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James A. Austin 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 James A. Austin sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 199 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James A. Austin 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 James A. Austin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James A. Austin is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Ocean Engineering, where most of their publications are concentrated. Other subfields of study include Geophysics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Austin's work covers a range of topics within these fields, including Offshore Engineering and Technologies, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Frequent venues for publishing research by Austin include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • Tectonophysics

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several researchers, evidenced by frequent coauthorship with:

  • Craig S. Fulthorpe
  • Gregory S. Mountain
  • Nicholas Christie-Blick
  • Mitchell Malone
  • Serge Berné

Selected recent papers by James A. Austin demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of their work and include:

  • A Modular Adjustable Transhumeral Prosthetic Socket for Evaluating Myoelectric Control, 2020, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • Structure and evolution of the Atlantic passive margins: A review of existing rifting models from wide-angle seismic data and kinematic reconstruction, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Opening of the Gulf of Mexico: What we know, what questions remain, and how we might answer them, 2021, Tectonophysics
  • Cruise Report: EX-14-02 Leg 3, Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014 (ROV and Mapping), 2021, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • ODP Leg 174A, Hole 1072D - Well Logging Data, 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Continental margin sedimentation : from sediment transport to sequence stratigraphy

    Charles A. Nittrouer;James A. Austin;Michael E. Field;Joseph H. Kravitz

  • Continental-Oceanic Crustal Transition Off Southwest Africa

    James A. Austin;Elazar Uchupi

  • Deep structure of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, offshore South Carolina, from coincident ocean bottom and multichannel seismic data

    W. Steven Holbrook;E. C. Reiter;G. M. Purdy;D. Sawyer

  • Effects of Canary hotspot volcanism on structure of oceanic crust off Morocco

    James S. Holik;Philip D. Rabinowitz;James A. Austin

  • Deep penetrating MCS imaging of the rift-to-drift transition, offshore Douala and North Gabon basins, West Africa

    Jayson B. Meyers;Bruce R. Rosendahl;Henrike Groschel-Becker;James A. Austin

  • Seismic Facies of Incised-Valley Fills, New Jersey Continental Shelf: Implications for Erosion and Preservation Processes Acting During Latest Pleistocene–Holocene Transgression

    Sylvia Nordfjord;John A Goff;James A Austin;Sean S Gulick

  • Crustal structure of the Southeast Georgia embayment-Carolina trough: Preliminary results of a composite seismic image of a continental suture(?) and a volcanic passive margin

    James A. Austin;Paul L. Stoffa;Joseph D. Phillips;Jinyong Oh

  • Rift propagation, detachment faulting, and associated magmatism in Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula

    Daniel H. N. Barker;Daniel H. N. Barker;James A. Austin

  • Tracking the last sea-level cycle: Seafloor morphology and shallow stratigraphy of the latest Quaternary New Jersey middle continental shelf

    Catherine Schuur Duncan;John A. Goff;James A. Austin;Craig S. Fulthorpe

  • Seismic geomorphology of buried channel systems on the New Jersey outer shelf: assessing past environmental conditions

    Sylvia Nordfjord;John A. Goff;James A. Austin;Christopher K. Sommerfield

  • Contrasting styles of superposed deformation in the southernmost Andes

    Keith A. Klepeis;James A. Austin

  • Contrasting Décollement and Prism Properties over the Sumatra 2004–2005 Earthquake Rupture Boundary

    Simon M. Dean;Lisa C. McNeill;Timothy J. Henstock;Jonathan M. Bull

  • Holocene mass-wasting events in Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (54°S): implications for paleoseismicity of the Magallanes-Fagnano transform fault

    Nicolas Waldmann;Nicolas Waldmann;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;James A. Austin

  • Updip rupture of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake extended by thick indurated sediments

    Sean P. S. Gulick;James A. Austin;Lisa C. McNeill;Nathan L. B. Bangs

  • Crustal diapirism in Bransfield Strait, West Antarctica: Evidence for distributed extension in marginal-basin formation

    D. H.N. Barker;James A Austin

  • Progradation along a deeply submerged Oligocene–Miocene heterozoan carbonate shelf: How sensitive are clinoforms to sea level variations?

    Donna L. Cathro;James A. Austin;Graham D. Moss

  • Late Quaternary sedimentation off New Jersey: New results using 3-D seismic profiles and cores

    Thomas A Davies;James A Austin;Martin B Lagoe;John D Milliman

  • Recent and modern marine erosion on the New Jersey outer shelf

    John A Goff;James A Austin;Sean S Gulick;Sylvia Nordfjord

  • Holocene climatic fluctuations and positioning of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies in Tierra del Fuego (54° S), Patagonia

    Nicolas Waldmann;Daniel Ariztegui;Flavio S. Anselmetti;James A. Austin

  • Deep crustal structure of Bransfield Strait: Initiation of a back arc basin by rift reactivation and propagation

    Gail L. Christeson;Daniel H. N. Barker;James A. Austin;Ian W. D. Dalziel

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Goff
John A. Goff The University of Texas at Austin
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas Christie-Blick
Nicholas Christie-Blick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paul L. Stoffa
Paul L. Stoffa The University of Texas at Austin
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Daniel Ariztegui
Daniel Ariztegui University of Geneva
Wolfgang Schlager
Wolfgang Schlager Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Gregory S. Mountain
Gregory S. Mountain Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University

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