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D-Index
42
Citations
7200
World Ranking
5212
National Ranking
1949

Michael L. Williams 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 L. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 172 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael L. Williams 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 L. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 33rd percentile

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

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

Best Publications

  • Long-lived (1.8-1.0 Ga) convergent orogen in southern Laurentia, its extensions to Australia and Baltica, and implications for refining Rodinia

    Karl E. Karlstrom;Karl Inge Åhäll;Stephen S. Harlan;Michael L. Williams

  • Microprobe Monazite Geochronology: Understanding Geologic Processes by Integrating Composition and Chronology

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic;Callum J. Hetherington

  • Age mapping and dating of monazite on the electron microprobe: Deconvoluting multistage tectonic histories

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael P. Terry

  • Resetting monazite ages during fluid-related alteration

    M.L. Williams;M.J. Jercinovic;D.E. Harlov;B. Budzyń

  • Microprobe monazite geochronology: putting absolute time into microstructural analysis

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Transcontinental Proterozoic provinces

    J. Lawford Anderson;E. Erik Bender;Raymond R. Anderson;Paul W. Bauer

  • Experimental determination of stability relations between monazite, fluorapatite, allanite, and REE-epidote as a function of pressure, temperature, and fluid composition

    Bartosz Budzyń;Daniel E. Harlov;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Petrological and geochronological constraints on high pressure, high temperature metamorphism in the Snowbird tectonic zone, Canada

    J. A. Baldwin;S. A. Bowring;M. L. Williams

  • In-situ trace element analysis of monazite and other fine-grained accessory minerals by EPMA

    Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael L. Williams;Edward D. Lane

  • High-resolution dating of granite petrogenesis and deformation in a lower crustal shear zone: Athabasca granulite terrane, Western Canadian Shield

    Gregory Dumond;Noah McLean;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Principles of Metamorphic Petrology

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  • Electron-microprobe monazite dating of ca. 1.71–1.63 Ga and ca. 1.45–1.38 Ga deformation in the Homestake shear zone, Colorado: Origin and early evolution of a persistent intracontinental tectonic zone

    Colin A. Shaw;Karl E. Karlstrom;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Understanding geologic processes with xenotime: Composition, chronology, and a protocol for electron probe microanalysis

    Callum J. Hetherington;Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael L. Williams;Kevin Mahan

  • Age, provenance, and tectonic setting of Paleoproterozoic quartzite successions in the southwestern United States

    James V. Jones;James N. Connelly;Karl E. Karlstrom;Michael L. Williams

  • Eclogites of the Snowbird tectonic zone: petrological and U-Pb geochronological evidence for Paleoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism in the western Canadian Shield

    Julia A. Baldwin;Julia A. Baldwin;Samuel A. Bowring;Michael L. Williams;Ian S. Williams

  • Monazite as a monitor of melting, garnet growth and feldspar recrystallization in continental lower crust

    G. Dumond;P. Goncalves;M. L. Williams;M. J. Jercinovic

  • MANGANESE, FERRIC IRON, AND THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN GARNET AND BIOTITE

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  • Striding-Athabasca mylonite zone: Complex Archean deep-crustal deformation in the East Athabasca mylonite triangle, northern Saskatchewan

    Simon Hanmer;Randy Parrish;Michael Williams;Chris Kopf

  • Timescales and significance of high-pressure, high-temperature metamorphism and mafic dike anatexis, Snowbird tectonic zone, Canada

    R. M. Flowers;R. M. Flowers;S. A. Bowring;M. L. Williams

  • Looping P-T paths and high-T, low-P middle crustal metamorphism: Proterozoic evolution of the southwestern United States

    Michael L. Williams;Karl E. Karlstrom

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