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2026

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Citations
14960
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1242
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Franz Neubauer is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on geophysics. Their research spans a broad range of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional areas of focus include paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological formations and processes exploration, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 1998.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Yongjiang Liu, Johann Genser, Ruihong Chang, Qingbin Guan, and Sihua Yuan.

Their work has been published in several recurring venues such as:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Gondwana Research
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Lithos
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Neubauer include:

  • "Pre-Alpine tectonic evolution of the Eastern Alps: From Prototethys to Paleotethys," 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Pre-to-syn-rift tholeiitic magmatism in a transtensive hyperextended continental margin: Onshore and offshore magmatism of the Campos Basin, SE Brazil," 2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • "Neoproterozoic magmatic arc systems of the central Ribeira belt, SE-Brazil, in the context of the West-Gondwana pre-collisional history: A review," 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • "Widespread Permian granite magmatism in Lower Austroalpine units: significance for Permian rifting in the Eastern Alps," 2020, Swiss Journal of Geosciences
  • "The destiny of orogen-parallel streams in the Eastern Alps: the Salzach-Enns drainage system," 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics

The main fields of study for Neubauer comprise primarily Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant subfield focus on Geophysics. Other relevant subfields include Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Paleontology, and Atmospheric Science.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic evolution of the Qinling orogen, China: Review and synthesis

    Yunpeng Dong;Guowei Zhang;Franz Neubauer;Xiaoming Liu

  • A review of the Paleozoic tectonics in the eastern part of Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Yongjiang Liu;Yongjiang Liu;Yongjiang Liu;Weimin Li;Weimin Li;Zhiqiang Feng;Zhiqiang Feng;Quanbo Wen;Quanbo Wen

  • Extension in compressional orogenic belts: The eastern Alps

    L. Ratschbacher;W Frisch;F. Neubauer;S. M. Schmid

  • Palaeozoic tectonics and evolutionary history of the Qinling orogen: Evidence from geochemistry and geochronology of ophiolite and related volcanic rocks

    Yunpeng Dong;Guowei Zhang;Christoph Hauzenberger;Franz Neubauer

  • Timing of Paleozoic amalgamation between the North China and South China Blocks: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

    Yunpeng Dong;Xiaoming Liu;Franz Neubauer;Guowei Zhang

  • Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps

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  • Oligo-Miocene shearing along the Ailao Shan–Red River shear zone: Constraints from structural analysis and zircon U/Pb geochronology of magmatic rocks in the Diancang Shan massif, SE Tibet, China

    Shuyun Cao;Shuyun Cao;Junlai Liu;Bernd Leiss;Franz Neubauer

  • Syn- and post-collisional granitoids in the Central Tianshan orogen: Geochemistry, geochronology and implications for tectonic evolution

    Yunpeng Dong;Guowei Zhang;Franz Neubauer;Xiaoming Liu

  • 40Ar/39Ar mineral ages from basement rocks in the Eastern Kunlun Mountains, NW China, and their tectonic implications

    Yongjiang Liu;Yongjiang Liu;Yongjiang Liu;Johann Genser;Franz Neubauer;Wei Jin

  • Evolution of late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectonic elements in Central and Southeast European Alpine mountain belts: review and synthesis

    Franz Neubauer

  • U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological constraints on the exhumation history of the North Qinling terrane, China

    Yunpeng Dong;Yunpeng Dong;Johann Genser;Franz Neubauer;Guowei Zhang

  • Alpine metamorphism of the Eastern Alps

    G Hoinkes;F Koller;G Rantitsch;Edgar Dachs

  • First deep seismic reflection images of the Eastern Alps reveal giant crustal wedges and transcrustal ramps

    Helmut Gebrande;Ewald Lüschen;Michael Bopp;Florian Bleibinhaus

  • Cu – Au – Pb – Zn – Ag metallogeny of the Alpine – Balkan – Carpathian – Dinaride geodynamic province

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Franz Neubauer

  • Late Cretaceous exhumation of the metamorphic Gleinalm dome, Eastern Alps: kinematics, cooling history and sedimentary response in a sinistral wrench corridor

    Franz Neubauer;Franz Neubauer;R. David Dallmeyer;R. David Dallmeyer;Istvan Dunkl;Istvan Dunkl;Dieter Schirnik;Dieter Schirnik

  • Early-Middle Jurassic intra-oceanic subduction in the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Ocean, Northern Turkey

    Ömer Faruk Çelik;Andrea Marzoli;Robert Marschik;Massimo Chiaradia

  • Exhumation of the Diancang Shan metamorphic complex along the Ailao Shan-Red River belt, southwestern Yunnan, China: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

    Shuyun Cao;Shuyun Cao;Franz Neubauer;Junlai Liu;Johann Genser

  • The Timing and Location of Major Ore Deposits in an Evolving Orogen

    Derek J. Blundell;Franz Neubauer;A. von Quadt

  • The Eastern Alps: Result of a two-stage collision process

    Franz Neubauer;Johann Genser;Robert Handler

  • 40Ar/39Ar ages of blueschist facies pelitic schists from Qingshuigou in the Northern Qilian Mountains, western China

    Yong-Jiang Liu;Yong-Jiang Liu;Franz Neubauer;Johann Genser;Akira Takasu

  • TOPO-EUROPE: the geoscience of coupled deep earth-surface processes

    S. A. P. L. Cloetingh;P. A. Ziegler;P. J. A. Bogaard;P. A. M. Andriessen

Frequent Co-Authors

Johann Genser
Johann Genser University of Salzburg
Yunpeng Dong
Yunpeng Dong Northwest University
Irena Peytcheva
Irena Peytcheva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Harald Fritz
Harald Fritz University of Graz
Guowei Zhang
Guowei Zhang Northwest University
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Antonio García-Casco
Antonio García-Casco University of Granada

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