Virginia B. Sisson

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Virginia B. Sisson is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia B. Sisson has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Geophysics, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Virginia B. Sisson's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (15 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (11 papers). Virginia B. Sisson is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (15 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (11 papers). Virginia B. Sisson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Virginia B. Sisson's co-authors include L. S. Hollister, William P. Leeman, Terry L. Pavlis, Harold H. Stowell, George E. Harlow, S. S. Sorensen, Hans G. Avé Lallemant, T. C. Onstott, Tatsuki Tsujimori and Sarah M. Roeske and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Virginia B. Sisson

44 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Confirmation of the empirical correlation of Al in hornblende with pressure of solidification of calc-alkaline plutons

1987 723 citations L. S. Hollister, Harold H. Stowell et al. American Mineralogist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia B. Sisson United States	26	2.5k	807	382	242	148	47	2.8k
M. Raith Germany	38	4.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	390 1.0×	262 1.1×	98 0.7×	81	4.5k
A. L. Jaques Australia	29	2.9k 1.1×	754 0.9×	292 0.8×	136 0.6×	236 1.6×	73	3.1k
S. Hoernes Germany	27	1.8k 0.7×	715 0.9×	404 1.1×	245 1.0×	83 0.6×	60	2.1k
N. M. S. Rock Australia	29	2.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.8×	370 1.0×	224 0.9×	142 1.0×	90	3.1k
Martin Okrusch Germany	34	3.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	499 1.3×	158 0.7×	105 0.7×	102	3.6k
Gilles Chazot France	28	2.1k 0.8×	574 0.7×	272 0.7×	247 1.0×	92 0.6×	79	2.3k
Alan H. Clark Canada	34	3.0k 1.2×	1.7k 2.1×	405 1.1×	310 1.3×	117 0.8×	88	3.3k
Michael Bröcker Germany	38	3.2k 1.3×	688 0.9×	283 0.7×	201 0.8×	118 0.8×	77	3.4k
James S. Beard United States	25	2.7k 1.1×	916 1.1×	407 1.1×	148 0.6×	64 0.4×	48	2.9k
I.A. Nicholls Australia	32	3.5k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	340 0.9×	359 1.5×	298 2.0×	64	3.7k

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Harlow, George E., et al.. (2025). Serpentinites of the Guatemala Suture Zone: Varieties, Origin, and Compositional Modification. American Journal of Science. 325.

Khan, Shuhab D., et al.. (2024). Estimating rare earth elements at various scales with bastnäsite indices for Mountain Pass. Ore Geology Reviews. 173. 106254–106254. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Min, et al.. (2024). Seismic anisotropy of granitic rocks from a fracture stimulation well at Utah FORGE using ultrasonic measurements. Geothermics. 123. 103129–103129. 3 indexed citations

Khan, Shuhab D., et al.. (2024). Identifying Rare Earth Elements Using a Tripod and Drone-Mounted Hyperspectral Camera: A Case Study of the Mountain Pass Birthday Stock and Sulphide Queen Mine Pit, California. Remote Sensing. 16(17). 3353–3353. 1 indexed citations

Hughes, Frances, Anna Blackwell, Cheyne Chalmers, et al.. (2021). The coming of age: Aged residential care nursing in Aotearoa New Zealand in the times of COVID-19. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37(3). 25–29. 2 indexed citations

Harlow, George E., Virginia B. Sisson, & S. S. Sorensen. (2011). Jadeitite from Guatemala: new observations and distinctions among multiple occurrences. Geologica Acta. 9(3). 363–387. 54 indexed citations

Lallemant, Hans G. Avé & Virginia B. Sisson. (2005). Special Paper 394: Caribbean-South American plate interactions, Venezuela. Geological Society of America eBooks. 9 indexed citations

Harlow, George E., et al.. (2003). HIGH-PRESSURE, METASOMATIC ROCKS ALONG THE MOTAGUA FAULT ZONE, GUATEMALA. Ofioliti. 28(2). 115–120. 29 indexed citations

Harlow, George E., Sidney R. Hemming, Hans G. Avé Lallemant, Virginia B. Sisson, & S. S. Sorensen. (2003). Two high-pressure–low-temperature serpentinite-matrix mélange belts, Motagua fault zone, Guatemala: A record of Aptian and Maastrichtian collisions. Geology. 32(1). 17–17. 118 indexed citations

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Huang, Shijie, William P. Leeman, & Virginia B. Sisson. (2001). Comparative Thermal Structures of Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones. AGUFM. 2001. 2 indexed citations

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Sisson, Virginia B.. (1997). High-Pressure (2000 MPa) Kyanite- and Glaucophane-bearing Pelitic Schist and Eclogite from Cordillera de la Costa Belt, Venezuela. Journal of Petrology. 38(1). 65–83. 10 indexed citations

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Leeman, William P. & Virginia B. Sisson. (1996). Geochemistry of boron and its implications for crustal and mantle processes. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry. 33(1). 645–707. 230 indexed citations

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Smart, Kevin J., Terry L. Pavlis, Virginia B. Sisson, Sarah M. Roeske, & Lawrence W. Snee. (1996). The Border Ranges fault system in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska: evidence for major early Cenozoic dextral strike-slip motion. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 33(9). 1268–1282. 19 indexed citations

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Pavlis, Terry L., Virginia B. Sisson, Helen Laura Foster, Warren J. Nokleberg, & George Plafker. (1993). Mid‐Cretaceous extensional tectonics of the Yukon‐Tanana Terrane, Trans‐Alaska Crustal Transect (TACT), east‐central Alaska. Tectonics. 12(1). 103–122. 52 indexed citations

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Oldow, John S., et al.. (1993). Displacement transfer system linking the Furnace Creek and Walker Lane fault systems, west-central Nevada. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States). 4 indexed citations

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Sisson, Virginia B. & L. S. Hollister. (1990). A fluid-inclusion study of metamorphosed pelitic and carbonate rocks, south-central Maine. American Mineralogist. 75. 59–70. 24 indexed citations

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Onstott, T. C., Virginia B. Sisson, & Donald L. Turner. (1989). Initial argon in amphiboles from the Chugach Mountains, southern Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 94(B4). 4361–4372. 22 indexed citations

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Hollister, L. S., et al.. (1987). Confirmation of the empirical correlation of Al in hornblende with pressure of solidification of calc-alkaline plutons. American Mineralogist. 72. 231–239. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sisson, Virginia B.. (1987). Halogen chemistry as an indicator of metamorphic fluid interaction with the Ponder pluton, Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 95(1). 123–131. 33 indexed citations

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Greeley, R., D. E. Gault, D. B. Snyder, et al.. (1980). Impact cratering in viscous targets.. 95. 5 indexed citations

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