Trond H. Torsvik

32.4k total citations · 16 hit papers
268 papers, 25.7k citations indexed

About

Trond H. Torsvik is a scholar working on Geophysics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Trond H. Torsvik has authored 268 papers receiving a total of 25.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 211 papers in Geophysics, 115 papers in Molecular Biology and 95 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Trond H. Torsvik's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (200 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (115 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (94 papers). Trond H. Torsvik is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (200 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (115 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (94 papers). Trond H. Torsvik collaborates with scholars based in Norway, South Africa and United States. Trond H. Torsvik's co-authors include L. Robin M. Cocks, Bernhard Steinberger, Mark A. Smethurst, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Carmen Gaina, Joseph G. Meert, Rob Van der Voo, Mathew Domeier, L. R. M. Cocks and Lewis D. Ashwal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Trond H. Torsvik

265 papers receiving 24.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

2012 1.5k citations Carmen Gaina, Trond H. Torsvik et al. profile →
Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

2012 1.1k citations Trond H. Torsvik, Rob Van der Voo et al. profile →
Continental break-up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic — A tale of Baltica and Laurentia

1996 697 citations Trond H. Torsvik, Mark A. Smethurst et al. profile →
Earth geography from 500 to 400 million years ago: a faunal and palaeomagnetic review

2002 680 citations Trond H. Torsvik et al. profile →
Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

2012 605 citations Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet et al. profile →
Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

2008 565 citations Trond H. Torsvik, Rob Van der Voo et al. profile →
Earth History and Palaeogeography

2016 562 citations Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks profile →
Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic

2014 518 citations Mathew Domeier, Trond H. Torsvik profile →
Gondwana from top to base in space and time

2013 504 citations Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks profile →
Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

2019 444 citations Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Trond H. Torsvik et al. profile →
A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin

2009 394 citations Trond H. Torsvik, Sonia Rousse et al. Geophysical Journal International profile →
Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

2010 391 citations Trond H. Torsvik, Kevin Burke et al. profile →
The dynamic evolution of the Palaeozoic geography of eastern Asia

2012 312 citations L. Robin M. Cocks, Trond H. Torsvik profile →
The Palaeozoic Variscan oceans revisited

2017 254 citations L. Robin M. Cocks, Trond H. Torsvik et al. profile →
REMOVED: Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles

2017 204 citations Sebastian Tappe, Katie A. Smart et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

2020 158 citations L. Robin M. Cocks, Trond H. Torsvik profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Trond H. Torsvik Norway	82	20.2k	7.0k	5.1k	4.4k	4.0k	268	25.7k
Rixiang Zhu China	71	10.0k 0.5×	3.5k 0.5×	7.4k 1.5×	1.9k 0.4×	5.1k 1.3×	334	18.5k
Samuel A. Bowring United States	89	17.7k 0.9×	11.2k 1.6×	6.5k 1.3×	2.2k 0.5×	884 0.2×	286	25.3k
Rob Van der Voo United States	62	12.9k 0.6×	4.2k 0.6×	5.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	6.9k 1.7×	287	16.5k
Peter D. Clift United States	76	9.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.3×	8.1k 1.6×	5.2k 1.2×	689 0.2×	345	18.1k
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Netherlands	63	12.4k 0.6×	2.0k 0.3×	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	250	15.0k
George E. Gehrels United States	89	27.0k 1.3×	4.1k 0.6×	5.7k 1.1×	3.1k 0.7×	598 0.2×	416	30.1k
Wout Krijgsman Netherlands	68	8.4k 0.4×	5.4k 0.8×	10.4k 2.1×	1.0k 0.2×	1.6k 0.4×	289	17.0k
Christopher R. Scotese United States	44	3.9k 0.2×	5.0k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	902 0.2×	114	9.9k
Chris J. Hawkesworth United Kingdom	101	28.0k 1.4×	3.4k 0.5×	4.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.3×	436 0.1×	282	32.0k
A. M. Celâl Şengör Türkiye	57	20.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.3×	2.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	467 0.1×	159	23.0k

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Torsvik, Trond H., et al.. (2025). Late Paleozoic climate transition from a long-term carbon cycle modeling perspective. Global and Planetary Change. 253. 104984–104984.

