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Stephen T. Johnston

Stephen T. Johnston

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6039
World Ranking
6436
National Ranking
335

Stephen T. Johnston 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 T. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 160 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen T. Johnston 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 T. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Stephen T Johnston

  • The Laramide Orogeny: What Were the Driving Forces?

    Joseph M. English;Stephen T. Johnston

  • Cocos-Nazca slab window beneath Central America

    Stephen T. Johnston;Derek J. Thorkelson

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

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

  • The Cordilleran Ribbon Continent of North America

    Stephen T. Johnston

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

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

  • Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Oroclines: Thick and thin

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Buckling an orogen: The Cantabrian Orocline

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

  • 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

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

    S.T. Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso University of Salamanca
Arlo Brandon Weil
Arlo Brandon Weil Bryn Mawr College
Dante Canil
Dante Canil University of Victoria
Javier Fernández-Suárez
Javier Fernández-Suárez Complutense University of Madrid
Yueqiao Zhang
Yueqiao Zhang Nanjing University
J. Brendan Murphy
J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University
Michael Eby
Michael Eby University of Victoria
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong
Craig J.R. Hart
Craig J.R. Hart University of British Columbia
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria

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