Tracy D. Frank

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Tracy D. Frank is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Tracy D. Frank has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Paleontology, 64 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Tracy D. Frank's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (64 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (64 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Tracy D. Frank is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (64 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (64 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Tracy D. Frank collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Sweden. Tracy D. Frank's co-authors include Christopher R. Fielding, Timothy W. Lyons, Lauren P. Birgenheier, Michael C. Rygel, Linda C. Kah, Andrew Jones, Michael A. Arthur, John L. Isbell, John Roberts and Chris Mays and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tracy D. Frank

91 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

CO ₂ -Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tracy D. Frank United States	34	3.0k	2.4k	1.0k	989	920	94	4.1k
Bernard Pittet France	39	3.9k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	961 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	88	4.5k
Silke Voigt Germany	34	2.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	824 0.8×	671 0.7×	535 0.6×	80	3.3k
Jochen Erbacher Germany	24	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	671 0.7×	672 0.7×	498 0.5×	55	2.9k
Bas van de Schootbrugge Netherlands	41	3.8k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	392 0.4×	79	4.8k
Jens O. Herrle Germany	31	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	657 0.6×	463 0.5×	601 0.7×	63	3.2k
Maria Rose Petrizzo Italy	34	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	921 0.9×	529 0.5×	447 0.5×	102	3.5k
Martin D. Brasier United Kingdom	45	3.8k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	903 0.9×	743 0.8×	79	4.8k
Peter A. Hochuli Switzerland	42	3.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	756 0.8×	565 0.6×	80	4.4k
Jörg Mutterlose Germany	44	4.9k 1.6×	3.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	185	5.9k
Emanuela Mattioli France	42	4.5k 1.5×	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 2.0×	1.4k 1.5×	671 0.7×	127	5.1k

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Li, Yanan, Longyi Shao, Christopher R. Fielding, et al.. (2025). Continental weathering linked to climate warming at the Sakmarian to Artinskian transition. Global and Planetary Change. 254. 105025–105025. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yanan, Longyi Shao, Christopher R. Fielding, et al.. (2025). The dynamics of carbon cycle changes and their underlying mechanisms during the Sakmarian to Artinskian transition. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 679. 113255–113255. 1 indexed citations

Cagliari, Joice, et al.. (2025). The Late Paleozoic ice age termination in Southwestern Gondwana: New evidence from the Paraná Basin. Gondwana Research. 147. 192–212. 1 indexed citations

Fielding, Christopher R., Stephen McLoughlin, Chris Mays, Allen P. Tevyaw, & Tracy D. Frank. (2025). Fluvial architectural style and stacking patterns in a high-accommodation coal-bearing succession: the upper Permian Newcastle Coal Measures, eastern Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology. 307. 104829–104829. 1 indexed citations

Frank, Tracy D., et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal variations in formation conditions of cryogenic brines: Insights from aragonite cements in New Harbor, western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 632. 118641–118641. 1 indexed citations

Cagliari, Joice, et al.. (2024). Chemical weathering proxies: An assessment of their robustness to reconstruct Paleozoic climate conditions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100054–100054. 2 indexed citations

Fielding, Christopher R., Scott E. Bryan, James L. Crowley, et al.. (2023). A multidisciplinary approach to resolving the end-Guadalupian extinction. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1. 100014–100014. 7 indexed citations

Shen, Jun, Jiubin Chen, Jianxin Yu, et al.. (2023). Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6–6. 40 indexed citations

Xu, Guozhen, Jun Shen, Thomas J. Algeo, et al.. (2023). Limited change in silicate chemical weathering intensity during the Permian–Triassic transition indicates ineffective climate regulation by weathering feedbacks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 616. 118235–118235. 19 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D., et al.. (2022). ORIGIN, DISTRIBUTION, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF BRINE IN THE SUBSURFACE OF ANTARCTICA. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

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Fielding, Christopher R., Tracy D. Frank, Lauren P. Birgenheier, & Michael C. Rygel. (2022). A REVISED, LATE PALAEOZOIC GLACIAL TIME-SPACE FRAMEWORK FOR EASTERN AUSTRALIA, AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER REGIONS AND EVENTS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 5 indexed citations

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Mays, Chris, Stephen McLoughlin, Tracy D. Frank, et al.. (2021). Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5511–5511. 37 indexed citations

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Fielding, Christopher R., Tracy D. Frank, Stephen McLoughlin, et al.. (2019). Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 385–385. 177 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D. & Noël P. James. (2017). Diagenetic pathways in deposits of cool- and cold-water carbonate factories. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Staudigel, Philip, et al.. (2015). Cryogenic brines as a diagenetic fluid: using clumped isotopes to reconstruct the cementation history of sediments in the ANDRILL 2A core. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D., et al.. (2014). Late Quaternary carbonate deposition at the bottom of the world. Sedimentary Geology. 305. 1–16. 13 indexed citations

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Kah, Linda C., Timothy W. Lyons, & Tracy D. Frank. (2004). Low marine sulphate and protracted oxygenation of the Proterozoic biosphere. Nature. 431(7010). 834–838. 392 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D., Michael A. Arthur, & Walter E. Dean. (1999). Diagenesis of Lower Cretaceous pelagic carbonates, North Atlantic: Paleoceanographic signals obscured. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 29(4). 340–351. 59 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D., Timothy W. Lyons, & Kyger C. Lohmann. (1997). Isotopic evidence for the paleoenvironmental evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Helena Formation, Belt Supergroup, Montana, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 61(23). 5023–5041. 63 indexed citations

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Frank, Tracy D.. (1996). Petrographic, geochemical and isotopic aspects of carbonate diagenesis.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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