Ethan Williams

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 945 citations indexed

About

Ethan Williams is a scholar working on Geophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ethan Williams has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 945 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Geophysics, 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ethan Williams's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (24 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (10 papers). Ethan Williams is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (24 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (10 papers). Ethan Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and China. Ethan Williams's co-authors include Zhongwen Zhan, Hugo F. Martins, Miguel González‐Herráez, María R. Fernández‐Ruiz, Regina Magalhães, Sonia Martín‐López, Xin Wang, Yan Yang, Zhichao Shen and Marcelo A. Soto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Ethan Williams

26 papers receiving 897 citations

Hit Papers

Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with su... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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.

  1. Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with submarine dark fibers
    2019 318 citations Ethan Williams, María R. Fernández‐Ruiz et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ethan Williams United States 13 608 420 269 236 104 30 945
A. Clarke United Kingdom 10 569 0.9× 334 0.8× 224 0.8× 303 1.3× 37 0.4× 32 931
J. J. Mestayer United States 12 693 1.1× 277 0.7× 182 0.7× 414 1.8× 72 0.7× 32 1.0k
Denis Kiyashchenko Netherlands 11 799 1.3× 271 0.6× 182 0.7× 462 2.0× 67 0.6× 48 979
Regina Magalhães Spain 9 245 0.4× 338 0.8× 103 0.4× 118 0.5× 56 0.5× 25 541
Kees Hornman Netherlands 13 607 1.0× 231 0.6× 121 0.4× 354 1.5× 51 0.5× 27 739
P. Wills Netherlands 15 988 1.6× 283 0.7× 190 0.7× 634 2.7× 87 0.8× 41 1.2k
M. Farhadiroushan United Kingdom 15 434 0.7× 604 1.4× 103 0.4× 325 1.4× 37 0.4× 49 1.0k
Hanna Blanck Iceland 7 301 0.5× 237 0.6× 99 0.4× 131 0.6× 28 0.3× 18 491
Albena Mateeva Netherlands 17 1.1k 1.8× 271 0.6× 201 0.7× 615 2.6× 107 1.0× 54 1.2k
María R. Fernández‐Ruiz Spain 20 528 0.9× 1.1k 2.6× 206 0.8× 244 1.0× 115 1.1× 85 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ethan Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ethan Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ethan Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ethan Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ethan Williams 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 Ethan Williams. Ethan Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Williams, Ethan, Yongxiu Chen, David Burnett, Peter R. Slater, & Emma Kendrick. (2025). Balancing kinetics and stoichiometry in Li-ion full cells with co-doped NMC9½½. Journal of Power Sources. 659. 238415–238415.
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Xenaki, Angeliki, Peter Gerstoft, Ethan Williams, & Shima Abadi. (2025). Overview of distributed acoustic sensing: Theory and ocean applications. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 158(1). 801–825.
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Williams, Ethan, et al.. (2025). Multiplexed Distributed Acoustic Sensing Offshore Central Oregon. Seismological Research Letters. 96(2A). 784–800. 4 indexed citations
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Denolle, Marine, et al.. (2025). Denoising Offshore Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Masked Auto‐Encoders to Enhance Earthquake Detection. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(2). 1 indexed citations
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Gerstoft, Peter, et al.. (2025). Distributed acoustic sensing with ocean applications. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 157(4_Supplement). A91–A91.
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Biondi, Ettore, Weiqiang Zhu, Jiaxuan Li, Ethan Williams, & Zhongwen Zhan. (2023). An upper-crust lid over the Long Valley magma chamber. Science Advances. 9(42). eadi9878–eadi9878. 26 indexed citations
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Williams, Ethan, Arantza Ugalde, Hugo F. Martins, et al.. (2023). Distributed acoustic sensing over available fiber networks: what can available fiber infrastructure tell us about our planet?. e_Buah. 5–5. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Ethan, Arantza Ugalde, Hugo F. Martins, et al.. (2023). Fiber‐Optic Observations of Internal Waves and Tides. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(9). 20 indexed citations
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Biondi, Ettore, et al.. (2022). Geolocalization of Large-Scale DAS Channels Using a GPS-Tracked Moving Vehicle. Seismological Research Letters. 94(1). 318–330. 20 indexed citations
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Williams, Ethan, et al.. (2022). Reimagining dance and digital media training in an era of techno-neoliberalism: collective pedagogical models for digital media education in dance. Journal of Theatre Dance and Performance Training. 13(2). 248–263. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Ethan. (2022). Listening to the seafloor with optical fibers. Physics Today. 75(10). 70–71.
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Williams, Ethan, María R. Fernández‐Ruiz, Regina Magalhães, et al.. (2021). Scholte wave inversion and passive source imaging with ocean-bottom DAS. The Leading Edge. 40(8). 576–583. 39 indexed citations
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Yang, Yan, et al.. (2021). Sub‐Kilometer Correlation Between Near‐Surface Structure and Ground Motion Measured With Distributed Acoustic Sensing. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(1). 59 indexed citations
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Li, Zefeng, Zhichao Shen, Yan Yang, et al.. (2021). Rapid Response to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake With Distributed Acoustic Sensing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 59 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Ruiz, María R., Hugo F. Martins, Ethan Williams, et al.. (2021). Seismic Monitoring With Distributed Acoustic Sensing From the Near-Surface to the Deep Oceans. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 40(5). 1453–1463. 57 indexed citations
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Magalhães, Regina, María R. Fernández‐Ruiz, Luís Costa, et al.. (2020). Underwater seismology using submarine dark fibres. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 1–4. 4 indexed citations
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Karrenbach, Martin, Zhichao Shen, Zefeng Li, et al.. (2020). Rapid deployment of distributed acoustic sensing systems to track earthquake activity. 490–494. 5 indexed citations
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Gurnis, Michael, Harm J. A. Van Avendonk, S. P. S. Gulick, et al.. (2019). Incipient subduction at the contact with stretched continental crust: The Puysegur Trench. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 520. 212–219. 42 indexed citations
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Williams, Ethan, María R. Fernández‐Ruiz, Regina Magalhães, et al.. (2019). Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with submarine dark fibers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5778–5778. 318 indexed citations breakdown →
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Martins, Hugo F., María R. Fernández‐Ruiz, Luís Costa, et al.. (2019). Monitoring of remote seismic events in metropolitan area fibers using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and spatiotemporal signal processing. e_Buah. M2J.1–M2J.1. 11 indexed citations

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