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49
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1387

William S.F. Kidd 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 William S.F. Kidd sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 123 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William S.F. Kidd 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 William S.F. Kidd sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 15 scientists 31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32 D-Index: 60 scientists 33 D-Index: 90 scientists 34 D-Index: 103 scientists 35 D-Index: 108 scientists 36 D-Index: 142 scientists 37 D-Index: 147 scientists 38 D-Index: 147 scientists 39 D-Index: 152 scientists 40 D-Index: 143 scientists 41 D-Index: 157 scientists 42 D-Index: 141 scientists 43 D-Index: 151 scientists 44 D-Index: 140 scientists 45 D-Index: 135 scientists 46 D-Index: 121 scientists 47 D-Index: 108 scientists 48 D-Index: 128 scientists 49 D-Index: 111 scientists 50 D-Index: 106 scientists 51 D-Index: 112 scientists 52 D-Index: 102 scientists 53 D-Index: 103 scientists 54 D-Index: 94 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 101 scientists 57 D-Index: 71 scientists 58 D-Index: 65 scientists 59 D-Index: 78 scientists 60 D-Index: 93 scientists 61 D-Index: 56 scientists 62 D-Index: 58 scientists 63 D-Index: 52 scientists 64 D-Index: 63 scientists 65 D-Index: 49 scientists 66 D-Index: 53 scientists 67 D-Index: 57 scientists 68 D-Index: 50 scientists 69 D-Index: 44 scientists 70 D-Index: 44 scientists 71 D-Index: 31 scientists 72 D-Index: 33 scientists 73 D-Index: 33 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 32 scientists 76 D-Index: 24 scientists 77 D-Index: 17 scientists 78 D-Index: 19 scientists 79 D-Index: 9 scientists 80 D-Index: 21 scientists 81 D-Index: 20 scientists 82 D-Index: 17 scientists 83 D-Index: 19 scientists 84 D-Index: 19 scientists 85 D-Index: 14 scientists 86 D-Index: 6 scientists 87 D-Index: 14 scientists 88 D-Index: 17 scientists 89 D-Index: 10 scientists 90 D-Index: 8 scientists 91 D-Index: 8 scientists 92 D-Index: 9 scientists 93 D-Index: 6 scientists 94+ D-Index: 98 scientists
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

William S.F. Kidd is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. The primary focus of their academic career is within this institution.

Information about their recent papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues is not available. Similarly, specific details on their main fields of study, subfields, and main topics of work have not been documented in the provided data.

No book publications or awards have been recorded in the available source data.

Best Publications

  • Partially Molten Middle Crust Beneath Southern Tibet: Synthesis of Project INDEPTH Results

    K. D. Nelson;Wenjin Zhao;L. D. Brown;J. Kuo

  • Shortening of continental lithosphere: the neotectonics of Eastern Anatolia — a young collision zone

    J.F. Dewey;M.R. Hempton;W.S.F. Kidd;F. Saroglu

  • Genesis of collision volcanism in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

    J.A. Pearce;J.F. Bender;S.E. De Long;W.S.F. Kidd

  • Raising Tibet

    Unknown

  • Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan plateau?

    M. A. Murphy;An Yin;T. M. Harrison;S. B. Dürr

  • Post-collisional tectonics of the Turkish-Iranian plateau and a comparison with Tibet

    A.M.C Şengör;W.S.F Kidd

  • Erosion, Himalayan geodynamics, and the geomorphology of metamorphism

    Peter K. Zeitler;Anne S. Meltzer;Peter O. Koons;David Craw

  • Tertiary structural evolution of the Gangdese Thrust System, southeastern Tibet

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;F. J. Ryerson;Chen Wenji

  • Activation of the Nyainqentanghla Shear Zone: Implications for uplift of the southern Tibetan Plateau

    T. Mark Harrison;Peter Copeland;W. S. F. Kidd;Oscar M. Lovera

  • Age of Initiation of the India‐Asia Collision in the East‐Central Himalaya

    Bin Zhu;William S. F. Kidd;David B. Rowley;Brian S. Currie

  • Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

    T.M. Kusky;A. Polat;A. Polat;B.F. Windley;B.F. Windley;K.C. Burke

  • Preliminary conclusions of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica 1985 geotraverse of Tibet

    Chang Chengfa;Chen Nansheng;M. P. Coward;Deng Wanming

  • Flexural extension of the upper continental crust in collisional foredeeps

    D. C. Bradley;W.S.F. Kidd

  • Relative and Latitudinal Motion of Atlantic Hot Spots

    Kevin Burke;W. S. F. Kidd;J. Tuzo Wilson

  • Isotopic Preservation of Himalayan/Tibetan Uplift, Denudation, and Climatic Histories of Two Molasse Deposits

    T. Mark Harrison;Peter Copeland;Stuart A. Hall;jay Quade

  • World distribution of sutures — the sites of former oceans

    Kevin Burke;J.F. Dewey;W.S.F. Kidd

  • Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion

    Peter K. Zeitler;Peter O. Koons;Michael P. Bishop;C. Page Chamberlain

  • Thermal evolution of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet: A history of episodic unroofing

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;Yun Pan;W. S. F. Kidd

  • Rapid early Miocene acceleration of uplift in the Gangdese Belt, Xizang (southern Tibet), and its bearing on accommodation mechanisms of the India-Asia collision

    Peter Copeland;T. Mark Harrison;W.S.F. Kidd;Xu Ronghua

  • Yadong cross structure and South Tibetan Detachment in the east central Himalaya (89°-90°E)

    Changde Wu;K. D. Nelson;Greg Wortman;Scott D. Samson

  • The Structure of the 1985 Tibet Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud

    Michael Peter Coward;W. S. F. Kidd;Pan Yun;Robert Millner Shackleton

  • The tectonic evolution of Asia

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter K. Zeitler
Peter K. Zeitler Lehigh University
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke University of Houston
John F. Dewey
John F. Dewey University of Oxford
Timothy M. Kusky
Timothy M. Kusky China University of Geosciences
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Copeland
Peter Copeland University of Houston
David B. Rowley
David B. Rowley University of Chicago
David Schneider
David Schneider University of Ottawa
John I. Garver
John I. Garver Union College
Bernard Hallet
Bernard Hallet University of Washington

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