2026 Oliver Jagoutz: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	33	8235	7637	2732	2414	152	5246

Overview

Oliver Jagoutz is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 73 publications in this field. Subfields of study include Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials. The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological Modeling and Analysis, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Jagoutz has contributed to several notable recent papers. These include:

"Paleocene latitude of the Kohistan-Ladakh arc indicates multistage India-Eurasia collision" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The importance of H2O in arc magmas for the formation of porphyry Cu deposits" (2020), published in Ore Geology Reviews
"Formation and composition of the Late Cretaceous Gangdese arc lower crust in southern Tibet" (2020), published in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
"High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust" (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
"Magmatic Evolution following Damp Tholeiitic and Wet Calc-alkaline Liquid Lines of Descent: an Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey) Example" (2020), published in Journal of Petrology

Their frequent co-authors include Hervé Rezeau, Benjamin Klein, Craig R. Martin, Rajeev Upadhyay, and William J. Shinevar. Collaborations with these researchers reflect significant partnerships contributing to fields related to geophysics, geochemistry, and tectonic research.

Oliver Jagoutz has published extensively in several scientific venues, notably:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Journal of Petrology
Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

Dating the India–Eurasia collision through arc magmatic records

Pierre Bouilhol;Oliver Jagoutz;John M. Hanchar;Francis O. Dudas

466
Citations
Anomalously fast convergence of India and Eurasia caused by double subduction

Oliver Jagoutz;Leigh Royden;Adam F. Holt;Thorsten W. Becker

297
Citations
Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state.

Francis A. Macdonald;Nicholas L. Swanson-Hysell;Yuem Park;Lorraine Lisiecki

267
Citations
The formation and bulk composition of modern juvenile continental crust: The Kohistan arc

Oliver Jagoutz;Max W. Schmidt

258
Citations
Role of Arc Processes in the Formation of Continental Crust

Oliver Jagoutz;Peter B. Kelemen

254
Citations
The roles of flux- and decompression melting and their respective fractionation lines for continental crust formation: Evidence from the Kohistan arc

Oliver Jagoutz;Othmar Müntener;Max W. Schmidt;Jean-Pierre Burg

242
Citations
The global systematics of primitive arc melts

Max W. Schmidt;Oliver E. Jagoutz

235
Citations
Construction of the granitoid crust of an island arc part I: geochronological and geochemical constraints from the plutonic Kohistan (NW Pakistan)

Oliver Jagoutz;Oliver Jagoutz;Jean-Pierre Burg;S Hussain;H Dawood

218
Citations
Petrology and Mineral Chemistry of Lower Crustal Intrusions: the Chilas Complex, Kohistan (NW Pakistan)

Oliver Jagoutz;Oliver Jagoutz;Othmar Müntener;Peter Ulmer;Thomas Pettke

208
Citations
Construction of the granitoid crust of an island arc. Part II: a quantitative petrogenetic model

Oliver E. Jagoutz

181
Citations
Lower continental crust formation through focused flow in km-scale melt conduits: The zoned ultramafic bodies of the Chilas Complex in the Kohistan island arc (NW Pakistan)

Oliver Jagoutz;Othmar Müntener;Jean-Pierre Burg;Peter Ulmer

166
Citations
The rift-to-drift transition in the North Atlantic: A stuttering start of the MORB machine?

Oliver Jagoutz;Othmar Müntener;Gianreto Manatschal;Daniela Rubatto

163
Citations
Foundering of lower island-arc crust as an explanation for the origin of the continental Moho

Oliver Jagoutz;Mark D. Behn

156
Citations
Low-latitude arc–continent collision as a driver for global cooling

Oliver Jagoutz;Francis A. Macdonald;Leigh Royden

117
Citations
Arc crustal differentiation mechanisms

Oliver Jagoutz

116
Citations
On the importance of crystallization-differentiation for the generation of SiO 2 -rich melts and the compositional build-up of arc (and continental) crust

Oliver Jagoutz;Benjamin Klein

113
Citations
Paleocene latitude of the Kohistan-Ladakh arc indicates multistage India-Eurasia collision.

Craig R. Martin;Oliver Jagoutz;Rajeev Upadhyay;Leigh H. Royden

107
Citations
The composition of the foundered complement to the continental crust and a re-evaluation of fluxes in arcs

O. Jagoutz;M.W. Schmidt

102
Citations
Magma Production Rates for Intraoceanic Arcs

Brian R. Jicha;Oliver Jagoutz

96
Citations
Petrogenesis of Pyroxenites and Melt Infiltrations in the Ultramafic Complex of Beni Bousera, Northern Morocco

Alexander P. Gysi;Oliver Jagoutz;Max W. Schmidt;Kamal Targuisti

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Othmar Müntener University of Lausanne

Max W. Schmidt ETH Zurich

Mark D. Behn Boston College

Jean-Pierre Burg ETH Zurich

Leigh H. Royden MIT

Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca

Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter Ulmer ETH Zurich

Peter B. Kelemen Columbia University

Benjamin P. Weiss MIT

External Links

Personal website of Oliver Jagoutz

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