Rainer Altherr

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
116 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Rainer Altherr is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Altherr has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Geophysics, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 18 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Rainer Altherr's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (101 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (70 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (61 papers). Rainer Altherr is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (101 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (70 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (61 papers). Rainer Altherr collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Türkiye. Rainer Altherr's co-authors include Wolfgang Siebel, Friedhelm Henjes‐Kunst, Gültekin Topuz, W. Schwarz, H. J. Kreuzer, E. Hegner, Muharrem Satır, Horst R. Marschall, Thomas Ludwig and J. Keller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Altherr

114 papers receiving 6.1k citations

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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.

High-potassium, calc-alkaline I-type plutonism in the European Variscides: northern Vosges (France) and northern Schwarzwald (Germany)

2000 605 citations Rainer Altherr et al. Lithos profile →
Explosive volcanic activity in the Mediterranean over the past 200,000 yr as recorded in deep-sea sediments

1978 360 citations J. Keller, William B. F. Ryan et al. Geological Society of America Bulletin profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rainer Altherr Germany	45	5.8k	1.5k	752	573	331	116	6.3k
Hilary Downes United Kingdom	54	7.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	538 0.7×	843 1.5×	442 1.3×	191	7.7k
Massimo Tiepolo Italy	43	6.0k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	669 0.9×	716 1.2×	398 1.2×	140	6.6k
Étienne Deloule France	49	6.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	618 0.8×	894 1.6×	320 1.0×	208	7.2k
Nick Rogers United Kingdom	42	6.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	936 1.2×	823 1.4×	487 1.5×	79	7.4k
Ingrid Raczek Germany	20	3.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	514 0.7×	724 1.3×	301 0.9×	29	3.8k
Alan P. Dickin Canada	44	5.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.7×	824 1.1×	808 1.4×	539 1.6×	137	5.9k
Wolfgang Siebel Germany	54	7.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.9×	673 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	542 1.6×	165	8.1k
S. Tonarini Italy	46	4.1k 0.7×	933 0.6×	853 1.1×	780 1.4×	245 0.7×	101	4.7k
Michael P. Gorton Canada	15	2.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	440 0.6×	575 1.0×	288 0.9×	27	3.4k
Daniel Demaiffe Belgium	38	4.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	450 0.6×	657 1.1×	403 1.2×	149	4.5k

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Šegvić, Branimir, et al.. (2019). Petrogenesis of high-grade metamorphic soles from the Central Dinaric Ophiolite belt and their significance for the Neotethyan evolution in the Dinarides. Ofioliti. 44(1). 1–30. 10 indexed citations

Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (2018). Age and metamorphic evolution of metapelites and metagranites from the East Pelagonian Zone, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM): implications for the life span of the Vardar Ocean. EGUGA. 16144. 1 indexed citations

Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (2018). Sapphirine as a Breakdown Product of Garnet in a Variscan UHP/HT Peridotite from the Vosges Mountains (France) – An Indication of Near-Isothermal Decompression. Journal of Petrology. 59(11). 2221–2243. 5 indexed citations

Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (2016). Mantle Metasomatism at the Edge of a Retreating Subduction Zone: Late Neogene Lamprophyres from the Island of Kos, Greece. Journal of Petrology. 57(9). 1705–1728. 30 indexed citations

Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (2014). Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Vlakno Cave on the island of Dugi otok (Dalmatia, Croatia) – lithic perspective. 31(1). 5–72. 9 indexed citations

Trieloff, M., S. Mostefaoui, A. El Goresy, et al.. (2013). A Precise ^53Mn-^53Cr Age of Sphalerites from the Primitive EH3 Chondrite Sahara 97158. M&PSA. 76. 5251. 2 indexed citations

Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (2011). LITIČKI NALAZI S OTOKA SUŠCA. University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE). 35(1). 7–39. 1 indexed citations

Kaliwoda, Melanie, Horst R. Marschall, Michael A.W. Marks, et al.. (2011). Boron and boron isotope systematics in the peralkaline Ilímaussaq intrusion (South Greenland) and its granitic country rocks: A record of magmatic and hydrothermal processes. Lithos. 125(1-2). 51–64. 44 indexed citations

Lugović, Boško, et al.. (2007). Petrology, geochemistry and tectonic significance of Mesozoic ultramafic rocks from the Zagorje-Mid-Transdanubian Zone in Croatia. Geologica Carpathica. 58(6). 511–530. 7 indexed citations

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Hopp, J., M. Trieloff, & Rainer Altherr. (2007). Noble gas compositions of the lithospheric mantle below the Chyulu Hills volcanic field, Kenya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 261(3-4). 635–648. 25 indexed citations

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Lugović, Boško, Branimir Šegvić, & Rainer Altherr. (2006). PETROLOGY AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF GREENSCHISTS FROM THE MEDVEDNICA MTS. (SAVA UNIT, NW CROATIA). Ofioliti. 31(1). 39–50. 12 indexed citations

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Weinstein, Yishai, Oded Navon, Rainer Altherr, & Mordechai Stein. (2006). The Role of Lithospheric Mantle Heterogeneity in the Generation of Plio-Pleistocene Alkali Basaltic Suites from NW Harrat Ash Shaam (Israel). Journal of Petrology. 47(5). 1017–1050. 129 indexed citations

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Kaliwoda, Melanie & Rainer Altherr. (2005). MANTLE XENOLITHS FROM HARRAT UWAYRID (SAUDI ARABIA): METASOMATIC PHENOMENA, THERMAL HISTORY AND LI-BE-B CHARACTERISTICS. Ofioliti. 30(2). 193–193. 2 indexed citations

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Altherr, Rainer, Gültekin Topuz, Horst R. Marschall, Thomas Zack, & Thomas Ludwig. (2004). Evolution of a tourmaline-bearing lawsonite eclogite from the Elekdağ area (Central Pontides, N Turkey): evidence for infiltration of slab-derived B-rich fluids during exhumation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 148(4). 409–425. 67 indexed citations

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Kaliwoda, Melanie & Rainer Altherr. (2003). Li-Be-B Systematics of mantle Xenoliths from Harrat Uwayrid (Saudi Arabia). EAEJA. 3745. 2 indexed citations

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Embey-Isztin, Antal, et al.. (2001). Thermal evolution of the lithosphere beneath the western Pannonian Basin: evidence from deep-seated xenoliths. Tectonophysics. 331(3). 285–306. 56 indexed citations

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Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (1999). TRACE ELEMENT PARTITIONING BETWEEN MINERALS OF THE ALPE ARAMI GARNET PERIDOTITE, SWITZERLAND. Ofioliti. 24. 148–149. 2 indexed citations

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Altherr, Rainer & Angelika Kalt. (1996). Metamorphic evolution of ultrahigh-pressure garnet peridotites from the Variscan Vosges Mts. (France). Chemical Geology. 134(1-3). 27–47. 45 indexed citations

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Altherr, Rainer, et al.. (1990). Polyphase Variscan tectonics and metamorphism along a segment of the Saxothuringian-Moldanubian boundary: The Baden-Baden Zone, northern Schwarzwald (F.R.G.). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 79(3). 627–647. 31 indexed citations

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Keller, J., William B. F. Ryan, D. Ninkovich, & Rainer Altherr. (1978). Explosive volcanic activity in the Mediterranean over the past 200,000 yr as recorded in deep-sea sediments. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 89(4). 591–591. 360 indexed citations breakdown →

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