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Kathleen A. Campbell

Kathleen A. Campbell

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
7071
World Ranking
4272
National Ranking
39

Kathleen A. Campbell 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 Kathleen A. Campbell sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 144 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kathleen A. Campbell 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 Kathleen A. Campbell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Kathleen A. Campbell is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus that spans paleontology, atmospheric science, astronomy and astrophysics, ecology, and artificial intelligence as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, planetary science and exploration, microbial community ecology and physiology, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Recent publications by Kathleen A. Campbell include:

  • "A Reconstructed Subaerial Hot Spring Field in the ∼3.5 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia" (2020) published in Astrobiology
  • "Genomic adaptations enabling Acidithiobacillus distribution across wide-ranging hot spring temperatures and pHs" (2021) published in Microbiome
  • "Biomolecules from Fossilized Hot Spring Sinters: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars" (2020) published in Astrobiology
  • "Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide-ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities" (2020) published in Geobiology
  • "Bacterial and archaeal community distributions and cosmopolitanism across physicochemically diverse hot springs" (2023) published in ISME Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kathleen A. Campbell include Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Diego M. Guido, Bronwyn L. Teece, Chanenath Sriaporn, and Kim M. Handley.

Their work has appeared regularly in publication venues such as Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, Astrobiology, Geobiology, Sedimentary Geology, and Microbiome. Among these, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts has seen the largest number of their publications.

Kathleen A. Campbell was awarded the title Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Hydrocarbon seep and hydrothermal vent paleoenvironments and paleontology: Past developments and future research directions

    Kathleen A. Campbell

  • Ancient hydrocarbon seeps from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California : carbonate geochemistry, fluids and palaeoenvironments

    Kathleen Campbell;JD Farmer;D Des Marais

  • Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits

    Tara Djokic;Tara Djokic;Martin J Van Kranendonk;Martin J Van Kranendonk;Kathleen A Campbell;Malcolm R Walter

  • Mineralogical and textural changes accompanying ageing of silica sinter

    N. R. Herdianita;P. R. L. Browne;K. A. Rodgers;K. A. Campbell

  • Biosignatures on Mars: What, Where, and How? Implications for the Search for Martian Life

    Frances Westall;Frédéric Foucher;Nicolas Bost;Marylène Bertrand

  • Diagenesis of 1900-year-old siliceous sinter (opal-A to quartz) at Opal Mound, Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah, U.S.A.

    Bridget Y. Lynne;Kathleen A. Campbell;J.N. Moore;P.R.L. Browne

  • Brachiopods and chemosymbiotic bivalves in Phanerozoic hydrothermal vent and cold seep environments

    Kathleen A. Campbell;David J. Bottjer

  • A Hydrothermal-Sedimentary Context for the Origin of Life.

    Frances Westall;Keyron Hickman-Lewis;Keyron Hickman-Lewis;Nancy Hinman;Pascale Gautret

  • Defining biominerals and organominerals: direct and indirect indicators of life

    Randall S. Perry;Randall S. Perry;Nicola Mcloughlin;Bridget Y. Lynne;Mark A. Sephton

  • Sedimentary Facies and Mineralogy of the Late Pleistocene Umukuri Silica Sinter, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Kathleen Campbell;Karen Sannazzaro;Kerry Rodgers;Niniek Herdianita

  • Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California

    Daniel Birgel;Volker Thiel;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Marcus Elvert

  • Morphologic and Mineralogic Transitions From Opal-A to Opal-CT in Low-Temperature Siliceous Sinter Diagenesis, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Bridget Y. Lynne;Kathleen A. Campbell

  • Geyserite in hot-spring siliceous sinter: Window on Earth's hottest terrestrial (paleo)environment and its extreme life

    Kathleen A. Campbell;Diego Martin Guido;Pascale Gautret;Frédéric Foucher

  • Hydrocarbon seep-carbonates of a Miocene forearc (East Coast Basin), North Island, New Zealand

    Kathleen A. Campbell;David A. Francis;Mike Collins;Murray R. Gregory

  • Jurassic hot spring deposits of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia, Argentina): Characteristics and controls on regional distribution

    Diego M. Guido;Kathleen A. Campbell

  • Diagenetic transformations (opal-A to quartz) of low- and mid-temperature microbial textures in siliceous hot-spring deposits, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Bridget Y Lynne;Kathleen A Campbell

  • Tracking crystallinity in siliceous hot-spring deposits

    Bridget Y. Lynne;Kathleen A. Campbell;Bryony J. James;Patrick R. L. Browne

  • The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return : International MSR Objectives and Samples Team (iMOST)

    D. W. Beaty;M. M. Grady;H. Y. McSween;E. Sefton-Nash

  • Archean (3.33 Ga) microbe-sediment systems were diverse and flourished in a hydrothermal context

    Frances Westall;Kathleen A. Campbell;Kathleen A. Campbell;Jean Gabriel Bréhéret;Frédéric Foucher

  • Tracing Biosignature Preservation of Geothermally Silicified Microbial Textures into the Geological Record

    Kathleen A. Campbell;Bridget Y. Lynne;Kim M. Handley;Kim M. Handley;Sacha Jordan

  • Jurassic hot spring deposits of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia, Argentina)

    Diego Martín Guido;Kathleen A. Campbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack D. Farmer
Jack D. Farmer Arizona State University
Scott M. McLennan
Scott M. McLennan Stony Brook University
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Timothy D. Swindle
Timothy D. Swindle University of Arizona
Stephanie C. Werner
Stephanie C. Werner University of Oslo
Janice L. Bishop
Janice L. Bishop Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Mahesh Anand
Mahesh Anand The Open University
Monica M. Grady
Monica M. Grady The Open University
Yuri Amelin
Yuri Amelin Australian National University

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