William R. Guenthner

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

William R. Guenthner is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Guenthner has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Geophysics, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in William R. Guenthner's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (30 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (17 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). William R. Guenthner is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (30 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (17 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (12 papers). William R. Guenthner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Chile. William R. Guenthner's co-authors include Peter W. Reiners, Richard A. Ketcham, Gerald Giester, Lutz Nasdala, Stuart N. Thomson, Yuntao Tian, Alexis K. Ault, Andrew K. Laskowski, David L. Barbeau and Henrik Drake and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

William R. Guenthner

40 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Helium diffusion in natural zircon: Radiation damage, anisotropy, and the interpretation of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology

2013 561 citations William R. Guenthner, Peter W. Reiners et al. American Journal of Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William R. Guenthner United States	14	1.1k	399	325	116	87	40	1.3k
Laurent Tassan‐Got France	17	1.2k 1.0×	298 0.7×	362 1.1×	87 0.8×	101 1.2×	29	1.3k
James K. W. Lee Canada	20	1.1k 1.0×	423 1.1×	177 0.5×	95 0.8×	41 0.5×	35	1.2k
B.J. McDonald Australia	22	1.5k 1.3×	724 1.8×	194 0.6×	131 1.1×	48 0.6×	48	1.6k
Antoine Bézos France	18	1.1k 1.0×	289 0.7×	180 0.6×	66 0.6×	26 0.3×	35	1.3k
Tsutomu Ota Japan	25	1.4k 1.2×	376 0.9×	128 0.4×	108 0.9×	36 0.4×	63	1.6k
Yves Moussallam United States	20	1.1k 1.0×	241 0.6×	234 0.7×	69 0.6×	20 0.2×	64	1.3k
Yoshikuni Hiroi Japan	22	1.3k 1.2×	357 0.9×	274 0.8×	246 2.1×	38 0.4×	74	1.4k
Geoffrey H. Howarth South Africa	27	1.4k 1.3×	447 1.1×	149 0.5×	68 0.6×	27 0.3×	78	1.7k
Andrew J. Smye United States	19	1.1k 0.9×	329 0.8×	162 0.5×	100 0.9×	11 0.1×	49	1.2k
Asuka Yamaguchi Japan	25	1.8k 1.6×	127 0.3×	284 0.9×	34 0.3×	27 0.3×	102	2.0k

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Holley, Elizabeth, et al.. (2025). Igneous Geochronology and Thermochronology of the Northern Battle Mountain District, Nevada: Implications for Gold Mineralization. Economic Geology. 120(1). 137–169. 1 indexed citations

Nelson, Lyle L., Francis A. Macdonald, Mark D. Schmitz, et al.. (2024). Paleomagnetic Records From Pulsed Magmatism in the Southwestern Laurentia Large Igneous Province and Cardenas Basalt Support Rapid Late Mesoproterozoic Plate Motion. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(10). 3 indexed citations

Chew, David, Fernando Poblete, William R. Guenthner, et al.. (2024). Uplift and denudation history of the Ellsworth Mountains: insights from low-temperature thermochronology. Solid Earth. 15(4). 555–566. 1 indexed citations

Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2024). Deep-time thermal history of the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon, USA: Combined zircon (U-Th)/He and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometers. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 136(11-12). 4815–4835. 2 indexed citations

Orme, Devon, et al.. (2022). Orogens of Big Sky Country: Reconstructing the Deep‐Time Tectonothermal History of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, USA. Tectonics. 42(1). 7 indexed citations

McKenzie, N. Ryan, Peter van der Beek, William R. Guenthner, et al.. (2022). Assessing the long-term low-temperature thermal evolution of the central Indian Bundelkhand craton with a complex apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He dataset. American Journal of Science. 322(10). 1089–1123. 3 indexed citations

Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2021). Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology of Grand Canyon resolves 1250 Ma unroofing at the Great Unconformity and <20 Ma canyon carving. Geology. 50(2). 222–226. 8 indexed citations

McKenzie, N. Ryan, et al.. (2021). Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometric constraints on the northern extent of the Deccan large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 571. 117087–117087. 12 indexed citations

Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2021). Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Pleistocene loess and contributing glacial sources, midcontinental USA. Quaternary Science Reviews. 273. 107201–107201. 6 indexed citations

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Grimley, David A., et al.. (2021). UPDATED CHRONOLOGY OF PEORIA SILT ACCUMULATION IN ILLINOIS FROM RADIOCARBON DATING OF TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD SHELLS AND VEGETATION. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

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Ault, Alexis K., et al.. (2021). Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Detachment Faulting in Crystalline Basement, Mecca Hills, CA, Documented With Zircon (U–Th)/He Date‐eU‐Visual Radiation Damage Patterns. Tectonics. 40(9). 3 indexed citations

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Huber, Christian, et al.. (2019). A New Correction for He Loss Applied to (U‐Th)/He Dating of Grains with Complex Shapes and Polymineralic Aggregates. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20(12). 5744–5764. 2 indexed citations

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McKenzie, N. Ryan, et al.. (2019). Low-temperature thermochronometric insight into the long-term burial and erosional evolution of the Bundelkhand craton of central India. EGUGA. 12108. 1 indexed citations

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Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2019). CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF DEFORMATION IN SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA BASEMENT CORED RANGES USING LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

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Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2017). Zircon, titanite, and apatite (U‐Th)/He ages and age‐eU correlations from the Fennoscandian Shield, southern Sweden. Tectonics. 36(7). 1254–1274. 55 indexed citations

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Guenthner, William R., et al.. (2016). Long-term tectonothermal history of Laramide basement from zircon–He age-eU correlations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 453. 119–130. 60 indexed citations

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Holley, Elizabeth, et al.. (2016). CONSTRAINING THE TIMING OF HYDROTHERMAL FLUID FLOW AT THE MARIGOLD DEPOSIT, NEVADA USING (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 2 indexed citations

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Guenthner, William R., Peter W. Reiners, Richard A. Ketcham, Lutz Nasdala, & Gerald Giester. (2013). Helium diffusion in natural zircon: Radiation damage, anisotropy, and the interpretation of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology. American Journal of Science. 313(3). 145–198. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guenthner, William R., Peter W. Reiners, Richard A. Ketcham, & Lutz Nasdala. (2011). Development of a Radiation Damage and Annealing Model for the Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronometer. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Guenthner, William R. & Peter W. Reiners. (2009). He diffusion in zircon: Observations from (U-Th)/He age suites and 4He diffusion experiments and implications for radiation damage and anisotropic effects. AGUFM. 2009. 2 indexed citations

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