Christopher Milliner

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 661 citations indexed

About

Christopher Milliner is a scholar working on Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Milliner has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 661 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Geophysics, 1 paper in Civil and Structural Engineering and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Milliner's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (11 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (4 papers). Christopher Milliner is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (11 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (4 papers). Christopher Milliner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Christopher Milliner's co-authors include James F. Dolan, F. Ayoub, Sébastien Leprince, James Hollingsworth, C. G. Sammis, Cunren Liang, Tian Feng, Han Bao, E. J. Fielding and Jean‐Paul Ampuero and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Milliner

12 papers receiving 651 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake

2019 184 citations Han Bao, Jean‐Paul Ampuero et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Preconditioning the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake disaster

2023 74 citations Ekbal Hussain, Sibel Kalaycıoğlu et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Milliner United States	9	561	81	76	65	54	12	661
Hanna Flamme United States	5	1.0k 1.8×	73 0.9×	72 0.9×	119 1.8×	46 0.9×	8	1.1k
A. Ö. Konca Türkiye	15	947 1.7×	86 1.1×	110 1.4×	103 1.6×	21 0.4×	31	1.0k
Kalpna Gahalaut India	14	599 1.1×	42 0.5×	41 0.5×	90 1.4×	24 0.4×	28	671
Federica Ferrarini Italy	14	717 1.3×	72 0.9×	36 0.5×	60 0.9×	88 1.6×	26	810
Chaofan Li China	3	531 0.9×	35 0.4×	34 0.4×	61 0.9×	76 1.4×	4	615
Luca Dal Zilio Switzerland	17	949 1.7×	61 0.8×	39 0.5×	132 2.0×	44 0.8×	46	1.1k
Sotiris Sboras Greece	14	419 0.7×	59 0.7×	22 0.3×	79 1.2×	36 0.7×	35	526
Anna Maria Blumetti Italy	14	513 0.9×	92 1.1×	29 0.4×	48 0.7×	99 1.8×	38	556
Xiaojun Wu China	6	431 0.8×	39 0.5×	40 0.5×	32 0.5×	68 1.3×	9	505
Zujun Xie China	16	843 1.5×	44 0.5×	21 0.3×	116 1.8×	37 0.7×	20	921

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Milliner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Milliner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Milliner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Milliner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Milliner. Christopher Milliner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

Chen, Kejie, et al.. (2024). Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7004–7004. 8 indexed citations

Kearse, Jesse, et al.. (2024). Strong asymmetry in near-fault ground velocity during an oblique strike-slip earthquake revealed by waveform particle motions and dynamic rupture simulations. 3(2). 4 indexed citations

Dawson, Timothy, Stephen C. Thompson, Yousef Bozorgnia, et al.. (2024). Database for the Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative Project. Earthquake Spectra. 41(4). 2721–2745. 14 indexed citations

Hussain, Ekbal, Sibel Kalaycıoğlu, Christopher Milliner, & Ziyadin Çakır. (2023). Preconditioning the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake disaster. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(5). 287–289. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

Thomas, Kate, Christopher Milliner, Rui Chen, et al.. (2023). Least cost path analysis as an objective and automatic method to define the main fault trace for probabilistic fault displacement hazard analyses. Earthquake Spectra. 41(4). 2938–2967. 4 indexed citations

Oskin, M. E., et al.. (2022). Accrual of widespread rock damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. Nature Geoscience. 15(3). 222–226. 35 indexed citations

Milliner, Christopher, Andrea Donnellan, Saif Aati, et al.. (2021). Bookshelf Kinematics and the Effect of Dilatation on Fault Zone Inelastic Deformation: Examples From Optical Image Correlation Measurements of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(3). 42 indexed citations

Melgar, Diego, et al.. (2020). The 2018 Palu Tsunami: Coeval Landslide and Coseismic Sources. Seismological Research Letters. 91(6). 3148–3160. 6 indexed citations

Bao, Han, Jean‐Paul Ampuero, Lingsen Meng, et al.. (2019). Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake. Nature Geoscience. 12(3). 200–205. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Donnellan, Andrea, Jay Parker, Christopher Milliner, et al.. (2018). UAVSAR and Optical Analysis of the Thomas Fire Scar and Montecito Debris Flows: Case Study of Methods for Disaster Response Using Remote Sensing Products. Earth and Space Science. 5(7). 339–347. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaohua, Xiaopeng Tong, David T. Sandwell, et al.. (2016). Refining the shallow slip deficit. Geophysical Journal International. 204(3). 1843–1862. 112 indexed citations

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Milliner, Christopher, James F. Dolan, James Hollingsworth, et al.. (2015). Quantifying near‐field and off‐fault deformation patterns of the 1992 M_w 7.3 Landers earthquake. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 16(5). 1577–1598. 168 indexed citations

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