L. Bruce Railsback

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

L. Bruce Railsback is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, L. Bruce Railsback has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Atmospheric Science, 26 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 23 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in L. Bruce Railsback's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (48 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (18 papers). L. Bruce Railsback is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (48 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (18 papers). L. Bruce Railsback collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. L. Bruce Railsback's co-authors include George A. Brook, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Martin J. Head, Samuel Toucanne, Philip L. Gibbard, Thomas F. Anderson, Fuyuan Liang and Eugène Marais and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

L. Bruce Railsback

72 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

  1. An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages
    2015 421 citations L. Bruce Railsback, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
L. Bruce Railsback 1.7k 814 803 485 388 72 2.4k
John S. Compton 1.1k 0.6× 776 1.0× 601 0.7× 340 0.7× 361 0.9× 67 2.1k
Hedi Oberhänsli 1.9k 1.2× 854 1.0× 535 0.7× 500 1.0× 302 0.8× 68 2.6k
M. Pilar Mata 1.6k 1.0× 561 0.7× 653 0.8× 320 0.7× 721 1.9× 81 2.6k
Mebus A. Geyh 1.8k 1.1× 799 1.0× 705 0.9× 609 1.3× 325 0.8× 94 3.0k
F.J. Jiménez-Espejo 2.7k 1.6× 1.1k 1.4× 911 1.1× 686 1.4× 464 1.2× 114 3.4k
Chaoyong Hu 2.2k 1.3× 660 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 358 0.7× 186 0.5× 59 2.6k
Bogdan P. Onac 1.5k 0.9× 492 0.6× 950 1.2× 260 0.5× 373 1.0× 164 2.5k
Xiaoke Qiang 2.3k 1.4× 801 1.0× 977 1.2× 435 0.9× 661 1.7× 116 3.0k
Georg Schettler 1.9k 1.1× 359 0.4× 627 0.8× 296 0.6× 390 1.0× 56 2.7k
Lee C. Nordt 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 1.8× 883 1.1× 366 0.8× 514 1.3× 80 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by L. Bruce Railsback

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. Bruce Railsback

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All Works

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Akers, Pete D., George A. Brook, L. Bruce Railsback, et al.. (2019). Integrating U-Th, 14C, and 210Pb methods to produce a chronologically reliable isotope record for the Belize River Valley Maya from a low-uranium stalagmite. The Holocene. 29(7). 1234–1248. 10 indexed citations
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Voarintsoa, Ny Riavo G., L. Bruce Railsback, George A. Brook, et al.. (2017). Three distinct Holocene intervals revealed in NW Madagascar: evidence from two stalagmites from two caves, and implications for ITCZ dynamics. 3 indexed citations
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Akers, Pete D., George A. Brook, L. Bruce Railsback, et al.. (2016). An extended and higher-resolution record of climate and land use from stalagmite MC01 from Macal Chasm, Belize, revealing connections between major dry events, overall climate variability, and Maya sociopolitical changes. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 459. 268–288. 44 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce, et al.. (2015). EVIDENCE FROM CATSKILL PEDOGENIC CARBONATES FOR A RAPID LATE DEVONIAN DECREASE IN ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS. 4 indexed citations
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Brook, George A., L. Bruce Railsback, Louis Scott, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, & Fuyuan Liang. (2015). Late Holocene Stalagmite and Tufa Climate Records for Wonderwerk Cave: Relationships Between Archaeology and Climate in Southern Africa. African Archaeological Review. 32(4). 669–700. 25 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce, George A. Brook, Brooks B. Ellwood, et al.. (2015). A record of wet glacial stages and dry interglacial stages over the last 560 kyr from a standing massive stalagmite in Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 438. 256–266. 24 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (2012). Depth and Nature of Giant Petroleum Discoveries Through Time as an Indicator of Resource Depletion. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 17(3). 345–351. 4 indexed citations
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Condit, Celeste M. & L. Bruce Railsback. (2007). Generalization through similarity: motif discourse in the discovery and elaboration of zinc finger proteins. PubMed. 2(1). 5–5. 4 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (2007). Patterns in the compositions of oxysalt and sulfosalt minerals, and the paradoxical nature of quartz. American Mineralogist. 92(2-3). 356–369. 3 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (2005). A synthesis of systematic mineralogy. American Mineralogist. 90(7). 1033–1041. 7 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (2005). An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 117(5). 746–746. 23 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (2003). An earth scientist's periodic table of the elements and their ions. Geology. 31(9). 737–737. 126 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (1993). Intergranular pressure dissolution in a Plio-Pleistocene grainstone buried no more than 30 meters: Shoofly oolite, Southwestern Idaho. Carbonates and Evaporites. 8(2). 163–169. 16 indexed citations
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Cisne, John L., et al.. (1993). Punctal density in the Ordovician orthide brachiopod Paucicrura rogata : anatomical and paleoenvironmental variation. Lethaia. 26(1). 17–24. 11 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce. (1992). A Geological Numerical Model for Paleozoic Global Evaporite Deposition. The Journal of Geology. 100(3). 261–277. 3 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce, William W. Locke, & J. G. Johnson. (1990). Comments and Reply on "Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses: A chimera". Geology. 18(9). 917–917. 4 indexed citations
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Railsback, L. Bruce & Thomas F. Anderson. (1987). Control of Triassic seawater chemistry and temperature on the evolution of post-Paleozoic aragonite-secreting faunas. Geology. 15(11). 1002–1002. 36 indexed citations

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