D. E. Smylie

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

D. E. Smylie is a scholar working on Oceanography, Geophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, D. E. Smylie has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Oceanography, 27 papers in Geophysics and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in D. E. Smylie's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (31 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (24 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (18 papers). D. E. Smylie is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (31 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (24 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (18 papers). D. E. Smylie collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Japan. D. E. Smylie's co-authors include L. Mansinha, M. G. Rochester, O. G. Jensen, A. E. Beck, J. A. Jacobs, B.J. Brennan, Xianhua Jiang, J. Hinderer, B. Ducarme and Tadeusz J. Ulrych and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

D. E. Smylie

56 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

The displacement fields of inclined faults 1971 2026 1989 2007 1971 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The displacement fields of inclined faults
    1971 642 citations L. Mansinha, D. E. Smylie Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. E. Smylie Canada 24 1.3k 852 641 397 182 58 2.1k
Helmut Moritz Austria 15 586 0.4× 1.4k 1.6× 479 0.7× 306 0.8× 111 0.6× 57 1.9k
David Crossley Canada 25 992 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 510 0.8× 299 0.8× 99 0.5× 94 1.8k
Petr Vaníček Canada 28 741 0.6× 1.7k 2.0× 431 0.7× 221 0.6× 172 0.9× 128 2.5k
Richard H. Rapp United States 25 563 0.4× 2.0k 2.3× 650 1.0× 375 0.9× 121 0.7× 97 2.4k
J. F. Kirby Australia 25 1.0k 0.8× 699 0.8× 215 0.3× 144 0.4× 154 0.8× 60 1.7k
Michel Van Camp Belgium 22 830 0.6× 911 1.1× 223 0.3× 138 0.3× 100 0.5× 65 1.6k
Dominique Gibert France 29 1.6k 1.2× 382 0.4× 415 0.6× 179 0.5× 226 1.2× 103 2.5k
Shuhei Okubo Japan 24 1.3k 1.0× 994 1.2× 384 0.6× 162 0.4× 69 0.4× 73 1.9k
George H. Sutton United States 30 1.6k 1.2× 423 0.5× 74 0.1× 277 0.7× 124 0.7× 84 2.1k
Lars E. Sjöberg Sweden 29 1.1k 0.8× 2.3k 2.7× 855 1.3× 215 0.5× 158 0.9× 206 3.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. E. Smylie

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (2009). Direct observations of the viscosity of Earth's outer core and extrapolation of measurements of the viscosity of liquid iron. Physics-Uspekhi. 52(1). 79–92. 18 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (2009). Reply to comment by V N Zharkov "On estimating the molecular viscosity of the Earth's outer core". Physics-Uspekhi. 52(1). 96–96. 3 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (2007). Viscosity of Earth's Outer Core. arXiv (Cornell University). 2009. 1 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E., Olivier Francis, & J. B. Merriam. (2001). Beyond Tides - Determination of Core Properties from Superconducting Gravimeter Observations.. 47(1). 364–372. 5 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E.. (1999). Viscosity Near Earth's Solid Inner Core. Science. 284(5413). 461–463. 34 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xianhua & D. E. Smylie. (1996). Variational calculation of the free core nutation mode. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 94(3-4). 159–182. 5 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E.. (1992). The Inner Core Translational Triplet and the Density Near Earth's Center. Science. 255(5052). 1678–1682. 89 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (1990). Elastic Boundary Conditions in Long-Period Core Oscillations. Geophysical Journal International. 100(2). 183–192. 16 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (1984). The rotation of the Earth's inner core. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 313(1524). 171–184. 10 indexed citations
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Jensen, O. G., et al.. (1984). An optimum data editing technique for the reduction of noise in multi-channel geophysical data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 74(3). 1059–1078.
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Smylie, D. E., et al.. (1979). The relationship between maximum entropy and maximum likelihood spectra. Geophysics. 44(10). 1738–1739. 24 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E.. (1975). Introduction to Theoretical Geophysics. Geoscience Canada. 2(4). 2 indexed citations
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Rochester, M. G. & D. E. Smylie. (1974). On changes in the trace of the Earth's inertia tensor. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 79(32). 4948–4951. 56 indexed citations
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Ulrych, Tadeusz J., D. E. Smylie, O. G. Jensen, & Garry K. C. Clarke. (1973). Predictive Filtering and Smoothing of Short Records by using Maximum Entropy. Geophysical Journal International. 35(1-3). 380–380. 6 indexed citations
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Kaula, W. M., Kurt Lambeck, Wm. Markowitz, Ivan I. Mueller, & D. E. Smylie. (1973). The rotation of the Earth and polar motion: Report on the Second Geop Research Conference. Eos. 54(8). 792–798. 4 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E. & L. Mansinha. (1971). Reply to Comments on 'The Elasticity Theory of Dislocations in Real Earth Models and Changes in the Rotation of the Earth'. Geophysical Journal International. 23(3). 359–360. 7 indexed citations
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Mansinha, L., D. E. Smylie, & A. E. Beck. (1970). Earthquake Displacement Field and the Rotation of the Earth. 1 indexed citations
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Lilley, F. E. M. & D. E. Smylie. (1968). Elastic wave motion and a nonuniform magnetic field in electrical conductors. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 73(20). 6527–6533. 7 indexed citations
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Mansinha, L. & D. E. Smylie. (1968). Earthquakes and the Earth's Wobble. Science. 161(3846). 1127–1129. 17 indexed citations
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Smylie, D. E.. (1965). Magnetic Diffusion in a Spherically-Symmetric Conducting Mantle. Geophysical Journal International. 9(2-3). 169–184. 33 indexed citations

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