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Robert J. Stern

Active 1979–2025

103
Papers
23,950
Citations
69
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Citations

Citations per year for Robert J. Stern1905: 1 citations1976: 2 citations1980: 2 citations1981: 2 citations1982: 2 citations1983: 9 citations1984: 6 citations1985: 8 citations1986: 6 citations1987: 16 citations1988: 12 citations1989: 8 citations1990: 21 citations1991: 16 citations1992: 11 citations1993: 17 citations1994: 52 citations1995: 15 citations1996: 40 citations1997: 23 citations1998: 66 citations1999: 29 citations2000: 37 citations2001: 32 citations2002: 59 citations2003: 155 citations2004: 90 citations2005: 87 citations2006: 144 citations2007: 95 citations2008: 93 citations2009: 172 citations2010: 139 citations2011: 164 citations2012: 187 citations2013: 255 citations2014: 220 citations2015: 206 citations2016: 173 citations2017: 244 citations2018: 238 citations2019: 417 citations2020: 395 citations2021: 297 citations2022: 273 citations2023: 152 citations2024: 246 citations2025: 113 citations2026: 1 citations1906–1975: no citations, so these years are not shown1977–1979: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 630 citing papers, 14.1% of this breakdownChina: 540 citing papers, 12% of this breakdownEgypt: 356 citing papers, 7.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 338 citing papers, 7.5% of this breakdownGermany: 275 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 231 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownFrance: 158 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownCanada: 157 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownJapan: 155 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownIran: 103 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownBrazil: 99 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSaudi Arabia: 95 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdown
0%14.1%Other 30.1%

Institutions

Fields

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences82.7%
  • Computer Science12%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.4%
  • Environmental Science1.1%
  • Engineering1%
  • Immunology and Microbiology0.4%
  • Other1.4%

Topics

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis28.4%
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping27.1%
  • earthquake and tectonic studies13.9%
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials9.9%
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis2.5%
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils1.9%
  • Other16.3%

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  1. Late Cryogenian–Ediacaran history of the Arabian–Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen

    Authors: Peter R. Johnson, Arild Andresen, Alan S. Collins, Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Harald Fritz, Woldai Ghebreab, Timothy Kusky, Robert J. Stern - Journal of African Earth Sciences 2011 cited by 796

  2. ARC ASSEMBLY AND CONTINENTAL COLLISION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN OROGEN: Implications for the Consolidation of Gondwanaland

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 1994 cited by 1,858

  3. Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

    Authors: Harald Fritz, Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Kamal A. Ali, Bernard Bingen, Alan S. Collins, Abdel-Rahman Fowler, Woldai Ghebreab, Christoph Hauzenberger, Peter R. Johnson, Timothy Kusky, P.H. Macey, S. Muhongo, Robert J. Stern, Giulio Viola - Journal of African Earth Sciences 2013 cited by 781

  4. SUBDUCTION ZONES

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Reviews of Geophysics 2002 cited by 1,414

  5. Geochemical mapping of the Mariana arc‐basin system: Implications for the nature and distribution of subduction components

    Authors: Julian A. Pearce, Robert J. Stern, Sherman H. Bloomer, Patty Fryer - Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2005 cited by 854

  6. Continental lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: A geologic, petrologic, and geophysical synthesis

    Authors: Robert J. Stern, Peter R. Johnson - Earth-Science Reviews 2010 cited by 699

  7. To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites

    Authors: Robert J. Stern, Mark K. Reagan, Osamu Ishizuka, Yasuhiko Ohara, Scott Whattam - Lithosphere 2012 cited by 459

  8. SHRIMP zircon dating and Sm/Nd isotopic investigations of Neoproterozoic granitoids, Eastern Desert, Egypt

    Authors: Ewais M.M. Moussa, Robert J. Stern, William I. Manton, Kamal A. Ali - Precambrian Research 2007 cited by 232

  9. Fore‐arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu‐Bonin‐Mariana system

    Authors: Mark K. Reagan, Osamu Ishizuka, Robert J. Stern, K. A. Kelley, Yasuhiko Ohara, Janne Blichert‐Toft, Sherman H. Bloomer, Jennifer Cash, P. Fryer, B. B. Hanan, Rosemary L. Hickey-Vargas, Teruaki Ishii, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, D.W. Peate, Michael C. Rowe, Melinda Woods - Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2010 cited by 819

  10. Sutures and shear zones in the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    Authors: Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Robert J. Stern - Journal of African Earth Sciences 1996 cited by 476

  11. Geological control of massive sulfide mineralization in the Neoproterozoic Wadi Bidah shear zone, southwestern Saudi Arabia, inferences from orbital remote sensing and field studies

    Authors: John C. Volesky, Robert J. Stern, Peter R. Johnson - Precambrian Research 2003 cited by 134

  12. Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review

    Authors: Robert J. Stern, Taras Gerya - Tectonophysics 2017 cited by 541

  13. Crustal evolution in the East African Orogen: a neodymium isotopic perspective

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Journal of African Earth Sciences 2002 cited by 536

  14. Origin of back-arc basin magmas: Trace element and isotope perspectives

    Authors: Julian A. Pearce, Robert J. Stern - Geophysical monograph 2006 cited by 523

  15. The Najd Fault System, Saudi Arabia and Egypt: A Late Precambrian rift‐related transform system?

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Tectonics 1985 cited by 393

  16. Gold-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfides and orogenic-gold deposits in the Nubian Shield

    Authors: Peter R. Johnson, Basem Zoheir, Woldai Ghebreab, Robert J. Stern, Christopher Barrie, R. D. Hamer - South African Journal of Geology 2017 cited by 94

  17. Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation

    Authors: Taras Gerya, Robert J. Stern, Marzieh Baes, S. V. Sobolev, Scott Whattam - Nature 2015 cited by 481

  18. Neoproterozoic Ophiolites of the Arabian-Nubian Shield

    Authors: Robert J. Stern, Peter R. Johnson, Alfred Kröner, Bisrat Yibas - Developments in precambrian geology 2004 cited by 324

  19. Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Geology 2005 cited by 574

  20. The ‘subduction initiation rule’: a key for linking ophiolites, intra-oceanic forearcs, and subduction initiation

    Authors: Scott Whattam, Robert J. Stern - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2011 cited by 424

  21. The evolution of plate tectonics

    Authors: Robert J. Stern - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 2018 cited by 225

  22. An overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction factory

    Authors: Robert J. Stern, M. J. Fouch, S. L. Klemperer - Geophysical monograph 2003 cited by 385

  23. How juvenile is the Arabian–Nubian Shield? Evidence from Nd isotopes and pre-Neoproterozoic inherited zircon in the Bi'r Umq suture zone, Saudi Arabia

    Authors: Ulysses S. Hargrove, Robert J. Stern, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, William I. Manton, Peter R. Johnson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006 cited by 283

  24. Evolution of the East African and related orogens, and the assembly of Gondwana

    Authors: Timothy Kusky, Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Robert D. Tucker, Robert J. Stern - Precambrian Research 2003 cited by 236