Most cited papers in Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques?
The most cited paper in Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques is "Ten Lectures on Wavelets" (Ingrid C. Daubechies, Christopher Heil, 1992), with 15,440 citations. Next come "A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis" (15,178) and "De-noising by soft-thresholding" (9,709).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 935 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten Lectures on Wavelets Ingrid C. Daubechies, Christopher Heil · Computers in Physics | 1992 | 15,440 |
| 2 | A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis Christopher Torrence, Gilbert P. Compo · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 1998 | 15,178 |
| 3 | De-noising by soft-thresholding David L. Donoho · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | May 1995 | 9,709 |
| 4 | Theory of Propagation of Elastic Waves in a Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid. I. Low-Frequency Range M. A. Biot · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Mar 1956 | 8,176 |
| 5 | Atomic Decomposition by Basis Pursuit Scott Shaobing Chen, David L. Donoho, Michael A. Saunders · SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing | 1998 | 7,009 |
| 6 | High-resolution frequency-wavenumber spectrum analysis Jack Capon · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1969 | 6,396 |
| 7 | Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space Yoshimitsu Okada · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Aug 1985 | 5,242 |
| 8 | Adapting to Unknown Smoothness via Wavelet Shrinkage David L. Donoho, Iain M. Johnstone · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 1995 | 4,375 |
| 9 | An overview of full-waveform inversion in exploration geophysics J. Virieux, Stéphane Operto · Geophysics | 2009 | 3,767 |
| 10 | Inversion of seismic reflection data in the acoustic approximation Albert Tarantola · Geophysics | Aug 1984 | 3,746 |
| 11 | P-SV wave propagation in heterogeneous media; velocity-stress finite-difference method Jean Virieux · Geophysics | Apr 1986 | 2,834 |
| 12 | The extraction of drainage networks from digital elevation data John F. O'Callaghan, David M Mark · Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing | Dec 1984 | 2,804 |
| 13 | Wavelets and signal processing Olivier Rioul, Martin Vetterli · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | Oct 1991 | 2,792 |
| 14 | Multichannel analysis of surface waves Choon B. Park, Richard D. Miller, Jianghai Xia · Geophysics | Jun 1999 | 2,764 |
| 15 | Fault zone architecture and permeability structure Jonathan Saul Caine, James P. Evans, Craig B. Forster · Geology | 1996 | 2,625 |
| 16 | The rician distribution of noisy mri data Hákon Guðbjartsson, Samuel Patz · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | Dec 1995 | 2,519 |
| 17 | Injection-Induced Earthquakes William L. Ellsworth · Science | 11 Jul 2013 | 2,496 |
| 18 | Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements G. D. Bensen, Michael H. Ritzwoller, M. P. Barmin et al. · Geophysical Journal International | 5 Apr 2007 | 2,480 |
| 19 | Absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of waves Bjorn E. Engquist, Andrew J. Majda · Mathematics of Computation | 1977 | 2,411 |
| 20 | The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji, Jack Dvorkin | 2011 | 2,384 |
| 21 | Theory of dynamic permeability and tortuosity in fluid-saturated porous media David Linton Johnson, Joel Koplik, Roger Dashen · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Mar 1987 | 2,290 |
| 22 | The Lifting Scheme: A Custom-Design Construction of Biorthogonal Wavelets Wim Sweldens · Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis | Apr 1996 | 2,215 |
| 23 | The dispersion of surface waves on multilayered media* Norman Abraham Haskell · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1953 | 2,182 |
| 24 | A NEW VIEW OF NONLINEAR WATER WAVES: The Hilbert Spectrum Norden Eh Huang, Zhengwei Shen, Steven Long · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 1999 | 2,121 |
| 25 | The discrete wavelet transform: wedding the a trous and Mallat algorithms Mark J. Shensa · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 1992 | 2,002 |
