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Wouter Bleeker 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 Wouter Bleeker sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 138 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wouter Bleeker 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 Wouter Bleeker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wouter Bleeker is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Canada in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 54 publications in this area. Their research spans several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

Their main topics of work encompass geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Frequent co-authors in their research output include Sandra L. Kamo, Ian W. Honsberger, H A Sandeman, Richard E. Ernst, and Michael A. Hamilton, indicating substantial collaborative work within their field.

The venues where Wouter Bleeker's work has been published reflect consistent contributions to geological sciences. These include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Lithos
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Wouter Bleeker are the following:

  • A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society
  • Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth, 2022, Science Advances
  • Archean block rotation in Western Karelia: Resolving dyke swarm patterns in metacraton Karelia-Kola for a refined paleogeographic reconstruction of supercraton Superia, 2020, Lithos
  • Latest Silurian syntectonic sedimentation and magmatism and Early Devonian orogenic gold mineralization, central Newfoundland Appalachians, Canada: Setting, structure, lithogeochemistry, and high-precision U-Pb geochronology, 2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Widespread poly-metamorphosed Archean granitoid gneisses and supracrustal enclaves of the southern Inukjuak Domain, Québec (Canada), 2020, Lithos

Best Publications

  • A new Geologic Time Scale, with special reference to Precambrian and Neogene

    Felix M. Gradstein;James G. Ogg;Alan G. Smith;Wouter Bleeker

  • The late Archean record: a puzzle in ca. 35 pieces

    Wouter Bleeker

  • Review Paper. Mineral evolution

    Robert M. Hazen;Dominic Papineau;Wouter Bleeker;Robert T. Downs

  • Large igneous provinces (LIPs), giant dyke swarms, and mantle plumes: significance for breakup events within Canada and adjacent regions from 2.5 Ga to the PresentThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the the theme Lithoprobe—parameters, processes, and the evolution of a continent.Lithoprobe Contribution 1482. Geological Survey of Canada Contribution 20100072.

    Richard ErnstR. Ernst;Wouter BleekerW. Bleeker

  • Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

    Ashley P. Gumsley;Kevin R. Chamberlain;Kevin R. Chamberlain;Wouter Bleeker;Ulf Söderlund;Ulf Söderlund

  • Short-lived mantle generated magmatic events and their dyke swarms: The key unlocking Earth's paleogeographic record back to 2.6 Ga

    Wouter Bleeker;Richard Ernst

  • Long-lived connection between southern Siberia and northern Laurentia in the Proterozoic

    R. E. Ernst;R. E. Ernst;M. A. Hamilton;U. Söderlund;J. A. Hanes

  • Paleoproterozoic gabbronoritic and granitic magmatism in the northern margin of the North China craton: Evidence of crust–mantle interaction

    Peng Peng;Peng Peng;Jinghui Guo;Mingguo Zhai;Wouter Bleeker

  • Large Igneous Provinces and supercontinents: Toward completing the plate tectonic revolution

    Richard E. Ernst;Wouter Bleeker;Ulf Söderlund;Andrew Craig Kerr

  • U-Pb baddeleyite ages, distribution and geochemistry of 925 Ma mafic dykes and 900 Ma sills in the North China craton: Evidence for a Neoproterozoic mantle plume

    Peng Peng;Wouter Bleeker;Richard E. Ernst;Ulf Söderlund

  • Boninite series: low Ti-tholeiite associations from the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt

    R. Kerrich;D.A. Wyman;J. Fan;W. Bleeker

  • The Central Slave Basement Complex, Part I: its structural topology and autochthonous cover

    Wouter Bleeker;John W. F. Ketchum;Valerie A. Jackson;Michael E. Villeneuve

  • Age of the World's Oldest Rocks Refined Using Canada's SHRIMP: The Acasta Gneiss Complex, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Richard A. Stern;Wouter Bleeker

  • Archaean tectonics: a review, with illustrations from the Slave craton

    Wouter Bleeker

  • Episodic, mafic crust formation from 4.5 to 2.8 Ga: New evidence from detrital zircons, Slave craton, Canada

    A.B. Pietranik;A.B. Pietranik;C.J. Hawkesworth;C.D. Storey;A.I.S. Kemp

  • Lithosphere development in the Slave craton: a linked crustal and mantle perspective

    W.J. Davis;A.G. Jones;W. Bleeker;H. Grütter

  • Sulfide Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Ore Genesis of the Kidd Creek Deposit: Part I. North, Central, and South Orebodies

    M. D. Hannington;W. Bleeker;I. Kjarsgaard

  • Seismic imaging of massive sulfide deposits; Part I, Rock properties

    Matthew H. Salisbury;Bernd Milkereit;Wouter Bleeker

  • Timing of plutonism, deformation, and metamorphism in the Yellowknife Domain, Slave Province, Canada

    W J Davis;Wouter Bleeker

  • In situ U–Pb SIMS (IN-SIMS) micro-baddeleyite dating of mafic rocks: Method with examples

    Kevin R. Chamberlain;Axel K. Schmitt;Susan M. Swapp;T. Mark Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Ernst
Richard E. Ernst Carleton University
Stephen J. Mojzsis
Stephen J. Mojzsis University of Bayreuth
Ulf Söderlund
Ulf Söderlund Lund University
Kevin R. Chamberlain
Kevin R. Chamberlain University of Wyoming
Klaus Mezger
Klaus Mezger University of Bern
Michael A. Hamilton
Michael A. Hamilton University of Toronto
Erik E. Scherer
Erik E. Scherer University of Münster
Brian Cousens
Brian Cousens Carleton University
William J. Davis
William J. Davis Geological Survey of Canada
Ross N. Mitchell
Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences

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