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.
Paleoecological Significance of the Banded Iron-Formation
Countries citing papers authored by Preston E. Cloud
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Fields of papers citing papers by Preston E. Cloud
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Preston E. Cloud. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Preston E. Cloud. The network helps show where Preston E. Cloud may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Preston E. Cloud
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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
2.
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
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
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
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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
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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