Göran Ekström

21.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
269 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Göran Ekström is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Göran Ekström has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Geophysics, 24 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Göran Ekström's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (209 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (198 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (102 papers). Göran Ekström is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (209 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (198 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (102 papers). Göran Ekström collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Göran Ekström's co-authors include Adam M. Dziewoński, M. Nettles, John Woodhouse, Bogdan Kustowski, M.P. Salganik, Andrea Morelli, Rachel E. Abercrombie, Silvia Pondrelli, G. Zwart and Jonathan Franzen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Göran Ekström

267 papers receiving 15.6k 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.

The global CMT project 2004–2010: Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017 earthquakes

2012 2.2k citations Göran Ekström, M. Nettles et al. profile →
The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004

2005 858 citations M. Nettles, Göran Ekström et al. profile →
Anisotropic shear‐wave velocity structure of the Earth's mantle: A global model

2008 492 citations Göran Ekström, Adam M. Dziewoński et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Göran Ekström United States	66	15.3k	1.4k	1.4k	1.0k	768	269	16.7k
M. Simons United States	59	8.8k 0.6×	2.2k 1.5×	918 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	487 0.6×	200	12.2k
R. C. Aster United States	54	7.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	609 0.6×	360 0.5×	215	9.3k
Emile A. Okal United States	51	8.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	513 0.5×	222 0.3×	304	9.4k
Timothy H. Dixon United States	58	7.5k 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	697 0.5×	658 0.6×	444 0.6×	185	10.8k
J. C. Savage United States	51	9.3k 0.6×	924 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	526 0.5×	274 0.4×	232	10.4k
Н. М. Шапиро France	61	15.7k 1.0×	885 0.6×	4.1k 2.9×	739 0.7×	2.5k 3.3×	215	16.6k
E. J. Fielding United States	62	7.3k 0.5×	2.7k 1.9×	819 0.6×	2.5k 2.5×	779 1.0×	202	11.8k
Kristine M. Larson United States	59	5.3k 0.3×	3.6k 2.5×	565 0.4×	673 0.7×	592 0.8×	168	12.5k
Roland Bürgmann United States	80	17.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	1.5k 1.1×	2.5k 2.5×	868 1.1×	389	21.9k
G. Peltzer United States	40	10.0k 0.7×	2.7k 1.9×	542 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	755 1.0×	73	13.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Ekström, Göran, et al.. (2024). Parsimonious Green function data bases for global centroid moment tensor inversions. Geophysical Journal International. 240(3). 1986–1999.

Olive, Jean‐Arthur, et al.. (2024). Mid-ocean ridge unfaulting revealed by magmatic intrusions. Nature. 628(8009). 782–787. 6 indexed citations

Craig, T. J., James Jackson, Keith Priestley, & Göran Ekström. (2023). A Cautionary Tale: examples of the mis-location of small earthquakes beneath the Tibetan plateau by routine approaches. Geophysical Journal International. 233(3). 2021–2038. 6 indexed citations

Ekström, Göran, et al.. (2022). Three-dimensional seismic anisotropy in the Pacific upper mantle from inversion of a surface-wave dispersion data set. Geophysical Journal International. 231(1). 355–383. 10 indexed citations

Eilon, Z., J. B. Gaherty, Lun Zhang, et al.. (2021). The Pacific OBS Research into Convecting Asthenosphere (ORCA) Experiment. Seismological Research Letters. 93(1). 477–493. 9 indexed citations

Dalton, C. A., et al.. (2021). Controls on surface wave overtone interference. Geophysical Journal International. 228(3). 1665–1683. 15 indexed citations

Moulik, P., V. Lekić, Barbara Romanowicz, et al.. (2021). Global reference seismological data sets: multimode surface wave dispersion. Geophysical Journal International. 228(3). 1808–1849. 15 indexed citations

Howe, Michael J. A., Göran Ekström, & Paul G. Richards. (2020). Vertical force scaling in seismic source models of underground nuclear explosions. Geophysical Journal International. 221(1). 251–264. 5 indexed citations

Dalton, C. A., et al.. (2019). A comparison of approaches for the prediction and inversion of surface wave phase delays. Geophysical Journal International. 217(3). 1496–1514. 4 indexed citations

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Champenois, Johann, Stéphane Baize, Martin Vallée, et al.. (2017). Evidences of Surface Rupture Associated With a Low‐Magnitude (M_w5.0) Shallow Earthquake in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 122(10). 8446–8458. 30 indexed citations

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Ekström, Göran, et al.. (2017). The relationship between bulk‐mass momentum and short‐period seismic radiation in catastrophic landslides. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 122(5). 1201–1215. 45 indexed citations

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Kogan, M. G., Д. И. Фролов, Н. Ф. Василенко, et al.. (2017). Plate coupling and strain in the far western Aleutian arc modeled from GPS data. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(7). 3176–3183. 12 indexed citations

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Foster, A. E., Göran Ekström, & Vala Hjörleifsdóttir. (2014). Arrival-angle anomalies across the USArray Transportable Array. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 402. 58–68. 25 indexed citations

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Stark, C. P., Michael Wolovick, & Göran Ekström. (2012). Glacier surge triggered by massive rock avalanche: Teleseismic and satellite image study of long-runout landslide onto RGO Glacier, Pamirs. AGUFM. 2012. 3 indexed citations

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Abers, G. A., et al.. (2009). Imaging the slab-continent interface beneath Washington with spectral ambient noise tomography. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Elósegui, P., M. Nettles, Tine B. Larsen, et al.. (2008). Sub-daily glacier flow variations at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, using GPS. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Hamilton, G. S., Shfaqat Abbas Khan, K. M. Schild, et al.. (2008). Iceberg Calving and Flow Dynamics at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, from Time-Lapse Photography. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 2008. 3 indexed citations

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Ekström, Göran, et al.. (2007). Seismological Detection and Analysis of Recent Landslides in Alaska and the Yukon. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 3 indexed citations

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Pondrelli, Silvia, Simone Salimbeni, Göran Ekström, & Andrea Morelli. (2006). Update of the European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor (RCMT) Catalog: an Insight on Notable Recent Mediterranean Seismicity. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Ekström, Göran, et al.. (2003). The GSN Noise Model: Estimates of the Least Ambient Earth Noise From the IRIS Global Seismographic Network.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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