Oliver Shorttle

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Oliver Shorttle is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Shorttle has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 papers in Geophysics and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Oliver Shorttle's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (43 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (38 papers). Oliver Shorttle is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (46 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (43 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (38 papers). Oliver Shorttle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Russia. Oliver Shorttle's co-authors include John Maclennan, Paul B. Rimmer, Simon Matthews, John F. Rudge, Marie Edmonds, Sarah Lambart, Sean Jordan, Margaret Hartley, Helen M. Williams and Yves Moussallam and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Shorttle

93 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40
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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.

  1. Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune K2-18b
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Shorttle United Kingdom 29 1.2k 648 322 242 159 99 2.1k
Evelyn Füri France 25 792 0.6× 730 1.1× 324 1.0× 96 0.4× 119 0.7× 56 1.5k
Reidar G. Trønnes Norway 25 2.2k 1.7× 230 0.4× 211 0.7× 171 0.7× 142 0.9× 44 2.5k
Kentaro Terada Japan 32 2.3k 1.8× 950 1.5× 365 1.1× 786 3.2× 145 0.9× 125 3.3k
M. Trieloff Germany 31 1.8k 1.5× 2.4k 3.7× 752 2.3× 184 0.8× 138 0.9× 177 3.6k
A. E. Saal United States 27 2.3k 1.8× 1.4k 2.2× 493 1.5× 405 1.7× 106 0.7× 83 3.5k
Jun‐ichi Matsuda Japan 27 1.6k 1.3× 748 1.2× 630 2.0× 182 0.8× 110 0.7× 140 2.4k
M. Touboul United States 24 1.6k 1.3× 1.4k 2.1× 416 1.3× 192 0.8× 133 0.8× 45 2.6k
Beda A. Hofmann Switzerland 26 739 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 426 1.3× 205 0.8× 297 1.9× 130 2.0k
Justin I. Simon United States 25 893 0.7× 972 1.5× 506 1.6× 181 0.7× 144 0.9× 74 1.9k
Kim B. Knight United States 21 983 0.8× 195 0.3× 463 1.4× 137 0.6× 514 3.2× 67 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Shorttle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Shorttle

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Oliver Shorttle. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Oliver Shorttle based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Oliver Shorttle. Oliver Shorttle is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hu, Justin Y., François Tissot, Oliver Shorttle, et al.. (2025). Rare earth element nucleosynthetic anomalies and dust transport in the protoplanetary disk. Science Advances. 11(28). eadv3148–eadv3148.
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Walton, Craig R., Jihua Hao, Maria Schönbächler, & Oliver Shorttle. (2025). Large closed-basin lakes sustainably supplied phosphate during the origins of life. Science Advances. 11(8). eadq0027–eadq0027. 1 indexed citations
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Rimmer, Paul B. & Oliver Shorttle. (2024). A Surface Hydrothermal Source of Nitriles and Isonitriles. Life. 14(4). 498–498. 14 indexed citations
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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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Rae, Auriol S. P., et al.. (2024). The Distribution of Impactor Core Material During Large Impacts on Earth-like Planets. The Planetary Science Journal. 5(4). 90–90. 3 indexed citations
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Bonsor, Amy, et al.. (2023). Post-main sequence thermal evolution of planetesimals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 1014–1032. 4 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R., Heejin Jeon, Ana Černok, et al.. (2023). In-situ phosphate U-Pb ages of the L chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 359. 191–204. 8 indexed citations
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Rimmer, Paul B., et al.. (2023). Prebiosignature Molecules Can Be Detected in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST. The Astronomical Journal. 166(2). 39–39. 8 indexed citations
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Biggs, Juliet, et al.. (2022). Contrasting Volcanic Deformation in Arc and Ocean Island Settings Due To Exsolution of Magmatic Water. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(7). 13 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R., Oliver Shorttle, Sen Hu, et al.. (2022). Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 4 indexed citations
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Rae, Auriol S. P., et al.. (2022). Reduced Atmospheres of Post-impact Worlds: The Early Earth. The Planetary Science Journal. 3(5). 115–115. 29 indexed citations
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Mutch, Euan, John Maclennan, Oliver Shorttle, John F. Rudge, & David A. Neave. (2021). DFENS: Diffusion Chronometry Using Finite Elements and Nested Sampling. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(4). 21 indexed citations
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Walton, Craig R. & Oliver Shorttle. (2021). Scum of the Earth: A Hypothesis for Prebiotic Multi-Compartmentalised Environments. Life. 11(9). 976–976. 4 indexed citations
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Matthews, Simon, Kevin Wong, Oliver Shorttle, Marie Edmonds, & John Maclennan. (2021). Do Olivine Crystallization Temperatures Faithfully Record Mantle Temperature Variability?. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(4). 37 indexed citations
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Lipp, Alex, et al.. (2020). Major Element Composition of Sediments in Terms of Weathering and Provenance: Implications for Crustal Recycling. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(6). 29 indexed citations
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Shorttle, Oliver, et al.. (2020). Can volcanism build hydrogen-rich early atmospheres?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 550. 116546–116546. 30 indexed citations
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Kama, Mihkel, Oliver Shorttle, Adam S. Jermyn, et al.. (2019). Abundant Refractory Sulfur in Protoplanetary Disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(2). 114–114. 81 indexed citations
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Hobbs, Richard, Oliver Shorttle, Nikku Madhusudhan, & Paul B. Rimmer. (2019). A chemical kinetics code for modelling exoplanetary atmospheres. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(2). 2242–2261. 24 indexed citations
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Mutch, Euan, John Maclennan, Oliver Shorttle, Marie Edmonds, & John F. Rudge. (2019). Rapid transcrustal magma movement under Iceland. Nature Geoscience. 12(7). 569–574. 56 indexed citations
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Shorttle, Oliver, Aradhna Tripati, Robert A. Eagle, et al.. (2007). Evidence for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Back to 44 Ma From Ice-Rafted Debris in the Greenland Sea. AGUFM. 2007. 12 indexed citations

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