R. P. Lyons

904 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 699 citations indexed

About

R. P. Lyons is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. P. Lyons has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 699 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Atmospheric Science, 5 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in R. P. Lyons's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (5 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 papers). R. P. Lyons is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (5 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 papers). R. P. Lyons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Chile. R. P. Lyons's co-authors include Christopher A. Scholz, Erik T. Brown, Thomas C. Johnson, Andrew S. Cohen, John W. King, Michael R. Talbot, Steven L. Forman, L. Kalindekafe, L. R. McHargue and P. Y. Amoako and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

R. P. Lyons

11 papers receiving 671 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

2007 350 citations Christopher A. Scholz, Thomas C. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. P. Lyons United States	6	361	250	188	177	147	11	699
M Fagot Belgium	6	648 1.8×	240 1.0×	272 1.4×	203 1.1×	144 1.0×	10	927
Jessica Reeves Australia	11	437 1.2×	191 0.8×	148 0.8×	252 1.4×	161 1.1×	27	756
N. Catto Canada	16	663 1.8×	286 1.1×	164 0.9×	152 0.9×	243 1.7×	31	959
Wojciech Granoszewski Poland	12	684 1.9×	273 1.1×	104 0.6×	149 0.8×	178 1.2×	24	799
Ping-Mei Liew Taiwan	19	662 1.8×	163 0.7×	275 1.5×	273 1.5×	130 0.9×	32	1.0k
А. А. Величко Russia	14	1.1k 3.0×	381 1.5×	136 0.7×	235 1.3×	290 2.0×	23	1.4k
Igor Demidov Russia	16	1.0k 2.9×	294 1.2×	162 0.9×	153 0.9×	119 0.8×	22	1.1k
Matthew L. Cupper Australia	13	256 0.7×	202 0.8×	102 0.5×	135 0.8×	208 1.4×	17	559
Limi Mao China	20	695 1.9×	151 0.6×	266 1.4×	332 1.9×	191 1.3×	62	1.1k
Neil Ogle United Kingdom	18	332 0.9×	152 0.6×	183 1.0×	218 1.2×	349 2.4×	30	839

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. P. Lyons

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Johnson, Thomas C., Josef P. Werne, Erik T. Brown, et al.. (2016). A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years. Nature. 537(7619). 220–224. 90 indexed citations

2.

Johnson, Thomas C., Josef P. Werne, Erik T. Brown, et al.. (2016). A progressively wetter climate in Southern East Africa over the past million years. Quaternary International. 404. 174–175. 2 indexed citations

3.

Lyons, R. P., Christopher A. Scholz, Andrew S. Cohen, et al.. (2015). Continuous 1.3-million-year record of East African hydroclimate, and implications for patterns of evolution and biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(51). 15568–15573. 101 indexed citations

4.

Scholz, Christopher A., Michael R. Talbot, Erik T. Brown, & R. P. Lyons. (2010). Lithostratigraphy, physical properties and organic matter variability in Lake Malawi Drillcore sediments over the past 145,000years. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 303(1-4). 38–50. 19 indexed citations

5.

Lyons, R. P., Charles N. Kroll, & Christopher A. Scholz. (2010). An energy-balance hydrologic model for the Lake Malawi Rift Basin, East Africa. Global and Planetary Change. 75(1-2). 83–97. 30 indexed citations

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Lyons, R. P., et al.. (2009). Scientific drilling in continental East Africa: The dominance of eccentricity-modulated precession and half-precession on continental tropical climate. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Lyons, R. P., et al.. (2009). Late Quaternary stratigraphic analysis of the Lake Malawi Rift, East Africa: An integration of drill-core and seismic-reflection data. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 303(1-4). 20–37. 96 indexed citations

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Scholz, Christopher A., Thomas C. Johnson, Andrew S. Cohen, et al.. (2007). East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(42). 16416–16421. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scholz, Christopher A., Thomas C. Johnson, J. King, et al.. (2005). Initial Results of Scientific Drilling on Lake Malawi, East African Rift. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 4 indexed citations

10.

Lyons, R. P., Christopher A. Scholz, & Henry T. Mullins. (2005). Seismic stratigraphy of Skaneateles Lake: A high-resolution history of lake level, paleoclimate, and natural hazards in central New York. 27(4). 302–315. 3 indexed citations

11.

Lyons, R. P.. (1980). Mina Shaughnessy and the Teaching of Writing. Journal of Basic Writing. 3(1). 3–12. 3 indexed citations

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