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Noah J. Planavsky

Noah J. Planavsky

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
82
Citations
26615
World Ranking
455
National Ranking
242

Noah J. Planavsky 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 Noah J. Planavsky sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 458 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Noah J. Planavsky 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 Noah J. Planavsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - F.W. Clarke Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Noah J. Planavsky is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a significant body of research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans key subfields including Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in Planavsky's work include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Frequent co-authors in Planavsky's publications are:

  • Christopher T. Reinhard
  • Lidya G. Tarhan
  • Kurt O. Konhauser
  • Dan Asael
  • Mingyu Zhao

The primary publication venues where Planavsky's research appears include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent notable papers authored by or including Planavsky are:

  • Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview, 2021, Astrobiology
  • On the co-evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals, 2020, Geobiology
  • A lithium-isotope perspective on the evolution of carbon and silicon cycles, 2021, Nature
  • Felsic volcanism as a factor driving the end-Permian mass extinction, 2021, Science Advances
  • Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews

Planavsky has contributed to book publications released by Cambridge University Press, including:

  • The Chromium Isotope System as a Tracer of Ocean and Atmosphere Redox, 2021
  • Iron Formations as Palaeoenvironmental Archives, 2021

Among the awards received, Planavsky was granted the F.W. Clarke Award from the Geochemical Society in 2018 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

    Timothy W. Lyons;Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky

  • Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

    A. Bekker;B. Krapež;J. F. Slack;N. Planavsky

  • Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

    Noah J. Planavsky;Christopher T. Reinhard;Xiangli Wang;Danielle Thomson

  • Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

    Noah J. Planavsky;Dan Asael;Axel Hofmann;Christopher T. Reinhard

  • Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Benjamin C. Gill;Kazumi Ozaki;Kazumi Ozaki

  • Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

    Swapan K. Sahoo;Noah J. Planavsky;Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall;Xinqiang Wang

  • Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Leslie J. Robbins;Camille A. Partin

  • Rare Earth Element and yttrium compositions of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe formations revisited: New perspectives on the significance and mechanisms of deposition

    Noah Planavsky;Noah Planavsky;Andrey Bekker;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Balz S. Kamber

  • The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

    Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Stefan V. Lalonde

  • Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

    Noah J. Planavsky;Peter McGoldrick;Clinton T. Scott;Chao Li;Chao Li

  • Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Dalton S. Hardisty;Leslie J. Robbins

  • Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

    C.A. Partin;A. Bekker;N.J. Planavsky;C.T. Scott

  • New estimates of the storage permanence and ocean co-benefits of enhanced rock weathering

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  • Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Ernesto Pecoits

  • Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

    N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Brian K. Horton;Shannon E. Loomis;Daniel F. Stockli

  • Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean.

    Swapan K Sahoo;N J Planavsky;Ganqing Jiang;B Kendall

  • A shale-hosted Cr isotope record of low atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

    Devon B. Cole;Christopher T. Reinhard;Xiangli Wang;Bleuenn Gueguen

  • The iron paleoredox proxies: A guide to the pitfalls, problems and proper practice

    Rob Raiswell;Dalton S. Hardisty;Timothy W. Lyons;Donald E. Canfield

  • Reverse weathering as a long-term stabilizer of marine pH and planetary climate

    Terry T. Isson;Noah J. Planavsky

  • Oxygenation history of the Neoproterozoic to early Phanerozoic and the rise of land plants

    Malcolm W. Wallace;Ashleigh vS. Hood;Ashleigh vS. Hood;Alice Shuster;Alan Greig

  • Earth's oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life.

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Stephanie L. Olson;Timothy W. Lyons

  • Iron Formations: Their Origins and Implications for Ancient Seawater Chemistry

    A. Bekker;N. Planavsky;Birger Rasmussen;Bryan Krapez

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher T. Reinhard
Christopher T. Reinhard Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Andrey Bekker
Andrey Bekker University of California, Riverside
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser University of Alberta
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Olivier Rouxel
Olivier Rouxel French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann University of Johannesburg
Stefan V. Lalonde
Stefan V. Lalonde European Institute
Jeremy D. Owens
Jeremy D. Owens Florida State University
Ariel D. Anbar
Ariel D. Anbar Arizona State University

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