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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 46 4306 3960 1663 1479 166 6690

Michael A. Cosca publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Michael A. Cosca between 1983 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Michael A. Cosca published across 43 years, from 1983 to 2025, averaging 4 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2015. 8 of the 171 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1983 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2015. 1983: 3 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 2 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 2 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 6 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 15 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 1 publication
1983 2025

171 publications in total across all disciplines

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Michael A. Cosca: publications per year, 1983 to 2025
Year Publications
1983 3
1984 1
1985 0
1986 0
1987 2
1988 1
1989 1
1990 0
1991 2
1992 2
1993 1
1994 2
1995 5
1996 1
1997 2
1998 2
1999 5
2000 2
2001 5
2002 1
2003 6
2004 5
2005 4
2006 4
2007 3
2008 2
2009 2
2010 7
2011 4
2012 5
2013 6
2014 7
2015 15
2016 10
2017 11
2018 9
2019 8
2020 5
2021 5
2022 5
2023 2
2024 7
2025 1
Total 171
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Michael A. Cosca 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 Michael A. Cosca sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 158–167 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 166 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458 166
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Michael A. Cosca 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 Michael A. Cosca sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 46 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212 46
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Michael A. Cosca is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 31 publications in this field. Within this domain, they specialize in subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their main topics of work encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, and Geological formations and processes.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael A. Cosca include Christian Teyssier, Donna L. Whitney, Jonathan R. Delph, S. L. Beck, and Gilles Brocard.

Publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Geology
  • GSA Today
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael A. Cosca include:

  • "Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system," 2023, Geology
  • "Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ecemiş fault zone and adjacent basins, central Anatolia, Turkey, during the transition from Arabia-Eurasia collision to escape tectonics," 2020, Geosphere
  • "Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with 'leaky' transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction," 2020, Geosphere
  • "Fast Pliocene integration of the Central Anatolian Plateau drainage: Evidence, processes, and driving forces," 2021, Geosphere
  • "Deep Lithospheric Controls on Surface Deformation and Seismicity around the East Anatolian Fault Zone and A3 Triple Junction," 2024, GSA Today

Best Publications

  • Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

    Julia de Sigoyer;Valérie Chavagnac;Janne Blichert-Toft;Igor M. Villa

  • The thermal history of the Eastern Ghats Belt (India) as revealed by U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating of metamorphic and magmatic minerals: implications for the SWEAT correlation

    Klaus Mezger;Michael A Cosca

  • Miocene to Holocene exhumation of metamorphic crustal wedges in the NW Himalaya: Evidence for tectonic extrusion coupled to fluvial erosion

    Jean-Claude Vannay;Bernhard Grasemann;Meinert Rahn;Meinert Rahn;Wolfgang Frank

  • Dating the Indian continental subduction and collisional thickening in the northwest Himalaya: Multichronology of the Tso Morari eclogites

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  • Staircase 40/Ar39Ar spectra of fine-grained white mica: Timing and duration of deformation and empirical constraints on argon diffusion

    David L. Kirschner;Michael A. Cosca;Henri Masson;Johannes C. Hunziker

  • Geochronology and Nd isotopic data of Grenville-age rocks in the Colombian Andes: new constraints for Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic paleocontinental reconstructions of the Americas

    Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace;Joaquin Ruiz;George Gehrels;Michael Cosca

  • Synorogenic extension: Quantitative constraints on the age and displacement of the Zanskar shear zone (northwest Himalaya)

    P. J. Dézes;J.-C. Vannay;A. Steck;F. Bussy;F. Bussy

  • Variscan Sm-Nd and Ar-Ar ages of eclogite facies rocks from the Erzgebirge, Bohemian Massif

    E. Schmädicke;K. Mezger;M. A. Cosca;M. Okrusch

  • Cooling and inferred uplift/erosion history of the Grenville Orogen, Ontario: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology

    Michael A. Cosca;John F. Sutter;Eric J. Essene

  • Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by 40Ar/39Ar and fission-track ages: the Indus River–Tso Morari transect, NW Himalaya

    M. Schlup;Andrew Carter;M. Cosca;A. Steck

  • Pyrometamorphic rocks associated with naturally burned coal beds, Powder River basin, Wyoming

    Michael A. Cosca;Eric J. Essene;John W. Geissman;William B. Simmons

  • Strain partitioning and preservation of 40Ar/39Ar ages during Variscan exhumation of a subducted crust (Malpica–Tui complex, NW Spain)

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  • Emergence and evolution of Santa Maria Island (Azores)—The conundrum of uplifted islands revisited

    Ricardo Dos Santos Ramalho;Ricardo Dos Santos Ramalho;George Helffrich;José Madeira;Michael Cosca

  • Reconstructing paleoelevation in eroded orogens

    Andreas Mulch;Christian Teyssier;Michael A. Cosca;Olivier Vanderhaeghe

  • In-situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of a micaceous mylonite : an example of defect-enhanced argon loss

    A. Mulch;M. A. Cosca;M. R. Handy

  • Recrystallization or cooling ages: in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of muscovite in mylonitic rocks

    Andreas Mulch;Michael A. Cosca

  • What is the tectono-metamorphic evolution of continental break-up: The example of the Tasna Ocean–Continent Transition

    Gianreto Manatschal;Anna Engström;Laurent Desmurs;Urs Schaltegger

  • Contrasting metamorphic and geochronologic evolution along the Himalayan belt.

    Stéphane Guillot;Michael Cosca;Pascal Allemand;Patrick Le Fort

  • Heterogeneous 40Ar* distributions in naturally deformed muscovite: in situ UV-laser ablation evidence for microstructurally controlled intragrain diffusion

    Nicolas Kramar;Michael A. Cosca;Johannes C. Hunziker

  • Time scales of deformation and exhumation in extensional detachment systems determined by high-spatial resolution in situ UV-laser 40Ar/39Ar dating

    A. Mulch;M.A. Cosca;A. Andresen;J. Fiebig

  • Prograde mica 40Ar/39Ar growth ages recorded in high pressure rocks (Syros, Cyclades, Greece)

    B. Putlitz;M.A. Cosca;J.C. Schumacher

  • Complete chemical analyses of metamorphic hornblendes: implications for normalizations, calculated H 2 O activities, and thermobarometry

    Michael A. Cosca;Eric J. Essene;Johns R. Bowman

  • Miocene burial and exhumation of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet: Response to slab dynamics and erosion

    Barbara Carrapa;D.A. Orme;Peter G. DeCelles;Paul Kapp

  • Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian–Nubian Shield: Petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel)

    M.A Cosca;A Shimron;R Caby

  • The Baltica-Laurentia connection: Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) metamorphism, cooling, and unroofing in the Bamble Sector, Norway

    Michael A. Cosca;Klaus Mezger;Eric J. Essene

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Essene
Eric J. Essene University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger University of Bern
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt
Renaud Caby
Renaud Caby University of Montpellier
Chris M. Hall
Chris M. Hall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zachary D. Sharp
Zachary D. Sharp University of New Mexico
Ben A. van der Pluijm
Ben A. van der Pluijm University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christian Teyssier
Christian Teyssier University of Minnesota
Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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