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41
Citations
7758
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5449
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2015

Douglas S. Wilson 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 Douglas S. Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 104 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas S. Wilson 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 Douglas S. Wilson 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

Douglas S. Wilson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, primarily focusing on engineering and earth and planetary sciences. Specifically, their work frequently addresses subfields such as ocean engineering, geophysics, mechanical engineering, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

Their scholarly output includes studies on topics like drilling and well engineering, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, oil and gas production techniques, offshore engineering and technologies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Wilson has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals and scientific data repositories. Their frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Science
  • Earth system science data
  • Scientific Data

Among the recent papers that feature their name, these are notable examples:

  • "Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma" (2022), Science
  • "Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data" (2023), Earth system science data
  • "Evidence for a Global Slowdown in Seafloor Spreading Since 15 Ma" (2022), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica" (2025), Scientific Data
  • "A Late Cenozoic Kinematic Model for Fault Motion Within Greater Cascadia" (2022), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Wilson has collaborated extensively with several researchers, showing frequent coauthorships with:

  • D.A.H. Teagle
  • Jeffrey C. Alt
  • Neil R. Banerjee
  • Christine Laverne
  • B. Biju-Duval

Their research intersects the areas of earth science and engineering, with a strong emphasis on the geological and engineering processes relevant to oceanic and subsurface environments. This includes detailed investigations into drilling and reservoir technologies, along with environmental and geophysical processes.

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • Confidence intervals for motion and deformation of the Juan de Fuca Plate

    Douglas S. Wilson

  • Petrologic consequences of rift propagation on oceanic spreading ridges

    John M. Sinton;Douglas S. Wilson;David M. Christie;Richard N. Hey

  • Drilling to gabbro in intact ocean crust

    Douglas S. Wilson;Damon A.H. Teagle;Jeffrey C. Alt;Neil R. Banerjee

  • Antarctic topography at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary

    Douglas S. Wilson;Stewart S.R. Jamieson;Peter J. Barrett;German Leitchenkov

  • History of rift propagation and magnetization intensity for the Cocos-Nazca sspreading Center

    Douglas S. Wilson;Richard N. Hey

  • Tectonic history of the Juan de Fuca Ridge over the last 40 million years

    Douglas S. Wilson

  • Propagation as a mechanism of reorientation of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

    Douglas S. Wilson;Richard N. Hey;Clyde Nishimura

  • Fastest known spreading on the Miocene Cocos-Pacific Plate Boundary

    Douglas S. Wilson

  • Deformation of the so-called Gorda Plate

    Douglas S. Wilson

  • Offscraping and underthrusting of sediment at the deformation front of the Barbados Ridge: Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 78A

    J. Casey Moore;Bernard Biju-Duval;James A. Bergen;Grant Blackington

  • Implications of volcanism in coastal California for the Neogene deformation history of western North America

    Douglas S. Wilson;Patricia A. McCrory;Richard G. Stanley

  • A Geologic Time Scale 2004: The Neogene Period

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  • West Antarctic paleotopography estimated at the Eocene‐Oligocene climate transition

    Douglas S. Wilson;Bruce P. Luyendyk

  • Propagating rift explanation for the tectonic evolution of the northeast Pacific—the pseudomovie

    R.N. Hey;D.S. Wilson

  • A kinematic model for the Gorda Deformation Zone as a diffuse southern boundary of the Juan de Fuca Plate

    Douglas S. Wilson

  • Morphology of the Blanco Transform Fault Zone-NE Pacific: Implications for its tectonic evolution

    Robert W. Embley;Douglas S. Wilson

  • Relative motions of the Pacific, Rivera, North American, and Cocos plates since 0.78 Ma

    Charles DeMets;Douglas S. Wilson

  • Paleomagnetic evidence for tectonic rotation of Jurassic plutons in Blue Mountains, eastern Oregon

    Douglas Wilson;Allan Cox

  • Initiation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and estimates of total Antarctic ice volume in the earliest Oligocene

    Douglas S. Wilson;David Pollard;Robert M. DeConto;Stewart S.R. Jamieson

  • Confirmation of the astronomical calibration of the magnetic polarity timescale from sea-floor spreading rates

    Douglas S. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton
Bruce P. Luyendyk
Bruce P. Luyendyk University of California, Santa Barbara
Gary D. Acton
Gary D. Acton Texas A&M University
Stewart S. R. Jamieson
Stewart S. R. Jamieson Durham University
Neil R. Banerjee
Neil R. Banerjee University of Western Ontario
Frederik J Hilgen
Frederik J Hilgen Utrecht University
Richard Hey
Richard Hey University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lucas Joost Lourens
Lucas Joost Lourens Utrecht University
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London

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