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Patience A. Cowie

Patience A. Cowie

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
55
Citations
12106
World Ranking
2537
National Ranking
34

Patience A. Cowie 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 Patience A. Cowie sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 130 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patience A. Cowie 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 Patience A. Cowie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Patience A. Cowie was affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway during their academic career. The scientist's work and research contributions spanned various dimensions of their field, although specific details on publications, co-authors, or research topics are not available in the provided data.

Throughout their career, Cowie contributed to scientific knowledge primarily through research work connected to their institutional base. Although no specific recent papers or book publications are documented here, their academic involvement at the University of Bergen indicates a professional engagement with higher education and research activities.

There is no detailed information regarding frequent co-authors or regular publication venues linked to Cowie's work. Similarly, details about particular fields of study, subfields, or main research topics covered by their studies were not provided. This absence of data limits the assessment of their specific scientific focus or collaborative networks.

No awards or honors attributed to Cowie were recorded in the available information. While this might reflect incomplete data, it indicates that no documented recognitions are on record for this scientist.

Patience A. Cowie is noted as deceased, leading all references to be rendered in past tense. The lack of certain detailed identifiers underscores the importance of further archival and bibliometric research to more fully characterize their academic legacy and contributions.

Best Publications

  • Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

    E. Bonnet;O. Bour;N. E. Odling;P. Davy

  • Displacement-length scaling relationship for faults: data synthesis and discussion

    Patience A Cowie;Christopher H Scholz

  • Physical explanation for the displacement-length relationship of faults using a post-yield fracture mechanics model

    Patience A Cowie;Christopher H Scholz

  • Fault growth and fault scaling laws: Preliminary results

    C. H. Scholz;N. H. Dawers;J.-Z. Yu;M. H. Anders

  • Damage zone and slip-surface evolution over μm to km scales in high-porosity Navajo sandstone, Utah

    Z.K. Shipton;P.A. Cowie

  • Determination of total strain from faulting using slip measurements

    C. H. Scholz;Patience A. Cowie

  • Growth of faults by accumulation of seismic slip

    Patience A. Cowie;Christopher H. Scholz

  • Bedrock channel adjustment to tectonic forcing: Implications for predicting river incision rates

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • A healing–reloading feedback control on the growth rate of seismogenic faults

    P.A. Cowie

  • A conceptual model for the origin of fault damage zone structures in high-porosity sandstone

    Zoe K. Shipton;Patience A. Cowie

  • A mechanism to explain rift-basin subsidence and stratigraphic patterns through fault-array evolution

    Sanjeev Gupta;Patience A. Cowie;Nancye H. Dawers;John R. Underhill

  • Multifractal scaling properties of a growing fault population

    Patience A. Cowie;D. Sornette;C. Vanneste

  • Implications of fault array evolution for synrift depocentre development: insights from a numerical fault growth model

    P. A. Cowie;S. Gupta;N. H. Dawers

  • Statistical physics model for the spatiotemporal evolution of faults

    Patience A. Cowie;Christian Vanneste;Didier Sornette

  • Constraining slip rates and spacings for active normal faults

    Patience A Cowie;Gerald P Roberts

  • Fault tip displacement gradients and process zone dimensions

    Patience A Cowie;Zoe K Shipton

  • Decoding temporal and spatial patterns of fault uplift using transient river long profiles

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Patience A. Cowie;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Modeling fluvial incision and transient landscape evolution: Influence of dynamic channel adjustment

    Mikael Attal;G. E. Tucker;Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience Cowie

  • Spatio-temporal evolution of strain accumulation derived from multi-scale observations of Late Jurassic rifting in the northern North Sea: A critical test of models for lithospheric extension

    Patience A. Cowie;John R. Underhill;Mark D. Behn;Mark D. Behn;Jian Lin

  • Contrasting transient and steady-state rivers crossing active normal faults: new field observations from the Central Apennines, Italy

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald P. Roberts
Gerald P. Roberts Birkbeck, University of London
Ken McCaffrey
Ken McCaffrey Durham University
Alessandro Maria Michetti
Alessandro Maria Michetti University of Insubria
Alexander C. Whittaker
Alexander C. Whittaker Imperial College London
Ritske S. Huismans
Ritske S. Huismans University of Bergen
Robert L. Gawthorpe
Robert L. Gawthorpe University of Bergen
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Ian Main
Ian Main University of Edinburgh
Hugh Sinclair
Hugh Sinclair University of Edinburgh
Christopher H. Scholz
Christopher H. Scholz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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