John Hellström

18.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
238 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

John Hellström is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Hellström has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Atmospheric Science, 99 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 72 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in John Hellström's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (179 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (72 papers) and Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (55 papers). John Hellström is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (179 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (72 papers) and Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (55 papers). John Hellström collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Italy and France. John Hellström's co-authors include Jon Woodhead, Janet Hergt, Chad Paton, Bence Paul, Russell N. Drysdale, Roland Maas, Alan Greig, Giovanni Zanchetta, Anthony E. Fallick and Malcolm T. McCulloch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Hellström

223 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data

2011 3.3k citations John Hellström, Jon Woodhead et al. profile →
Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

2013 1.2k citations Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards et al. profile →
Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

2010 1.1k citations Jon Woodhead, John Hellström et al. profile →
Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma‐Mass Spectrometry

2007 320 citations Jon Woodhead, John Hellström et al. profile →
The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

2017 193 citations Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Eric M. Roberts et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Hellström Australia	54	7.6k	5.2k	3.4k	3.0k	2.6k	238	14.0k
Frank McDermott Ireland	49	5.2k 0.7×	4.7k 0.9×	3.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	128	11.1k
Alan L. Deino United States	57	4.8k 0.6×	5.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	4.3k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	175	12.6k
Alfons Berger Switzerland	54	10.0k 1.3×	4.7k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	226	15.2k
F.J. Hilgen Netherlands	69	12.6k 1.7×	6.3k 1.2×	4.5k 1.3×	5.9k 2.0×	1.4k 0.5×	213	16.8k
Wout Krijgsman Netherlands	68	10.4k 1.4×	8.4k 1.6×	3.9k 1.2×	5.4k 1.8×	1.1k 0.4×	289	17.0k
Rixiang Zhu China	71	7.4k 1.0×	10.0k 1.9×	2.8k 0.8×	3.5k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	334	18.5k
Paul R. Renne United States	89	9.1k 1.2×	17.7k 3.4×	2.2k 0.6×	8.7k 2.9×	3.1k 1.2×	385	27.6k
Andrew P. Roberts Australia	72	14.0k 1.9×	5.1k 1.0×	4.3k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	339	19.9k
S. L. Goldstein United States	72	6.6k 0.9×	8.6k 1.6×	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	498 0.2×	230	15.1k
Dennis V. Kent United States	76	13.5k 1.8×	10.7k 2.0×	3.7k 1.1×	9.3k 3.1×	1.5k 0.6×	328	23.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Hellström

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Archer, Michael, Kim Akerman, Larisa R.G. DeSantis, et al.. (2025). Australia’s First Peoples: hunters of extinct megafauna or Australia’s first fossil collectors. Royal Society Open Science. 12(10). 250078–250078.

Gagan, Michael K., Linda K. Ayliffe, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, et al.. (2025). Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Surić, Maša, et al.. (2025). Reconstruction of environmental and hydroclimate changes in the Adriatic region over the last 367 kyr from Modrič Cave (Croatia) speleothems. Quaternary Science Reviews. 358. 109351–109351.

Hellström, John, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, et al.. (2024). Warming drives dissolved organic carbon export from pristine alpine soils. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3522–3522. 6 indexed citations

Pederson, Chelsea, Adam Hartland, Ola Kwiecien, et al.. (2024). Mid‐Holocene rainfall seasonality and ENSO dynamics over the south‐western Pacific. The Depositional Record. 10(1). 176–194.

Krause, Claire E., Michael K. Gagan, Peter O. Hopcroft, et al.. (2024). Tropical vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years from model simulations and stalagmites in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Quaternary Research. 118. 126–141.

Nehmé, Carole, Dominique Todisco, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, et al.. (2023). Holocene hydroclimate variability along the Southern Patagonian margin (Chile) reconstructed from Cueva Chica speleothems. Global and Planetary Change. 222. 104050–104050. 9 indexed citations

Woodhead, Jon, et al.. (2023). DQPB: software for calculating disequilibrium U–Pb ages. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 181–196. 7 indexed citations

Regattieri, Eleonora, Giovanni Zanchetta, Elena Zanella, et al.. (2021). Interstadial conditions over the Southern Alps during the early penultimate glacial (MIS 6): a multiproxy record from Rio Martino Cave (Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews. 257. 106856–106856. 6 indexed citations

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Surić, Maša, et al.. (2021). Holocene hydroclimate changes in continental Croatia recorded in speleothem δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O from Nova Grgosova Cave. The Holocene. 31(9). 1401–1416. 11 indexed citations

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Drysdale, Russell N., John Hellström, Hai Cheng, et al.. (2021). Subaqueous speleothems from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, as palaeohydrological archives for the arid zone. 1 indexed citations

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Bini, Mónica, Giovanni Zanchetta, Russell N. Drysdale, et al.. (2020). An end to the Last Interglacial highstand before 120 ka: Relative sea-level evidence from Infreschi Cave (Southern Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews. 250. 106658–106658. 25 indexed citations

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Drysdale, Russell N., John Hellström, Émilie Capron, et al.. (2020). Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Science. 369(6506). 963–969. 85 indexed citations

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Isola, Ilaria, Giovanni Zanchetta, Russell N. Drysdale, et al.. (2019). The 4.2 ka event in the central Mediterranean: new data from a Corchia speleothem (Apuan Alps, central Italy). Climate of the past. 15(1). 135–151. 41 indexed citations

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Nehmé, Carole, Sophie Verheyden, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, et al.. (2018). Climate dynamics during the penultimate glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Kanaan Cave, Lebanon (central Levant). Quaternary Research. 90(1). 10–25. 13 indexed citations

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Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Eric M. Roberts, Hannah L. Hilbert‐Wolf, et al.. (2017). The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife. 6. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Columbu, Andrea, Veronica Chiarini, Jo De Waele, et al.. (2016). Late quaternary speleogenesis and landscape evolution in the northern Apennine evaporite areas. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(10). 1447–1459. 22 indexed citations

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Regattieri, Eleonora, Ilaria Isola, Giovanni Zanchetta, et al.. (2012). Stratigraphy, petrography and chronology of speleothem concretion at Tana Che Urla (Lucca, Italy): paleoclimatic implications. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 35(2). 141–152. 7 indexed citations

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Wagner, Thomas, Kurt Stüwe, Othmar Nestroy, et al.. (2011). Correlations of cave levels, stream terraces and planation surfaces along the River Mur—Timing of landscape evolution along the eastern margin of the Alps. Geomorphology. 134(1-2). 62–78. 50 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hai, et al.. (2008). A new generation of 230 Th dating techniques: Tests of precision and accuracy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 72(12). 7 indexed citations

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