Freeman Gilbert

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Freeman Gilbert is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Freeman Gilbert has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Geophysics, 27 papers in Ocean Engineering and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Freeman Gilbert's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (34 papers), Geophysics and Sensor Technology (26 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (26 papers). Freeman Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (34 papers), Geophysics and Sensor Technology (26 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (26 papers). Freeman Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Freeman Gilbert's co-authors include George Backus, Adam M. Dziewoński, G. Masters, George E. Backus, L. Knopoff, R. Buland, Jeffrey Park, M. H. Ritzwoller, Rudolf Widmer‐Schnidrig and J. Berger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Freeman Gilbert

73 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Resolving Power of Gross Earth Data

1968 1.1k citations George Backus, Freeman Gilbert Geophysical Journal International profile →
Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data

1970 999 citations George Backus, Freeman Gilbert Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →
An application of normal mode theory to the retrieval of structural parameters and source mechanisms from seismic spectra

1975 845 citations Freeman Gilbert, Adam M. Dziewoński Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Freeman Gilbert United States	39	5.4k	1.4k	913	501	417	77	7.2k
George E. Backus United States	22	2.9k 0.5×	825 0.6×	713 0.8×	526 1.0×	917 2.2×	43	4.2k
F. A. Dahlen United States	49	11.6k 2.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	577 1.2×	551 1.3×	125	13.0k
George Backus United States	19	2.0k 0.4×	520 0.4×	458 0.5×	247 0.5×	585 1.4×	40	3.8k
William Menke United States	34	5.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	401 0.4×	270 0.5×	177 0.4×	125	6.2k
Frank Press United States	42	4.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	589 0.6×	1.7k 3.4×	137 0.3×	163	7.2k
James R. Wait United States	44	2.8k 0.5×	2.3k 1.6×	464 0.5×	315 0.6×	178 0.4×	637	9.6k
Guust Nolet United States	55	12.2k 2.2×	2.1k 1.5×	396 0.4×	689 1.4×	114 0.3×	156	13.1k
Douglas W. Oldenburg Canada	51	10.2k 1.9×	6.5k 4.5×	1.2k 1.4×	384 0.8×	941 2.3×	290	11.4k
Jeroen Tromp United States	59	12.8k 2.4×	2.8k 1.9×	842 0.9×	970 1.9×	313 0.8×	241	14.7k
Alan D. Chave United States	43	4.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	1.0k 1.1×	483 1.0×	727 1.7×	145	6.4k

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Gilbert, Freeman. (2007). The Diagonal Sum Rule and Averaged Eigenfrequencies. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 23(1). 119–123. 14 indexed citations

Gilbert, Freeman & John Woodhouse. (2000). Determination of structure coefficients from splitting matrices. Geophysical Journal International. 142(1). 1–3. 8 indexed citations

Ritzwoller, M. H., G. Masters, & Freeman Gilbert. (1988). Constraining aspherical structure with low‐degree interaction coefficients: Application to uncoupled multiplets. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 93(B6). 6369–6396. 77 indexed citations

Masters, G. & Freeman Gilbert. (1983). Attenuation in the earth at low frequencies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 308(1504). 479–522. 111 indexed citations

Gilbert, Freeman & Adam M. Dziewoński. (1975). An application of normal mode theory to the retrieval of structural parameters and source mechanisms from seismic spectra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 278(1280). 187–269. 845 indexed citations breakdown →

Gilbert, Freeman. (1973). A Discussion on the measurement and interpretation of changes of strain in the Earth - Derivation of source parameters from low-frequency spectra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 274(1239). 369–371. 51 indexed citations

Gilbert, Freeman, Adam M. Dziewoński, & James N. Brune. (1973). An Informative Solution to a Seismological Inverse Problem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 70(5). 1410–1413. 34 indexed citations

Backus, George & Freeman Gilbert. (1970). Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 266(1173). 123–192. 999 indexed citations breakdown →

Gilbert, Freeman. (1969). Mathematical aspects of seismology. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 59(4). 1737–1738. 15 indexed citations

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Miles, John & Freeman Gilbert. (1968). Scattering of gravity waves by a circular dock. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 34(4). 783–793. 85 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George Backus. (1968). A computational proplem encountered in a study of the earth's normal modes. 1273–1273. 1 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman. (1967). Gravitationally perturbed elastic waves. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 57(4). 783–794. 27 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George E. Backus. (1966). Propagation matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems. Geophysics. 31(2). 326–332. 443 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George Backus. (1965). The rotational splitting of the free oscillations of the Earth, 2. Reviews of Geophysics. 3(1). 1–9. 24 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman. (1964). Propagation of transient leaking modes in a stratified elastic waveguide. Reviews of Geophysics. 2(1). 123–153. 68 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman, et al.. (1962). Excitation and propagation of pulses on an interface. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 52(2). 299–319. 40 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman, et al.. (1962). Observation of pulses on an interface. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 52(4). 847–868. 12 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & L. Knopoff. (1961). THE DIRECTIVITY PROBLEM FOR A BURIED LINE SOURCE. Geophysics. 26(5). 626–634. 25 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman. (1960). Scattering of Impulsive Elastic Waves by a Smooth Convex Cylinder. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 32(7). 841–857. 20 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & Gordon J. F. MacDonald. (1960). Free oscillations of the Earth: 1. Toroidal oscillations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 65(2). 675–693. 49 indexed citations

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