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 R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy, 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

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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.

Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

2009 578 citations R. Damian Nance, Rob Strachan et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The timing and significance of mid-crustal shearing and exhumation of amphibolite-facies rocks along the Great Glen Fault Zone, Scotland 2025 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·Richard D. Law, J. Ryan Thigpen, (unknown), Andrew Kylander‐Clark, Mark J. Caddick, Lowell R. Moore, Christopher H. Becker, R. E. Holdsworth, Rob Strachan, A. Graham Leslie	1
2	Petrogenesis of Late Miocene High Ba–Sr Granitoids in Eastern Pamir, Northwest Tibetan Plateau: Insights into Lithospheric Mantle Evolution and Geodynamic Processes during India–Asia Bidirectional Subduction 2025 ·Journal of Petrology ·Fan Yang, Jiyuan Yin, Zhiming Yang, Mike Fowler, Andrew C. Kerr, Victoria Pease, Rob Strachan, Wen Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wenjiao Xiao	1
3	Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China 2024 ·Earth-Science Reviews ·Jiyuan Yin, Wenjiao Xiao, Tao Wang, Mike Fowler, Andrew C. Kerr, (unknown), Rob Strachan, He Huang, Ji’en Zhang, Wen Chen, (unknown)	3
4	U–Pb apatite geochronology shows multiple thermal overprints within the Neoarchean foreland basement of the Faroe–Shetland Terrane 2024 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·Rob Strachan, Christopher L. Kirkland, Alexander J. Finlay, David Wray, (unknown), R. E. Holdsworth	1
5	Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia reconstructions 2024 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·P. D. Kinny, Rob Strachan, Mike Fowler, Emilie Bruand, Ian Millar, Martin Hand, Chris Clark, Kathryn Cutts	1
6	Late Tonian (c. 735 Ma) A-type granite magmatism on the passive margin of the São Francisco paleocontinent was coeval with outboard subduction 2024 ·Precambrian Research ·(unknown), Cláudio de Morisson Valeriano, Catherine Mottram, Rob Strachan, Henrique Bruno, Mônica Heilbron, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Craig Storey	0
7	U−Pb geochronology and microstructural analysis of apatite within a Proterozoic crustal-scale shear zone, Outer Hebrides, NW Scotland 2024 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·(unknown), Rob Strachan, James Darling, Mike Fowler, (unknown), (unknown)	3
8	About this title - Supercontinents, Orogenesis and Magmatism 2023 ·Geological Society London Special Publications ·R. Damian Nance, Rob Strachan, C. Quesada, Shuqiong Lin	0
9	Paleo- and Mesoarchean TTG-sanukitoid to high-K granite cycles in the southern São Francisco craton, SE Brazil 2022 ·Geoscience Frontiers ·Cláudio de Morisson Valeriano, (unknown), Henrique Bruno, Antonio Simonetti, Mônica Heilbron, (unknown), Rob Strachan	12
10	A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland 2021 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·Maarten Krabbendam, Rob Strachan, Anthony R. Prave	31
11	Persistent pollutants exceed toxic thresholds in a freshwater top predator decades after legislative control 2021 ·Environmental Pollution ·(unknown), Richard F. Shore, (unknown), Rob Strachan, Elizabeth A. Chadwick	18
12	The metamorphic and magmatic record of collisional orogens 2021 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Owen Weller, Catherine Mottram, M R St-Onge, Charlotte Möller, Rob Strachan, Toby Rivers, Alex Copley	56
13	The Neoproterozoic to Mid-Devonian evolution of Scotland: a review and unresolved issues 2015 ·Scottish Journal of Geology ·John Dewey, Ian W. D. Dalziel, R. J. Reavy, Rob Strachan	42
14	Neoproterozoic orogeny along the margin of Rodinia: Valhalla orogen, North Atlantic 2010 ·Geology ·Peter A. Cawood, Rob Strachan, Kathryn Cutts, Peter D. Kinny, Martin Hand, Sergei Pisarevsky	201
15	Orogenic versus extensional settings for regional metamorphism: Knoydartian events in the Moine Supergroup revisited 2009 ·Journal of the Geological Society ·Kathryn Cutts, Martin Hand, David E. Kelsey, Rob Strachan	23
16	Microstructural evolution within a partitioned midcrustal transpression zone, northeast Greenland Caledonides 2007 ·Tectonics ·Steven A. Smith, Rob Strachan, R. E. Holdsworth	22
17	Health surveillance in wildlife reintroductions 2006 ·Biological Conservation ·Fiona Mathews, Dorian Moro, Rob Strachan, Merryl Gelling, Nicky Buller	108
18	The structure and rheological evolution of reactivated continental fault zones: a review and case study 2001 ·Geological Society London Special Publications ·R. E. Holdsworth, M. Stewart, Jonathan B. Imber, Rob Strachan	106
19	The role of habitat and mink predation in determining the status and distribution of water voles in England 1998 ·Animal Conservation ·Guillermo R. Barreto, Steve Rushton, Rob Strachan, David W. Macdonald	65
20	AVALONIAN AND CADOMIAN GEOLOGY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC 1991 ·Terra Nova ·Rob Strachan, G. K. Taylor	62

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