Preston E. Cloud

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Preston E. Cloud is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Preston E. Cloud has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 16 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Preston E. Cloud's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (30 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers). Preston E. Cloud is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (30 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (26 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers). Preston E. Cloud collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Preston E. Cloud's co-authors include М. А. Семихатов, G. R. Licari, Martin F. Glaessner, Lauren Wright, R. B. Hargraves, Stanley M. Awramik, Charles F. Davidson, Karen Morrison, Conrad D. Gebelein and Marcel Auguste Dardenne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Preston E. Cloud

96 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Paleoecological Significance of the Banded Iron-Formation 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Preston E. Cloud United States 30 2.0k 1.2k 831 740 466 100 3.5k
Elso S. Barghoorn United States 36 1.6k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 477 0.6× 404 0.5× 602 1.3× 87 3.8k
M. R. Walter Australia 33 2.4k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 707 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 441 0.9× 62 3.8k
Manfred Schidlowski Germany 30 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 1.5k 2.1× 579 1.2× 92 4.5k
Stanley M. Awramik United States 32 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 660 0.8× 570 0.8× 469 1.0× 70 3.0k
J. William Schopf United States 22 2.4k 1.2× 1.5k 1.3× 746 0.9× 735 1.0× 752 1.6× 43 4.1k
L. Paul Knauth United States 27 1.9k 0.9× 1.7k 1.4× 1.3k 1.6× 1.2k 1.6× 404 0.9× 57 3.7k
William T. Holser United States 25 2.7k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 2.1k 2.6× 2.0k 2.7× 458 1.0× 40 4.9k
Martin D. Brasier United Kingdom 45 3.8k 1.9× 2.2k 1.8× 903 1.1× 1.4k 1.8× 513 1.1× 79 4.8k
Martin D. Brasier United Kingdom 39 3.8k 1.9× 2.3k 1.9× 907 1.1× 1.3k 1.8× 503 1.1× 76 5.0k
Charles B. Officer United States 29 544 0.3× 873 0.7× 311 0.4× 1.0k 1.4× 587 1.3× 79 3.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cloud, Preston E. & Steven M. Stanley. (1988). Book-Review - OASIS in Space - Earth History from the Beginning. Nature. 331. 313. 2 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1986). How life began. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 1(5). 134–136. 1 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1980). Beyond plate tectonics.. American Scientist. 68. 381–387. 8 indexed citations
4.
Cloud, Preston E., Stanley M. Awramik, Karen Morrison, & Donald G. Hadley. (1979). Earliest Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield. Precambrian Research. 10(1-2). 73–93. 29 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E., Stanley M. Awramik, Karen Morrison, & Donald G. Hadley. (1979). Earliest Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 3 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1978). Cosmos, Earth, and man : a short history of the universe Cloud.. 1 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1977). Entropy, materials, and posterity. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 66(1). 678–696. 17 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1976). Beginnings of biospheric evolution and their biogeochemical consequences. Paleobiology. 2(4). 351–387. 208 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E., James D. Wright, & Lynn Glover. (1976). Traces of Animal Life from 620-Million-Year-Old Rocks in North Carolina. 64(4). 396–406. 24 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E., et al.. (1975). Sporulation and Ultrastructure in a Late Proterozoic Cyanophyte: Some Implications for Taxonomy and Plant Phylogeny. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 50(2). 131–150. 23 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E., et al.. (1973). Trace fossils from the Flathead Sandstone, Fremont County, Wyoming, compared with early Cambrian forms from California and Australia. Journal of Paleontology. 47(5). 883–885. 10 indexed citations
12.
Barnes, V. E., Preston E. Cloud, Richard V. Fisher, & Stanley V. Margolis. (1971). Surface micrography of lunar fines compared with tektites and terrestrial volcanic analogs. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Proceedings. 2. 909. 9 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1969). Government and the Climate for Science.. 1 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1968). Response : The Moon: Time of Appearance and Nearest Approach to Earth. Science. 161(3848). 1364–1364. 2 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E. & C. A. Nelson. (1966). Phanerozoic-Cryptozoic and Related Transitions: New Evidence. Science. 154(3750). 766–770. 30 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1965). Significance of the Gunflint (Precambrian) Microflora. Science. 148(3666). 27–35. 257 indexed citations
17.
Cloud, Preston E., et al.. (1962). Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas. USGS professional paper. 164 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1959). Paleoecology; retrospect and prospect, [Part 6] of [Stumm, E. C., ed.] Symposium on fifty years of paleontology. Journal of Paleontology. 33(5). 926–962. 13 indexed citations
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Miller, Arthur K., Walter Lewellyn Youngquist, Charles William Collinson, et al.. (1954). Ordovician Cephalopod Fauna of Baffin Island : Containing a Study of the Ordovician Trilobites from Silliman's Fossil Mount by Harry B. Whittington. And Shorter Supplements and Notes by Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Charles E. Decker, Y. O. Fortier, A. Scott Warthin, Jr., and Alice E. Wilson. Geological Society of America eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Cloud, Preston E.. (1951). The 1949 Eruption of Ngauruhoe. 72(4). 241–251. 4 indexed citations

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