R McNeely

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

R McNeely is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R McNeely has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Atmospheric Science, 11 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R McNeely's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (7 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (6 papers). R McNeely is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (7 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (6 papers). R McNeely collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Indonesia. R McNeely's co-authors include Donald C. Barber, Claude Hillaire‐Marcel, Jean-Marc Gagnon, Anne Jennings, A S Dyke, Michael W. Kerwin, Mark D. Morehead, John Southon, JE Andrews and G Bilodeau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

R McNeely

27 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrop... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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.

  1. Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes
    1999 955 citations Donald C. Barber, A S Dyke et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R McNeely Canada 18 1.3k 546 432 336 259 28 1.8k
Peter Rosén Sweden 26 1.7k 1.3× 739 1.4× 408 0.9× 442 1.3× 271 1.0× 45 2.3k
Rolf Kilian Germany 27 1.8k 1.4× 618 1.1× 304 0.7× 503 1.5× 242 0.9× 58 3.4k
Shusaku Yoshikawa Japan 23 1.4k 1.1× 409 0.7× 215 0.5× 495 1.5× 194 0.7× 97 1.7k
Franz Gingele Germany 24 1.6k 1.3× 482 0.9× 482 1.1× 729 2.2× 372 1.4× 34 2.3k
R. W. Battarbee United Kingdom 12 856 0.7× 545 1.0× 394 0.9× 195 0.6× 129 0.5× 18 1.4k
Jens Hefter Germany 27 1.4k 1.1× 689 1.3× 710 1.6× 254 0.8× 245 0.9× 81 2.0k
Élisabeth Lallier-Vergès France 26 1.4k 1.1× 894 1.6× 370 0.9× 579 1.7× 647 2.5× 48 2.7k
B. Deck United States 17 1.1k 0.9× 500 0.9× 393 0.9× 137 0.4× 153 0.6× 23 1.9k
Ana Luíza Spadano Albuquerque Brazil 25 1.2k 1.0× 902 1.7× 380 0.9× 461 1.4× 265 1.0× 132 2.1k
Kathleen R. Laird Canada 25 1.7k 1.3× 905 1.7× 601 1.4× 455 1.4× 273 1.1× 56 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by R McNeely

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Fields of papers citing papers by R McNeely

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by R McNeely. 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 R McNeely. The network helps show where R McNeely may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of R McNeely

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of R McNeely. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of R McNeely 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 R McNeely. R McNeely 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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Ward, Brent, John J. Clague, & R McNeely. (2018). A BLIND COMPARISON OF RADIOCARBON LABS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations
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England, John, et al.. (2012). The exaggerated radiocarbon age of deposit‐feeding molluscs in calcareous environments. Boreas. 42(2). 362–373. 52 indexed citations
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Outridge, P.M., N. Rausch, J B Percival, William Shotyk, & R McNeely. (2010). Comparison of mercury and zinc profiles in peat and lake sediment archives with historical changes in emissions from the Flin Flon metal smelter, Manitoba, Canada. The Science of The Total Environment. 409(3). 548–563. 50 indexed citations
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Dyke, Arthur S., Janis E. Dale, & R McNeely. (2007). Marine Molluscs as Indicators of Environmental Change in Glaciated North America and Greenland During the Last 18 000 Years. Géographie physique et Quaternaire. 50(2). 125–184. 61 indexed citations
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Outridge, P.M., Gary A. Stern, Paul B. Hamilton, et al.. (2005). Trace metal profiles in the varved sediment of an Arctic lake. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 69(20). 4881–4894. 70 indexed citations
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Chang, Alice S., et al.. (2003). Seasonal Sediment and Diatom Record from Late Holocene Laminated Sediments, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. Palaios. 18(6). 477–494. 34 indexed citations
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Outridge, P.M., et al.. (2000). Teeth as biomonitors of soft tissue mercury concentrations in beluga, Delphinapterus leucas. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 19(6). 1517–1522. 22 indexed citations
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Barber, Donald C., A S Dyke, Claude Hillaire‐Marcel, et al.. (1999). Forcing of the cold event of 8,200 years ago by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide lakes. Nature. 400(6742). 344–348. 955 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gajewski, Konrad, Paul B. Hamilton, & R McNeely. (1997). A high resolution proxy-climate record from an arctic lake with annually-laminated sediments on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology. 17(2). 215–225. 77 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Paul B., R McNeely, & Michel Poulin. (1996). THE MORPHOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION OFNEIDIUM DISTINCTE-PUNCTATUMHUSTEDT AND ITS SYSTEMATIC POSITION WITHIN THE GENUS. Diatom Research. 11(1). 59–71. 8 indexed citations
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Dyke, Arthur S., et al.. (1996). Marine reservoir corrections for bowhead whale radiocarbon age determinations. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 33(12). 1628–1637. 35 indexed citations
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McNeely, R & David Atkinson. (1995). Geological Survey of Canada radiocarbon dates XXXII. 18 indexed citations
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Aravena, Ramón, et al.. (1989). New Possibilities for 14C Measurements by Liquid Scintillation Counting. Radiocarbon. 31(3). 387–392. 11 indexed citations
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Haffner, G. Douglas & R McNeely. (1989). Community structure in epilinmetic and metalimnetic phytoplankton assemblages. Hydrobiologia. 182(1). 59–71. 7 indexed citations
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Joshi, S. R., et al.. (1988). The calculation of lead-210 dates for McKay Lake sediments. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 125(2). 341–349. 16 indexed citations
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Boucherle, Mary M., et al.. (1986). Limnologic consequences of the decline in hemlock 4800 years ago in three Southern Ontario lakes. Hydrobiologia. 143(1). 217–225. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, S. R., et al.. (1983). Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada. Hydrobiologia. 103(1). 125–130. 39 indexed citations
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Daley, Ralph J., S. R. Brown, & R McNeely. (1977). Chromatographic and SCDP measurements of fossil phorbins and the postglacial history of Little Round Lake, Ontario. Limnology and Oceanography. 22(2). 349–360. 23 indexed citations

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