William Lowrie

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

William Lowrie is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Lowrie has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Geophysics and 62 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in William Lowrie's work include Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (75 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (49 papers). William Lowrie is often cited by papers focused on Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (75 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (62 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (49 papers). William Lowrie collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Italy. William Lowrie's co-authors include Walter Álvarez, Ann M. Hirt, Dennis V. Kent, Roy Kligfield, Friedrich Heller, Michael Fuller, James E T Channell, H. Paul Johnson, Neil D. Opdyke and William H. Owens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

William Lowrie

104 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Identification of ferromagnetic minerals in a rock by coercivity and unblocking temperature properties

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Lowrie Switzerland	47	5.0k	4.4k	3.6k	1.8k	801	105	7.4k
E. Irving Canada	47	6.1k 1.2×	5.8k 1.3×	4.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	664 0.8×	187	8.4k
M. W. McElhinny Australia	58	7.4k 1.5×	7.0k 1.6×	5.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	793 1.0×	143	10.2k
Kenneth L. Verosub United States	44	2.5k 0.5×	5.2k 1.2×	5.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	152	7.9k
Cor G. Langereis Netherlands	55	5.1k 1.0×	2.9k 0.7×	5.5k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 2.1×	187	10.0k
Jean Besse France	45	7.1k 1.4×	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	733 0.9×	99	9.4k
Catherine Kissel France	53	3.2k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	6.2k 1.7×	856 0.5×	2.0k 2.5×	173	8.3k
Friedrich Heller Switzerland	44	2.9k 0.6×	4.1k 0.9×	5.4k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 2.6×	142	7.7k
S. C. Cande United States	44	6.9k 1.4×	2.2k 0.5×	4.9k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 2.0×	74	10.2k
Allan Cox United States	48	4.4k 0.9×	4.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	523 0.3×	391 0.5×	99	6.8k
M. Fuller United States	32	3.3k 0.7×	4.6k 1.0×	2.9k 0.8×	362 0.2×	547 0.7×	90	5.9k

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Lowrie, William. (2018). Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Muttoni, Giovanni, Dennis V. Kent, Paul E. Olsen, et al.. (2003). Tethyan magnetostratigrapy from Pizzo Mondello and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark APTS. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 2244. 1 indexed citations

Muttoni, Giovanni, et al.. (2000). Middle Triassic paleomagnetic data from northern Bulgaria: constraints on Tethyan magnetostratigraphy and paleogeography. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 160(3-4). 223–237. 39 indexed citations

Juarez, Michelle T., William Lowrie, Marı́a Luisa Osete, & Guillermo Meléndez. (1998). Evidence of widespread Cretaceous remagnetisation in the Iberian Range and its relation with the rotation of Iberia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 160(3-4). 729–743. 46 indexed citations

Juarez, Michelle T., Marı́a Luisa Osete, Guillermo Meléndez, & William Lowrie. (1995). Oxfordian magnetostratigraphy in the Iberian Range. Geophysical Research Letters. 22(21). 2889–2892. 17 indexed citations

Smit, Jan, Alessandro Montanari, Nicola H.M. Swinburne, et al.. (1992). Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico. Geology. 20(2). 99–99. 174 indexed citations

Álvarez, Walter, Jan Smit, William Lowrie, et al.. (1992). Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: A restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540. Geology. 20(8). 697–697. 103 indexed citations

Tarduno, J. A., William Lowrie, William V. Sliter, Timothy J. Bralower, & Friedrich Heller. (1992). Reversed polarity characteristic magnetizations in the Albian Contessa Section, Umbrian Apennines, Italy: Implications for the existence of a Mid‐Cretaceous mixed polarity interval. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 97(B1). 241–271. 42 indexed citations

Álvarez, Walter, et al.. (1991). Impact-Wave Effects at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Gulf of Mexico DSDP Cores. LPI. 22. 17. 2 indexed citations

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Ogg, James G. & William Lowrie. (1986). Magnetostratigraphy of the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary. Geology. 14(7). 547–547. 52 indexed citations

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Channell, James E T, et al.. (1984). Jurassic magnetic stratigraphy from Umbrian (Italian) land sections. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 68(2). 309–325. 32 indexed citations

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Lowrie, William. (1982). A revised magnetic polarity timescale for the Cretaceous and Cainozoic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 306(1492). 129–136. 17 indexed citations

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Channell, James E T, James G. Ogg, & William Lowrie. (1982). Geomagnetic polarity in the early Cretaceous and Jurassic. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 306(1492). 137–146. 36 indexed citations

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Lowrie, William & Dennis V. Kent. (1978). Characteristics of VRM in Oceanic Basalts. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 44(1). 297–315. 41 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Walter & William Lowrie. (1978). Upper Cretaceous palaeomagnetic stratigraphy at Moria (Umbrian Apennines, Italy): verification of the Gubbio section. Geophysical Journal International. 55(1). 1–17. 37 indexed citations

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Lowrie, William. (1977). Intensity and direction of magnetization in oceanic basalts. Journal of the Geological Society. 133(1). 61–82. 37 indexed citations

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Lowrie, William. (1974). Oceanic basalt magnetic properties and the Vine and Matthews Hypothesis. 40(1). 513–536. 38 indexed citations

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Kent, Dennis V. & William Lowrie. (1974). Origin of magnetic instability in sediment cores from the central North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 79(20). 2987–3000. 64 indexed citations

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Opdyke, Neil D., Dennis V. Kent, & William Lowrie. (1973). Details of magnetic polarity transitions recorded in a high deposition rate deep-sea core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 20(3). 315–324. 90 indexed citations

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Lowrie, William & G. F. West. (1965). The effect of a conducting overburden on electromagnetic prospecting measurements. Geophysics. 30(4). 624–632. 25 indexed citations

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