Michael Brown

17.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
181 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Brown is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Brown has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Geophysics, 50 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Michael Brown's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (166 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (98 papers). Michael Brown is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (166 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (98 papers). Michael Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Michael Brown's co-authors include Tim Johnson, Gary S. Solar, Tracy Rushmer, Taras Gerya, Chris Yakymchuk, Elena Sizova, Fawna J. Korhonen, Nicholas J. Gardiner, R. S. D’Lemos and Chris Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michael Brown

179 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

Metamorphic Conditions in Orogenic Belts: A Record ... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2007 1994 2008 2013 2017 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Metamorphic Conditions in Orogenic Belts: A Record of Secular Change
    2007 523 citations Michael Brown profile →
  2. The generation, segregation, ascent and emplacement of granite magma: the migmatite-to-crustally-derived granite connection in thickened orogens
    1994 520 citations Michael Brown profile →
  3. Evolution and Differentiation of the Continental Crust
    2008 484 citations Michael Brown et al. profile →
  4. Granite: From genesis to emplacement
    2013 482 citations Michael Brown profile →
  5. Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics
    2017 409 citations Michael Brown, Tim Johnson American Mineralogist profile →
  6. Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities
    2013 349 citations Tim Johnson, Michael Brown et al. profile →
  7. Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction
    2017 336 citations Tim Johnson, Michael Brown et al. Nature profile →
  8. Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth
    2020 246 citations Michael Brown, Tim Johnson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Brown United States 67 14.0k 4.8k 949 881 813 181 14.5k
Frank S. Spear United States 60 14.3k 1.0× 4.9k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 621 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 147 14.9k
Bradley R. Hacker United States 81 20.6k 1.5× 4.4k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 723 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 206 21.5k
J. G. Liou United States 71 14.3k 1.0× 3.4k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 615 0.7× 619 0.8× 207 15.0k
A. G. Tindle United Kingdom 29 10.2k 0.7× 5.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 518 0.6× 495 0.6× 88 10.7k
Daniela Rubatto Australia 62 15.0k 1.1× 5.5k 1.1× 1.6k 1.6× 666 0.8× 882 1.1× 183 15.4k
Jan Košler Norway 40 8.8k 0.6× 4.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 98 9.7k
Larry M. Heaman Canada 62 11.6k 0.8× 5.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.5× 1.7k 1.9× 1.2k 1.5× 247 12.6k
Karel Schulmann Czechia 57 9.7k 0.7× 3.4k 0.7× 889 0.9× 894 1.0× 426 0.5× 252 10.1k
Ilya N. Bindeman United States 57 9.5k 0.7× 3.5k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 1.0k 1.2× 2.0k 2.4× 255 10.5k
H. J. Dick United States 55 13.3k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 1.3k 1.3× 438 0.5× 1.0k 1.3× 180 14.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Brown

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kirkland, Christopher L., Tim Johnson, Michael Brown, et al.. (2025). The evolution of Earth’s early continental crust. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(9). 612–625.
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Brown, Michael, Julian A. Pearce, & Tim Johnson. (2024). Is plate tectonics a post-Archean phenomenon? A petrological perspective. Journal of the Geological Society. 181(6). 10 indexed citations
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Zou, Yi, Ross N. Mitchell, Xu Chu, et al.. (2023). Surface evolution during the mid-Proterozoic stalled by mantle warming under Columbia–Rodinia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 607. 118055–118055. 22 indexed citations
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Wang, Songjie & Michael Brown. (2023). Making Andesite Through Shallow Hybridization of Magmas Derived From Variably Enriched Lithospheric Mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(6). 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2023). Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks. European Journal of Mineralogy. 35(4). 523–547. 15 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Christopher L. Kirkland, Yongjun Lu, et al.. (2022). Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents. Nature. 608(7922). 330–335. 47 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael, Tim Johnson, & Christopher J. Spencer. (2022). Secular changes in metamorphism and metamorphic cooling rates track the evolving plate-tectonic regime on Earth. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(5). 22 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, et al.. (2021). Partial Melting of Bimineralic Eclogite by Clinopyroxene Breakdown . 1 indexed citations
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Spencer, Christopher J., Ross N. Mitchell, & Michael Brown. (2021). Enigmatic Mid‐Proterozoic Orogens: Hot, Thin, and Low. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(16). 49 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael & Tim Johnson. (2019). Metamorphism and the evolution of subduction on Earth. American Mineralogist. 104(8). 1065–1082. 123 indexed citations
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Yakymchuk, Chris & Michael Brown. (2019). Divergent behaviour of Th and U during anatexis: Implications for the thermal evolution of orogenic crust. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 37(7). 899–916. 42 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael & Tim Johnson. (2019). Time's arrow, time's cycle: Granulite metamorphism and geodynamics. Mineralogical Magazine. 83(3). 323–338. 74 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Christopher L. Kirkland, Nicholas J. Gardiner, et al.. (2018). Secular change in TTG compositions: Implications for the evolution of Archaean geodynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 505. 65–75. 104 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Chris Clark, Saibal Gupta, et al.. (2018). Neoproterozoic evolution and Cambrian reworking of ultrahigh temperature granulites in the Eastern Ghats Province, India. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 37(7). 977–1006. 26 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tim, Michael Brown, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Christopher L. Kirkland, & R.H. Smithies. (2017). Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction. Nature. 543(7644). 239–242. 336 indexed citations breakdown →
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Korhonen, Fawna J., Michael Brown, & C. S. Siddoway. (2007). Unraveling Polyphase High-Grade Metamorphism and Anatexis in the Fosdick Migmatite Dome, West Antarctica, Using Mineral Equilibria Modeling and In Situ Monazite Geochronology. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael. (2005). One View of Dynamic Crustal Rheology During Orogenesis. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations
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Percival, John A., Michael Brown, Larry M. Heaman, et al.. (2002). Tectonic and Magmatic Processes in Crustal Growth: A Pan-Lithoprobe Perspective. Geoscience Canada. 29(3). 121–125. 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Michael & Philip M. Piccoli. (1995). The origin of granites and related rocks. 39 indexed citations

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