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Israel
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
11634
World Ranking
2835
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Alan Matthews is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Archaeology, Paleontology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Maritime and Coastal Archaeology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Archaeological and Geological Studies, as well as Karst Systems and Hydrogeology and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Recent publications by Alan Matthews include:

  • "Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Rapid onset of ocean anoxia shown by high U and low Mo isotope compositions of sapropel S1," 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • "Tracing water column euxinia in Eastern Mediterranean Sapropels S5 and S7," 2020, Chemical Geology
  • "Weakened AMOC related to cooling and atmospheric circulation shifts in the last interglacial Eastern Mediterranean," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "A new MIS 5 to MIS 2 speleothem record from Sandkraal Cave on the South African Cape south coast," 2024, Quaternary Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Avner Ayalon, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Hubert Vonhof, Tami Zilberman, and Kerstin Braun, reflecting a network of partnerships that span multiple projects and publications.

Alan Matthews has published multiple times in notable venues. These include Quaternary Science Reviews, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Chemical Geology, Nature Communications, and Quaternary Research.

Best Publications

  • Sea-land oxygen isotopic relationships from planktonic foraminifera and speleothems in the Eastern Mediterranean region and their implication for paleorainfall during interglacial intervals

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Mabs Gilmour;Alan Matthews

  • Mass fractionation processes of transition metal isotopes

    X.K. Zhu;Y. Guo;R.J.P. Williams;R.K. O’Nions

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope study of the active water-carbonate system in a karstic Mediterranean cave: Implications for paleoclimate research in semiarid regions

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews;Eytan Sass

  • Solubilities of bone mineral from archaeological sites: the recrystallization window

    Francesco Berna;Alan Matthews;Stephen Weiner

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation during the dolomitization of calcium carbonate

    Alan Matthews;Amitai Katz

  • Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry

    Hagit P. Affek;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Experimental study of the copper isotope fractionation between aqueous Cu(II) and covellite, CuS

    S. Ehrlich;I. Butler;L. Halicz;David Terence Rickard

  • Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Ofer Marder;Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews

  • Oxygen isotope fractionations involving pyroxenes: The calibration of mineral-pair geothermometers

    Alan Matthews;Julian R. Goldsmith;Robert N. Clayton

  • Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon;A. Matthews

  • 40Ar/39Ar and oxygen isotope studies of polymetamorphism from Tinos Island, Cycladic blueschist belt, Greece

    M. Bröcker;H. Kreuzer;A. Matthews;M. Okrusch

  • Copper isotope fractionation in sedimentary copper mineralization (Timna Valley, Israel)

    Dan Asael;Alan Matthews;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Ludwik Halicz

  • The dolomitization of CaCO3: an experimental study at 252–295°C

    Amitai Katz;Alan Matthews

  • Evolution of the blueschist and greenschist facies rocks of Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece

    Alan Matthews;Manfred Schliestedt

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Bettina Schilman

  • Climatic variability during the last ∼90 ka of the southern and northern Levantine Basin as evident from marine records and speleothems

    Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Dan Shriki;Elina Kolosovsky

  • Climate deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean as revealed by ion microprobe analysis of a speleothem that grew from 2.2 to 0.9 ka in Soreq Cave, Israel.

    Ian J. Orland;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Noriko T. Kita;Avner Ayalon

  • Constraints on hydrological and paleotemperature variations in the Eastern Mediterranean region in the last 140ka given by the δD values of speleothem fluid inclusions

    Siobhan McGarry;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Alan Matthews;Anton Vaks

  • Desert speleothems reveal climatic window for African exodus of early modern humans

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

    Anton Vaks;Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Alan Matthews;Avner Ayalon

  • Evolution of a calcite marble shear zone complex on Thassos Island, Greece: microstructural and textural fabrics and their kinematic significance

    Michel Bestmann;Karsten Kunze;Alan Matthews

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Garfunkel
Zvi Garfunkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rainer Altherr
Rainer Altherr Heidelberg University
Dov Avigad
Dov Avigad Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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