Richard M. Palin

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Richard M. Palin is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard M. Palin has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Geophysics, 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Richard M. Palin's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (100 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (80 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (77 papers). Richard M. Palin is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (100 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (80 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (77 papers). Richard M. Palin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Richard M. Palin's co-authors include R. W. White, Eleanor Green, David J. Waters, Roger Powell, Johann F.A. Diener, T. J. B. Holland, Owen Weller, Brendan Dyck, M. P. Searle and M. Santosh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Richard M. Palin

94 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Activity–composition relations for the calculation of partial melting equilibria in metabasic rocks

2016 659 citations Richard M. Palin et al. profile →
Quantifying geological uncertainty in metamorphic phase equilibria modelling; a Monte Carlo assessment and implications for tectonic interpretations

2015 289 citations Richard M. Palin, Brendan Dyck et al. Geoscience Frontiers profile →
Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

2020 216 citations Richard M. Palin, M. Santosh et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Richard M. Palin	3.8k	1.3k	215	155	141	104	4.0k
Oscar Laurent	3.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	496 2.3×	158 1.0×	99 0.7×	96	3.8k
Bernard Bonin	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	379 1.8×	152 1.0×	202 1.4×	77	4.2k
Dejan Prelević	3.1k 0.8×	838 0.7×	231 1.1×	124 0.8×	69 0.5×	83	3.2k
S. Andrew DuFrane	1.9k 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	300 1.4×	119 0.8×	81 0.6×	67	2.1k
Laure Martin	2.2k 0.6×	967 0.8×	333 1.5×	154 1.0×	47 0.3×	106	2.4k
Eero Hanski	1.8k 0.5×	866 0.7×	297 1.4×	116 0.7×	114 0.8×	84	2.0k
Sung Won Kim	2.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	275 1.3×	84 0.5×	264 1.9×	103	2.9k
Jade Star Lackey	2.5k 0.7×	993 0.8×	362 1.7×	266 1.7×	60 0.4×	44	2.7k
Nicholas J. Gardiner	2.4k 0.6×	869 0.7×	273 1.3×	107 0.7×	346 2.5×	64	2.6k
Hannu Huhma	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	439 2.0×	178 1.1×	211 1.5×	91	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Jian‐Bo, et al.. (2025). Australian Heritage for the North Lhasa Terrane. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4).

Elardo, S. M., et al.. (2025). Implications of a highly convective lunar magma ocean: Insights from phase equilibria modeling. Icarus. 438. 116629–116629.

Elardo, S. M., et al.. (2025). A shallow mantle source for the Chang’e 5 lavas reveals how top-down heating prolonged lunar magmatism. Science Advances. 11(29). eadr1486–eadr1486.

Palin, Richard M., et al.. (2024). Improved mineral prospectivity mapping using graph neural networks. Ore Geology Reviews. 172. 106215–106215. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yi, et al.. (2024). Detectable Continental Crust in the Earth's Deep Interior Inferred From Thermodynamic Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17).

Roberts, Nick M.W., et al.. (2024). Garnet stability during crustal melting: Implications for chemical mohometry and secular change in arc magmatism and continent formation. Chemical Geology. 659. 122142–122142. 6 indexed citations

Gardiner, Nicholas J., et al.. (2024). On tin and lithium granite systems: A crustal evolution perspective. Earth-Science Reviews. 258. 104947–104947. 6 indexed citations

D’Antonio, Massimo, Tanya Furman, M. Santosh, et al.. (2024). Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic evidence for Cenozoic partial melting of mantle beneath Natanz, Central Iran. Lithos. 468-469. 107489–107489. 2 indexed citations

Searle, M. P., et al.. (2024). Magmatic, Metamorphic and Structural History of the Variscan Lizard Ophiolite and Metamorphic Sole, Cornwall, UK. Tectonics. 43(4). 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Li‐Guang, Yi Chen, Richard M. Palin, et al.. (2023). Reinitiation of modern-style plate tectonics in the Early Neoproterozoic: Evidence from a ∼930 Ma blueschist-facies terrane in South China. Precambrian Research. 401. 107276–107276. 4 indexed citations

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Sepidbar, Fatemeh, et al.. (2023). Post-collisional ultrapotassic volcanic rocks and ultramafic xenoliths in the Eslamieh Peninsula, NW Iran: Petrological and geochemical constraints on mantle source and metasomatism. Lithos. 458-459. 107359–107359. 2 indexed citations

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Guo, Jing, Yunshuai Li, Richard M. Palin, Jianxin Zhang, & Shengyao Yu. (2023). Evolution and modification of lithospheric mantle within deeply continental subduction zone: Insights from two contrasting orogenic garnet peridotites in South Altun–North Qaidam belt. Lithos. 450-451. 107185–107185. 4 indexed citations

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Roberts, Nick M.W., et al.. (2023). Hot, Wide, Continental Back-arcs Explain Earth’s Enigmatic mid-Proterozoic Magmatic and Metamorphic Record. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1(1). 14 indexed citations

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Li, Shan-Shan, Richard M. Palin, & M. Santosh. (2022). Contrasting mechanisms and timescales of subduction and exhumation as recorded by Paleoproterozoic and late Paleozoic high-pressure granulites in the North China Craton. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 135(1-2). 29–47. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Guangyu, Ross N. Mitchell, Richard M. Palin, Christopher J. Spencer, & Jinghui Guo. (2022). Barium content of Archaean continental crust reveals the onset of subduction was not global. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6553–6553. 13 indexed citations

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Palin, Richard M., James D. Moore, Zeming Zhang, et al.. (2021). Mafic Archean continental crust prohibited exhumation of orogenic UHP eclogite. Geoscience Frontiers. 12(5). 101225–101225. 5 indexed citations

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Palin, Richard M., M. Santosh, Wentao Cao, et al.. (2020). Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth. Earth-Science Reviews. 207. 103172–103172. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Parsons, Andrew J., Kasra Hosseini, Richard M. Palin, & Karin Sigloch. (2020). Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans. Earth-Science Reviews. 208. 103084–103084. 95 indexed citations

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Hernández‐Uribe, David & Richard M. Palin. (2019). Catastrophic shear-removal of subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Colorado Plateau by the subducted Farallon slab. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8153–8153. 25 indexed citations

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Palin, Richard M. & Brendan Dyck. (2018). Metamorphic consequences of secular changes in oceanic crust composition and implications for uniformitarianism in the geological record. Geoscience Frontiers. 9(4). 1009–1019. 26 indexed citations

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