Mark B. Abbott

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Mark B. Abbott is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark B. Abbott has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Atmospheric Science, 24 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mark B. Abbott's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (75 papers), Geological formations and processes (18 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (17 papers). Mark B. Abbott is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (75 papers), Geological formations and processes (18 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (17 papers). Mark B. Abbott collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Mark B. Abbott's co-authors include Donald T. Rodbell, Thomas W. Stafford, Larry Peterson, Geoffrey O. Seltzer, David B. Enfield, David M. Anderson, Aubrey L. Hillman, Broxton W. Bird, Byron A. Steinman and Mathias Vuille and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mark B. Abbott

95 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

An ~15,000-Year Record of El Niño-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador

1999 555 citations Donald T. Rodbell, Mark B. Abbott et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark B. Abbott United States	30	2.4k	815	603	586	550	101	3.4k
Hua Lu United Kingdom	32	2.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	124 0.2×	990 1.7×	1.6k 3.0×	73	4.3k
Kira Rehfeld Germany	19	1.4k 0.6×	283 0.3×	257 0.4×	290 0.5×	521 0.9×	63	1.8k
Jurate M. Landwehr United States	23	1.3k 0.6×	741 0.9×	204 0.3×	374 0.6×	1.6k 3.0×	49	3.8k
David B. Kemp China	30	1.5k 0.6×	247 0.3×	1.8k 3.1×	367 0.6×	139 0.3×	141	3.1k
Pedro Leite da Silva Dias Brazil	36	4.4k 1.8×	752 0.9×	207 0.3×	399 0.7×	4.2k 7.7×	147	6.4k
Hezi Gildor Israel	25	1.2k 0.5×	609 0.7×	187 0.3×	181 0.3×	731 1.3×	107	2.2k
Christian H. Reick Germany	30	1.8k 0.8×	651 0.8×	113 0.2×	154 0.3×	2.9k 5.3×	67	4.1k
J. A. Rial United States	18	1.0k 0.4×	301 0.4×	235 0.4×	246 0.4×	271 0.5×	56	2.0k
Brendan Brooke Australia	29	996 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	162 0.3×	847 1.4×	573 1.0×	75	2.3k

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Steinman, Byron A., et al.. (2025). A 10,000-year lake-sediment based reconstruction of precipitation isotope values in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews. 356. 109255–109255.

Levin, Naomi E., Mark B. Abbott, Donald T. Rodbell, et al.. (2024). Holocene Temperature and Water Stress in the Peruvian Andes: Insights From Lake Carbonate Clumped and Triple Oxygen Isotopes. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(5). 3 indexed citations

Raposeiro, Pedro M., Mark B. Abbott, Armand Hernández, et al.. (2024). Late Holocene climate dynamics in the Azores archipelago. Quaternary Science Reviews. 331. 108617–108617. 7 indexed citations

Åkesson, Christine M., Bryan G. Valencia, Angela Rozas-Dávila, et al.. (2023). A neotropical perspective on the uniqueness of the Holocene among interglacials. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7404–7404. 5 indexed citations

Abbott, Mark B., et al.. (2023). Petrography and stable isotope geochemistry of Middle Eocene Garampani limestone (Assam), India: implications for the depositional environment and diagenesis. Carbonates and Evaporites. 38(2). 1 indexed citations

Steinman, Byron A., Nathan D. Stansell, Michael Mann, et al.. (2022). Interhemispheric antiphasing of neotropical precipitation during the past millennium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(17). e2120015119–e2120015119. 21 indexed citations

Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, et al.. (2021). Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 21 indexed citations

Lasher, G. E., Mark B. Abbott, Lesleigh Anderson, et al.. (2021). Holocene Hydroclimatic Reorganizations in Northwest Canada Inferred From Lacustrine Carbonate Oxygen Isotopes. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(16). 3 indexed citations

Lapointe, François, Raymond S. Bradley, Pierre Francus, et al.. (2020). Annually resolved Atlantic sea surface temperature variability over the past 2,900 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27171–27178. 50 indexed citations

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Rodbell, Donald T., Mark B. Abbott, Robert G. Hatfield, et al.. (2020). Andean drought and glacial retreat tied to Greenland warming during the last glacial period. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5135–5135. 13 indexed citations

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Wu, Duo, Aifeng Zhou, Jiawu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Temperature-induced dry climate in basins in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the early to middle Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 237. 106311–106311. 61 indexed citations

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Abbott, Mark B., Ilija Melentijevic, Anna L Coleman-Hulbert, et al.. (2020). A simplified design for the C. elegans lifespan machine. Journal of Biological Methods. 7(4). 1–1. 4 indexed citations

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Hatfield, Robert G., Christine Y. Chen, Jochem Kück, et al.. (2019). Stratigraphic correlation and splice generation for sediments recovered from a large-lake drilling project: an example from Lake Junín, Peru. Journal of Paleolimnology. 63(1). 83–100. 10 indexed citations

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Larsen, D. J., et al.. (2019). Characterizing Earthquake Generated Turbidites in Sediments from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park, WY. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Hillman, Aubrey L., Alice Yao, Mark B. Abbott, & Daniel J. Bain. (2018). Two millennia of anthropogenic landscape modification and nutrient loading at Dian Lake, Yunnan Province, China. The Holocene. 29(3). 505–517. 32 indexed citations

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Larsen, D. J., et al.. (2017). LAKE SEDIMENT RECORDS OF DEGLACIATION AND POSTGLACIAL TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN THE TETON RANGE, WY. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

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Pierdominici, Simona, Jochem Kück, Donald T. Rodbell, & Mark B. Abbott. (2016). Preliminary analysis of downhole logging data from ICDP Lake Junin drilling Project, Peru. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 1 indexed citations

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Stoner, Joseph S., et al.. (2015). A 37,000-year environmental magnetic record of aeolian dust deposition from Burial Lake, Arctic Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews. 128. 81–97. 21 indexed citations

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Vuille, Mathias, Stephen Burns, Barry Taylor, et al.. (2012). A review of the South American monsoon history as recorded in stable isotopic proxies over the past two millennia. Climate of the past. 8(4). 1309–1321. 240 indexed citations

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Cooke, Colin A., et al.. (2010). Pre-Colombian Mercury Pollution Associated with the Smelting of Argentiferous Ores in the Bolivian Andes. AMBIO. 40(1). 18–25. 39 indexed citations

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