Kurt E. Sundell

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kurt E. Sundell is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt E. Sundell has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Geophysics, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kurt E. Sundell's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (38 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (26 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (24 papers). Kurt E. Sundell is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (38 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (26 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (24 papers). Kurt E. Sundell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Kurt E. Sundell's co-authors include Joel E. Saylor, Richard Styron, Michael H. Taylor, George E. Gehrels, Mark Pecha, Paul Kapp, Tao Deng, Shiqi Wang, Xiaoming Wang and Lin Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Scientific Reports and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kurt E. Sundell

48 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Quantifying comparison of large detrital geochronology data sets
    2016 270 citations Joel E. Saylor, Kurt E. Sundell Geosphere profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kurt E. Sundell United States 18 1.2k 473 406 261 189 50 1.5k
Mark Pecha United States 22 1.2k 1.0× 487 1.0× 462 1.1× 308 1.2× 315 1.7× 45 1.5k
Nathan Cogné France 16 774 0.6× 300 0.6× 193 0.5× 190 0.7× 106 0.6× 43 957
Jyotiranjan S. Ray India 22 1.3k 1.1× 427 0.9× 424 1.0× 197 0.8× 407 2.2× 56 1.7k
Cathy J. Busby United States 20 1.0k 0.9× 410 0.9× 346 0.9× 218 0.8× 126 0.7× 55 1.2k
Glenn R. Sharman United States 18 763 0.6× 266 0.6× 441 1.1× 418 1.6× 294 1.6× 46 1.2k
Tyrone O. Rooney United States 29 2.3k 1.9× 618 1.3× 324 0.8× 199 0.8× 97 0.5× 70 2.5k
Ingrid Ukstins Peate United States 17 1.2k 1.0× 311 0.7× 436 1.1× 142 0.5× 368 1.9× 42 1.5k
Bernard Guest Canada 17 1.6k 1.3× 440 0.9× 241 0.6× 112 0.4× 126 0.7× 34 1.7k
Szabolcs Harangi Hungary 24 1.5k 1.2× 307 0.6× 377 0.9× 94 0.4× 229 1.2× 73 1.6k
Milo Barham Australia 18 670 0.6× 369 0.8× 231 0.6× 135 0.5× 242 1.3× 74 942

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All Works

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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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Condie, Kent C., Stephen J. Puetz, Kurt E. Sundell, et al.. (2024). Geographic bias effects on interpretations of secular trends of Hf isotope times series in zircons. Lithos. 488-489. 107787–107787. 1 indexed citations
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Laskowski, Andrew K., Devon Orme, Kurt E. Sundell, et al.. (2024). Kinematic Evolution of the Tangra Yumco Rift, South-Central Tibet. 2(1). 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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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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Göğüş, Oğuz H., et al.. (2022). Rapid surface uplift and crustal flow in the Central Andes (southern Peru) controlled by lithospheric drip dynamics. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5500–5500. 12 indexed citations
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Carrapa, Bárbara, et al.. (2021). Age and deposition of the Fort Crittenden Formation: A window into Late Cretaceous Laramide and Cenozoic tectonics in southeastern Arizona. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 133(9-10). 1996–2016. 9 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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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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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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Thomas, William A., et al.. (2020). Detrital-zircon analyses, provenance, and late Paleozoic sediment dispersal in the context of tectonic evolution of the Ouachita orogen. Geosphere. 17(4). 1214–1247. 12 indexed citations
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Lapen, T. J., et al.. (2019). CENTRAL COLORADO TROUGH SEDIMENT SOURCE ISOLATION: PETROCHRONOLOGIC SOURCE DISCRIMINATION APPLIED TO AN ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN BASIN. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E., Joel E. Saylor, T. J. Lapen, & Brian K. Horton. (2019). Implications of variable late Cenozoic surface uplift across the Peruvian central Andes. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4877–4877. 52 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E., et al.. (2018). Peruvian Altiplano Stratigraphy Highlights Along‐Strike Variability in Foreland Basin Evolution of the Cenozoic Central Andes. Tectonics. 37(6). 1876–1904. 23 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E. & Joel E. Saylor. (2017). Unmixing detrital geochronology age distributions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(8). 2872–2886. 168 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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Saylor, Joel E. & Kurt E. Sundell. (2014). Statistics of large detrital geochronology datasets. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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