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Simon Williams 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 Williams sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 203 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Williams 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 Williams sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Williams is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the Earth and Planetary Sciences field. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a strong focus on geophysics and geology, including significant work in paleontology, ocean engineering, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of main topics, highlighting geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geophysical studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • A Global Data Set of Present-Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago - implications for supercontinent cycles and plate-mantle system evolution, 2022, Solid Earth
  • Sea-level fluctuations driven by changes in global ocean basin volume following supercontinent break-up, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Assembly of the basal mantle structure beneath Africa, 2022, Nature

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Williams's research, with frequent coauthors including R. Dietmar Müller, Andrew Merdith, Maria Seton, Nicolas Flament, and John Cannon.

Their work has appeared in various scientific venues, including multiple publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Nature, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup

    R. Dietmar Müller;Maria Seton;Sabin Zahirovic;Simon E. Williams

  • Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

    Kara J. Matthews;Kayla T. Maloney;Sabin Zahirovic;Simon E. Williams

  • GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

    R. Dietmar Müller;John Cannon;Xiaodong Qin;Robin J. Watson

  • A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

    Andrew S. Merdith;Andrew S. Merdith;Alan S. Collins;Simon E. Williams;Sergei Pisarevsky

  • A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic

    R. Dietmar Müller;Sabin Zahirovic;Simon E. Williams;John Cannon

  • Tilt-depth method: A simple depth estimation method using first-order magnetic derivatives

    Ahmed Salem;Simon Williams;J. Derek Fairhead;Dhananjay Ravat

  • Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

    Andrew S. Merdith;Simon E. Williams;Alan Collins;Michael G. Tetley

  • Interpretation of magnetic data using tilt-angle derivatives

    Ahmed Salem;Simon Williams;Derek Fairhead;Richard Smith

  • International genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new primary biliary cirrhosis risk loci and targetable pathogenic pathways

    Heather J. Cordell;Younghun Han;George F. Mells;Yafang Li

  • A Global Data Set of Present-Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters

    Maria Seton;R. Dietmar Müller;Sabin Zahirovic;Simon Williams;Simon Williams

  • Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean

    Joanne M. Whittaker;Joanne M. Whittaker;Alexey Goncharov;Simon E. Williams;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Onset of Antarctic Circumpolar Current 30 million years ago as Tasmanian Gateway aligned with westerlies

    Howie D. Scher;Joanne M. Whittaker;Simon E. Williams;Jennifer C. Latimer

  • Potential links between continental rifting, CO 2 degassing and climate change through time

    Sascha Brune;Simon E. Williams;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins

    Sascha Brune;Sascha Brune;Simon E. Williams;Nathaniel P. Butterworth;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era

    Alexander Young;Nicolas Flament;Kayla T. Maloney;Simon E Williams

  • Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

    Wenchao Cao;Sabin Zahirovic;Nicolas Flament;Nicolas Flament;Simon E Williams

  • Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridges and mantle plumes

    J. M. Whittaker;J. C. Afonso;S. Masterton;R. D. Müller

  • Community infrastructure and repository for marine magnetic identifications

    Maria Seton;Joanne M. Whittaker;Paul Wessel;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean

    Joanne M. Whittaker;Simon E. Williams;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Full‐fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian‐Antarctic margins

    Simon E. Williams;Joanne M. Whittaker;R. Dietmar Müller

  • An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high-resolution geological and geophysical data sets

    SE Williams;RD Muller;Tcw Landgrebe;J Whittaker

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Dietmar Müller
R. Dietmar Müller University of Sydney
Nicolas Flament
Nicolas Flament University of Sydney
Maria Seton
Maria Seton University of Sydney
Michael Gurnis
Michael Gurnis California Institute of Technology
Joanne M. Whittaker
Joanne M. Whittaker University of Tasmania
Sabin Zahirovic
Sabin Zahirovic University of Sydney
Ralph Müller
Ralph Müller ETH Zurich
Sascha Brune
Sascha Brune Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Nathan R. Daczko
Nathan R. Daczko Macquarie University
Jacqueline A. Halpin
Jacqueline A. Halpin University of Tasmania

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