Torsvik, Trond H., et al.. (2025). Devonian palaeogeography and environmental change: an incomplete chronicle. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften. 176(2). 193–214. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongrui & Trond H. Torsvik. (2022). Circum-Tethyan magmatic provinces, shifting continents and Permian climate change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 584. 117453–117453. 26 indexed citations

Torsvik, Trond H., et al.. (2021). Revising key parameters for long-term carbon cycle models. 2 indexed citations

Torsvik, Trond H., Henrik H. Svensen, Bernhard Steinberger, et al.. (2020). Connecting the Deep Earth and the Atmosphere. 5 indexed citations

Tappe, Sebastian, Katie A. Smart, Trond H. Torsvik, Malcolm Massuyeau, & Mike De Wit. (2017). REMOVED: Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 484. 1–14. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

Biggin, Andrew J., Bernhard Steinberger, Julien Aubert, et al.. (2012). Long Term Geomagnetic Variations and Whole-Mantle Convection Processes. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2012. 5664. 1 indexed citations

Steinberger, Bernhard, Trond H. Torsvik, & T. W. Becker. (2012). Subduction to the lower mantle – a comparison between geodynamic and tomographic models. Solid Earth. 3(2). 415–432. 45 indexed citations

Domeier, Mathew, Rob Van der Voo, Renata N. Tomezzoli, et al.. (2011). Support for an “A-type” Pangea reconstruction from high-fidelity Late Permian and Early to Middle Triassic paleomagnetic data from Argentina. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(B12). 51 indexed citations

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Ganerød, Morgan, Trond H. Torsvik, Carmen Gaina, et al.. (2010). Paleoposition of the Seychelles microcontinent in relation to the Deccan Traps and the Plume Generation Zone in Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeogene time. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Dupont‐Nivet, Guillaume, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, & Trond H. Torsvik. (2009). Persistently low Asian paleolatitudes: implications for the Indo-Asia collision. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 6 indexed citations

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Kusznir, Nick, et al.. (2008). Quantifying Continental Overlap in Plate Reconstruction Models for the North Atlantic Using Continental Extension Estimates from Gravity Inversion. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations

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Ganerød, Morgan, Cora A. McKenna, Mark A. Smethurst, et al.. (2008). The Age of the Antrim Lava Group, Northern Ireland, and its correlation to the North Atlantic Igneous Province. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Torsvik, Trond H.. (2008). On the Opening and Closure History of the Palaeo- and Neotethys. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Torsvik, Trond H., Carmen Gaina, & T.F. Redfield. (2007). Antarctica and global paleogeography: from Rodinia, rhrough Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the birth of the Southern Ocean and the opening of gateways. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 125–140. 35 indexed citations

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Corfú, Fernando, R. James Roberts, Trond H. Torsvik, Lewis D. Ashwal, & Donald M. Ramsay. (2007). Peri-Gondwanan elements in the Caledonian Nappes of Finnmark, Northern Norway: Implications for the paleogeographic framework of the Scandinavian Caledonides. American Journal of Science. 307(2). 434–458. 80 indexed citations

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Gaina, Carmen, et al.. (2006). Testing Plate Reconstructions For The High Arctic Using Crustal Thickness Mapping From Gravity Inversion. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Torsvik, Trond H., Mark A. Smethurst, Kevin Burke, & Bernhard Steinberger. (2006). Large igneous provinces generated from the margins of the large low-velocity provinces in the deep mantle. Geophysical Journal International. 167(3). 1447–1460. 263 indexed citations

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Walderhaug, Harald, et al.. (2003). Magnetic properties and age of the Alnø carbonatite complex (Sweden). EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 10358. 3 indexed citations

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Roest, W. R., Erik Lundin, Trond H. Torsvik, & Odleiv Olesen. (2002). The Jan Mayen Microcontinent: Computers animations of the plate tectonic history. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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