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Michael J. Walter 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 J. Walter sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 159 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael J. Walter 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 J. Walter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% 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

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael J. Walter is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Planetary Science and Exploration

Michael J. Walter has contributed to numerous research articles in several publication venues. The most frequent ones include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Science Advances
  • Review of Scientific Instruments

Recent papers by the scientist include:

  • Slab Transport of Fluids to Deep Focus Earthquake Depths-Thermal Modeling Constraints and Evidence From Diamonds, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Evaluating the Formation Pressure of Diamond-Hosted Majoritic Garnets: A Machine Learning Majorite Barometer, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Strong shear softening induced by superionic hydrogen in Earth's inner core, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochemistry of Silicate and Oxide Inclusions in Sublithospheric Diamonds, 2022, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • Deep carbon through time: Earth's diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Steven B. Shirey
  • Jing Yang
  • Zachary M. Geballe
  • Yingwei Fei

Michael J. Walter has also authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including the volume titled Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics (2022).

In 2019, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Melting of Garnet Peridotite and the Origin of Komatiite and Depleted Lithosphere

    Michael J. Walter

  • Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

    Steven B. Shirey;Pierre Cartigny;Daniel J. Frost;Shantanu Keshav

  • Accretion of the Earth and segregation of its core

    Bernard J. Wood;Michael J. Walter;Jonathan Wade

  • Slab melting as a barrier to deep carbon subduction

    Andrew R. Thomson;Michael J. Walter;Simon C. Kohn;Richard A. Brooker

  • Deep mantle cycling of oceanic crust: evidence from diamonds and their mineral inclusions.

    Michael J Walter;Simon C Kohn;D Araujo;G Bulanova

  • Experimentally determined postspinel transformation boundary in Mg2SiO4 using MgO as an internal pressure standard and its geophysical implications

    Y Fei;J Van Orman;J Van Orman;J Li;J Li;W van Westrenen;W van Westrenen

  • Olivine‐wadsleyite transition in the system (Mg,Fe)2SiO4

    Tomoo Katsura;Hitoshi Yamada;Osamu Nishikawa;Osamu Nishikawa;Maoshuang Song

  • Primary carbonatite melt from deeply subducted oceanic crust

    Michael J Walter;Galina Bulanova;Lora S Armstrong;S Keshav

  • Melting in the Fe–C system to 70 GPa

    Oliver T Lord;Michael J Walter;R Dasgupta;R Dasgupta;D Walker

  • Core formation in planetesimals triggered by permeable flow

    Takashi Yoshino;Michael J. Walter;Tomoo Katsura

  • Post-spinel transition in Mg2SiO4 determined by high P–T in situ X-ray diffractometry

    Tomoo Katsura;Hitoshi Yamada;Toru Shinmei;Atsushi Kubo

  • Mineral inclusions in sublithospheric diamonds from Collier 4 kimberlite pipe, Juina, Brazil: subducted protoliths, carbonated melts and primary kimberlite magmatism

    Galina P. Bulanova;Michael J. Walter;Chris B. Smith;Simon C. Kohn

  • Melting Behavior of Simplified Lherzolite in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-Na2O from 7 to 35 kbar

    Michael J. Walter;Dean C. Presnall

  • Generation of mid-ocean ridge basalts at pressures from 1 to 7 GPa

    Dean C Presnall;Dean C Presnall;Gudmundur H Gudfinnsson;Michael J Walter

  • The influence of pressure and temperature on the metal-silicate partition coefficients of nickel and cobalt in a model C1 chondrite and implications for metal segregation in a deep magma ocean

    Yves Thibault;Michael J. Walter

  • 2.08 – Melt Extraction and Compositional Variability in Mantle Lithosphere

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  • Magnesium isotope evidence that accretional vapour loss shapes planetary compositions

    Remco C Hin;Christopher D Coath;Philip J Carter;Francis Nimmo

  • The nature of erupting kimberlite melts

    R.S.J. Sparks;R.A. Brooker;M. Field;J. Kavanagh

  • A mass proportion method for calculating melting reactions and application to melting of model upper mantle lherzolite

    Michael J. Walter;Thomas W. Sisson;Dean C. Presnall

  • Melting experiments of mantle materials under lower mantle conditions with implications for magma ocean differentiation

    E Ito;A Kubo;T Katsura;Michael J Walter

  • Early Earth differentiation

    Michael J. Walter;Reidar G. Trønnes;Reidar G. Trønnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon M. Clark
Simon M. Clark Macquarie University
Simon C. Kohn
Simon C. Kohn University of Bristol
Tim Elliott
Tim Elliott University of Bristol
David Walker
David Walker Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tomoo Katsura
Tomoo Katsura University of Bayreuth
Ken-ichi Funakoshi
Ken-ichi Funakoshi Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Eiji Ito
Eiji Ito Okayama University
Dean C. Presnall
Dean C. Presnall The University of Texas at Dallas
Takashi Yoshino
Takashi Yoshino Okayama University
Kenneth T. Koga
Kenneth T. Koga Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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