Rob Strachan

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Rob Strachan is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Strachan has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Geophysics, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 20 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Rob Strachan's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (71 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (48 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (29 papers). Rob Strachan is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (71 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (48 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (29 papers). Rob Strachan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Rob Strachan's co-authors include J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance, J. Duncan Keppie, Cecilio Quesada, Gabriel Gutiérrez‐Alonso, Nigel Woodcock, John Dewey, Ulf Linnemann, Peter A. Cawood and Anthony R. Prave and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Pollution, Geology and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Rob Strachan

87 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Evolution of the Rheic Ocean 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Evolution of the Rheic Ocean
    2009 578 citations R. Damian Nance, Gabriel Gutiérrez‐Alonso et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rob Strachan 4.3k 1.4k 917 446 426 90 4.8k
Shanaka L. de Silva 4.0k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 217 0.2× 197 0.4× 1.3k 3.1× 108 5.1k
Andrés Mora 3.8k 0.9× 435 0.3× 228 0.2× 163 0.4× 268 0.6× 105 4.2k
Paul K. Link 1.5k 0.3× 485 0.3× 823 0.9× 272 0.6× 785 1.8× 84 2.0k
Thierry Sempéré 2.0k 0.5× 604 0.4× 629 0.7× 117 0.3× 482 1.1× 86 2.8k
Philippe Hervé Leloup 7.2k 1.7× 1.0k 0.7× 268 0.3× 305 0.7× 1.0k 2.4× 95 8.3k
A. Cardona 3.0k 0.7× 550 0.4× 502 0.5× 125 0.3× 234 0.5× 118 4.0k
James Pindell 2.6k 0.6× 323 0.2× 275 0.3× 73 0.2× 269 0.6× 60 3.2k
Germán Bayona 1.7k 0.4× 230 0.2× 409 0.4× 106 0.2× 231 0.5× 92 2.6k
T. McCann 868 0.2× 182 0.1× 272 0.3× 157 0.4× 388 0.9× 53 1.8k
John E. Repetski 545 0.1× 175 0.1× 1.3k 1.5× 150 0.3× 498 1.2× 101 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Strachan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Strachan

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

All Works

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Law, Richard D., J. Ryan Thigpen, Andrew Kylander‐Clark, et al.. (2025). The timing and significance of mid-crustal shearing and exhumation of amphibolite-facies rocks along the Great Glen Fault Zone, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society. 182(4). 1 indexed citations
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Yin, Jiyuan, Wenjiao Xiao, Tao Wang, et al.. (2024). Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China. Earth-Science Reviews. 253. 104795–104795. 3 indexed citations
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Strachan, Rob, et al.. (2024). U–Pb apatite geochronology shows multiple thermal overprints within the Neoarchean foreland basement of the Faroe–Shetland Terrane. Journal of the Geological Society. 181(5). 1 indexed citations
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Strachan, Rob, et al.. (2024). U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society. 181(3). 3 indexed citations
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Valeriano, Cláudio de Morisson, Catherine Mottram, Rob Strachan, et al.. (2024). Late Tonian (c. 735 Ma) A-type granite magmatism on the passive margin of the São Francisco paleocontinent was coeval with outboard subduction. Precambrian Research. 413. 107578–107578.
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Nance, R. Damian, Rob Strachan, C. Quesada, & Shuqiong Lin. (2023). About this title - Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism. Geological Society London Special Publications. 542(1).
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Weller, Owen, Catherine Mottram, M R St-Onge, et al.. (2021). The metamorphic and magmatic record of collisional orogens. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(11). 781–799. 56 indexed citations
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Krabbendam, Maarten, Rob Strachan, & Anthony R. Prave. (2021). A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(2). 31 indexed citations
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Shore, Richard F., et al.. (2021). Persistent pollutants exceed toxic thresholds in a freshwater top predator decades after legislative control. Environmental Pollution. 272. 116415–116415. 18 indexed citations
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Thigpen, J. Ryan, Richard D. Law, Rob Strachan, et al.. (2013). Thermal structure and tectonic evolution of the Scandian orogenic wedge, Scottish Caledonides: integrating geothermometry, deformation temperatures and conceptual kinematic‐thermal models. Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 31(8). 813–842. 40 indexed citations
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Nance, R. Damian, Gabriel Gutiérrez‐Alonso, J. Duncan Keppie, et al.. (2011). A brief history of the Rheic Ocean. Geoscience Frontiers. 3(2). 125–135. 240 indexed citations
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Cawood, Peter A., Rob Strachan, Kathryn Cutts, et al.. (2010). Neoproterozoic orogeny along the margin of Rodinia: Valhalla orogen, North Atlantic. Geology. 38(2). 99–102. 201 indexed citations
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Strachan, Rob. (2007). National survey of otter Lutra lutra distribution in Scotland 2003–04.. 10 indexed citations
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Smith, Steven A., Rob Strachan, & R. E. Holdsworth. (2007). Microstructural evolution within a partitioned midcrustal transpression zone, northeast Greenland Caledonides. Tectonics. 26(4). 22 indexed citations
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Mathews, Fiona, Dorian Moro, Rob Strachan, Merryl Gelling, & Nicky Buller. (2006). Health surveillance in wildlife reintroductions. Biological Conservation. 131(2). 338–347. 108 indexed citations
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Friderichsen, J.D, N Henriksen, & Rob Strachan. (1994). Basement-cover relationships and regional structure in the Grandjean Fjord - Bessel Fjord region (75°–76°N), North-East Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Rapport. 162. 17–33. 12 indexed citations
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Strachan, Rob & G. K. Taylor. (1991). AVALONIAN AND CADOMIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. Terra Nova. 3(1). 107–108. 62 indexed citations

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