Leonid Polyak

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Leonid Polyak is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonid Polyak has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atmospheric Science, 58 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 21 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Leonid Polyak's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (70 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (58 papers) and Geological Studies and Exploration (21 papers). Leonid Polyak is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (70 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (58 papers) and Geological Studies and Exploration (21 papers). Leonid Polyak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Leonid Polyak's co-authors include Steven L. Forman, Dennis A. Darby, Martin Jakobsson, Bernard Coakley, Gifford H. Miller, Thomas M. Cronin, David J Lubinski, Margo H. Edwards, Richard B. Alley and James W. C. White and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Leonid Polyak

74 papers receiving 3.6k 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. Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum
    2022 134 citations Christina Larkin, Mohamed M. Ezat et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonid Polyak United States 35 3.3k 2.1k 791 688 506 75 3.8k
Robert F. Spielhagen Germany 36 3.5k 1.0× 2.3k 1.1× 668 0.8× 741 1.1× 627 1.2× 83 3.9k
Julie Brigham‐Grette United States 38 3.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 687 0.9× 865 1.3× 452 0.9× 97 4.5k
Kirsten Fahl Germany 37 2.8k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 375 0.5× 699 1.0× 864 1.7× 104 3.4k
Henning A. Bauch Germany 35 3.2k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 375 0.5× 1.1k 1.6× 1.0k 2.0× 144 3.6k
Lutz Schirrmeister Germany 48 6.5k 2.0× 2.6k 1.3× 848 1.1× 1.2k 1.7× 275 0.5× 203 7.2k
Jochen Knies Norway 40 3.0k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 766 1.0× 552 0.8× 615 1.2× 133 4.2k
Svend Funder Denmark 38 4.4k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 409 0.5× 979 1.4× 621 1.2× 95 5.0k
Dennis A. Darby United States 30 2.4k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 777 1.0× 305 0.4× 223 0.4× 53 2.8k
Heidemarie Kassens Germany 30 2.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 455 0.6× 298 0.4× 652 1.3× 84 2.8k
Morten Hald Norway 40 4.3k 1.3× 2.5k 1.2× 402 0.5× 1.3k 1.9× 989 2.0× 76 4.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leonid Polyak

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonid Polyak

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leonid Polyak. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leonid Polyak 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 Leonid Polyak. Leonid Polyak is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Polyak, Leonid, Ying Zhang, Alexey Portnov, et al.. (2024). Isotopic constraints on the late Pleistocene glacial water and sediment inputs to the central Arctic ocean. Quaternary Science Reviews. 334. 108733–108733. 2 indexed citations
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Larkin, Christina, Mohamed M. Ezat, Natalie L Roberts, et al.. (2022). Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum. Nature Geoscience. 15(11). 925–931. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Sookwan, Leonid Polyak, Frank Niessen, et al.. (2021). Seismostratigraphic and Geomorphic Evidence for the Glacial History of the Northwestern Chukchi Margin, Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(4). 18 indexed citations
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Yamamoto, Masanobu, et al.. (2017). Holocene dynamics in the Bering Strait inflow to the Arctic and the Beaufort Gyre circulation based on sedimentary records from the Chukchi Sea. Climate of the past. 13(9). 1111–1127. 35 indexed citations
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St‐Onge, Guillaume, et al.. (2017). Chronostratigraphy and spatial distribution of magnetic sediments in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas since the last deglaciation. Boreas. 47(2). 544–564. 18 indexed citations
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Cronin, Thomas M., et al.. (2013). A 600-ka Arctic sea-ice record from Mendeleev Ridge based on ostracodes. Quaternary Science Reviews. 79. 157–167. 75 indexed citations
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Rashid, Harunur, Leonid Polyak, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Antje H L Voelker, & Lúcia de Abreu. (2011). Geophysical Monograph SeriesAbrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts - A Review of Abrupt Climate Change Events in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean (Iberian Margin): Latitudinal, Longitudinal, and Vertical Gradients. 193. 10 indexed citations
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White, James W. C., Richard B. Alley, Julie Brigham‐Grette, et al.. (2010). Past rates of climate change in the Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(15-16). 1716–1727. 20 indexed citations
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Polyak, Leonid, Richard B. Alley, John T. Andrews, et al.. (2010). History of sea ice in the Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(15-16). 1757–1778. 315 indexed citations
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Polyak, Leonid, Joseph D. Ortiz, Darrell S. Kaufman, et al.. (2009). Sediment record from the western Arctic Ocean with an improved Late Quaternary age resolution: HOTRAX core HLY0503-8JPC, Mendeleev Ridge. Global and Planetary Change. 68(1-2). 18–29. 108 indexed citations
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Xuan, Chuang, James E T Channell, & Leonid Polyak. (2008). Origin of Apparent Magnetic Excursions in Arctic Deep-sea Sediments. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Móra, Arnold, et al.. (2008). A Zala és befolyói makroszkopikus gerinctelen faunája | On the macroinvertebrate fauna of river Zala and its inflows. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 2 indexed citations
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McKay, J. L., Claude Hillaire‐Marcel, Anne de Vernal, Leonid Polyak, & D. A. Darby. (2006). Holocene Paleoceanography of the Chukchi Sea / Alaskan Margin, Western Arctic Ocean. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Edwards, Margo H., et al.. (2003). Seafloor Surveys Provide Circum-Basin Evidence for Thick Pleistocene Ice in the Arctic Ocean. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Polyak, Leonid, Margo H. Edwards, Bernard Coakley, & Martin Jakobsson. (2001). Ice shelves in the Pleistocene Arctic Ocean inferred from glaciogenic deep-sea bedforms. Nature. 410(6827). 453–457. 187 indexed citations
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Lubinski, David J, Sergei Korsun, Leonid Polyak, et al.. (1996). The last deglaciation of the Franz Victoria Trough, northern Barents Sea. Boreas. 25(2). 89–100. 76 indexed citations
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Ishman, Scott E., Leonid Polyak, & Richard Z. Poore. (1996). Expanded record of Quaternary oceanographic change: Amerasian Arctic Ocean. Geology. 24(2). 139–139. 32 indexed citations

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