Michael Gurnis

23.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
230 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Gurnis is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geology and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Gurnis has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 192 papers in Geophysics, 24 papers in Geology and 21 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Michael Gurnis's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (163 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (157 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (153 papers). Michael Gurnis is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (163 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (157 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (153 papers). Michael Gurnis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Michael Gurnis's co-authors include R. Dietmar Müller, Shijie Zhong, Louis Moresi, Maria Seton, Eh Tan, Sabin Zahirovic, Nicolas Flament, Lijun Liu, S. Spasojević and M. I. Billen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Gurnis

223 papers receiving 16.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

2012 1.5k citations R. Dietmar Müller, Sabin Zahirovic et al. profile →
GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

2018 505 citations R. Dietmar Müller, John Cannon et al. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems profile →
Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and dispersal of supercontinents

1988 503 citations Michael Gurnis profile →
A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic

2019 414 citations R. Dietmar Müller, Sabin Zahirovic et al. Tectonics profile →
Reconstruction of northeast Asian deformation integrated with western Pacific plate subduction since 200 Ma

2017 213 citations Shaofeng Liu, Michael Gurnis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Gurnis United States	70	14.6k	2.2k	2.0k	1.5k	1.0k	230	17.1k
Wim Spakman Netherlands	63	16.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	889 0.6×	911 0.9×	150	17.8k
Philip England United Kingdom	68	19.3k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	3.5k 1.8×	1.4k 1.0×	647 0.6×	142	21.8k
P.R. Cobbold France	61	9.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.7×	542 0.5×	156	12.0k
Gordon Lister Australia	67	14.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	674 0.6×	179	16.2k
Bernhard Steinberger Norway	60	9.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	764 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	125	12.1k
Claude Jaupart France	61	10.0k 0.7×	580 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	539 0.4×	371 0.4×	166	12.2k
A. B. Watts United Kingdom	74	12.2k 0.8×	3.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.4×	2.9k 2.0×	572 0.6×	244	15.7k
Simon Williams Australia	45	6.1k 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	910 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	142	8.2k
Malcolm Sambridge Australia	53	9.2k 0.6×	417 0.2×	2.2k 1.1×	882 0.6×	543 0.5×	166	13.5k
B. Parsons United Kingdom	64	10.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	567 0.4×	183 0.2×	167	13.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gurnis, Michael, et al.. (2024). A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(9). 8 indexed citations

Gurnis, Michael, et al.. (2022). On the Origin of Small‐Scale Seismic Scatters at 660‐km Depth. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(12). 1 indexed citations

Gulick, S. P. S., et al.. (2022). Stress transition from horizontal to vertical forces during subduction initiation. Nature Geoscience. 15(2). 149–155. 28 indexed citations

Lai, Voon Hui, D. V. Helmberger, Wenbo Wu, et al.. (2022). Strong ULVZ and Slab Interaction at the Northeastern Edge of the Pacific LLSVP Favors Plume Generation. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(2). 24 indexed citations

Liu, Hao, Michael Gurnis, & Wei Leng. (2021). Constraints on Mantle Viscosity From Slab Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(8). 9 indexed citations

Avendonk, Harm J. A. Van, S. P. S. Gulick, Michael Gurnis, et al.. (2021). Strike‐Slip Enables Subduction Initiation Beneath a Failed Rift: New Seismic Constraints From Puysegur Margin, New Zealand. Tectonics. 40(5). 25 indexed citations

Liu, Shaofeng, Pengfei Ma, Bo Zhang, & Michael Gurnis. (2021). The Horizontal Slab Beneath East Asia and Its Subdued Surface Dynamic Response. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(3). 22 indexed citations

Liu, Shaofeng, et al.. (2020). Reconstruction of the Cenozoic deformation of the Bohai Bay Basin, North China. Basin Research. 33(1). 364–381. 47 indexed citations

Sutherland, Rupert, et al.. (2020). Stratigraphic architecture of Solander Basin records Southern Ocean currents and subduction initiation beneath southwest New Zealand. Basin Research. 33(1). 403–426. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Huilin, Michael Gurnis, & Jakob Skogseid. (2019). Continent-wide drainage reorganization in North America driven by mantle flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 530. 115910–115910. 9 indexed citations

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Gurnis, Michael, Harm J. A. Van Avendonk, S. P. S. Gulick, et al.. (2019). Incipient subduction at the contact with stretched continental crust: The Puysegur Trench. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 520. 212–219. 42 indexed citations

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Yang, Ting, Louis Moresi, Michael Gurnis, et al.. (2019). Contrasted East Asia and South America tectonics driven by deep mantle flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 517. 106–116. 31 indexed citations

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Tetley, Michael G., Simon Williams, Michael Gurnis, Nicolas Flament, & R. Dietmar Müller. (2019). Constraining Absolute Plate Motions Since the Triassic. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(7). 7231–7258. 52 indexed citations

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Zahirovic, Sabin, Rakib Hassan, Kara J. Matthews, et al.. (2018). The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO ₂ since the Devonian. Climate of the past. 14(6). 857–870. 18 indexed citations

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Zahirovic, Sabin, Rakib Hassan, Kara J. Matthews, et al.. (2017). Arc volcanism, carbonate platform evolution and palaeo-atmospheric CO ₂ : Components and interactions in the deep carbon cycle. 2 indexed citations

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Mao, Xiaolin, Michael Gurnis, & Dave A. May. (2017). Subduction Initiation With Vertical Lithospheric Heterogeneities and New Fault Formation. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(22). 21 indexed citations

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Hagke, Christoph von, Mélody Philippon, Jean‐Philippe Avouac, & Michael Gurnis. (2016). Origin and time evolution of subduction polarity reversal from plate kinematics of Southeast Asia. Geology. 44(8). 659–662. 32 indexed citations

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Bower, Dan J., Michael Gurnis, Jennifer M. Jackson, & W. Sturhahn. (2009). Enhanced convection and fast plumes in the lower mantle induced by the spin transition in ferropericlase. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(10). 27 indexed citations

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King, Scott D., Wei Leng, Shijie Zhong, et al.. (2008). A Community Benchmark for 2D Cartesian Compressible Convection. AGUFM. 2008. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, P.M., et al.. (2005). GyPSM-S: A synthesis model for fully-coupled geodynamic and petrological flow calculations related to subduction. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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