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D-Index
41
Citations
6439
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5526
National Ranking
2038

Donald M. Fisher publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald M. Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 139 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Donald M. Fisher D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald M. Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Donald M. Fisher is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specialization in subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, and Ocean Engineering.

Their scholarly output includes a range of studies in earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismology and earthquake studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, drilling and well engineering, as well as seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Fisher's work include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Science Advances
  • Geosphere

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Fisher include:

  • Andrew J. Smye
  • Tsai-Wei Chen
  • Yoshitaka Hashimoto
  • Hugues Raimbourg
  • Vincent Famin

Selected recent papers by Donald M. Fisher are:

  • Insights from the geological record of deformation along the subduction interface at depths of seismogenesis, 2021, Geosphere
  • Quartz Vein Geochemistry Records Deformation Processes in Convergent Zones, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • How cementation and fluid flow influence slip behavior at the subduction interface, 2021, Geology
  • Constraints on Element Mobility During Deformation Within the Seismogenic Zone, Shimanto Belt, Japan, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Exhuming an Accretionary Prism: A Case Study of the Kodiak Accretionary Complex, Alaska, USA, 2023, Tectonics

Best Publications

  • Structural Geology Algorithms: Vectors and Tensors

    Richard Waldron Allmendinger;Nestor Cardozo;Donald M Fisher

  • Models of quartz overgrowth and vein formation: Deformation and episodic fluid flow in an ancient subduction zone

    Donald M. Fisher;Susan L. Brantley

  • The Role of Chemistry in Fracture Pattern Development and Opportunities to Advance Interpretations of Geological Materials

    Stephen E. Laubach;R. H. Lander;L.J. Criscenti;Lawrence M. Anovitz

  • Erosion rates and orogenic-wedge kinematics in Taiwan inferred from fission-track thermochronometry

    Sean D. Willett;Donald Fisher;Christopher Fuller;Yeh En-Chao

  • Structural evolution of underthrusted sediments, Kodiak Islands, Alaska

    Donald Fisher;Tim Byrne

  • Central Costa Rica deformed belt: Kinematics of diffuse faulting across the western Panama block

    Jeffrey S. Marshall;Donald M. Fisher;Thomas W. Gardner

  • Thrust-fault growth and segment linkage in the active Ostler fault zone, New Zealand

    Kenneth Davis;Douglas W. Burbank;Donald Fisher;Shamus Wallace

  • A thermomechanical wedge model of Taiwan constrained by fission-track thermochronometry

    C.W. Fuller;S.D. Willett;D. Fisher;C.Y. Lu

  • Rates of weathering rind formation on Costa Rican basalt

    Peter B. Sak;Donald M. Fisher;Thomas W. Gardner;Katherine Murphy

  • Evidence for a weak and overpressured décollement beneath sediment‐dominated accretionary prisms

    Tim Byrne;Don Fisher

  • Duplex accretion and underplating in an ancient accretionary complex, Kodiak Islands, Alaska

    J. C. Sample;Donald Myron Fisher

  • Effect of subducting sea-floor roughness on fore-arc kinematics, Pacific coast, Costa Rica

    Donald M. Fisher;Thomas W. Gardner;Jeffrey S. Marshall;Peter B. Sak

  • Cyclic fluid flow through a regionally extensive fracture network within the Kodiak accretionary prism

    Donald M. Fisher;Susan L. Brantley;Mark Everett;Joseph Dzvonik

  • Active thrusting in the inner forearc of an erosive convergent margin, Pacific coast, Costa Rica

    Donald M. Fisher;Thomas W. Gardner;Peter B. Sak;Joanna D. Sanchez

  • Rough crust subduction, forearc kinematics, and Quaternary uplift rates, Costa Rican segment of the Middle American Trench

    Peter B. Sak;Donald M. Fisher;Thomas W. Gardner;Jeffrey S. Marshall

  • Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution

    Sean D. Willett;Niels Hovius;Mark T. Brandon;Donald M. Fisher

  • Power-law vein-thickness distributions and positive feedback in vein growth

    M. Brooks Clark;Susan Louise Brantley;Donald Myron Fisher

  • The character and distribution of mineralized fractures in the Kodiak Formation, Alaska: Implications for fluid flow in an underthrust sequence

    Donald Fisher;Tim Byrne

  • Geomorphic and exhumational response of the Central American Volcanic Arc to Cocos Ridge subduction

    Kristin D. Morell;Kristin D. Morell;Eric Kirby;Donald M. Fisher;Matthijs van Soest

  • Landscape evolution within a retreating volcanic arc, Costa Rica, Central America

    Jeffrey S. Marshall;Bruce D. Idleman;Thomas W. Gardner;Donald M. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Allmendinger
Richard W. Allmendinger Cornell University
Timothy Byrne
Timothy Byrne University of Connecticut
Eric Kirby
Eric Kirby Oregon State University
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University
Marino Protti
Marino Protti University of California, Santa Cruz
Philip M. Barnes
Philip M. Barnes National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
James A. Austin
James A. Austin The University of Texas at Austin
Gaku Kimura
Gaku Kimura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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