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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 40 5756 5324 2103 1867 129 7108

Stephen Marshak publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Stephen Marshak between 1967 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Stephen Marshak published across 59 years, from 1967 to 2025, averaging 2.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 11 publications in 2016. 2 of the 136 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1967 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 11. Peak 11 publications in 2016. 1967: 1 publication 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 1 publication 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 3 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 2 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 4 publications 1990: 5 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 5 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 1 publication 2009: 4 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 4 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 4 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 0 publications 2025: 2 publications
1967 2025

136 publications in total across all disciplines

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Stephen Marshak: publications per year, 1967 to 2025
Year Publications
1967 1
1968 0
1969 0
1970 1
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 1
1980 0
1981 0
1982 1
1983 0
1984 0
1985 3
1986 2
1987 2
1988 1
1989 4
1990 5
1991 2
1992 5
1993 0
1994 1
1995 0
1996 5
1997 3
1998 4
1999 4
2000 2
2001 1
2002 0
2003 1
2004 4
2005 0
2006 5
2007 1
2008 1
2009 4
2010 1
2011 4
2012 2
2013 3
2014 4
2015 6
2016 11
2017 10
2018 9
2019 6
2020 4
2021 2
2022 4
2023 4
2024 0
2025 2
Total 136
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Stephen Marshak 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 Stephen Marshak sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 128–137 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 129 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557 129
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Stephen Marshak 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 Stephen Marshak sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 40 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296 40
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Stephen Marshak is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on geophysics, as well as atmospheric science and geochemistry and petrology among other subfields.

Marshak's work explores several main topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Marshak include Michael S. DeLucia, Alison M. Anders, Hongyu Xiao, Benjamin S. Murphy, and D. Ravat.

Marshak's recent publications illustrate their active engagement with topics within structural geology, tectonics, and sedimentary research. Selected recent papers include:

  • Kinematic and tectonic implications of crenulation cleavage, kink bands, and mesoscopic folds in the Baraboo Syncline, Wisconsin (~1.45 Ga Picuris Orogen), 2023, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Magnetotelluric insights into the formation and reactivation of trans-crustal shear zones in Precambrian basement of the eastern U.S. Midcontinent, 2023, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Crustal Thickness Variations in the Central Midcontinent, USA, and Their Tectonic Implications: New Constraints Obtained Using the H-κ-c Method, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold-Thrust Belts, 2022, Tectonics
  • Paleotopography controls weathering of Cambrian-age profiles beneath the Great Unconformity, St. Francois Mountains, SE Missouri, U.S.A., 2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research

Marshak's publications are frequently found in venues such as Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Tectonics, Geophysical Research Letters, and Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Best Publications

  • Transamazonian orogeny in the Southern São Francisco craton region, Minas Gerais, Brazil : evidence for paleoproterozoic collision and collapse in the Quadrilátero Ferrı́fero.

    Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Stephen Marshak

  • Brine Migrations Across North America-The Plate Tectonics of Groundwater

    Craig M. Bethke;Stephen Marshak

  • Kinematic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Africa: Nutcracker tectonics during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares;Guilherme Gravina Peres

  • Controls on the geometry of fold-thrust belt salients

    Juliano Macedo;Stephen Marshak

  • Inversion of Proterozoic extensional faults: An explanation for the pattern of Laramide and Ancestral Rockies intracratonic deformation, United States

    Stephen Marshak;Karl Karlstrom;J. Michael Timmons

  • Salients, Recesses, Arcs, Oroclines, and SyntaxesA Review of Ideas Concerning the Formation of Map-view Curves in Fold-thrust Belts

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  • Kinematics of orocline and arc formation in thin‐skinned orogens

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  • A clathrate reservoir hypothesis for Enceladus' south polar plume.

    Susan W. Kieffer;Xinli Lu;Craig M. Bethke;John R. Spencer

  • Assembling West Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic: Clues from the São Francisco craton region, Brazil

    Fernando F. Alkmim;Stephen Marshak;Marco A. Fonseca

  • Disjunctive cleavage formed at shallow depths in sedimentary rocks

    Terry Engelder;Stephen Marshak

  • Proterozoic contraction/extension tectonics of the southern SÃO Francisco Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim

  • Modification of the Western Gondwana craton by plume–lithosphere interaction

    Jiashun Hu;Lijun Liu;Manuele Faccenda;Quan Zhou

  • Effect of overburden thickness on thrust belt geometry and development

    Stephen Marshak;M. Scott Wilkerson

  • Chemical and isotopic fractionation of wet andesite in a temperature gradient: Experiments and models suggesting a new mechanism of magma differentiation

    F. Huang;C.C. Lundstrom;J. Glessner;A. Ianno

  • Generation of curved fold-thrust belts: Insight from simple physical and analytical models

    S. Marshak;M. S. Wilkerson;A. T. Hsui

  • Development of cleavage in limestones of a fold-thrust belt in eastern New York

    Stephen Marshak;Terry Engelder

  • Proterozoic crustal extension and the generation of dome-and-keel structure in an Archaean granite–greenstone terrane

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Hanna Jordt-Evangelista

  • Midcontinent U.S. fault and fold zones: A legacy of Proterozoic intracratonic extensional tectonism?

    Stephen Marshak;Timothy Paulsen

  • Stratigraphic evidence for millennial-scale temporal clustering of earthquakes on a continental-interior fault: Holocene Mississippi River floodplain deposits, New Madrid seismic zone, USA

    John Holbrook;Whitney J. Autin;Tammy M. Rittenour;Stephen Marshak

  • Hydrothermal alteration in anthracite from eastern Pennsylvania: Implications for mechanisms of anthracite formation

    Eric J. Daniels;Stephen P. Altaner;Stephen Marshak;Jane R. Eggleston

  • Extensional collapse in the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí orogen, eastern Brazil : a setting for reactivation of asymmetric crenulation cleavage.

    Stephen Marshak;Fernando F. Alkmim;Alan Whittington;Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares

  • Mesoscopic fault array of the northern Umbrian Apennine fold belt, Italy: Geometry of conjugate shear by pressure-solution slip

    Stephen Marshak;Peter A. Geiser;Walter Alvarez;Terry Engelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary L. Pavlis
Gary L. Pavlis Indiana University
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Hannes K. Brueckner
Hannes K. Brueckner Columbia University
Craig C. Lundstrom
Craig C. Lundstrom University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Terry Engelder
Terry Engelder Pennsylvania State University
Stephen E. Laubach
Stephen E. Laubach The University of Texas at Austin
Stuart N. Thomson
Stuart N. Thomson University of Arizona
Karen M. Fischer
Karen M. Fischer Brown University
Gary D. Egbert
Gary D. Egbert Oregon State University
Susan W. Kieffer
Susan W. Kieffer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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