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D-Index
34
Citations
4678
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7933
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88

Simon Lamb 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 Simon Lamb sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 90 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Lamb 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 Simon Lamb sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Lamb is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and focuses on research within the Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular emphasis on Geophysics. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research topics cover a range of geological and geochemical areas, with notable work in earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and seismic waves and analysis.

Simon Lamb has published in various academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Science Advances
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Notable recent papers by Simon Lamb include:

  • Global Whole Lithosphere Isostasy: Implications for Surface Elevations, Structure, Strength, and Densities of the Continental Lithosphere, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Taking time to twist a continent-Multistage origin of the New Zealand orocline, 2020, Geology
  • The relation between short- and long-term deformation in actively deforming plate boundary zones, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Simon Lamb has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including T. A. Stern, James D. Moore, Marta Pérez-Gussinyé, D. A. Okaya, and Katharina Hochmuth.

Best Publications

  • Cenozoic climate change as a possible cause for the rise of the Andes

    Simon Lamb;Paul Davis

  • Active tectonics of the Andes

    J.F. Dewey;S.H. Lamb

  • Origin of the high plateau in the central Andes, Bolivia, South America

    Simon Lamb;Leonore Hoke

  • Cenozoic evolution of the Central Andes in Bolivia and northern Chile

    Simon Lamb;Leonore Hoke;Lorcan Kennan;John Dewey

  • Shear stresses on megathrusts: Implications for mountain building behind subduction zones

    Simon Lamb

  • Southern limit of mantle-derived geothermal helium emissions in Tibet: implications for lithospheric structure

    Leonore Hoke;Simon Lamb;David R. Hilton;Robert J. Poreda

  • Slip in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand

    J. R. Elliott;Edwin Nissen;P. C. England;James A. Jackson

  • Lithospheric flexure and bending of the Central Andes

    A.B. Watts;S.H. Lamb;J.D. Fairhead;J.F. Dewey

  • A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate

    T. A. Stern;Stuart A. Henrys;D. Okaya;John N. Louie

  • High-altitude palaeosurfaces in the Bolivian Andes: evidence for late Cenozoic surface uplift

    L. Kennan;S. H. Lamb;L. Hoke

  • A model for tectonic rotations about a vertical axis

    S.H. Lamb

  • Late Cenozoic uplift of the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivian Andes

    Richard Barke;Simon Lamb

  • Active deformation in the Bolivian Andes, South America

    Simon Lamb

  • The last 25 Ma of rotational deformation in part of the New Zealand plate-boundary zone

    S.H Lamb;H.M Bibby

  • K-Ar dates from the Altiplano and Cordillera Oriental of Bolivia: implications for Cenozoic stratigraphy and tectonics

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  • Tectonic rotations about vertical axes during the last 4 Ma in part of the New Zealand plate-boundary zone

    S.H. Lamb

  • 3He evidence for a wide zone of active mantle melting beneath the Central Andes

    L. Hoke;D.R. Hilton;S.H. Lamb;K. Hammerschmidt

  • Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the New Zealand plate-boundary zone: A paleomagnetic perspective

    Simon Lamb

  • The last million years of deformation in part of the New Zealand plate-boundary zone

    S.H Lamb;P Vella

  • Did shortening in thick crust cause rapid Late Cenozoic uplift in the northern Bolivian Andes

    Simon Lamb;Simon Lamb

  • Behavior of the brittle crust in wide plate boundary zones

    Simon H. Lamb

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Stern
Tim Stern Victoria University of Wellington
Martha K. Savage
Martha K. Savage Victoria University of Wellington
Euan G. C. Smith
Euan G. C. Smith Victoria University of Wellington
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Edwin Nissen
Edwin Nissen University of Victoria
John F. Dewey
John F. Dewey University of Oxford
Nick Mortimer
Nick Mortimer GNS Science
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
David R. Hilton
David R. Hilton University of California, San Diego

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