Nicholas E. Timms

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Nicholas E. Timms is a scholar working on Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas E. Timms has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Geophysics, 39 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 16 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Nicholas E. Timms's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (75 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (34 papers). Nicholas E. Timms is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (75 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (34 papers). Nicholas E. Timms collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Nicholas E. Timms's co-authors include Steven M. Reddy, Aaron J. Cavosie, David Healy, Timmons M. Erickson, A. A. Nemchin, Patrick Trimby, Peter D. Kinny, R. T. Pidgeon, Mark A. Pearce and Chris Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas E. Timms

106 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

The application of electron backscatter diffraction and orientation contrast imaging in the SEM to textural problems in rocks

1999 569 citations Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas E. Timms Australia	38	3.3k	1.2k	590	587	523	112	4.4k
J. G. Spray Canada	43	3.3k 1.0×	2.3k 2.0×	499 0.8×	1.5k 2.5×	386 0.7×	219	5.6k
A. Tsuchiyama Japan	35	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.7×	247 0.4×	451 0.8×	326 0.6×	226	4.5k
Michael J. Walter United States	43	5.5k 1.7×	901 0.8×	459 0.8×	339 0.6×	424 0.8×	136	6.8k
Fabrice Gaillard France	42	3.9k 1.2×	689 0.6×	670 1.1×	326 0.6×	161 0.3×	99	4.8k
Yan Liang United States	41	3.5k 1.0×	608 0.5×	609 1.0×	343 0.6×	192 0.4×	109	4.4k
P. L. King United States	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.8×	430 0.7×	186 0.4×	130	4.9k
M. Bohn France	32	1.5k 0.4×	873 0.7×	265 0.4×	465 0.8×	289 0.6×	78	2.9k
Keisuke Nagao Japan	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	657 1.1×	1.2k 2.1×	342 0.7×	294	4.7k
Steven M. Reddy Australia	49	5.7k 1.7×	772 0.6×	1.9k 3.3×	545 0.9×	354 0.7×	194	7.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jourdan, Fred, et al.. (2025). Asteroid Itokawa … but when and how did it form exactly?. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 409. 178–192.

Barboni, Mélanie, et al.. (2024). HED zircons as a window into the solar system’s first crust: Decoupling primordial differentiation, metamorphism and impact events through textural and chemical studies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 376. 113–133. 1 indexed citations

Snape, J. F., A. A. Nemchin, Martin J. Whitehouse, et al.. (2024). Post-Imbrium Pb–Pb isochron ages for Apollo basaltic impact melt samples 14078 and 68415. Royal Society Open Science. 11(5). 231963–231963. 3 indexed citations

Jourdan, Fred, Nicholas E. Timms, Tomoki Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Rubble pile asteroids are forever. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(5). e2214353120–e2214353120. 12 indexed citations

Liebmann, Janne, et al.. (2023). Albany K‐Feldspar: A New Pb Isotope Reference Material. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 47(3). 637–655. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiang, Long Xiao, Aaron J. Cavosie, et al.. (2023). Nanoscale constraints on the nucleation and evolution of granular zircon from reidite in impactites at the Chicxulub impact structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 626. 118507–118507. 8 indexed citations

Kirkland, Christopher L., Milo Barham, Nicholas E. Timms, et al.. (2023). Feldspar Pb isotope evidence of cryptic impact-driven hydrothermal alteration in the Paleoproterozoic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 607. 118073–118073. 3 indexed citations

Healy, David, et al.. (2023). Rapid hydration and weakening of anhydrite under stress: implications for natural hydration in the Earth's crust and mantle. Solid Earth. 14(9). 985–1003.

Fougerouse, Denis, Steven M. Reddy, Mark Aylmore, et al.. (2021). A new kind of invisible gold in pyrite hosted in deformation-related dislocations. Geology. 49(10). 1225–1229. 55 indexed citations

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Jakubek, Ryan S., et al.. (2020). Shock Deformation in Zircon, a Comparison of Results from Shock-Reverberation and Single-Shock Experiments. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1581. 5 indexed citations

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Erickson, Timmons M., Christopher L. Kirkland, Nicholas E. Timms, Aaron J. Cavosie, & T. M. Davison. (2020). Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure. Nature Communications. 11(1). 300–300. 45 indexed citations

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Walton, E. L., et al.. (2020). Constraining the Shock Conditions Experienced by Haughton Crystalline Basement Rocks: A Combined Raman Spectroscopy and Electron Backscatter Diffraction Study of Anomaly Hill Zircons. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 2655. 1 indexed citations

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Healy, David, Nicholas E. Timms, & Mark A. Pearce. (2020). The variation and visualisation of elastic anisotropy in rock-forming minerals. Solid Earth. 11(2). 259–286. 21 indexed citations

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Nemchin, A. A., Tao Long, Bradley L. Jolliff, et al.. (2020). Ages of lunar impact breccias: Limits for timing of the Imbrium impact. Geochemistry. 81(1). 125683–125683. 27 indexed citations

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Clemett, S. J., et al.. (2019). In Situ Coordinated Analysis of Carbonaceous Chondrite Organic Matter. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 2307. 2 indexed citations

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Erickson, Timmons M., Christopher L. Kirkland, & Nicholas E. Timms. (2018). Deformation Microstructures Preserved in Zircon and Monazite from the Yarrabubba Impact Structure, Western Australia. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1764. 1 indexed citations

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Ellis, Aja, Ross Edwards, Martin Saunders, et al.. (2016). Individual particle morphology, coatings, and impurities of black carbon aerosols in Antarctic ice and tropical rainfall. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(22). 7 indexed citations

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Healy, David, Joyce Neilson, Natalie Farrell, Nicholas E. Timms, & Moyra E.J. Wilson. (2015). Porosity variations in and around normal fault zones: implications for fault seal and geomechanics. EGUGA. 12914. 1 indexed citations

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Clark, Chris, David Healy, Tim Johnson, et al.. (2014). Hot orogens and supercontinent amalgamation: A Gondwanan example from southern India. Gondwana Research. 28(4). 1310–1328. 94 indexed citations

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Olierook, Hugo K.H., Nicholas E. Timms, & P. J. Hamilton. (2013). Mechanisms for permeability modification in the damage zone of a normal fault, northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 50. 130–147. 29 indexed citations

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