John Southon

44.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
369 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

John Southon is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Southon has authored 369 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 216 papers in Atmospheric Science, 125 papers in Paleontology and 114 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John Southon's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (202 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (110 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (92 papers). John Southon is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (202 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (110 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (92 papers). John Southon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John Southon's co-authors include John S. Vogel, D.E. Nelson, Thomas A. Brown, Marc W. Caffee, Scott J. Lehman, Robert C. Finkel, J.E. McAninch, Michaele Kashgarian, Guaciara M. Santos and K. Nishiizumi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Southon

363 papers receiving 21.4k 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.

Absolute calibration of 10Be AMS standards

2007 1.3k citations K. Nishiizumi, Marc W. Caffee et al. profile →
Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes

1999 955 citations John Southon et al. profile →
SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP

2020 932 citations Alan Hogg, Timothy Heaton et al. Radiocarbon profile →
Improved Collagen Extraction by Modified Longin Method

1988 882 citations John Southon et al. Radiocarbon profile →
Marine Reservoir Corrections for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

2002 623 citations John Southon et al. Radiocarbon profile →
Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks

2012 599 citations Gifford H. Miller, Áslaug Geirsdóttir et al. profile →
Performance of catalytically condensed carbon for use in accelerator mass spectrometry

1984 590 citations John Southon et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Southon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Southon

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Rapid, effective screening of tar seep fossils for radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis 2024 ·Quaternary Geochronology ·Robin B. Trayler, (unknown), Patricia A. Holroyd, Sora L. Kim, John Southon	0
2	A revised radiocarbon calibration curve 350–250 BCE impacts high-precision dating of the Kyrenia Ship 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Sturt W. Manning, Brita Lorentzen, Martin Bridge, Michael Dee, John Southon, (unknown)	0
3	Moss kill dates and modeled summer temperature track episodic snowline lowering and ice cap expansion in Arctic Canada through the Common Era 2023 ·Climate of the past ·Gifford H. Miller, (unknown), Alexandra Jahn, Yafang Zhong, John T. Andrews, Scott J. Lehman, Jason P. Briner, Jonathan H. Raberg, (unknown), Martha K. Raynolds, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, John Southon	1
4	14-Carbon demonstrates that some illegal ivory is being taken from government stockpiles 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Thure E. Cerling, John E. Brown, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John Southon, Samuel K. Wasser	0
5	Temporal and geographic extent of the late Holocene dry period in the central Great Basin, USA 2022 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Scott Mensing, Wei Wang, David Rhode, Douglas J. Kennett, Adam Csank, David Hurst Thomas, (unknown), Thomas K. Harper, Brendan J. Culleton, Richard J. George, John Southon	8
6	Response to comment on “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands” 2022 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Jacquelyn L. Gill, (unknown), (unknown), Brenda L. Hall, Daniel H. Sandweiss, John Southon, Paul Brickle, Thomas V. Lowell	2
7	Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age 2022 ·Science Advances ·Patrick A. Rafter, William R. Gray, S.K.V. Hines, Andrea Burke, Kassandra M Costa, Julia Gottschalk, Mathis P. Hain, James Rae, John Southon, Maureen H. Walczak, Jimin Yu, Jess F. Adkins, Tim DeVries	39
8	A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Paul R. Bierman, Joerg M. Schaefer, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, J. P. Steffensen, Lee B. Corbett, D. M. Peteet, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Eric J. Steig, Tammy M. Rittenour, Jean‐Louis Tison, Pierre‐Henri Blard, Nicolas Perdrial, David P. Dethier, Andrea Lini, Alan J. Hidy, Marc W. Caffee, John Southon	35
9	Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands 2021 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Jacquelyn L. Gill, (unknown), (unknown), Brenda L. Hall, Daniel H. Sandweiss, John Southon, Paul Brickle, Thomas V. Lowell	10
10	SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP breakdown → 2020 ·Radiocarbon ·Alan Hogg, Timothy Heaton, Quan Hua, Jonathan Palmer, Chris Turney, John Southon, Alex Bayliss, Paul G. Blackwell, Gretel Boswijk, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Charlotte Pearson, Fiona Petchey, Paula Reimer, Ron Reimer, Lukas Wacker	932
11	Rapid shifts in circulation and biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean during deglacial carbon cycle events 2020 ·Science Advances ·Tao Li, Laura F. Robinson, Tianyu Chen, Xingchen Wang, Andrea Burke, James Rae, (unknown), Timothy Knowles, Gaojun Li, Jun Chen, Hong Chin Ng, Maria G. Prokopenko, G Rowland, (unknown), Joseph Stewart, John Southon, Peter T. Spooner	27
12	CONTAMINATION OF RADIOCARBON ANALYSES OF PLANT SAMPLES BY FUNGAL HYPHAE 2020 ·Radiocarbon ·Daniel E. Karig, Chase G. Mayers, (unknown), John Southon	1
13	Atmospheric observation-based estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from regions of central and southern California 2019 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Xinguang Cui, Sally Newman, Xiaomei Xu, A. E. Andrews, J. B. Miller, Scott J. Lehman, Seongeun Jeong, Jingsong Zhang, Chad Priest, (unknown), K. R. Gurney, Heather Graven, John Southon, M. L. Fischer	16
14	Low Quaternary slip rate reconciles geodetic and geologic rates along the Altyn Tagh Fault 2009 ·Geology ·(unknown), Ryan D. Gold, Xuanhua Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, J Ramón Arrowsmith, John Southon	12
15	A new Reconstruction for the Onset of the Younger Dryas: Evidence From Speleothem, Tree Ring, and Marine Varve 14C Archives and Greenland Ice Core Proxies 2007 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·John Southon, Lawrence R. Edwards, Hai Cheng, Eugene J. Smith, B. F. Hardt, Konrad A Hughen	1
16	Marine Radiocarbon Calibration and Activity Record for the Past 50,000 Years from the Cariaco Basin 2006 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·KA Hughen, John Southon, Scott J. Lehman, W. J. Jenkins	1
17	A 100-Year Average Recurrence Interval for the San Andreas Fault, Southern San Francisco Bay Area, California 2003 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·T. E. Fumal, (unknown), Timothy E. Dawson, Rebecca M. Flowers, J. C. Hamilton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Gordon G. Seitz, John Southon	4
18	Fechado absoluto y análisis de pigmentos para las pinturas rupestres de Pintoscayoc : departamento Humahuaca, Jujuy 1998 ·(unknown), Alan Watchman, John Southon	1
19	A long-term record of upwelling from the Santa Barbara Basin, Southern California. 1996 ·Radiocarbon ·John Southon, (unknown)	2
20	Exposure ages of carbonaceous chondrites, 1 1993 ·K. Nishiizumi, J. R. Arnold, Marc W. Caffee, Robert C. Finkel, John Southon, H. Nagai, M. Honda, P. Sharma, M. Imamura, Koichi Kobayashi	4

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