Fabian Walter

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Fabian Walter is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabian Walter has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 59 papers in Atmospheric Science and 56 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Fabian Walter's work include Landslides and related hazards (73 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (59 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (43 papers). Fabian Walter is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (73 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (59 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (43 papers). Fabian Walter collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Fabian Walter's co-authors include Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Dominik Gräff, Małgorzata Chmiel, Brian W. McArdell, John Clinton, Fabian Lindner, Martin Funk, Patrick Paitz, Andreas Fichtner and H. A. Fricker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Fabian Walter

90 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

  1. Distributed acoustic sensing of microseismic sources and wave propagation in glaciated terrain
    2020 179 citations Fabian Walter, Dominik Gräff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fabian Walter Switzerland 28 1.4k 1.4k 1.3k 376 303 94 2.4k
Sébastien Leprince United States 20 1.1k 0.8× 336 0.2× 531 0.4× 150 0.4× 107 0.4× 24 2.1k
F. Ayoub United States 21 1.0k 0.7× 242 0.2× 595 0.5× 121 0.3× 64 0.2× 45 2.1k
S. Leprince United States 12 477 0.3× 284 0.2× 763 0.6× 81 0.2× 168 0.6× 32 1.8k
Alec van Herwijnen Switzerland 28 180 0.1× 1.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 126 0.3× 628 2.1× 141 2.3k
Sylvain Barbot United States 40 4.1k 2.9× 301 0.2× 435 0.3× 395 1.1× 84 0.3× 115 4.9k
J. Caplan‐Auerbach United States 22 858 0.6× 410 0.3× 482 0.4× 218 0.6× 25 0.1× 54 1.4k
É. Stutzmann France 37 3.7k 2.6× 344 0.3× 460 0.4× 661 1.8× 22 0.1× 119 4.2k
Guillaume Chambon France 26 277 0.2× 914 0.7× 646 0.5× 34 0.1× 258 0.9× 91 1.6k
Emma Suriñach Spain 25 1.1k 0.8× 544 0.4× 653 0.5× 153 0.4× 15 0.0× 68 1.7k
David Amitrano France 26 834 0.6× 720 0.5× 359 0.3× 135 0.4× 19 0.1× 49 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabian Walter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabian Walter

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

All Works

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Fichtner, Andreas, Coen Hofstede, B. L. N. Kennett, et al.. (2025). Hidden cascades of seismic ice stream deformation. Science. 387(6736). 858–864. 6 indexed citations
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Paitz, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Self‐Supervised Coherence‐Based Denoising of Cryoseismological Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 2(3). 1 indexed citations
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Gräff, Dominik, Eileen Martin, Patrick Paitz, et al.. (2024). DAS to discharge: using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to infer glacier runoff. Journal of Glaciology. 70. 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Hui, Jens M. Turowski, Jean Braun, et al.. (2024). Benford's Law as Debris Flow Detector in Seismic Signals. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 129(9). 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhen, Yen Joe Tan, Fabian Walter, et al.. (2024). Seismic Monitoring and Geomorphic Impacts of the Catastrophic 2018 Baige Landslide Hazard Cascades in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 129(2). 8 indexed citations
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Walter, Fabian, et al.. (2023). Self-sufficient seismic boxes for monitoring glacier seismology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).
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Fichtner, Andreas, Pascal Edme, Patrick Paitz, et al.. (2021). Observing avalanche dynamics with Distributed Acoustic Sensing. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 3 indexed citations
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Hibert, Clément, et al.. (2021). Near-real-time automated classification of seismic signals of slope failures with continuous random forests. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(1). 339–361. 38 indexed citations
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Jouvet, Guillaume, Shin Sugiyama, Evgeny A. Podolskiy, et al.. (2021). Thinning leads to calving-style changes at Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(2). 485–500. 13 indexed citations
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Lindner, Fabian, Fabian Walter, G. Laske, & Florent Gimbert. (2020). Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(1). 287–308. 26 indexed citations
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Chmiel, Małgorzata, Fabian Lindner, Fabian Walter, et al.. (2020). On the Green's function emergence from interferometry of seismic wave fields generated in high-melt glaciers: implications for passive imaging and monitoring. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(3). 1139–1171. 30 indexed citations
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Nanni, Ugo, Florent Gimbert, Christian Vincent, et al.. (2020). Quantification of seasonal and diurnal dynamics of subglacial channels using seismic observations on an Alpine glacier. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(5). 1475–1496. 35 indexed citations
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Mangeney, A., Vladislav A. Yastrebov, Fabian Walter, et al.. (2019). Monitoring Greenland ice sheet buoyancy-driven calving discharge using glacial earthquakes. Annals of Glaciology. 60(79). 75–95. 18 indexed citations
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Marchetti, Emanuele, Fabian Walter, Riccardo Genco, et al.. (2019). Infrasound Array Analysis of Debris Flow Activity and Implication for Early Warning. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 124(2). 567–587. 60 indexed citations
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Nanni, Ugo, Florent Gimbert, Christian Vincent, et al.. (2019). Seasonal and Diurnal Dynamics of Subglacial Channels: Observations Beneath an Alpine Glacier. 2 indexed citations
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Schimmel, Andreas, Johannes Hübl, Brian W. McArdell, & Fabian Walter. (2018). Automatic Identification of Alpine Mass Movements by a Combination of Seismic and Infrasound Sensors. Sensors. 18(5). 1658–1658. 29 indexed citations
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Michel, Clotaire, et al.. (2017). Analysis of surface waves from ambient vibrations on Alpine glaciers in Switzerland. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Walter, Fabian, et al.. (2017). Testing seismic amplitude source location for fast debris-flow detection at Illgraben, Switzerland. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(6). 939–955. 61 indexed citations
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Walter, Fabian & Brian W. McArdell. (2015). What is the velocity profile of debris flow. The EGU General Assembly. 17. 12815. 2 indexed citations

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