| 26 | Uniqueness of ab initio shape determination in small-angle scattering В. В. Волков, Dmitri I. Svergun · Journal of Applied Crystallography | 16 Apr 2003 | 1,975 |
| 27 | A review of the adjoint-state method for computing the gradient of a functional with geophysical applications René-Édouard Plessix · Geophysical Journal International | Nov 2006 | 1,947 |
| 28 | Empirical Relations between Elastic Wavespeeds and Density in the Earth's Crust Thomas M. Brocher · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Dec 2005 | 1,888 |
| 29 | ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for Seismology Moritz Beyreuther, R. Barsch, Lion Krischer et al. · Seismological Research Letters | May 2010 | 1,872 |
| 30 | A review on Hilbert‐Huang transform: Method and its applications to geophysical studies Norden Eh Huang, Zhaohua Wu · Reviews of Geophysics | Jun 2008 | 1,835 |
| 31 | The frequency-magnitude relation of microfracturing in rock and its relation to earthquakes Christopher H. Scholz · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Feb 1968 | 1,832 |
| 32 | An introduction to wavelets A. L. Graps · IEEE Computational Science and Engineering | 1995 | 1,772 |
| 33 | Estimation of near-surface shear-wave velocity by inversion of Rayleigh waves Jianghai Xia, Richard D. Miller, Choon B. Park · Geophysics | Jun 1999 | 1,757 |
| 34 | Image reconstruction by domain-transform manifold learning Bo Zhu, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Stephen Cauley et al. · Nature | Mar 2018 | 1,752 |
| 35 | Multiscale seismic waveform inversion Carey Bunks, Fatimetou M. Saleck, Stéphane Zaleski et al. · Geophysics | Oct 1995 | 1,631 |
| 36 | Substructure solution withSHELXD Thomas R. Schneider, George M. Sheldrick · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography | 27 Sep 2002 | 1,602 |
| 37 | High-resolution X-ray computed tomography in geosciences: A review of the current technology and applications Veerle Cnudde, Matthieu Boone · Earth-Science Reviews | 19 Apr 2013 | 1,582 |
| 38 | Reverse time migration Edip Baysal, Dan D. Kosloff, John W. C. Sherwood · Geophysics | Nov 1983 | 1,580 |
| 39 | Seismic waveform inversion in the frequency domain; Part 1, Theory and verification in a physical scale model R. G. Pratt · Geophysics | Jun 1999 | 1,572 |
| 40 | Seismic properties of pore fluids Michael Lee Batzle, Zhijin Wang · Geophysics | Nov 1992 | 1,552 |
| 41 | Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm—I. Searching a parameter space Malcolm S. Sambridge · Geophysical Journal International | Aug 1999 | 1,549 |
| 42 | A review of recent developments concerning the structure, mechanics and fluid flow properties of fault zones Daniel Roy Faulkner, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Rebecca Jane Lunn et al. · Journal of Structural Geology | 6 Jul 2010 | 1,543 |
| 43 | Gauss-Newton and full Newton methods in frequency-space seismic waveform inversion G. Pratt, Changsoo Shin, M.A. Hicks · Geophysical Journal International | 26 May 1998 | 1,542 |
| 44 | Fourth-order finite-difference P-SV seismograms A. Levander · Geophysics | Nov 1988 | 1,530 |
| 45 | Introduction to the spectral element method for three-dimensional seismic wave propagation Dimitri Komatitsch, Jeroen Tromp · Geophysical Journal International | Dec 1999 | 1,527 |
| 46 | Cycle-octave and related transforms in seismic signal analysis Pierre L. Goupillaud, A. Großmann, J. Morlet · Geoexploration | Oct 1984 | 1,522 |
| 47 | Acquisition, optimization and interpretation of X-ray computed tomographic imagery: applications to the geosciences Richard A. Ketcham, William D. Carlson · Computers & Geosciences | May 2001 | 1,520 |
| 48 | Seismic traveltime inversion for 2-D crustal velocity structure Colin A. Zelt, Robert B. Smith · Geophysical Journal International | 1992 | 1,469 |
| 49 | The spectral element method: An efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures Dimitri Komatitsch, Jean‐Pierre Vilotte · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Apr 1998 | 1,430 |
| 50 | Velocity and attenuation of seismic waves in two-phase media; Part I, Theoretical formulations Guy T. Kuster, M. Nafi Toksöz · Geophysics | Oct 1974 | 1,402 |
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