2026 Paul F. Hoffman: 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	60	1840	1656	198	178	173	22419

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Penrose Medal, The Geological Society of America
2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1982 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Paul F. Hoffman is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their academic work is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 41 publications in this broad field. The subfields of their research include Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Geology.

The main topics of Hoffman's research cover a range of subjects related to Earth sciences and cognition:

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Geological and Geophysical Studies
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Hoffman include:

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia), 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary, 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society
The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth, 2022, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors associated with Hoffman include:

Francis A. Macdonald
Georgia Carter
Galen P. Halverson
John A. Higgins
Wouter Bleeker

Hoffman's publications appear frequently in several venues, with multiple articles in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. Other venues include Earth-Science Reviews, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and Journal of the Geological Society.

The scientist has been recognized with numerous awards and honors over the course of their career, including:

Penrose Medal, The Geological Society of America, 2011
Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2010
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1992
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1982
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

Paul F. Hoffman;Alan J. Kaufman;Galen P. Halverson;Daniel P. Schrag

3230
Citations
Did the breakout of laurentia turn gondwanaland inside-out?

Paul F. Hoffman

2263
Citations
United Plates of America, The Birth of a Craton: Early Proterozoic Assembly and Growth of Laurentia

Paul F. Hoffman

1905
Citations
The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change

Paul F. Hoffman;Daniel P. Schrag

1892
Citations
Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America

Paul F. Hoffman

1216
Citations
Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record

Galen P. Halverson;Paul F. Hoffman;Daniel P. Schrag;Adam C. Maloof

1045
Citations
Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Dorian S. Abbot;Yosef Ashkenazy;Douglas I. Benn

658
Citations
Speculations on Laurentia's first gigayear (2.0 to 1.0 Ga)

Paul F. Hoffman

464
Citations
A palaeogeographic context for Neoproterozoic glaciation

Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Zheng-Xiang Li

457
Citations
On the initiation of a snowball Earth

Daniel P. Schrag;Robert A. Berner;Paul F. Hoffman;Galen P. Halverson

400
Citations
THE BREAK-UP OF RODINIA, BIRTH OF GONDWANA, TRUE POLAR WANDER AND THE SNOWBALL EARTH

Paul F. Hoffman

361
Citations
Aulacogens and Their Genetic Relation to Geosynclines, With a Proterozoic Example from Great Slave Lake, Canada

Paul Hoffman;John F. Dewey;Kevin Burke

346
Citations
Anatomy of North America: thematic geologic portrayals of the continent

Harold Williams;Paul F. Hoffman;John F. Lewry;James W.H. Monger

304
Citations
Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial “cap dolostones” diachronous?

Paul F. Hoffman;Galen P. Halverson;Eugene W. Domack;Jonathan M. Husson

293
Citations
Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation

Philip A. Allen;Paul F. Hoffman

266
Citations
Precise U-Pb zircon ages for early Damaran magmatism in the Summas Mountains and Welwitschia Inlier, northern Damara belt, Namibia

P.F. Hoffman;D.P. Hawkins;C.E. Isachsen;S.A. Bowring

261
Citations
Comings and Goings of Global Glaciations on a Neoproterozoic Tropical Platform in Namibia

Paul F. Hoffman;Alan J. Kaufman;Galen P. Halverson

250
Citations
Short-lived 1.9 Ga continental margin and its destruction, Wopmay orogen, northwest Canada

Paul F. Hoffman;Samuel A. Bowring

229
Citations
The Marinoan glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in northeast Svalbard

Galen P. Halverson;Adam C. Maloof;Paul F. Hoffman

225
Citations
Strange bedfellows: glacial diamictite and cap carbonate from the Marinoan (635 Ma) glaciation in Namibia

Paul F. Hoffman

225
Citations
A major perturbation of the carbon cycle before the Ghaub glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in Namibia: Prelude to snowball Earth?

Galen P. Halverson;Paul F. Hoffman;Daniel P. Schrag;Alan J. Kaufman

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen P. Halverson McGill University

Daniel P. Schrag Harvard University

Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara

Adam C. Maloof Princeton University

Grant M. Cox University of Adelaide

Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences

John A. Higgins Princeton University

Eugene W. Domack University of South Florida

Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park

Aiko Voigt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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