Philippe Claeys

15.7k citations

331 papers · 6.6k · 1 hit paper · h-index 39

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Paleontology top 0.2%
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Geophysics top 0.5%
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- earthquake and tectonic studies

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 137
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 133
Astronomy and Astrophysics 115
- Astro and Planetary Science 92
- Planetary Science and Exploration 90

Co-authors: David De Vleeschouwer (25 shared papers)Anne‐Christine Da Silva (7 shared papers)Frédéric Boulvain (4 shared papers)Steven Goderis (114 shared papers)Frank Vanhaecke (51 shared papers)Stanley V. Margolis (5 shared papers)Niels J. de Winter (31 shared papers)Jan Smit (28 shared papers)
Journals: Meteoritics and Planetary Science (23 papers)Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (16 papers)Geology (12 papers)Climate of the past (11 papers)Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (11 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium United States Germany

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Philippe Claeys

315 papers receiving 6.4k citations

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Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 2010 · 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

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1	Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs David De Vleeschouwer, Anne‐Christine Da Silva, Frédéric Boulvain, Philippe Claeys Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1093
2	Coeval ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites Science ·Carl C. Swisher, José Manuel Grajales-Nishimura, Alessandro Montanari, Stanley V. Margolis, Philippe Claeys, Walter Álvarez, Paul R. Renne, Esteban Cedillo-Pardoa, F. J. Maurrasse, Garniss H. Curtis, Jan Smit, Michael McWilliams	1992	237
3	Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico Geology ·Jan Smit, Alessandro Montanari, Nicola H.M. Swinburne, Walter Álvarez, A. R. Hildebrand, Stanley V. Margolis, Philippe Claeys, William Lowrie, Frank Asaro	1992	173
4	The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland) Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·David De Vleeschouwer, Michał Rakociński, Grzegorz Racki, David P.G. Bond, Katarzyna Sobień, Philippe Claeys	2013	116
5	Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: A restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540 Geology ·Walter Álvarez, Jan Smit, William Lowrie, Frank Asaro, Stanley V. Margolis, Philippe Claeys, Miriam Kastner, A. R. Hildebrand	1992	102
6	Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Shocked Quartz from Chicxulub Crater Science ·Walter Álvarez, Philippe Claeys, S. W. Kieffer	1995	98
7	Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland. PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Philippe Claeys, Ashlea N. Wainwright, (unknown), Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, (unknown)	2020	89
8	Microtektites and Mass Extinctions: Evidence for a Late Devonian Asteroid Impact Science ·Philippe Claeys, Jean-Georges Casier, Stanley V. Margolis	1992	86
9	Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields Geology ·José Manuel Grajales-Nishimura, E. Cedillo-Pardo, Carmen Rosales-Domínguez, Dante J. Morán-Zenteno, Walter Álvarez, Philippe Claeys, José Ruíz-Morales, J. García-Hernández, Patricia Padilla-Avila, Antonieta Sánchez-Ríos	2000	82
10	Reduced plumage and flight ability of a new Jurassic paravian theropod from China Nature Communications ·Pascal Godefroit, Helena Demuynck, Gareth J. Dyke, Dongyu Hu, François Escuillié, Philippe Claeys	2013	77
11	An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Todd A. Surovell, Vance T. Holliday, Joseph A. M. Gingerich, Caroline Ketron, C. Vance Haynes, Ilene Hilman, Daniel Wagner, Eileen Johnson, Philippe Claeys	2009	72
12	Orbital control on the timing of oceanic anoxia in the Late Cretaceous Climate of the past ·Sietske J. Batenburg, David De Vleeschouwer, Mario Sprovieri, F.J. Hilgen, Andrew S. Gale, Brad S. Singer, Christian Koeberl, Rodolfo Coccioni, Philippe Claeys, Alessandro Montanari	2016	71
13	Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity Nature Communications ·David De Vleeschouwer, Anne‐Christine Da Silva, Matthias Sinnesael, Daizhao Chen, James E. Day, Michael T. Whalen, Zenghui Guo, Philippe Claeys	2017	69
14	Negative effects of cattle on soil carbon and nutrient pools reversed by megaherbivores Nature Sustainability ·Judith Sitters, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Truman P. Young, Philippe Claeys, Harry Olde Venterink	2020	68
15	Reevaluation of siderophile element abundances and ratios across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary: Implications for the nature of the projectile Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Steven Goderis, R. Tagle, Joke Belza, Jan Smit, Alessandro Montanari, Frank Vanhaecke, J. Erzinger, Philippe Claeys	2013	68
16	Geochemistry of Impactites Elements ·Christian Koeberl, Philippe Claeys, Lutz Hecht, Iain McDonald	2012	68
17	An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body Science Advances ·Birger Schmitz, Kenneth A. Farley, Steven Goderis, P. R. Heck, Stig M. Bergström, Samuele Boschi, Philippe Claeys, Vinciane Debaille, A. V. Dronov, Matthias Van Ginneken, David A. T. Harper, Faisal Iqbal, Johan Friberg, Shiyong Liao, Ellinor Martin, M. M. M. Meier, Bernhard Peucker‐Ehrenbrink, Bastien Soens, R. Wieler, Fredrik Terfelt	2019	67
18	Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales Scientific Reports ·Christophe Snoeck, John Pouncett, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis, Nadine Mattielli, Mike Parker Pearson, Christie Willis, Antoine Zazzo, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Rick Schulting	2018	64
19	Microtektites, Microkrystites, and Spinels from a Late Pliocene Asteroid Impact in the Southern Ocean Science ·Stanley V. Margolis, Philippe Claeys, Frank T. Kyte	1991	63
20	Magnetic susceptibility as a high-resolution correlation tool and as a climatic proxy in Paleozoic rocks – Merits and pitfalls: Examples from the Devonian in Belgium Marine and Petroleum Geology ·Anne‐Christine Da Silva, David De Vleeschouwer, Frédéric Boulvain, Philippe Claeys, Nathalie Fagel, Marc Humblet, Cédric Mabille, Jennifer Michel, Mehrdad Sardar Abadi, Damien Pas, Mark J. Dekkers	2013	63

About Philippe Claeys

Philippe Claeys is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Paleontology and Ecology, having authored 331 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (133 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (92 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (91 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (90 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (63 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (44 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (33 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (2.4k citations), Geophysics (2.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.9k citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (676 citations) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.6k citations). Philippe Claeys has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include David De Vleeschouwer, Anne‐Christine Da Silva, Frédéric Boulvain, Steven Goderis, Frank Vanhaecke, Stanley V. Margolis, Niels J. de Winter, Jan Smit, Walter Álvarez and Jean-Georges Casier. Their work appears in journals such as Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geology, Climate of the past and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

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