Michael H. Taylor

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Michael H. Taylor is a scholar working on Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael H. Taylor has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Geophysics, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Michael H. Taylor's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (29 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (24 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (14 papers). Michael H. Taylor is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (29 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (24 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (14 papers). Michael H. Taylor collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Michael H. Taylor's co-authors include An Yin, Lin Ding, Paul Kapp, Richard Styron, Douglas W. Rae, Frederick J. Ryerson, C. E. Manning, T. Mark Harrison, J. W. Cowie and Martin D. Brasier and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Michael H. Taylor

67 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Active structures of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and their relationships to earthquake distribution, contemporary strain field, and Cenozoic volcanism

2009 443 citations Michael H. Taylor, An Yin profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael H. Taylor	2.2k	511	304	293	286	74	3.6k
Jeremy Leggett	1.3k 0.6×	442 0.9×	311 1.0×	442 1.5×	140 0.5×	48	2.0k
Ian Graham	2.0k 0.9×	791 1.5×	623 2.0×	298 1.0×	91 0.3×	103	2.8k
Christopher J. Potter	1.4k 0.6×	274 0.5×	215 0.7×	62 0.2×	206 0.7×	74	2.7k
Pablo Gabriel Silva Barroso	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 3.2×	146 0.5×	393 1.3×	77 0.3×	183	3.5k
G. A. Davis	3.7k 1.6×	350 0.7×	1.0k 3.3×	152 0.5×	293 1.0×	72	4.9k
Michael A. Murphy	2.9k 1.3×	778 1.5×	568 1.9×	1.0k 3.5×	336 1.2×	145	4.6k
Claudia Nelson	1.5k 0.7×	2.0k 3.9×	140 0.5×	204 0.7×	211 0.7×	109	3.9k
Dawn J. Wright	998 0.4×	630 1.2×	262 0.9×	79 0.3×	77 0.3×	89	3.5k
John D. Obradovich	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 3.4×	431 1.4×	1.2k 4.2×	211 0.7×	87	3.6k
John R. Bowman	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 3.9×	605 2.0×	1.1k 3.6×	326 1.1×	95	5.1k

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Kolawole, Folarin, Estella A. Atekwana, Eliot A. Atekwana, et al.. (2025). Density perturbations in the crust indicate potential for blind magmatism beneath magma-poor rifts. Tectonophysics. 913. 230881–230881.

Laskowski, Andrew K., Devon Orme, Kurt E. Sundell, et al.. (2024). Kinematic Evolution of the Tangra Yumco Rift, South-Central Tibet. 2(1). 1 indexed citations

Boisramé, Gabrielle, et al.. (2024). Can reservoir and groundwater storage buffer the impacts of climate-induced declines in snowpack storage for agriculture and the environment? Insights from the Walker River Basin. Journal of Hydrology. 630. 130781–130781. 3 indexed citations

Murphy, Michael A., David Whipp, Joel E. Saylor, et al.. (2022). Megathrust Heterogeneity, Crustal Accretion, and a Topographic Embayment in the Western Nepal Himalaya: Insights From the Inversion of Thermochronological Data. Tectonics. 41(7). 11 indexed citations

Licht, Alexis, Faruk Ocakoğlu, Grégoire Métais, et al.. (2021). Sedimentary Provenance From the Evolving Forearc‐to‐Foreland Central Sakarya Basin, Western Anatolia Reveals Multi‐Phase Intercontinental Collision. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(3). 11 indexed citations

Taylor, Michael H.. (2019). Mitigating Wildfire Risk on Private Property with Spatial Dependencies. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 8(1). 1–31. 4 indexed citations

Coster, Pauline, Alexis Licht, Grégoire Métais, et al.. (2018). A stem bat (Chiroptera: Palaeochiropterygidae) from the late middle Eocene of northern Anatolia: implications for the dispersal and palaeobiology of early bats. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 99(2). 261–269. 14 indexed citations

Métais, Grégoire, Pauline Coster, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2018). Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206181–e0206181. 22 indexed citations

Licht, Alexis, Pauline Coster, Faruk Ocakoğlu, et al.. (2017). Tectono-stratigraphy of the Orhaniye Basin, Turkey: Implications for collision chronology and Paleogene biogeography of central Anatolia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 143. 45–58. 21 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., Alexis Licht, Andreas Möller, et al.. (2017). TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE IZMIR ANKARA SUTURE ZONE IN NORTHWEST TURKEY USING ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ZIRCON LU-HF ISOTOPIC TRACERS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 4 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., et al.. (2015). Active mountain building along the eastern Colombian Subandes: A folding history from deformed terraces across the Tame anticline, Llanos Basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 127(9-10). 1155–1173. 20 indexed citations

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Styron, Richard, Michael H. Taylor, & Kurt E. Sundell. (2015). Accelerated extension of Tibet linked to the northward underthrusting of Indian crust. Nature Geoscience. 8(2). 131–134. 93 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., et al.. (2013). Risk Externalities, Wildfire Hazard, and Private Investment to Mitigate Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., Kimberly Rollins, Mimako Kobayashi, & Robin J. Tausch. (2013). The economics of fuel management: Wildfire, invasive plants, and the dynamics of sagebrush rangelands in the western United States. Journal of Environmental Management. 126. 157–173. 45 indexed citations

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Murphy, M. A., et al.. (2010). Onset of oblique extension in south-central Tibet by 15 Ma: implications for diachronous extension of the Tibetan Plateau. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 6 indexed citations

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Mériaux, Anne‐Sophie, Kerry Sieh, Charles M. Rubin, et al.. (2009). Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali Fault, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(B3). 40 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., An Yin, Frederick J. Ryerson, Paul Kapp, & Lin Ding. (2003). Conjugate strike‐slip faulting along the Bangong‐Nujiang suture zone accommodates coeval east‐west extension and north‐south shortening in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics. 22(4). 301 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H., et al.. (1999). Seismic-reflection surveys of the Blake Ridge, R/V Cape Hatteras 1992 and 1995: Data acquisition, navigation, and processing. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 6 indexed citations

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Dillon, William, et al.. (1997). Faulting of Gas-Hydrate-Bearing Marine Sediments - Contribution to Permeability. Offshore Technology Conference. 9 indexed citations

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Taylor, Michael H.. (1990). Good for the poor. 1 indexed citations

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