2026 John A. Westgate: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	59	2060	1865	94	83	151	11292

Overview

John A. Westgate is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, working within the broad domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main research topics that define Westgate's body of work comprise Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological Studies and Exploration, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Westgate has contributed to multiple recent publications, illustrating their engagement in current geological and archaeological research. Significant papers include:

"An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival" (2022) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
"New fission-track ages of Australasian tektites define two age groups: discriminating between formation and reset ages" (2020) published in Quaternary Geochronology
"The Carpathian obsidians - Contribution to their FT dating and provenance (Zemplín, Slovakia)" (2021) published in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
"Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra" (2022) published in Geology
"Tephra zircon U-Pb geochronology of kimberlite maar sedimentary fills in subarctic Canada: Implications for Eocene paleoclimate and Late Cretaceous paleogeography" (2024) published in Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaboration across geochronology and geological sciences. Notable coauthors include Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Alberto V. Reyes, Britta J.L. Jensen, Serhiy D. Buryak, and Brent V. Alloway.

Westgate's research findings have appeared in several publication venues with recurrent contributions to Quaternary Geochronology, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, and Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Other venues include Quaternary Science Reviews and Geology.

Best Publications

A Compilation of New and Published Major and Trace Element Data for NIST SRM 610 and NIST SRM 612 Glass Reference Materials

Nicholas J.G. Pearce;William T. Perkins;John A. Westgate;Michael P. Gorton

3098
Citations
Eruptive history of Earth's largest Quaternary caldera (Toba, Indonesia) clarified

C. A. Chesner;William I. Rose;A. Deino;R. Drake

438
Citations
Correlation Techniques in Tephra Studies

John A. Westgate;Michael P. Gorton

226
Citations
Isothermal plateau fission-track ages of hydrated glass shards from silicic tephra beds

John A. Westgate

208
Citations
A 3 M.Y. Record of Pliocene-Pleistocene Loess in Interior Alaska

John A. Westgate;Becky A. Stemper;Troy L. Péwé

203
Citations
All toba tephra occurrences across peninsular India belong to the 75,000 yr B.P. eruption

John A. Westgate;Philip A. R. Shane;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;William T. Perkins

201
Citations
Ancient Permafrost and a Future, Warmer Arctic

Duane G. Froese;John A. Westgate;Alberto V. Reyes;Randolph J. Enkin

173
Citations
Bimodal grain size distribution and secondary thickening in air-fall ash layers

S. Brazier;R. S. J. Sparks;S. N. Carey;H. Sigurdsson

145
Citations
New Geochemical Evidence for the Youngest Toba Tuff in India

Phil Shane;John Westgate;Martin Williams;Ravi Korisettar

144
Citations
Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska

Shari J. Preece;John A. Westgate;Becky A. Stemper;Troy L. Péwé

138
Citations
The application of ICP-MS methods to tephrochronological problems

Nicholas J.G. Pearce;John A. Westgate;William T. Perkins;Shari J. Preece

137
Citations
Palaeobotany: Ice-age steppe vegetation in east Beringia

Grant D. Zazula;Duane G. Froese;Charles E. Schweger;Rolf W. Mathewes

134
Citations
Electron probe technique for characterising pyroclastic deposits

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134
Citations
Distribution, stratigraphy, petrochemistry, and palaeomagnetism of the late Pleistocene Old Crow tephra in Alaska and the Yukon

J. A. Westgate;R. C. Walter;G. W. Pearce;M. P. Gorton

126
Citations
Identification of Aniakchak (Alaska) tephra in Greenland ice core challenges the 1645 BC date for Minoan eruption of Santorini

Nicholas J. G. Pearce;John A. Westgate;Shari J. Preece;Warren J. Eastwood

124
Citations
Geochronology, stratigraphy and geochemistry of Cindery Tuff in Pliocene hominid-bearing sediments of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia.

C. M. Hall;R. C. Walter;J. A. Westgate;D. York

124
Citations
Geochemistry of Santorini tephra in lake sediments from Southwest Turkey

W.J. Eastwood;N.J.G. Pearce;J.A. Westgate;W.T. Perkins

122
Citations
Correlation and characterisation of individual glass shards from tephra deposits using trace element laser ablation ICP-MS analyses: current status and future potential

Nicholas J. G. Pearce;Joanna S. Denton;William T. Perkins;John A. Westgate

121
Citations
Fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Yukon Territory and Alaska

Nancy D. Naeser;John A. Westgate;Owen L. Hughes;Troy L. Péwé

119
Citations
Trace-element microanalysis by LA-ICP-MS: The quest for comprehensive chemical characterisation of single, sub-10 μm volcanic glass shards

Nicholas J.G. Pearce;William T. Perkins;John A. Westgate;Stephen C. Wade

119
Citations
Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants

A. G. Beu;B. V. Alloway;B. J. Pillans;T. R. Naish

111
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. G. Pearce Aberystwyth University

William T. Perkins Aberystwyth University

Brent Alloway University of Auckland

Duane G. Froese University of Alberta

Brad Pillans Australian National University

Warren J. Eastwood University of Birmingham

Phil Shane University of Auckland

Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington

Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington

Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta

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