Noah J. Planavsky

28.0k total citations · 18 hit papers
274 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Noah J. Planavsky is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Noah J. Planavsky has authored 274 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Paleontology, 143 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 98 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Noah J. Planavsky's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (179 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (135 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (97 papers). Noah J. Planavsky is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (179 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (135 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (97 papers). Noah J. Planavsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Noah J. Planavsky's co-authors include Timothy W. Lyons, Christopher T. Reinhard, Andrey Bekker, Kurt O. Konhauser, Olivier Rouxel, Xiangli Wang, Axel Hofmann, Stefan V. Lalonde, Devon B. Cole and Leslie J. Robbins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Noah J. Planavsky

260 papers receiving 20.3k 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.

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

2014 1.9k citations Timothy W. Lyons, Christopher T. Reinhard et al. profile →
The ketone metabolite β-hydroxybutyrate blocks NLRP3 inflammasome–mediated inflammatory disease

2015 1.6k citations Noah J. Planavsky et al. profile →
Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

2010 746 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Kurt O. Konhauser et al. profile →
Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

2014 575 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Christopher T. Reinhard et al. Science profile →
Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

2016 486 citations Christopher T. Reinhard, Noah J. Planavsky et al. profile →
Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

2012 445 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Ariel D. Anbar et al. profile →
Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

2014 437 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Dan Asael et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Rare Earth Element and yttrium compositions of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe formations revisited: New perspectives on the significance and mechanisms of deposition

2010 424 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Andrew Knudsen et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta profile →
Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

2013 424 citations Christopher T. Reinhard, Noah J. Planavsky et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

2011 410 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Peter McGoldrick et al. profile →
Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

2017 361 citations Kurt O. Konhauser, Noah J. Planavsky et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →
Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

2016 292 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Ariel D. Anbar et al. profile →
Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

2016 273 citations Noah J. Planavsky et al. Science profile →
The iron paleoredox proxies: A guide to the pitfalls, problems and proper practice

2018 229 citations Dalton Hardisty, Timothy W. Lyons et al. profile →
Oxygenation history of the Neoproterozoic to early Phanerozoic and the rise of land plants

2017 229 citations Noah J. Planavsky et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

2018 208 citations Benjamin Mills, Shuang Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview

2021 149 citations Timothy W. Lyons, Noah J. Planavsky et al. profile →
Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits

2024 49 citations Noah J. Planavsky, Christopher T. Reinhard et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Noah J. Planavsky

PALEO

GEOPH

Simon W. Poulton United Kingdom

Ariel D. Anbar United States

Kurt O. Konhauser Canada

Andrey Bekker United States

Alan J. Kaufman United States

Timothy W. Lyons United States

Harald Strauß Germany

Brian L. Beard United States

Christopher T. Reinhard United States

Clark M. Johnson United States

Simon W. Poulton United Kingdom

Noah J. Planavsky

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PALEO

9.3k ×0.9

4.1k ×0.7

GEOPH

5.2k ×1.0

2.1k ×0.9

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kanzaki, Yoshiki, Noah J. Planavsky, Shuang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Soil cation storage is a key control on the carbon removal dynamics of enhanced weathering. Environmental Research Letters. 20(7). 74055–74055. 4 indexed citations

Shanley, James B., et al.. (2025). Long-term trends of streamwater chemistry in an agricultural watershed: Effects of anthropogenic and climatic factors. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 179017–179017.

Hardisty, Dalton, et al.. (2025). Evolution of the iodine cycle and the late stabilization of the Earth’s ozone layer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2412898121–e2412898121. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Jitao, Shuang Zhang, Terry T. Isson, et al.. (2025). Repeated occurrences of marine anoxia under high atmospheric O ₂ and icehouse conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(26). e2420505122–e2420505122. 2 indexed citations

Kalderon-Asael, Boriana, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of early diagenetic signatures of lithium and stable strontium isotopes in shallow marine carbonate sediments. Chemical Geology. 676. 122590–122590. 3 indexed citations

Fakhraee, Mojtaba & Noah J. Planavsky. (2024). Insights from a dynamical system approach into the history of atmospheric oxygenation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6794–6794. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuang, Christopher T. Reinhard, Shaoda Liu, Yoshiki Kanzaki, & Noah J. Planavsky. (2024). A framework for modeling carbon loss from rivers following terrestrial enhanced weathering. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24014–24014. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Guang‐Yi, Mingyu Zhao, Erik A. Sperling, et al.. (2024). Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era. Science Advances. 10(13). eadk2152–eadk2152. 21 indexed citations

Walton, Craig R., et al.. (2024). Crustal carbonate build-up as a driver for Earth’s oxygenation. Nature Geoscience. 17(5). 458–464. 10 indexed citations

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Navarrete, César, Guido M. Gianni, Santiago Tassara, et al.. (2023). Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province. Earth-Science Reviews. 249. 104651–104651. 8 indexed citations

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Walton, Craig R., John D. Coates, Ruth E. Blake, et al.. (2023). Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life. Nature Geoscience. 16(5). 399–409. 51 indexed citations

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Giuliani, Andrea, Russell N. Drysdale, Jon Woodhead, et al.. (2022). Perturbation of the deep-Earth carbon cycle in response to the Cambrian Explosion. Science Advances. 8(9). eabj1325–eabj1325. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Feifei, Richard Stockey, Shuhai Xiao, et al.. (2022). Uranium isotope evidence for extensive shallow water anoxia in the early Tonian oceans. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 583. 117437–117437. 18 indexed citations

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Fakhraee, Mojtaba, Lidya G. Tarhan, Noah J. Planavsky, & Christopher T. Reinhard. (2021). A largely invariant marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir across Earth's history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 32 indexed citations

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Liu, Peng, Christopher T. Reinhard, Noah J. Planavsky, et al.. (2021). Triple oxygen isotope constraints on atmospheric O ₂ and biological productivity during the mid-Proterozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(51). 13 indexed citations

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Hao, Yan‐Tao, Dao-Hui Pi, Shao‐Yong Jiang, et al.. (2020). Hydrothermally induced 34S enrichment in pyrite as an alternative explanation of the Late-Devonian sulfur isotope excursion in South China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 283. 1–21. 35 indexed citations

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Zhao, Mingyu, Lidya G. Tarhan, Yiyue Zhang, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of shallow-water carbonates as a seawater zinc isotope archive. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 553. 116599–116599. 29 indexed citations

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Konhauser, Kurt O., Weiduo Hao, Konstantin von Gunten, et al.. (2019). Diopatra cuprea worm burrow parchment: a cautionary tale of infaunal surface reactivity. Lethaia. 53(1). 47–61. 7 indexed citations

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Planavsky, Noah J., et al.. (2015). Uranium Isotope Ratios in Modern and Precambrian Soils. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Planavsky, Noah J., Christopher T. Reinhard, Xiangli Wang, et al.. (2014). Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals. Science. 346(6209). 635–638. 575 indexed citations breakdown →

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