Diego Melgar

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Diego Melgar is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Melgar has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Geophysics, 49 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Diego Melgar's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (90 papers), Earthquake Detection and Analysis (50 papers) and Seismology and Earthquake Studies (49 papers). Diego Melgar is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (90 papers), Earthquake Detection and Analysis (50 papers) and Seismology and Earthquake Studies (49 papers). Diego Melgar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Chile. Diego Melgar's co-authors include Yehuda Bock, Brendan W. Crowell, R. M. Allen, Jianghui Geng, G. P. Hayes, Jennifer S. Haase, Dara E. Goldberg, Xyoli Pérez‐Campos, Sebastián Riquelme and Xiaohua Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Diego Melgar

104 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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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.

Earthquake Early Warning: Advances, Scientific Challenges, and Societal Needs

2019 279 citations Diego Melgar et al. profile →
Sub- and super-shear ruptures during the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 earthquake doublet in SE Türkiye

2023 149 citations Diego Melgar, Tuncay Taymaz et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Melgar United States	35	3.3k	1.5k	683	305	267	109	3.8k
Paul Bodin United States	32	3.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	253 0.4×	488 1.6×	307 1.1×	89	4.1k
John Langbein United States	33	2.8k 0.8×	697 0.5×	908 1.3×	133 0.4×	170 0.6×	79	3.5k
Anthony Sladen France	29	3.7k 1.1×	616 0.4×	162 0.2×	238 0.8×	247 0.9×	78	4.1k
Joan Gomberg United States	41	5.7k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	242 0.4×	323 1.1×	319 1.2×	128	6.1k
Chen Ji United States	33	5.0k 1.5×	702 0.5×	257 0.4×	494 1.6×	119 0.4×	90	5.6k
Brendan W. Crowell United States	23	1.7k 0.5×	941 0.6×	496 0.7×	137 0.4×	198 0.7×	55	2.0k
Yusaku Ohta Japan	28	2.3k 0.7×	614 0.4×	321 0.5×	75 0.2×	125 0.5×	102	2.6k
Philippe Jousset Germany	27	1.9k 0.6×	479 0.3×	123 0.2×	192 0.6×	407 1.5×	104	2.6k
C. H. Thurber United States	47	8.6k 2.6×	1.5k 1.0×	134 0.2×	275 0.9×	777 2.9×	233	9.1k
Ryota Hino Japan	37	4.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	213 0.3×	141 0.5×	145 0.5×	180	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Diego Melgar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Melgar

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All Works

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Ruiz‐Angulo, Angel, et al.. (2025). SWOT Satellite Altimetry Observations and Source Model for the Tsunami from the 2025 M 8.8 Kamchatka Earthquake. Archimer (Ifremer). 5(4). 341–351. 1 indexed citations

Goldberg, Dara E., et al.. (2025). An unexplained tsunami: Was there megathrust slip during the 2020 Mw7.6 Sand Point, Alaska, earthquake?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

Melgar, Diego, Angel Ruiz‐Angulo, Athanassios Ganas, et al.. (2024). The 2020 Mw 7.0 Samos (Eastern Aegean Sea) Earthquake: joint source inversion of multitype data, and tsunami modelling. Geophysical Journal International. 237(3). 1285–1300. 5 indexed citations

Morton, Y. Jade, et al.. (2023). Characterizing High Rate GNSS Velocity Noise for Synthesizing a GNSS Strong Motion Learning Catalog. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 2 indexed citations

Melgar, Diego, Tuncay Taymaz, Brendan W. Crowell, et al.. (2023). Sub- and super-shear ruptures during the 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6 earthquake doublet in SE Türkiye. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 149 indexed citations breakdown →

Melgar, Diego, et al.. (2021). Geodetic Coupling Models as Constraints on Stochastic Earthquake Ruptures: An Example Application to PTHA in Cascadia. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(7). 16 indexed citations

Goldberg, Dara E., Diego Melgar, G. P. Hayes, Brendan W. Crowell, & Valerie J. Sahakian. (2021). A Ground-Motion Model for GNSS Peak Ground Displacement. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 111(5). 2393–2407. 18 indexed citations

Medina, Miguel, et al.. (2021). Numerical Simulation of Tsunami Coastal Amplitudes in the Pacific Coast of Mexico Based on Non-Uniform $$k^{-2}$$ Slip Distributions. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 178(9). 3291–3312. 2 indexed citations

Goldberg, Dara E., Diego Melgar, Valerie J. Sahakian, et al.. (2020). Complex Rupture of an Immature Fault Zone: A Simultaneous Kinematic Model of the 2019 Ridgecrest, CA Earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(3). 97 indexed citations

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Snively, J. B., et al.. (2020). Mesopause Airglow Disturbances Driven by Nonlinear Infrasonic Acoustic Waves Generated by Large Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 125(6). 9 indexed citations

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Melgar, Diego, Brendan W. Crowell, T. I. Melbourne, et al.. (2020). Noise Characteristics of Operational Real‐Time High‐Rate GNSS Positions in a Large Aperture Network. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 125(7). 32 indexed citations

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Crowell, Brendan W. & Diego Melgar. (2020). Slipping the Shumagin Gap: A Kinematic Coseismic and Early Afterslip Model of the Mw 7.8 Simeonof Island, Alaska, Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(19). 41 indexed citations

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Melgar, Diego, et al.. (2020). Toward Near‐Field Tsunami Forecasting Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Using Rapid GNSS Source Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 125(8). 13 indexed citations

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Melgar, Diego, et al.. (2019). The Effect of Earthquake Kinematics on Tsunami Propagation. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(11). 11639–11650. 27 indexed citations

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Melgar, Diego, Angel Ruiz‐Angulo, E. S. M. Garcia, et al.. (2018). Deep embrittlement and complete rupture of the lithosphere during the Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake. Nature Geoscience. 11(12). 955–960. 44 indexed citations

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Melgar, Diego & G. P. Hayes. (2017). Systematic Observations of the Slip-pulse Properties of Large Earthquake Ruptures. AGUFM. 2017. 8 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Dara E., Yehuda Bock, & Diego Melgar. (2017). Rapid Earthquake Magnitude Estimation for Early Warning Applications. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11571. 1 indexed citations

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Ganas, Athanassios, Diego Melgar, Pierre Briole, et al.. (2016). Coseismic deformation and slip model of the 17 November 2015 M=6.5 earthquake, Lefkada Island, Greece. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Riquelme, Sebastián, Francisco Bravo, Diego Melgar, Roberto Benavente, & Jaime Campos. (2015). W-phase Source Inversion Using High-rate Regional GPS Data for Large Earthquakes.. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Lindsey, Eric O., Ryo Natsuaki, Masanobu Shimada, et al.. (2015). Line of Sight Displacement from ALOS-2 ScanSAR Interferometry: Burst Alignment and the Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015.

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