Peter O. Koons

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Peter O. Koons is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter O. Koons has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Geophysics, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Peter O. Koons's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (17 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (10 papers). Peter O. Koons is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (17 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (10 papers). Peter O. Koons collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Hungary. Peter O. Koons's co-authors include Dave Craw, Phædra Upton, C. Page Chamberlain, Stephen K. Park, L. Seeber, Peter K. Zeitler, A. Meltzer, John F. Shroder, D. Craw and Michael P. Bishop and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Peter O. Koons

31 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Erosion, Himalayan Geodynamics, and the Geomorphology of Metamorphism

2001 482 citations Peter K. Zeitler, A. Meltzer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter O. Koons United States	18	1.3k	610	287	208	207	31	1.8k
P. O. Koons New Zealand	25	2.1k 1.6×	646 1.1×	300 1.0×	112 0.5×	281 1.4×	61	2.6k
Donatella De Rita Italy	24	936 0.7×	594 1.0×	264 0.9×	118 0.6×	112 0.5×	81	1.4k
Giancarlo Molli Italy	29	2.2k 1.7×	333 0.5×	361 1.3×	144 0.7×	155 0.7×	95	2.7k
Dario Sciunnach Italy	18	950 0.8×	477 0.8×	316 1.1×	185 0.9×	215 1.0×	36	1.5k
Ann E. Blythe United States	16	1.4k 1.1×	688 1.1×	304 1.1×	60 0.3×	240 1.2×	33	1.9k
Domenico Liotta Italy	31	2.3k 1.8×	455 0.7×	312 1.1×	199 1.0×	211 1.0×	98	2.8k
G. De Astis Italy	29	1.8k 1.4×	614 1.0×	184 0.6×	107 0.5×	299 1.4×	58	2.1k
Erich Draganits Austria	18	853 0.7×	280 0.5×	230 0.8×	156 0.8×	180 0.9×	56	1.3k
Yann Rolland France	31	2.3k 1.8×	733 1.2×	278 1.0×	133 0.6×	578 2.8×	86	2.8k
Marco G. Malusà Italy	32	2.5k 2.0×	663 1.1×	382 1.3×	198 1.0×	420 2.0×	100	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter O. Koons

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Gerbi, Christopher, et al.. (2020). The impact of temperature and crystal orientation fabric on the dynamics of mountain glaciers and ice streams. Journal of Glaciology. 66(259). 755–765. 14 indexed citations

Ray, Laura, et al.. (2020). Velocity field in the McMurdo shear zone from annual ground penetrating radar imaging and crevasse matching. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 173. 103023–103023. 2 indexed citations

Koons, Peter O., et al.. (2019). Crevasse initiation and history within the McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology. 65(254). 989–999. 7 indexed citations

Pavlis, G. L., Mark A. Bauer, Julie Elliott, et al.. (2019). A unified three-dimensional model of the lithospheric structure at the subduction corner in southeast Alaska: Summary results from STEEP. Geosphere. 15(2). 382–406. 18 indexed citations

Upton, Phædra, Peter O. Koons, & Samuel G. Roy. (2018). Rock failure and erosion of a fault damage zone as a function of rock properties: Alpine Fault at Waikukupa River. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 61(3). 367–375. 9 indexed citations

Upton, Phædra, et al.. (2017). Topographic control on shallow fault structure and strain partitioning near Whataroa, New Zealand demonstrates weak Alpine Fault. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 61(1). 1–8. 14 indexed citations

Olsen, Brian J., et al.. (2017). The influence of wind selectivity on migratory behavioral strategies. Behavioral Ecology. 29(1). 160–168. 17 indexed citations

Enkelmann, Eva, Peter O. Koons, Terry L. Pavlis, et al.. (2015). Cooperation among tectonic and surface processes in the St. Elias Range, Earth's highest coastal mountains. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(14). 5838–5846. 48 indexed citations

Roy, Samuel G., Scott E. Johnson, Peter O. Koons, & Z.‐H. Jin. (2012). Fractal analysis and thermal‐elastic modeling of a subvolcanic magmatic breccia: The role of post‐fragmentation partial melting and thermal fracture in clast size distributions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 13(5). 12 indexed citations

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Johnson, Scott E., et al.. (2010). Numerical modeling of crenulation cleavage development: A polymineralic approach. Journal of Structural Geology. 32(3). 330–341. 16 indexed citations

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Johnson, Scott E., et al.. (2009). Clast-based kinematic vorticity gauges: The effects of slip at matrix/clast interfaces. Journal of Structural Geology. 31(11). 1322–1339. 72 indexed citations

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Upton, Phædra, et al.. (2009). Along‐strike differences in the Southern Alps of New Zealand: Consequences of inherited variation in rheology. Tectonics. 28(2). 48 indexed citations

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Upton, Phædra, et al.. (2004). Structure and late Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Two Thumb range, mid Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 47(1). 141–153. 18 indexed citations

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Upton, Phædra, Peter O. Koons, & Donna Eberhart‐Phillips. (2003). Extension and partitioning in an oblique subduction zone, New Zealand: Constraints from three‐dimensional numerical modeling. Tectonics. 22(6). 47 indexed citations

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Jacobson, Andrew D., Joel D. Blum, C. Page Chamberlain, Dave Craw, & Peter O. Koons. (2002). Climatic and tectonic controls on chemical weathering in the New Zealand Southern Alps. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 67(1). 29–46. 237 indexed citations

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Zeitler, Peter K., Peter O. Koons, Michael P. Bishop, et al.. (2001). Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal‐mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion. Tectonics. 20(5). 712–728. 186 indexed citations

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Upton, Phædra, Peter O. Koons, & C. Page Chamberlain. (1995). Penetration of deformation‐driven meteoric water into ductile rocks: Isotopic and model observations from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 38(4). 535–543. 51 indexed citations

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Koons, Peter O. & Alan Bruce Thompson. (1985). Non-mafic rocks in the greenschist, blueschist and eclogite facies. Chemical Geology. 50(1-3). 3–30. 56 indexed citations

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Koons, Peter O.. (1984). Implications to garnet-clinopyroxene geothermometry of non-ideal solid solution in jadeitic pyroxenes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 88(4). 340–347. 31 indexed citations

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Koons, Peter O.. (1982). An Investigation of experimental and natural high-pressure assemblages from the Sesia Zone, Western Alps, Italy. ETH Zürich Research Collection. 21 indexed citations

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