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Timothy A. Little 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 Timothy A. Little sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 197 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Timothy A. Little 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 Timothy A. Little sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Timothy A. Little is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work in Geophysics, which accounts for the majority of their publications. Additional subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main topics of work encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials. They have also engaged in research related to geology and paleoclimatology, seismic waves and analysis, landslides and related hazards, as well as broader geological and geophysical studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Russ Van Dissen, Marcel Mizera, Carolyn Boulton, Jesse Kearse, and Nicola Litchfield.

Several publication venues feature Timothy A. Little's work repeatedly. Notably, they have contributed to the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, which hosts the largest number of their publications. Other venues include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geosphere, and Gondwana Research.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Timothy A. Little include:

  • The New Zealand Community Fault Model - version 1.0: an improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling (2023), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
  • Mechanical Implications of Creep and Partial Coupling on the World's Fastest Slipping Low-Angle Normal Fault in Southeastern Papua New Guinea (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Coseismic deformation of the ground during large-slip strike-slip ruptures: Finite evolution of "mole tracks" (2021), Geosphere
  • The petrology, geochronology and tectono-magmatic setting of igneous rocks in the Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, Papua New Guinea (2020), Gondwana Research
  • A time-dependent seismic hazard model following the Kaikōura M7.8 earthquake (2023), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Best Publications

  • Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  • Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

    R. Sutherland;D. Eberhart‐Phillips;R. A. Harris;T. Stern

  • A model of active faulting in New Zealand

    NJ Litchfield;R Van Dissen;R Sutherland;PM Barnes

  • Variations in exhumation level and uplift rate along the obliqu-slip Alpine fault, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

    Timothy A. Little;Simon Cox;Julie K. Vry;Geoffrey Batt

  • Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

    Nicola J. Litchfield;Pilar Villamor;Russ J. Van Dissen;Andrew Nicol

  • Diapiric exhumation of Earth's youngest (UHP) eclogites in the gneiss domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

    T.A. Little;B.R. Hacker;S.M. Gordon;S.M. Gordon;S.L. Baldwin

  • Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine fault, New Zealand

    Rupert Sutherland;Virginia G. Toy;John Townend;Simon C. Cox

  • Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault

    Rupert Sutherland;Rupert Sutherland;John Townend;Virginia Toy;Phaedra Upton

  • World's largest coseismic strike‐slip offset: The 1855 rupture of the Wairarapa Fault, New Zealand, and implications for displacement/length scaling of continental earthquakes

    D. W. Rodgers;T. A. Little

  • Seven million years of strike‐slip and related off‐fault deformation, northeastern Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand

    Timothy A. Little;Andrew Jones

  • Displacement transfer between intersecting regional strike-slip and extensional fault systems

    V. Mouslopoulou;A. Nicol;T.A. Little;J.J. Walsh

  • Tertiary tectonics of the Border Ranges Fault System, Chugach Mountains, Alaska: Deformation and uplift in a forearc setting

    Timothy A. Little;Charles W. Naeser

  • Distribution and mechanism of Neogene to present-day vertical axis rotations, Pacific-Australian Plate Boundary Zone, South Island, New Zealand

    Timothy A. Little;Andrew P. Roberts

  • The Mw7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

    Mark W. Stirling;N. J. Litchfield;Pilar Villamor;Russ J. Van Dissen

  • Continental rifting and metamorphic core complex formation ahead of the Woodlark spreading ridge, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

    Timothy A. Little;S. L. Baldwin;P. G. Fitzgerald;B. Monteleone

  • Kinematics of oblique collision and ramping inferred from microstructures and strain in middle crustal rocks, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

    T.A. Little;R.J. Holcombe;B.R. Ilg

  • Can microplate rotation drive subduction inversion

    L.E. Webb;S.L. Baldwin;T.A. Little;P.G. Fitzgerald

  • Feedback between rifting and diapirism can exhume ultrahigh-pressure rocks

    S. M. Ellis;T. A. Little;Laura Wallace;B. R. Hacker

  • Zoned (Cretaceous and Cenozoic) garnet and the timing of high grade metamorphism, Southern Alps, New Zealand

    J. K. Vry;J. Baker;R. Maas;T. A. Little

  • Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling

    Virginia G. Toy;Carolyn J. Boulton;Carolyn J. Boulton;Rupert Sutherland;Rupert Sutherland;John Townend

  • An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago‐Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on 40Ar/39Ar white mica ages

    Timothy A. Little;Nick Mortimer;Michael McWilliams

  • Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

    R. Sutherland;V. G. Toy;J. Townend;S. Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Ellis
Susan Ellis GNS Science
Laura M. Wallace
Laura M. Wallace The University of Texas at Austin
David J. Prior
David J. Prior University of Otago
Virginia Toy
Virginia Toy Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
R. Van Dissen
R. Van Dissen GNS Science
Pilar Villamor
Pilar Villamor GNS Science
John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Kelvin Berryman
Kelvin Berryman GNS Science

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