). 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoxue, Junsheng Nie, & Joel E. Saylor. (2021). Anti‐Phase Strengthening of the South and East Asian Summer Monsoons During the Early Pliocene Driven by Southern Hemisphere Ice Volume. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(5). 1 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2021). Basin evolution in response to flat-slab subduction in the Altiplano. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(3). 6 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E. & Kurt E. Sundell. (2021). Tracking Proterozoic–Triassic sediment routing to western Laurentia via bivariate non-negative matrix factorization of detrital provenance data. Journal of the Geological Society. 178(3). 12 indexed citations
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Nie, Junsheng, et al.. (2020). Temperature Control on Silicate Weathering Intensity and Evolution of the Neogene East Asian Summer Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(15). 55 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2020). Laramide Orogenesis Driven by Late Cretaceous Weakening of the North American Lithosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 125(8). 21 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2020). Orbital Forcing of Late Miocene–Early Pleistocene Environmental Change in the Zhada Basin, SW Tibetan Plateau. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(8). 5 indexed citations
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Saylor, Joel E. & Kurt E. Sundell. (2016). Quantifying comparison of large detrital geochronology data sets [Geosphere, 12, (203-220)] doi:10.1130/GES01237.1. Geosphere. 12(6). 3 indexed citations

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