Avinash Nayak

754 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 466 citations indexed

About

Avinash Nayak is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Avinash Nayak has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 466 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Geophysics, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Avinash Nayak's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (26 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (16 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (13 papers). Avinash Nayak is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (26 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (16 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (13 papers). Avinash Nayak collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Avinash Nayak's co-authors include Jonathan Ajo‐Franklin, T. Taira, Douglas S. Dreger, Michael Manga, C. H. Thurber, Florent Brenguier, D. S. Dreger, Sankar Kumar Nath, K. K. S. Thingbaijam and N. A. Ruppert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Avinash Nayak

30 papers receiving 452 citations

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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.

Differential roles of deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring soil bacterial ecotypes across terrestrial ecosystems

2025 24 citations Avinash Nayak, Meimei Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Avinash Nayak United States	14	390	136	112	52	43	32	466
Chunquan Yu China	16	850 2.2×	88 0.6×	68 0.6×	26 0.5×	35 0.8×	51	903
Mónica Maceira United States	13	603 1.5×	179 1.3×	76 0.7×	15 0.3×	18 0.4×	39	700
Koya Suto Netherlands	5	511 1.3×	98 0.7×	206 1.8×	186 3.6×	18 0.4×	22	551
Margherita Maraschini Italy	11	437 1.1×	58 0.4×	224 2.0×	82 1.6×	15 0.3×	26	484
Patrick Lamare France	4	246 0.6×	99 0.7×	110 1.0×	30 0.6×	147 3.4×	4	383
Ivo Opršal Czechia	13	414 1.1×	80 0.6×	72 0.6×	107 2.1×	25 0.6×	24	457
Giovanni Santarato Italy	12	336 0.9×	32 0.2×	260 2.3×	50 1.0×	20 0.5×	46	428
Yi-an Cui China	12	274 0.7×	44 0.3×	211 1.9×	34 0.7×	38 0.9×	55	377
Ernst Schetselaar Canada	12	227 0.6×	170 1.3×	107 1.0×	9 0.2×	15 0.3×	30	386
Ben Dashwood United Kingdom	12	272 0.7×	50 0.4×	147 1.3×	66 1.3×	10 0.2×	34	363

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nayak, Avinash, et al.. (2025). Differential roles of deterministic and stochastic processes in structuring soil bacterial ecotypes across terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2337–2337. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

Ajo‐Franklin, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Distributed acoustic sensing microseismic reflection imaging for hydraulic fracture and fault lineament characterization. Geophysics. 89(4). D183–D192. 7 indexed citations

Correa, Julia, Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Avinash Nayak, et al.. (2024). Revealing complex subsurface dynamics with continuous seismic monitoring: Observations using distributed acoustic sensing and surface orbital vibrators during hydraulic fracturing. Geophysics. 89(6). P47–P56. 3 indexed citations

Nayak, Avinash, Julia Correa, & Jonathan Ajo‐Franklin. (2024). Seismic Magnitude Estimation Using Low-Frequency Strain Amplitudes Recorded by DAS Arrays at Far-Field Distances. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 114(4). 1818–1838. 7 indexed citations

Cheng, Feng, Jonathan Ajo‐Franklin, Avinash Nayak, et al.. (2023). Using Dark Fiber and Distributed Acoustic Sensing to Characterize a Geothermal System in the Imperial Valley, Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(3). 23 indexed citations

Ajo‐Franklin, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). DAS microseismic reflection imaging for hydraulic fracture and fault zone mapping. 459–463. 2 indexed citations

Ajo‐Franklin, Jonathan, Verónica Rodrı́guez Tribaldos, Avinash Nayak, et al.. (2022). The Imperial Valley Dark Fiber Project: Toward Seismic Studies Using DAS and Telecom Infrastructure for Geothermal Applications. Seismological Research Letters. 93(5). 2906–2919. 21 indexed citations

Bai, Tong, Avinash Nayak, C. H. Thurber, Xiangfang Zeng, & M. M. Haney. (2021). Ambient noise tomography of the Katmai volcanic area, Alaska. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 419. 107373–107373. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Huaiyu, et al.. (2021). Improved full waveform moment tensor inversion of Cratonic intraplate earthquakes in southwest Australia. Geophysical Journal International. 227(1). 123–145. 3 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash, et al.. (2021). Measurement of Surface-Wave Phase-Velocity Dispersion on Mixed Inertial Seismometer – Distributed Acoustic Sensing Seismic Noise Cross-Correlations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 111(6). 3432–3450. 18 indexed citations

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Karlstrom, Leif, et al.. (2020). Sonification and Animation of Multivariate Data to Illuminate Dynamics of Geyser Eruptions. Computer Music Journal. 44(1). 35–50. 2 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash, Donna Eberhart‐Phillips, N. A. Ruppert, et al.. (2020). 3D Seismic Velocity Models for Alaska from Joint Tomographic Inversion of Body-Wave and Surface-Wave Data. Seismological Research Letters. 91(6). 3106–3119. 30 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash & C. H. Thurber. (2020). Using multicomponent ambient seismic noise cross-correlations to identify higher mode Rayleigh waves and improve dispersion measurements. Geophysical Journal International. 222(3). 1590–1605. 13 indexed citations

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Ruppert, N. A., et al.. (2019). Aftershock Analysis of the 2018 Mw 7.1 Anchorage, Alaska, Earthquake: Relocations and Regional Moment Tensors. Seismological Research Letters. 91(1). 114–125. 18 indexed citations

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Taira, T., Avinash Nayak, Florent Brenguier, & Michael Manga. (2018). Monitoring reservoir response to earthquakes and fluid extraction, Salton Sea geothermal field, California. Science Advances. 4(1). e1701536–e1701536. 65 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash, T. Taira, Douglas S. Dreger, & Roland Gritto. (2017). Empirical Green's tensor retrieved from ambient noise cross-correlations at The Geysers geothermal field, Northern California. Geophysical Journal International. 213(1). 340–369. 14 indexed citations

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Taira, T., Avinash Nayak, & Florent Brenguier. (2015). Temporal Variability in Seismic Velocity at the Salton Sea Geothermal Field. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash & Douglas S. Dreger. (2015). Source-Type-Specific Inversion of Moment Tensors. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 105(6). 2987–3000. 15 indexed citations

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Nath, Sankar Kumar, et al.. (2012). Ground-motion predictions in Shillong region, northeast India. Journal of Seismology. 16(3). 475–488. 32 indexed citations

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Nayak, Avinash, et al.. (2011). New Insights into Path Attenuation of Ground Motions in Northeast India and Northwest Himalayas. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101(5). 2550–2560. 2 indexed citations

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