R. Pik

962 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 788 citations indexed

About

R. Pik is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Pik has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 788 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Geophysics, 4 papers in Atmospheric Science and 1 paper in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in R. Pik's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (4 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (2 papers). R. Pik is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (4 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (2 papers). R. Pik collaborates with scholars based in Ethiopia, France and Australia. R. Pik's co-authors include Gezahegn Yirgu, Vincent Courtillot, P. Rochette, Gilbert Féraud, Bernard Marty, D. R. Hilton, B. Marty, Charlotte Vye-Brown, Pete Burnard and Lydéric France and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Tectonophysics.

In The Last Decade

R. Pik

5 papers receiving 756 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change

1997 552 citations Vincent Courtillot, Gilbert Féraud et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Pik Ethiopia	5	665	183	160	95	57	5	788
Elizabeth R. Schermer United States	16	887 1.3×	278 1.5×	149 0.9×	72 0.8×	56 1.0×	47	1000
Haluk Temi̇z Türkiye	14	523 0.8×	169 0.9×	122 0.8×	166 1.7×	29 0.5×	22	701
Ilhomjon Oimahmadov Tajikistan	20	1.1k 1.7×	214 1.2×	178 1.1×	108 1.1×	69 1.2×	34	1.3k
Rex H. Pilger United States	12	1.0k 1.5×	183 1.0×	171 1.1×	96 1.0×	97 1.7×	20	1.1k
Benjamin Guillaume France	17	1.0k 1.6×	270 1.5×	109 0.7×	138 1.5×	59 1.0×	32	1.2k
Laura Bracciali United Kingdom	12	627 0.9×	256 1.4×	170 1.1×	101 1.1×	57 1.0×	19	780
J. Kent Snow United States	13	923 1.4×	367 2.0×	118 0.7×	143 1.5×	42 0.7×	19	1.0k
C. A. Mortera‐Gutiérrez Mexico	16	626 0.9×	108 0.6×	96 0.6×	51 0.5×	32 0.6×	42	780
Jean‐François Stéphan France	14	658 1.0×	185 1.0×	70 0.4×	100 1.1×	121 2.1×	16	786
Joaquı́n Garcı́a-Sansegundo Spain	19	626 0.9×	207 1.1×	184 1.1×	170 1.8×	22 0.4×	55	788

Countries citing papers authored by R. Pik

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. Pik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Pik

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of R. Pik. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of R. Pik 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. Pik. R. Pik is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Gall, Bernard Le, Sophie Leleu, R. Pik, et al.. (2018). The Red Beds series in the Erta Ale segment, North Afar. Evidence for a 6 Ma-old post-rift basin prior to continental rupturing. Tectonophysics. 747-748. 373–389. 9 indexed citations

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Pik, R., Pete Burnard, Charlotte Vye-Brown, et al.. (2014). Stability of rift axis magma reservoirs: Spatial and temporal evolution of magma supply in the Dabbahu rift segment (Afar, Ethiopia) over the past 30 kyr. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 409. 278–289. 21 indexed citations

3.

Pik, R., B. Marty, & D. R. Hilton. (2004). How Many Plumes In Africa ? The Geochemical Point of View. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 16 indexed citations

4.

Courtillot, Vincent, et al.. (1997). Timing of the Ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change. Nature. 389(6653). 838–841. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marty, Bernard, R. Pik, & Gezahegn Yirgu. (1996). Helium isotopic variations in Ethiopian plume lavas: nature of magmatic sources and limit on lower mantle contribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 144(1-2). 223–237. 190 indexed citations

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