John F. Slack

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
118 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

John F. Slack is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, John F. Slack has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Geophysics, 56 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 45 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in John F. Slack's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (81 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (56 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (33 papers). John F. Slack is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (81 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (56 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (33 papers). John F. Slack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John F. Slack's co-authors include Tor Grenne, Martin R. Palmer, Andrey Bekker, Olivier Rouxel, Noah J. Planavsky, Kurt O. Konhauser, B. Krapež, Axel Hofmann, B. P. J. Stevens and Karen D. Kelley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

John F. Slack

113 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

2010 746 citations Andrey Bekker, John F. Slack et al. Economic Geology profile →
Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

2017 379 citations Matthew S. Dodd, Dominic Papineau et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John F. Slack United States	35	3.1k	2.1k	1.5k	1.3k	510	118	4.5k
R. F. Dymek United States	26	2.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	977 0.7×	684 0.5×	559 1.1×	66	3.6k
T. Kurtis Kyser Canada	36	3.3k 1.1×	961 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	655 0.5×	900 1.8×	121	4.6k
Gray E. Bebout United States	40	4.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	806 0.5×	716 0.6×	850 1.7×	108	5.1k
Bruce E. Taylor Canada	32	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	806 0.6×	951 1.9×	66	4.4k
Paulo Vasconcelos Australia	43	4.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.6×	767 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	179	6.0k
Thomas Zack Germany	48	6.2k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 2.0×	520 0.4×	702 1.4×	152	7.3k
Judith L. Hannah United States	28	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	623 1.2×	80	3.9k
Janet R. Muhling Australia	33	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	983 0.7×	892 0.7×	424 0.8×	96	3.0k
Cornelis Klein United States	24	1.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	494 0.3×	1.7k 1.4×	686 1.3×	44	3.2k
Pieter Z. Vroon Netherlands	38	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	911 0.6×	693 0.6×	798 1.6×	75	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Slack, John F., Wayne C. Shanks, & Laurel G. Woodruff. (2024). Seeing Through Metamorphism: Geochemical and Isotopic Studies of Amphibolite Facies Mafic-Siliciclastic (Besshi-Type) Massive Sulfide Deposits at the Elizabeth Copper Mine, Vermont, USA. Economic Geology. 119(7). 1487–1524.

Papineau, Dominic, Zhenbing She, Matthew S. Dodd, et al.. (2022). Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth’s oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper. Science Advances. 8(15). eabm2296–eabm2296. 31 indexed citations

Little, Crispin T. S., Stefan Bengtson, Clara S. Chan, et al.. (2021). A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep‐sea, low‐temperature, iron‐oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA. Geobiology. 19(3). 228–249. 24 indexed citations

Strauss, Justin V., et al.. (2019). NEW U-PB DETRITAL AND IGNEOUS ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGICAL RESULTS FROM THE ST. CROIX TERRANE AND ISLESBORO BLOCK, PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

Robbins, Leslie J., et al.. (2018). Earth’s youngest banded iron formation implies ferruginous conditions in the Early Cambrian ocean. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9970–9970. 42 indexed citations

Reusch, Douglas N., et al.. (2017). Smalls Falls Revisted: A Journey Through a Paleozoic Sedimentary Basin. 35–60. 1 indexed citations

Tornos, Fernando, et al.. (2014). Formation of recent Pb-Ag-Au mineralization by potential sub-surface microbial activity. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4600–4600. 12 indexed citations

Shanks, Wayne C., Randolph A. Koski, Dan L. Mosier, et al.. (2012). Volcanogenic massive sulfide occurrence model. Scientific investigations report. 68 indexed citations

Shanks, Wayne C., Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Randolph A. Koski, et al.. (2009). A New Occurrence Model for National Assessment of Undiscovered Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World.

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Dusel-Bacon, Cynthia, John F. Slack, John N. Aleinikoff, & James K. Mortensen. (2009). Mesozoic magmatism and base-metal mineralization in the Fortymile mining district, eastern Alaska — Initial results of petrographic, geochemical, and isotopic studies in the Mount Veta area. USGS professional paper. 7 indexed citations

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Slack, John F., Tor Grenne, & Andrey Bekker. (2009). Seafloor-hydrothermal Si-Fe-Mn exhalites in the Pecos greenstone belt, New Mexico, and the redox state of ca. 1720 Ma deep seawater. Geosphere. 5(3). 302–314. 75 indexed citations

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Ayuso, Robert A., Robert A. Burruss, Julie A. Dumoulin, et al.. (2007). Regional Fluid Flow and Basin Modeling in Northern Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey circular. 4 indexed citations

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Slack, John F., et al.. (2007). Geochemical and sulfur-isotopic signatures of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits on Prince of Wales Island and vicinity, southeastern Alaska. USGS professional paper. 4 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shao‐Yong, et al.. (1996). Feruvite from the Sullivan Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, British Columbia. The Canadian Mineralogist. 34(4). 733–740. 12 indexed citations

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Slack, John F.. (1996). Tourmaline associations with hydrothermal ore deposits. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry. 33(1). 559–643. 164 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shao‐Yong, Martin R. Palmer, & John F. Slack. (1996). Mn-rich ilmenite from the Sullivan Pb-Zn-Ag deposit, British Columbia. The Canadian Mineralogist. 34(1). 29–36. 9 indexed citations

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Slack, John F., et al.. (1992). Hydrothermal and metamorphic berthierine from the Kidd Creek volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Timmins, Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist. 30(4). 1127–1142. 32 indexed citations

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Lawton, Frank, Martin Griffin, John F. Slack, & G. Blackledge. (1989). Urinary Polyamine Excretion Patterns in Patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation. 28(4). 212–214. 12 indexed citations

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Stuart, N, S. M. Crawford, G. Blackledge, et al.. (1989). A phase I study of meta-azidopyrimethamine ethanesulphonate (MZPES) ? a new dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology. 23(5). 308–310. 6 indexed citations

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Slack, John F.. (1982). Tourmaline in Appalachian - Caledonian massive sulphide deposits and its exploration significance.. 91. 81–89. 85 indexed citations

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