Gylfi Páll Hersir

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Gylfi Páll Hersir is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Gylfi Páll Hersir has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Geophysics, 13 papers in Ocean Engineering and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Gylfi Páll Hersir's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (24 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (20 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (14 papers). Gylfi Páll Hersir is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (24 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (20 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (14 papers). Gylfi Páll Hersir collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, Germany and Switzerland. Gylfi Páll Hersir's co-authors include Philippe Jousset, Knútur Árnason, Hanna Blanck, Charlotte M. Krawczyk, Hjálmar Eysteinsson, Thomas Reinsch, T. Ryberg, Michael Weber, Jan Henninges and A. Clarke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Gylfi Páll Hersir

47 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

  1. Dynamic strain determination using fibre-optic cables allows imaging of seismological and structural features
    2018 408 citations Philippe Jousset, Thomas Reinsch et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gylfi Páll Hersir Iceland 16 814 280 240 167 84 50 1.1k
Hitoshi Mikada Japan 20 854 1.0× 351 1.3× 111 0.5× 157 0.9× 125 1.5× 197 1.1k
Louis De Barros France 26 1.6k 1.9× 193 0.7× 132 0.6× 373 2.2× 151 1.8× 58 1.8k
Salvatore Scudero Italy 17 427 0.5× 174 0.6× 91 0.4× 139 0.8× 32 0.4× 45 700
Bülent Tezkan Germany 24 1.3k 1.6× 1.0k 3.7× 66 0.3× 104 0.6× 59 0.7× 119 1.4k
Yann Hello France 12 623 0.8× 125 0.4× 149 0.6× 170 1.0× 16 0.2× 27 813
Deva Ghosh Malaysia 14 862 1.1× 543 1.9× 48 0.2× 81 0.5× 239 2.8× 117 1.1k
Shaoping Lu China 17 632 0.8× 329 1.2× 148 0.6× 111 0.7× 43 0.5× 78 1.3k
Nathaniel J. Lindsey United States 17 1.6k 1.9× 769 2.7× 630 2.6× 617 3.7× 79 0.9× 33 2.1k
Michael Becken Germany 25 1.4k 1.7× 562 2.0× 58 0.2× 220 1.3× 26 0.3× 83 1.5k
Timothy Bechtel United States 14 682 0.8× 314 1.1× 144 0.6× 46 0.3× 77 0.9× 68 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gylfi Páll Hersir

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gylfi Páll Hersir

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Winder, Tom, Nicholas Rawlinson, R. S. White, et al.. (2025). Pre‐Existing Structures Control the Orientation of Strike‐Slip Faulting During the 2021 Dike Intrusion at Fagradalsfjall, Iceland. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(6). 1 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Jennifer, Tim Greenfield, R. S. White, et al.. (2025). Seismic Imaging of the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Crustal‐Scale Context of Geothermal Areas and Ongoing Volcano‐Tectonic Unrest. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 26(4). 2 indexed citations
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Eibl, Eva P. S., et al.. (2024). Video camera and seismic monitoring of water bulge explosion at Strokkur Geyser, Iceland. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 229–245. 1 indexed citations
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Ágústsdóttir, Þorbjörg, et al.. (2024). Crustal Characterization of the Hengill Geothermal Fields: Insights From Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Noise Imaging Using a 500‐Node Array. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(7). 7 indexed citations
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Drouin, Vincent, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Halldór Geirsson, et al.. (2023). Pressure increase at the magma-hydrothermal interface at Krafla caldera, North-Iceland, 2018–2020: Magmatic processes or hydrothermal changes?. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 440. 107849–107849. 3 indexed citations
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Ágústsdóttir, Þorbjörg, et al.. (2023). Transdimensional ambient-noise surface wave tomography of the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. Geophysical Journal International. 236(1). 621–643. 3 indexed citations
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Jousset, Philippe, Gylfi Páll Hersir, Kristján Ágústsson, et al.. (2021). Volcano-seismic 2020 unrest in Reykjanes Iceland: The MAGIC multi-parametric rapid response during Covid-19 lockdown. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 1 indexed citations
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Jousset, Philippe, et al.. (2020). MAGIC (Magma Iceland). 3 indexed citations
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Blanck, Hanna, Philippe Jousset, Thomas Reinsch, et al.. (2019). Passive Seismic Measurements using the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Technology on the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW-Iceland. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Gibert, Benoit, et al.. (2019). Tracking Magmatic Hydrogen Sulfur Circulations Using Electrical Impedance: Complex Electrical Properties of Core Samples at the Krafla Volcano, Iceland. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(3). 2492–2509. 10 indexed citations
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Blanck, Hanna, Philippe Jousset, Gylfi Páll Hersir, Kristján Ágústsson, & Ólafur G. Flóvenz. (2019). Analysis of 2014–2015 on- and off-shore passive seismic data on the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 391. 106548–106548. 13 indexed citations
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Jousset, Philippe, Thomas Reinsch, T. Ryberg, et al.. (2018). Dynamic strain determination using fibre-optic cables allows imaging of seismological and structural features. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2509–2509. 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jousset, Philippe, Kristján Ágústsson, Hanna Blanck, et al.. (2017). Travel time seismic tomography on Reykjanes, SW Iceland. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 17398. 1 indexed citations
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Weemstra, Cornelis, Anne Obermann, Hanna Blanck, et al.. (2016). Time-lapse seismic imaging of the Reykjanes geothermal reservoir. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 6 indexed citations
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Jousset, Philippe, Arie Verdel, Kristján Ágústsson, et al.. (2016). Seismic tomography and ambient noise reflection interferometry on Reykjanes, SW Iceland. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 1 indexed citations
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Hersir, Gylfi Páll. (2015). Restistivity surveying and electromagnetic methods. 2 indexed citations
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Miensopust, M. P., et al.. (2014). The Eyjafjallajökull volcanic system, Iceland: insights from electromagnetic measurements. Geophysical Journal International. 199(2). 1187–1204. 14 indexed citations
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Björnsson, Axel & Gylfi Páll Hersir. (1981). Geophysical reconnaissance study of the Hengill high-temperature geothermal area, SW-Iceland. 5. 10 indexed citations

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