Kayla Maloney

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kayla Maloney is a scholar working on Geophysics, Paleontology and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Kayla Maloney has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Geophysics, 1 paper in Paleontology and 1 paper in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Kayla Maloney's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (5 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (5 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (3 papers). Kayla Maloney is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (5 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (5 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (3 papers). Kayla Maloney collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Norway. Kayla Maloney's co-authors include Kara J. Matthews, Sabin Zahirovic, R. Dietmar Müller, Simon Williams, Maria Seton, Grace E. Shephard, Dan J. Bower, Nicky M. Wright, Maral Hosseinpour and John Cannon and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tectonics and Global and Planetary Change.

In The Last Decade

Kayla Maloney

6 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganizati... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 250 500 750
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.

  1. Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup
    2016 809 citations R. Dietmar Müller, Maria Seton et al. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences profile →
  2. Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic
    2016 581 citations Kara J. Matthews, Kayla Maloney et al. Global and Planetary Change profile →

Peers

Kayla Maloney
John O’Connor Germany
B.W.H. Hendriks Norway
Adam Klaus United States
Cinthia Labails France
Kara J. Matthews Australia
Guangsheng Zhuang United States
Christian Vérard Switzerland
L. Vanderkluysen United States
Nicholas Barnett‐Moore Australia
M. Sdrolias Australia
John O’Connor Germany
Kayla Maloney
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Countries citing papers authored by Kayla Maloney

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kayla Maloney

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kayla Maloney. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kayla Maloney. The network helps show where Kayla Maloney may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kayla Maloney

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kayla Maloney. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kayla Maloney based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kayla Maloney. Kayla Maloney is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Maloney, Kayla, et al.. (2020). Library-Faculty Referencing and Plagiarism Pilot Using Technology-Mediated Feedback for Change. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 69(4). 523–539. 4 indexed citations
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Young, Alexander, Nicolas Flament, Kayla Maloney, et al.. (2018). Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era. Geoscience Frontiers. 10(3). 989–1013. 148 indexed citations
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Müller, R. Dietmar, Maria Seton, Sabin Zahirovic, et al.. (2016). Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 44(1). 107–138. 809 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matthews, Kara J., Kayla Maloney, Sabin Zahirovic, et al.. (2016). Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic. Global and Planetary Change. 146. 226–250. 581 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maloney, Kayla, et al.. (2013). The Late Jurassic to present evolution of the Andean margin: Drivers and the geological record. Tectonics. 32(5). 1049–1065. 112 indexed citations
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Maloney, Kayla, et al.. (2011). Crustal growth during back-arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 29(6). 649–672. 42 indexed citations

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