A. Baltay

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

A. Baltay is a scholar working on Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Baltay has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Geophysics, 32 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in A. Baltay's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (41 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (40 papers) and Seismic Performance and Analysis (31 papers). A. Baltay is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (41 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (40 papers) and Seismic Performance and Analysis (31 papers). A. Baltay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. A. Baltay's co-authors include Gregory C. Beroza, Satoshi Ide, Thomas C. Hanks, G. A. Prieto, S. E. Minson, E. S. Cochran, Norman Abrahamson, Men‐Andrin Meier, D. Kilb and Grace A. Parker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

A. Baltay

60 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 M _w 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

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Author						Papers	Cites
A. Baltay	1.8k	738	541	80	69	64	2.0k
M. T. Page	2.1k 1.2×	858 1.2×	400 0.7×	79 1.0×	35 0.5×	61	2.4k
Vincent Quitoriano	1.3k 0.7×	608 0.8×	890 1.6×	105 1.3×	54 0.8×	15	1.8k
C. Bruce Worden	1.4k 0.8×	617 0.8×	1.0k 1.9×	88 1.1×	31 0.4×	22	1.9k
James W. Dewey	1.7k 0.9×	442 0.6×	295 0.5×	55 0.7×	21 0.3×	49	2.0k
Men‐Andrin Meier	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 2.2×	97 0.2×	62 0.8×	51 0.7×	38	2.0k
N. van der Elst	1.5k 0.8×	578 0.8×	96 0.2×	40 0.5×	17 0.2×	47	1.7k
Emanuele Casarotti	1.1k 0.6×	220 0.3×	147 0.3×	29 0.4×	25 0.4×	43	1.3k
A. L. Llenos	941 0.5×	330 0.4×	157 0.3×	54 0.7×	22 0.3×	41	1.1k
Douglas D. Given	763 0.4×	498 0.7×	176 0.3×	37 0.5×	30 0.4×	32	917
Yun-Tai Chen	1.2k 0.7×	320 0.4×	109 0.2×	47 0.6×	15 0.2×	78	1.4k

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Baltay, A. & Rachel E. Abercrombie. (2025). Seismic Moment and Local Magnitude Scales in Ridgecrest, California, from the SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop Validation Study. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 115(3). 1279–1293. 2 indexed citations

Cochran, E. S., S. E. Minson, N. van der Elst, et al.. (2025). Mechanics and Statistics of Postseismic Shaking. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(18). 1 indexed citations

Saunders, J. K., S. E. Minson, A. Baltay, et al.. (2025). What 25+ Years of “Did You Feel It” Intensities Tell Us About Shaking in California. Seismological Research Letters. 96(4). 2625–2637.

Baltay, A., Rachel E. Abercrombie, Adrien Oth, & Takahiko Uchide. (2025). Introduction to the Special Section on Improving Measurements of Earthquake Source Parameters. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 115(3). 723–733. 1 indexed citations

Withers, K., Morgan P. Moschetti, Peter M. Powers, et al.. (2024). Integration of rupture directivity models for the US National Seismic Hazard Model. Earthquake Spectra. 40(2). 1066–1098. 5 indexed citations

Baltay, A., et al.. (2024). The Impact of Source Time Function Complexity on Stress-Drop Estimates. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 115(3). 1149–1161. 6 indexed citations

Cochran, E. S., A. Baltay, Shanna Chu, et al.. (2024). SCEC/USGS Community Stress-Drop Validation Study: How Spectral Fitting Approaches Influence Measured Source Parameters. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 115(3). 760–776. 10 indexed citations

Saunders, J. K., A. Baltay, S. E. Minson, & Maren Böse. (2024). Uncertainty in Ground-Motion-to-Intensity Conversions Significantly Affects Earthquake Early Warning Alert Regions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 121–130. 5 indexed citations

Baltay, A., Rachel E. Abercrombie, Shanna Chu, & T. Taira. (2024). The SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop Validation Study Using the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 35 indexed citations

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Chu, Shanna, A. Baltay, & Rachel E. Abercrombie. (2024). Characterizing Directivity in Small (M 2.4–5) Aftershocks of the Ridgecrest Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 115(3). 1177–1188. 6 indexed citations

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Hayes, G. P., A. Baltay, William D. Barnhart, et al.. (2024). U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program decadal science strategy, 2024–33. U.S. Geological Survey circular. 2 indexed citations

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Parker, Grace A., et al.. (2023). Rupture Directivity of the 25 October 2022 Mw 5.1 Alum Rock Earthquake. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 144–155. 5 indexed citations

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Cochran, E. S., J. K. Saunders, S. E. Minson, et al.. (2022). Alert Optimization of the PLUM Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm for the Western United States. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 112(2). 803–819. 10 indexed citations

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Parker, Grace A. & A. Baltay. (2022). Empirical Map-Based Nonergodic Models of Site Response in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 112(3). 1607–1629. 21 indexed citations

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Kilb, D., Julian Bunn, J. K. Saunders, et al.. (2021). The PLUM Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm: A Retrospective Case Study of West Coast, USA, Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(7). 15 indexed citations

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Murray, J. R., Eric M. Thompson, A. Baltay, & S. E. Minson. (2021). The Impact of 3D Finite-Fault Information on Ground-Motion Forecasting for Earthquake Early Warning. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 112(2). 779–802. 5 indexed citations

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Johnson, Christopher, D. Kilb, A. Baltay, & F. L. Vernon. (2020). Peak Ground Velocity Spatial Variability Revealed by Dense Seismic Array in Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 125(6). 12 indexed citations

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Sahakian, Valerie J., A. Baltay, Thomas C. Hanks, et al.. (2019). Ground Motion Residuals, Path Effects, and Crustal Properties: A Pilot Study in Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(6). 5738–5753. 31 indexed citations

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Minson, S. E., Men‐Andrin Meier, A. Baltay, Thomas C. Hanks, & E. S. Cochran. (2018). The limits of earthquake early warning: Timeliness of ground motion estimates. Science Advances. 4(3). eaaq0504–eaaq0504. 122 indexed citations

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Given, Douglas D., R. M. Allen, A. Baltay, et al.. (2018). Revised technical implementation plan for the ShakeAlert system—An earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the United States. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 100 indexed citations

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