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76
Citations
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654
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Donald R. Lowe 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 R. Lowe sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 226 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Donald R. Lowe 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 R. Lowe sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Donald R. Lowe is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their scientific work covers a variety of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Donald R. Lowe has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with publications appearing in leading venues including Precambrian Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Science, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and AGU Advances.

Recent papers authored by Lowe include:

  • "Destabilization of Long-Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga," 2022, AGU Advances
  • "Heterogeneous Hadean crust with ambient mantle affinity recorded in detrital zircons of the Green Sandstone Bed, South Africa," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Constraints on surface temperature 3.4 billion years ago based on triple oxygen isotopes of cherts from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, and the problem of sample selection," 2020, American Journal of Science
  • "The non-glacial and non-cratonic origin of an early Archean felsic volcaniclastic unit, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa," 2020, Precambrian Research
  • "Windblown Hadean zircons derived by erosion of impact-generated 3.3 Ga uplifts, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa," 2021, Precambrian Research

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Nadja Drabon, Gary R. Byerly, Benjamin L. Byerly, Michael Wiedenbeck, and Joseph L. Wooden.

Best Publications

  • Sediment Gravity Flows: II Depositional Models with Special Reference to the Deposits of High-Density Turbidity Currents

    Donald R. Lowe

  • The influence of sediment recycling and basement composition on evolution of mudrock chemistry in the southwestern United States

    Rónald Cox;Donald R. Lowe;R.L. Cullers

  • Water escape structures in coarse-grained sediments

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Photosynthetic microbial mats in the 3,416-Myr-old ocean

    Michael M. Tice;Donald R. Lowe

  • High Archean climatic temperature inferred from oxygen isotope geochemistry of cherts in the 3.5 Ga Swaziland Supergroup, South Africa

    L. Paul Knauth;Donald R. Lowe

  • Lahars : volcano-hydrologic events and deposition in the debris flow-hyperconcentrated flow continuum.

    Gary A. Smith;Donald R. Lowe

  • Sediment Gravity Flows: Their Classification and Some Problems of Application to Natural Flows and Deposits

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Suspended‐load fallout rate as an independent variable in the analysis of current structures

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Subaqueous liquefied and fluidized sediment flows and their deposits

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Chronology of early Archaean granite-greenstone evolution in the Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa, based on precise dating by single zircon evaporation

    Alfred Krüner;Gary R. Byerly;Donald R. Lowe

  • Slurry‐flow deposits in the Britannia Formation (Lower Cretaceous), North Sea: a new perspective on the turbidity current and debris flow problem

    Donald R. Lowe;Martin Guy

  • Stromatolites 3,400-Myr old from the Archean of Western Australia

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Grain Flow and Grain Flow Deposits

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Oxygen isotope geochemistry of cherts from the Onverwacht Group (3.4 billion years), Transvaal, South Africa, with implications for secular variations in the isotopic composition of cherts

    L. Paul Knauth;Donald R. Lowe

  • Abiological origin of described stromatolites older than 3.2 Ga.

    Donald R. Lowe

  • The Characteristics and Origins of Dish and Pillar Structures

    Donald R. Lowe;Robert D. LoPiccolo

  • Geochemistry of Precambrian carbonates: II. Archean greenstone belts and Archean sea water.

    Ján Veizer;Jochen Hoefs;D.R. Lowe;P.C. Thurston

  • Restricted shallow-water sedimentation of Early Archean stromatolitic and evaporitic strata of the Strelley Pool Chert, Pilbara Block, Western Australia

    Donald R. Lowe

  • Prolonged magmatism and time constraints for sediment deposition in the early Archean Barberton greenstone belt: evidence from the Upper Onverwacht and Fig Tree groups

    Gary R. Byerly;Alfred Kröner;Donald R. Lowe;W. Todt

  • Filamentous microfossils from the 3,500-Myr-old Onverwacht Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa

    Maud M. Walsh;Donald R. Lowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary R. Byerly
Gary R. Byerly Louisiana State University
Christoph Heubeck
Christoph Heubeck Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
James J. Wray
James J. Wray Georgia Institute of Technology
Ross A. Beyer
Ross A. Beyer Ames Research Center
Nicolas J. Beukes
Nicolas J. Beukes University of Johannesburg
Ján Veizer
Ján Veizer University of Ottawa
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Max Coleman
Max Coleman Jet Propulsion Lab
Brian L. Beard
Brian L. Beard University of Wisconsin–Madison

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