Most cited papers in Seismology and Earthquake Studies
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).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 490 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earthquake shakes Twitter users Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo | 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 | 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 |
| 6 | Is the sequence of earthquakes in Southern California, with aftershocks removed, Poissonian? J. K. Gardner, L. Knopoff · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Oct 1974 | 1,805 |
| 7 | The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence Ross S. Stein · Nature | Dec 1999 | 1,770 |
| 8 | Nonvolcanic Deep Tremor Associated with Subduction in Southwest Japan Kazushige Obara · Science | 31 May 2002 | 1,438 |
| 9 | A Software Package to Analyze Seismicity: ZMAP Stefan Wiemer · Seismological Research Letters | May 2001 | 1,391 |
| 10 | Automatic earthquake recognition and timing from single traces Rex V. Allen · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Oct 1978 | 1,342 |
| 11 | Machine learning for data-driven discovery in solid Earth geoscience Karianne J. Bergen, Paul Allan Johnson, Maarten V. de Hoop et al. · Science | 21 Mar 2019 | 1,271 |
| 12 | The Mechanics of Oblique Slip Faulting M. H. P. Bott · Geological Magazine | Apr 1959 | 1,242 |
| 13 | Earthquake Prediction: A Physical Basis Christian Scholz, Lynn R. Sykes, Yash Pal Aggarwal · Science | 31 Aug 1973 | 1,192 |
| 14 | Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere Marcia K. Mcnutt · Eos | 11 Jun 2002 | 1,157 |
| 15 | Source mechanisms and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the nankai trough, Japan Masataka Ando · Tectonophysics | Jun 1975 | 1,149 |
| 16 | Earthquake transformer—an attentive deep-learning model for simultaneous earthquake detection and phase picking S. Mostafa Mousavi, William L. Ellsworth, Weiqiang Zhu et al. · Nature Communications | 7 Aug 2020 | 1,144 |
| 17 | PhaseNet: A Deep-Neural-Network-Based Seismic Arrival Time Picking Method Weiqiang Zhu, Gregory C. Beroza · Geophysical Journal International | 11 Oct 2018 | 1,124 |
| 18 | Site effect evaluation using spectral ratios with only one station J. Lermo, Francisco José Chávez-García · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Oct 1993 | 1,111 |
| 19 | Earthquake magnitude, intensity, energy, and acceleration B. Gutenberg, Charles Francis Richter · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Apr 1956 | 1,108 |
| 20 | Initial reference models in local earthquake tomography Edi Kissling, W. L. Ellsworth, Donna Eberhart‐Phillips et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Oct 1994 | 1,090 |
| 21 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Bruce Stillman · Molecular Medicine | Nov 1995 | 1,032 |
| 22 | Monitoring velocity variations in the crust using earthquake doublets: An application to the Calaveras Fault, California G. Poupinet, William L. Ellsworth, Julien Fréchet · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 Jul 1984 | 1,031 |
| 23 | Ambient Noise Levels in the Continental United States Dylan E. McNamara · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Aug 2004 | 997 |
| 24 | Evidence for and implications of self-healing pulses of slip in earthquake rupture Thomas H. Heaton · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors | Nov 1990 | 988 |
| 25 | 3-D seismic discontinuity for faults and stratigraphic features: The coherence cube Mike S. Bahorich, Steve L. Farmer · The Leading Edge | Oct 1995 | 957 |
| 26 | Convolutional neural network for earthquake detection and location Thibaut Perol, Michaël Gharbi, Marine Denolle · Science Advances | 2 Feb 2018 | 948 |
| 27 | Mechanism of tsunami earthquakes Hiroo Kanamori · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors | 1972 | 946 |
| 28 | Recent progress of seismic observation networks in Japan —Hi-net, F-net, K-NET and KiK-net— Yoshimitsu Okada, Keiji Kasahara, Sadaki Hori et al. · Earth Planets and Space | 24 Jun 2014 | 939 |
| 29 | Finite difference computation of traveltimes in very contrasted velocity models: a massively parallel approach and its associated tools Pascal Podvin, Isabelle Lecomte · Geophysical Journal International | Apr 1991 | 933 |
| 30 | ObsPy: a bridge for seismology into the scientific Python ecosystem Lion Krischer, Tobias Megies, R. Barsch et al. · Computational Science & Discovery | 18 May 2015 | 918 |
| 31 | Probabilistic Earthquake Location in 3D and Layered Models Anthony Lomax, Jean Virieux, Philippe Volant et al. · Modern approaches in geophysics | 2000 | 900 |
| 32 | Aftershocks driven by a high-pressure CO2 source at depth Stephen A. Miller, Cristiano Collettini, Lauro Chiaraluce et al. · Nature | Feb 2004 | 880 |
| 33 | OpenQuake Engine: An Open Hazard (and Risk) Software for the Global Earthquake Model Marco Pagani, D. Monelli, Graeme A. Weatherill et al. · Seismological Research Letters | May 2014 | 862 |
| 34 | An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology Keith Edward Bullen, Bruce A. Bolt, John W. Rudnicki · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1986 | 844 |
| 35 | Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps Fan‐Chi Lin, Morgan P. Moschetti, Michael H. Ritzwoller · Geophysical Journal International | 20 Feb 2008 | 831 |
| 36 | Earthquakes Cannot Be Predicted Robert J. Geller, David D. Jackson, Y. Y. Kagan et al. · Science | 14 Mar 1997 | 825 |
| 37 | Propagation of Slow Slip Leading Up to the 2011 M w 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Aitaro Kato, Kazushige Obara, Toshihiro Igarashi et al. · Science | 20 Jan 2012 | 806 |
| 38 | Elementary Seismology Howard J. Pincus · Journal of Geological Education | Mar 1959 | 802 |
| 39 | Imaging dispersion curves of surface waves on multi-channel record Choon Byong Park, Richard D. Miller, Jianghai Xia | 1998 | 788 |
| 40 | The mechanics of earthquakes and faulting J. C. Savage · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors | Nov 1991 | 755 |
| 41 | Potentially induced earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA: Links between wastewater injection and the 2011 Mw 5.7 earthquake sequence Katie M. Keranen, H. M. Savage, G. A. Abers et al. · Geology | 27 Mar 2013 | 753 |
| 42 | Magnitude and Energy of Earthquakes B. Gutenberg, Charles Francis Richter · Nature | 22 Oct 1955 | 741 |
| 43 | Shortest path calculation of seismic rays T. J. Moser · Geophysics | 1991 | 739 |
| 44 | Earthquake Fault Scaling: Self-Consistent Relating of Rupture Length, Width, Average Displacement, and Moment Release Mark Leonard · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 20 Sep 2010 | 733 |
| 45 | PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL RESPONSE SPECTRA IN EUROPE Nicholas N. Ambraseys, Kate Simpson, Julian J. Bommer · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics | Apr 1996 | 725 |
| 46 | Faster, Better: Shear-Wave Velocity to 100 Meters Depth from Refraction Microtremor Arrays J. N. Louie · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Apr 2001 | 710 |
| 47 | Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures Steven G. Wesnousky · Nature | Nov 2006 | 704 |
| 48 | An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure Clifford H Thurber · Eos | 3 Jun 2003 | 697 |
| 49 | Seismicity Of The Earth B. Gutenberg, Charles Francis Richter · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) | 2012 | 691 |
| 50 | Determination of teleseismic relative phase arrival times using multi-channel cross-correlation and least squares John C. VanDecar, Robert S. Crosson · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Feb 1990 | 688 |
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