Michiel de Kock

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Michiel de Kock is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michiel de Kock has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Geophysics, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michiel de Kock's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (23 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (19 papers). Michiel de Kock is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (23 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (19 papers). Michiel de Kock collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Sweden and United States. Michiel de Kock's co-authors include Ulf Söderlund, Ashley Gumsley, Nicolas J. Beukes, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Emilie Larsson, Andrey Bekker, Wouter Bleeker, Kevin R. Chamberlain, David A.D. Evans and Jennifer Botha and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michiel de Kock

55 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michiel de Kock South Africa	18	929	804	409	376	233	57	1.5k
Jin Dong China	12	664 0.7×	635 0.8×	311 0.8×	191 0.5×	347 1.5×	26	1.2k
Kuang Guodun China	14	955 1.0×	773 1.0×	263 0.6×	239 0.6×	234 1.0×	19	1.5k
Joshua H.F.L. Davies Canada	25	1.3k 1.4×	618 0.8×	249 0.6×	516 1.4×	365 1.6×	76	1.7k
Linzhi Gao China	21	848 0.9×	626 0.8×	301 0.7×	256 0.7×	309 1.3×	49	1.4k
Andreas Gärtner Germany	27	1.6k 1.7×	647 0.8×	304 0.7×	451 1.2×	402 1.7×	92	2.0k
Xianghui Li China	23	1.4k 1.5×	573 0.7×	382 0.9×	419 1.1×	425 1.8×	72	2.0k
Terrence Blackburn United States	15	823 0.9×	510 0.6×	204 0.5×	200 0.5×	359 1.5×	34	1.3k
Elizabeth C. Turner Canada	21	521 0.6×	820 1.0×	321 0.8×	194 0.5×	390 1.7×	56	1.3k
C. Brenhin Keller United States	23	1.8k 2.0×	694 0.9×	307 0.8×	666 1.8×	657 2.8×	54	2.5k
V. N. Podkovyrov Russia	19	1.0k 1.1×	752 0.9×	869 2.1×	505 1.3×	325 1.4×	88	1.7k

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Gumsley, Ashley, et al.. (2025). The identification of a ca. 2165–2163 Ma large igneous province on the Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa with implications for chronostratigraphy, paleogeography and environmental change in the early Paleoproterozoic. Precambrian Research. 428. 107889–107889.

Heubeck, Christoph, N. J. Beukes, Michiel de Kock, et al.. (2024). BASE (Barberton Archean Surface Environments) – drilling Paleoarchean coastal strata of the Barberton Greenstone Belt. Scientific Drilling. 33(2). 129–172. 1 indexed citations

Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2024). New palaeomagnetic results from the Mesoarchaean Nsuze flood basalts, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 127(2). 195–218. 1 indexed citations

Andersen, Tom, Marlina Elburg, Magnus Kristoffersen, & Michiel de Kock. (2024). Retrieving meaningful information from detrital zircon in Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary rocks: Provenance, timing of deposition, metamorphism and alteration of zircon in sandstones of the Pretoria Group in the Transvaal Basin, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 127(2). 473–454. 2 indexed citations

Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2024). High-latitude platform carbonate deposition constitutes a climate conundrum at the terminal Mesoproterozoic. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2024–2024. 8 indexed citations

Gumsley, Ashley, Michiel de Kock, Richard E. Ernst, et al.. (2023). The Mutare–Fingeren dyke swarm: the enigma of the Kalahari Craton's exit from supercontinent Rodinia. Geological Society London Special Publications. 537(1). 359–380. 3 indexed citations

Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2022). A positive syn-fold test from the Neoarchaean Klipriviersberg Group of South Africa: Quo vadis Vaalbara?. South African Journal of Geology. 125(3-4). 245–264. 3 indexed citations

Srivastava, Rajesh K., Richard E. Ernst, Kenneth L. Buchan, & Michiel de Kock. (2021). An overview of the plumbing systems of large igneous provinces and their significance. Geological Society London Special Publications. 518(1). 1–16. 7 indexed citations

Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2020). Magnetostratigraphic constraints for Early Permian rocks of the southwestern Karoo Basin, South Africa. Gondwana Research. 90. 220–240. 1 indexed citations

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Beukes, Nicolas J., Michiel de Kock, C. Vorster, et al.. (2019). The age and country rock provenance of the Molopo Farms Complex: implications for Transvaal Supergroup correlation in southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 122(1). 39–56. 29 indexed citations

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Ernst, Richard E., Yi‐Gang Xu, David A.D. Evans, et al.. (2019). GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A RECONSTRUCTED 1110 MA LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 11 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2018). New geochronological and paleomagnetic constraints on the depositional history of Kaladgi and Bhima successions in India. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Ossa, Frantz Ossa, et al.. (2018). Cause and timing of the thermal over-maturation of hydrocarbon source rocks of the Ecca Group (Main Karoo Basin, South Africa). Marine and Petroleum Geology. 91. 480–500. 11 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2018). The Precambrian Mafic Magmatic Record, Including Large Igneous Provinces of the Kalahari Craton and Its Constituents: A Paleogeographic Review. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 155–214. 13 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2018). Petrology, physical volcanology and geochemistry of a Paleoproterozoic large igneous province: The Hekpoort Formation in the southern Transvaal sub-basin (Kaapvaal craton). Precambrian Research. 315. 232–256. 16 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2017). Deflating the shale gas potential of South Africa’s Main Karoo basin. South African Journal of Science. 113(9/10). 12–12. 40 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2016). New U–Pb geochronologic and palaeomagnetic constraints on the late Palaeoproterozoic Hartley magmatic event: evidence for a potential large igneous province in the Kaapvaal Craton during Kalahari assembly, South Africa. GFF. 138(1). 164–182. 19 indexed citations

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Gumsley, Ashley, Johan Olsson, Ulf Söderlund, et al.. (2015). Precise U-Pb baddeleyite age dating of the Usushwana Complex, southern Africa – Implications for the Mesoarchaean magmatic and sedimentological evolution of the Pongola Supergroup, Kaapvaal Craton. Precambrian Research. 267. 174–185. 34 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de, et al.. (2011). Paleomagnetism and geochemistry of Bushveld-related intrusions, eastern Kaapvaal craton. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Kock, Michiel de & Joseph L. Kirschvink. (2004). Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Terrestrial Strata of the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa: Implications for Causes of the End-Permian Extinction Event. Gondwana Research. 7(1). 175–183. 63 indexed citations

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