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Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Seismology and Earthquake Studies is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques to improve the accuracy and timeliness of earthquake early warning systems. It covers topics such as seismic signal classification, real-time seismology, convolutional neural networks for seismic phase picking, and the integration of citizen science in earthquake monitoring.

  • Machine Learning
  • Seismic Signals
  • Earthquake Detection
  • Early Warning
  • Convolutional Neural Network
  • Seismic Event Classification
  • Real-Time Seismology
  • Deep Learning Models
  • Seismic Phase Picking
  • Citizen Science
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Which countries lead Seismology and Earthquake Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 873 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 873 works
  3. 3 India 379 works
  4. 4 Japan 290 works
  5. 5 Italy 256 works
  6. 6 France 148 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 143 works
  8. 8 Russia 132 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 127 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 113 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 34.7%United States: 23.2%India: 10.1%Japan: 7.7%6 others listed: 24.4%35%largest
China1,309 · 34.7%United States873 · 23.2%India379 · 10.1%Japan290 · 7.7%6 others listed919 · 24.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Seismology and Earthquake Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, China Earthquake Administration publishes the most Seismology and Earthquake Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China Earthquake AdministrationChina 133 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 92 works
  3. 3 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e VulcanologiaItaly 69 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 53 works
  6. 6 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 48 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 34 works
  8. 8 Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 30 works
  9. 9 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Seismology and Earthquake Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Seismology and Earthquake Studies include G. Mitselmakher, David P. Bartel and Ian W Harry.

  1. 1 G. Mitselmakher France 223k citations
  2. 2 David P. Bartel United States 200k citations
  3. 3 Ian W Harry Germany 189k citations
  4. 4 Sanjit Mitra India 167k citations
  5. 5 Duncan A. Brown United States 163k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 A. V. Filippenko United States 150k citations
  8. 8 Bernhard Schölkopf Germany 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Seismology and Earthquake Studies?

The most cited paper in Seismology and Earthquake Studies is "Earthquake shakes Twitter users" (Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, 2010), with 3,684 citations. Next come "A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California" (3,631) and "Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements" (2,480).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Earthquake shakes Twitter users Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo Conference paper 26 Apr 2010 3,684
2 A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California F. Waldhauser · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Dec 2000 3,631
3 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 Open access 5 Apr 2007 2,480
4 High-Resolution Surface-Wave Tomography from Ambient Seismic Noise Nikolai M. Shapiro, Michel Campillo, Laurent Stehly et al. · Science 10 Mar 2005 2,318
5 ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for Seismology Moritz Beyreuther, R. Barsch, Lion Krischer et al. · Seismological Research Letters May 2010 1,872
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Where is Seismology and Earthquake Studies research done?

The largest centres of Seismology and Earthquake Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Rome (Italy) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Reston.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 402 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 105 works
  3. 3 RomeItaly 96 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 74 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 72 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 59 works
  7. 7 HarbinChina 54 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 53 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 51 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RestonUS · 42.1 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Seismology and Earthquake Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Seismology and Earthquake Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 77.018.5%17.9×22 +36.9%
2University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 76.032.0%3.8×19 +301.1%
3University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 75.221.5%6.8×28 +44.5%
4ETH ZurichSwitzerland 72.119.2%8.5×26 -36.0%
5China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 69.820.0%8.1×28 +169.2%
6Central South UniversityChina 68.124.4%2.5×21 +48.4%
7Michigan State UniversityUnited States 67.420.8%5.5×18 +753.9%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 66.231.0%2.8×18 -29.5%
9University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.920.2%4.7×24 +37.3%
10Chengdu University of TechnologyChina 64.413.4%18.1×30 +217.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Seismology and Earthquake Studies, country by country

Is Seismology and Earthquake Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Seismology and Earthquake Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Seismology and Earthquake Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Seismology and Earthquake Studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Seismology and Earthquake Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Who leads earthquake research?

By volume in 2022-now, China Earthquake Administration publishes the most Seismology and Earthquake Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 873 works in 2022-now).

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