Richard H. Worden

11.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
176 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

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Richard H. Worden is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Earth-Surface Processes and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard H. Worden has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 43 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 41 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard H. Worden's work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (106 papers), Geological formations and processes (39 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (34 papers). Richard H. Worden is often cited by papers focused on Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (106 papers), Geological formations and processes (39 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (34 papers). Richard H. Worden collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Richard H. Worden's co-authors include P. C. Smalley, Chunfang Cai, S. Baines, S. Morad, James E.P. Utley, Lei Jiang, Peter Armitage, Simon H. Bottrell, Alastair Ruffell and D. R. Faulkner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Richard H. Worden

171 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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Chlorite in sandstones

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard H. Worden United Kingdom	56	5.3k	2.5k	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	176	8.8k
Knut Bjørlykke Norway	50	5.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	859 0.5×	96	7.2k
Ralf Littke Germany	61	10.5k 2.0×	2.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	400	14.5k
K.L. Milliken United States	44	5.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	881 0.5×	121	7.2k
Zhijun Jin China	51	6.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	358	8.3k
Andrew C. Aplin United Kingdom	40	4.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	398 0.2×	117	6.6k
S. Morad Sweden	38	3.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	476 0.3×	977 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	138	5.4k
Caineng Zou China	49	8.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	3.3k 2.0×	1.1k 0.7×	140	10.2k
Hans G. Machel Canada	34	2.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	774 0.4×	369 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	80	5.3k
Kevin G. Taylor United Kingdom	40	2.0k 0.4×	619 0.2×	759 0.4×	731 0.4×	884 0.5×	129	4.7k
M. J. Bickle United Kingdom	54	996 0.2×	6.8k 2.7×	989 0.6×	545 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	122	10.9k

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Li, Yaohua, Qianyou Wang, & Richard H. Worden. (2025). Weathering Records from an Early Cretaceous Syn-Rift Lake. Hydrology. 12(7). 179–179.

Wang, Qianyou, Yaohua Li, Hamed Sanei, et al.. (2025). Lacustrine and fan‐delta sediments in syn‐rift lake basins. The Depositional Record. 11(3). 857–892. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Qianyou, Yaohua Li, Hamed Sanei, et al.. (2025). Restoration of buried organic carbon for catagenesis-affected rocks using Rock-Eval thermal analysis: Assumptions, performance, and uncertainty analysis. Earth-Science Reviews. 267. 105155–105155. 2 indexed citations

Worden, Richard H., et al.. (2024). Compositional controls on the Lower Cretaceous Rodby Shale pore structure and surface area: a planned CCS top seal caprock for the Acorn storage site. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 137. 104219–104219. 3 indexed citations

Worden, Richard H., et al.. (2022). The value of core in mature field development – examples from the UK North Sea. Geological Society London Special Publications. 527(1). 261–278. 4 indexed citations

Worden, Richard H.. (2022). Value of core for reservoir and top-seal analysis for carbon capture and storage projects. Geological Society London Special Publications. 527(1). 365–385. 8 indexed citations

Açıkalın, Sanem, James E.P. Utley, Joshua Griffiths, et al.. (2021). Stratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of a modern macro‐tidal incised valley: An analogue for reservoir facies and architecture. Sedimentology. 69(2). 696–723. 8 indexed citations

Alcalde, Juan, Clare E. Bond, A. T. James, et al.. (2018). Storage site selection process in the North Sea for the ACT ACORN CCS Project. European geosciences union general assembly. 20. 19050. 1 indexed citations

Griffiths, Joshua, et al.. (2016). Deformation band development as a function of intrinsic host-rock properties in Triassic Sherwood Sandstone. Geological Society London Special Publications. 435(1). 161–176. 25 indexed citations

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Mohamed, Essam A. & Richard H. Worden. (2006). Groundwater compartmentalisation: a water table height and geochemical analysis of the structural controls on the subdivision of a major aquifer, the Sherwood Sandstone, Merseyside, UK. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 10(1). 49–64. 23 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H. & William J. Carrigan. (2005). Oil-anhydrite TSR reactions in the Permian Khuff Fm, Saudi Arabia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 69(10). 3 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H., et al.. (2004). Animal-sediment interactions: the effect of ingestion and excretion by worms on mineralogy. Biogeosciences. 1(2). 113–121. 58 indexed citations

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Burley, Stuart D. & Richard H. Worden. (2003). SANDSTONE DIAGENESIS: Recent and Ancient. 118 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H.. (2003). B. Biju-Duval, Review of Sedimentary Geology:sedimentary basins, depositional environments, petroleum formation.. Surveys in Geophysics. 24(3). 289–290. 1 indexed citations

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Cai, Chunfang, et al.. (2002). Chemical and isotopic evidence for secondary alteration of natural gases in the Hetianhe Field, Bachu Uplift of the Tarim Basin. Organic Geochemistry. 33(12). 1415–1427. 57 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H. & S. A. Barclay. (2000). Internally-sourced quartz cement due to externally-derived CO 2 in sub-arkosic sandstones, North Sea. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 69-70. 645–649. 39 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H., et al.. (1999). The effects of petroleum emplacement on diagenesis : a comparison between sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. 99(1). 149–153. 4 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H., N. H. Oxtoby, & P. C. Smalley. (1998). Can oil emplacement prevent quartz cementation in sandstones?. Petroleum Geoscience. 4(2). 129–137. 121 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H.. (1998). Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks: Mechanisms and Effects. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 15(3). 277–278. 64 indexed citations

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Worden, Richard H. & P. C. Smalley. (1995). Reactions controlling H{sub 2}S concentration in deep carbonate reservoirs. AAPG Bulletin. 79(8). 1 indexed citations

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