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Depositional Record
H-index 14

Depositional Record

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 259 151 117 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 165
Documents by Best Scientists*: 122
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 20
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.714
Impact Factor: 2

Top Publications

  • The influence of microbial mats on travertine precipitation in active hydrothermal systems (Central Italy)

    Giovanna Della Porta;Michael Hoppert;Christine Hallmann;Dominik Schneider

    (2021)
    41 Citations
  • On the Delimitation of the Carbonate Burial Realm

    Adrian Immenhauser

    (2021)
    40 Citations
  • Suppressed competitive exclusion enabled the proliferation of Permian/Triassic boundary microbialites

    William J. Foster;William J. Foster;William J. Foster;Katrin Heindel;Sylvain Richoz;Sylvain Richoz;Jana Gliwa

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Entangled external and internal controls on submarine fan evolution: an experimental perspective

    Ross A. Ferguson;Ian A. Kane;Joris T. Eggenhuisen;Florian Pohl

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Ordovician ironstone of the Iberian margin: Coastal upwelling, ocean anoxia and Palaeozoic biodiversity

    Peir K. Pufahl;Peir K. Pufahl;Alexandra D. Squires;J. Brendan Murphy;Cecilio Quesada

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Channel‐lobe transition zone development in tectonically active settings: Implications for hybrid bed development

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Turbulent diffusion modelling of sediment in turbidity currents : an experimental validation of the Rouse approach

    J.T. Eggenhuisen;M.C. Tilston;J. de Leeuw;F. Pohl

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Submarine channels ‘swept’ downstream after bend cutoff in salt basins

    Jacob A. Covault;Zoltán Sylvester;Michael R. Hudec;Can Ceyhan

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Sedimentologic and stratigraphic criteria to distinguish between basin‐floor and slope mudstones: Implications for the delivery of mud to deep‐water environments

    (2020)
    19 Citations
  • Using high‐resolution XRF analyses as a sequence stratigraphic tool in a mudstone‐dominated succession (Early Cretaceous, Lower Saxony Basin, Northern Germany)

    Hauke Thöle;Hauke Thöle;André Bornemann;Ulrich Heimhofer;Friedrich Wilhelm Luppold

    (2020)
    19 Citations

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