Yıldırım Dilek

20.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
279 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Yıldırım Dilek is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yıldırım Dilek has authored 279 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 255 papers in Geophysics, 64 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 32 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Yıldırım Dilek's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (243 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (190 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (137 papers). Yıldırım Dilek is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (243 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (190 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (137 papers). Yıldırım Dilek collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Norway. Yıldırım Dilek's co-authors include Harald Furnes, Şafak Altunkaynak, Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao, Yaoling Niu, P. Thy, Andrea Festa, Minella Shallo, Xuanxue Mo and Jingsui Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Yıldırım Dilek

266 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

2012 1.1k citations Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao et al. profile →
Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

2011 963 citations Yıldırım Dilek, Harald Furnes Geological Society of America Bulletin profile →
Ophiolites and Their Origins

2014 535 citations Yıldırım Dilek et al. profile →
Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet came from Australia

2011 464 citations Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao et al. Geology profile →
Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic compositions of the post-collisional ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: Petrogenesis and implications for India intra-continental subduction beneath southern Tibet

2009 422 citations Zhidan Zhao, Xuanxue Mo et al. profile →
Cambrian bimodal volcanism in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet: Record of an early Paleozoic Andean-type magmatic arc in the Australian proto-Tethyan margin

2012 311 citations Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao et al. Chemical Geology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yıldırım Dilek United States	68	15.1k	4.5k	1.4k	980	972	279	16.0k
Timothy Kusky China	72	16.4k 1.1×	7.2k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	339	18.9k
Jingsui Yang China	61	13.1k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	937 1.0×	508 0.5×	286	14.3k
Ching‐Hua Lo Taiwan	52	12.6k 0.8×	4.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	599 0.6×	154	13.5k
Simon Turner Australia	64	14.5k 1.0×	4.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	826 0.8×	997 1.0×	253	16.6k
Charlotte M. Allen Australia	50	10.3k 0.7×	4.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	836 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	153	11.3k
Sebastién Meffre Australia	56	8.7k 0.6×	4.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	1.0k 1.1×	225	9.8k
Franz Neubauer Austria	53	9.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	624 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	347	10.5k
Yunpeng Dong China	46	9.2k 0.6×	4.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	907 0.9×	261	10.1k
Donald W. Davis Canada	47	10.1k 0.7×	5.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	884 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	156	11.0k
Rolf L. Romer Germany	63	12.0k 0.8×	5.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.6×	399 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	317	13.1k

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Dilek, Yıldırım, Weiqiang Li, Sobhi Nasir, et al.. (2025). Iron isotopic fractionation during seafloor hydrothermal alteration of oceanic upper crust, as recorded in Geotimes lavas of Semail ophiolite, Oman. Chemical Geology. 681. 122717–122717.

Li, Pan, Fengqi Zhang, Yıldırım Dilek, et al.. (2025). Spatial-temporal evolution of the source-to-sink system in the early and mid-Cretaceous Songliao Basin, Northeast China, and its constraints on basin prototype boundaries and paleogeography. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 663. 112762–112762. 2 indexed citations

Yan, Yi, et al.. (2024). Provenance shift of the abyssal plains in the Southwest sub-basin of the South China Sea at ∼ 8 Ma: Tectonics & climate changes implication. Marine Geology. 475. 107368–107368. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Cai-Yun, Yıldırım Dilek, Yinqi Li, et al.. (2023). Basin filling and magmatic response to the migration of two-stage rifts: New insights into the late Neoproterozoic tectonics of the northern Tarim Craton. Precambrian Research. 397. 107175–107175. 9 indexed citations

Dilek, Yıldırım, et al.. (2023). Geochemistry, mineral chemistry and Re–Os isotopes of refractory peridotites of the North Balkhash ophiolite zone in the West Central Asian Orogenic Belt (Central Kazakhstan): multi-stage melt evolution of a late Precambrian forearc mantle. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(6). 1 indexed citations

Xue, Chuandong, Tiannan Yang, Harald Furnes, et al.. (2023). Double arc–continent collision record in the latest Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic history of the Himalayan–Tibetan orogenic belt in western Pakistan. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(6). 6 indexed citations

Dilek, Yıldırım, Fengqi Zhang, Hanlin Chen, et al.. (2022). Ediacaran magmatism and rifting along the northern margin of the Tarim craton: Implications for the late Neoproterozoic Rodinia configuration and breakup. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 135(1-2). 367–388. 17 indexed citations

Zhang, Fengqi, et al.. (2021). Basin response to the Jurassic geodynamic turnover from flat subduction to normal subduction in South China. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 134(7-8). 1681–1700. 6 indexed citations

Yan, Yi, Chi‐Yue Huang, Yıldırım Dilek, et al.. (2020). Fingerprinting subducted oceanic crust and Hainan Plume in the melt sources of Cenozoic Basalts from the South China Sea Region. Terra Nova. 33(1). 21–29. 11 indexed citations

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Yan, Yi, Chi‐Yue Huang, Xinchang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Accreted Mafic Rocks From the Hengchun Peninsula, Southern Taiwan: Origin and Tectonic Implications. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(3). 2469–2491. 16 indexed citations

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Xiong, Fahui, Yıldırım Dilek, Richard Wirth, Xiangzhen Xu, & Jingsui Yang. (2019). Opx–Cpx exsolution textures in lherzolites of the Cretaceous Purang Ophiolite (S. Tibet, China), and the deep mantle origin of Neotethyan abyssal peridotites. International Geology Review. 62(6). 665–682. 19 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım, et al.. (2017). INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE ZHONGBA MICROCONTINENT OF THE WESTERN YARLUNG ZANGBO SUTURE ZONE, AND A 4.13 GA OLD DETRITAL ZIRCON IN TIBETAN PLATEAU. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 2 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım, et al.. (2014). Jurassic–Paleogene intraoceanic magmatic evolution of the Ankara Mélange, north-central Anatolia, Turkey. Solid Earth. 5(1). 77–108. 38 indexed citations

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Gosso, G., et al.. (2011). Structural and metamorphic evolution of an ocean-continent transition (OCT) zone mélange deformed under HP conditions during Alpine subduction (Western Italian Alps). 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Di‐Cheng, Zhidan Zhao, Yaoling Niu, et al.. (2011). Tracing the provenance of inherited zircons from peraluminous granites in the Lhasa Terrane and its paleogeographic implications.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 5 indexed citations

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Codegone, Giulia, Andrea Festa, Yıldırım Dilek, & Gian Andrea Pini. (2011). Different types of Taconic mélanges s.l. and broken formations in the Hamburg Klippe (Central Appalachians, Pennsylvania). Bollettino Della Societa Geologica Italiana. 15. 40–42. 1 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım & Eric Sandvol. (2009). Seismic Structure, Crustal Architecture and Tectonic Evolution of the Anatolian-African Plate Boundary and the Cenozoic Orogenic Belts. EGUGA. 10046. 1 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım, Harald Furnes, & Karlis Muehlenbachs. (2008). Links between geological processes, microbial activities & evolution of life : microbes and geology. Springer eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım & Ali Polat. (2008). Suprasubduction zone ophiolites and Archean tectonics. Geology. 36(5). 431–431. 126 indexed citations

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Dilek, Yıldırım & Ali Polat. (2008). Suprasubduction zone ophiolites and Archean tectonics. Geology. 36(5). 431–431. 1 indexed citations

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