2026 Stephen T. Johnston: 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	38	6435	5960	335	306	160	6039

Overview

Stephen T. Johnston is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their primary research field is Earth and Planetary Sciences, where they have contributed extensively with a focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of geological and geophysical areas, including:

Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Earthquake and tectonic studies
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Geological and Geophysical Studies
Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Stephen T. Johnston has authored several notable papers, contributing to the understanding of paleogeography, lithospheric extension, tectonics, mountain building, and metamorphism. Among these publications are:

Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
Cretaceous long-distance lithospheric extension and surface response in South China, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
Paleoproterozoic tectonics of Fennoscandia and the birth of Baltica, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
Cretaceous coastal mountain building and potential impacts on climate change in East Asia, 2024, Science Advances
Late Mesoproterozoic low-P/T-type metamorphism in the North Wulan terrane: Implications for the assembly of Rodinia, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin

The scientist has frequently published in several venues including:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Earth-Science Reviews
Geological Society London Special Publications
Geological Society of America Bulletin
Tectonics

Stephen T. Johnston collaborates regularly with several coauthors who have contributed to multiple works alongside them. Prominent frequent coauthors include Jianhua Li, Peter A. Cawood, Jianwei Feng, Guochun Zhao, and Yueqiao Zhang.

Best Publications

Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China: A preliminary synthesis

Jianhua Li;Yueqiao Zhang;Shuwen Dong;Stephen T. Johnston

642
Citations
The Great Alaskan Terrane Wreck: reconciliation of paleomagnetic and geological data in the northern Cordillera

Stephen T Johnston

261
Citations
The Laramide Orogeny: What Were the Driving Forces?

Joseph M. English;Stephen T. Johnston

256
Citations
Cocos-Nazca slab window beneath Central America

Stephen T. Johnston;Derek J. Thorkelson

244
Citations
Diachronous post-orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Teresa E. Jeffries;Stephen T. Johnston

212
Citations
The Cordilleran Ribbon Continent of North America

Stephen T. Johnston

193
Citations
Thermal modelling of the Laramide orogeny: testing the flat-slab subduction hypothesis

Joseph M. English;Stephen T. Johnston;Kelin Wang;Kelin Wang

191
Citations
Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Arlo B. Weil;J. Brendan Murphy

186
Citations
Persistent spin excitations in doped antiferromagnets revealed by resonant inelastic light scattering

C. J. Jia;E. A. Nowadnick;K. Wohlfeld;Y. F. Kung;Y. F. Kung

173
Citations
An Andean-type retro-arc foreland system beneath northwest South China revealed by SINOPROBE profiling

Jianhua Li;Jianhua Li;Shuwen Dong;Peter A. Cawood;Guochun Zhao

169
Citations
Kinematic constraints on buckling a lithospheric-scale orocline along the northern margin of Gondwana: A geologic synthesis

A. Brandon Weil;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;S.T. Johnston;D. Pastor-Galán

164
Citations
New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of south China: Part 1, polyphase deformation in the Jiuling and Lianyunshan domains of the central Jiangnan Orogen

Jianhua Li;Shuwen Dong;Yueqiao Zhang;Guochun Zhao

152
Citations
Oroclines: Thick and thin

S.T. Johnston;A.B. Weil;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

147
Citations
Provenance variability along the Early Ordovician north Gondwana margin: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications of U-Pb detrital zircon ages from the Armorican Quartzite of the Iberian Variscan belt

J. Shaw;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;S.T. Johnston;D. Pastor Galán

129
Citations
New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of South China: Early Paleozoic sinistral and Triassic dextral transpression in the east Wuyishan and Chencai domains, NE Cathaysia

Jianhua Li;Yueqiao Zhang;Guochun Zhao;Stephen T. Johnston

128
Citations
Dating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike–slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Alan S. Collins;Javier Fernández-Suárez;Daniel Pastor-Galán

123
Citations
Oroclines of the Variscan orogen of Iberia: Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeographic implications

Jessica Shaw;Stephen T. Johnston;Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso;Arlo B. Weil

119
Citations
Buckling an orogen: The Cantabrian Orocline

G. Gutiérrez-Alonso;S. T. Johnston;A. B. Weil;D. Pastor-Galán

117
Citations
The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: Provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia

M.F. Pereira;M. Chichorro;S.T. Johnston;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

112
Citations
The Cape Fold Belt and Syntaxis and the rotated Falkland Islands: dextral transpressional tectonics along the southwest margin of Gondwana

S.T. Johnston

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso University of Salamanca

Arlo Brandon Weil Bryn Mawr College

Dante Canil University of Victoria

Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid

Yueqiao Zhang Nanjing University

J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University

Michael Eby University of Victoria

Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong

Craig J.R. Hart University of British Columbia

Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria

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