John A. Scales

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

John A. Scales is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Scales has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Geophysics, 19 papers in Ocean Engineering and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in John A. Scales's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (31 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (27 papers) and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (12 papers). John A. Scales is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (31 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (27 papers) and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (12 papers). John A. Scales collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. John A. Scales's co-authors include Roel Snieder, Adam Gersztenkorn, Alexandre Grêt, Wences P. Gouveia, Huub Douma, Luis Tenorio, Martin L. Smith, Sven Treitel, Alison Malcolm and Kasper van Wijk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

John A. Scales

67 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Coda Wave Interferometry for Estimating Nonlinear Behavior in Seismic Velocity

2002 465 citations Roel Snieder, Alexandre Grêt et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. Scales United States	25	2.0k	1.0k	461	292	284	69	2.8k
J.T. Fokkema Netherlands	22	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	281 0.6×	262 0.9×	258 0.9×	125	2.7k
Sven Treitel United States	26	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	271 0.6×	312 1.1×	379 1.3×	92	3.6k
Hui Zhou China	30	1.8k 0.9×	927 0.9×	277 0.6×	162 0.6×	451 1.6×	211	2.6k
Roland Martin France	21	1.8k 0.9×	705 0.7×	389 0.8×	174 0.6×	174 0.6×	63	2.3k
Stewart Greenhalgh Australia	35	4.0k 2.0×	2.5k 2.4×	305 0.7×	238 0.8×	428 1.5×	279	4.5k
Tieyuan Zhu United States	28	2.1k 1.0×	864 0.8×	347 0.8×	304 1.0×	452 1.6×	106	2.4k
Vlastislav Červený Czechia	25	3.7k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	518 1.1×	125 0.4×	593 2.1×	96	4.4k
Jean‐Pierre Vilotte France	35	2.9k 1.4×	505 0.5×	779 1.7×	269 0.9×	281 1.0×	89	5.0k
Johan O. A. Robertsson Switzerland	30	3.4k 1.7×	1.8k 1.8×	223 0.5×	274 0.9×	416 1.5×	205	3.8k
Jerry M. Harris United States	28	3.3k 1.6×	1.9k 1.8×	383 0.8×	141 0.5×	884 3.1×	141	3.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Scales, John A., et al.. (2016). Sub-THz thermally activated-electrical conductivity of CdS thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 109(9). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Martin L., et al.. (2013). A Simple Electronically-Phased Acoustic Array. Acoustics Today. 9(1). 22–22. 4 indexed citations

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Gibson, Daniel, et al.. (2012). Producing an intense collimated beam of sound via a nonlinear ultrasonic array. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(12). 1 indexed citations

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Campman, Xander, Kasper van Wijk, John A. Scales, & Gérard C. Herman. (2005). Imaging and suppressing near-receiver scattered surface waves. Geophysics. 70(2). V21–V29. 50 indexed citations

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Grêt, Alexandre, et al.. (2005). Spectroscopy versus interferometry: Resolving small changes. American Journal of Physics. 73(9). 837–844. 5 indexed citations

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Wijk, Kasper van, M. M. Haney, & John A. Scales. (2004). 1D energy transport in a strongly scattering laboratory model. Physical Review E. 69(3). 36611–36611. 13 indexed citations

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Campman, Xander, et al.. (2004). Imaging scattered seismic surface waves. Near Surface Geophysics. 2(4). 223–230. 25 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Alison Malcolm. (2003). Laser characterization of ultrasonic wave propagation in random media. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(4). 46618–46618. 47 indexed citations

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Scales, John A., et al.. (2002). What programming languages should we teach our undergraduates?. The Leading Edge. 21(3). 260–267. 3 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Kasper van Wijk. (2001). Tunable multiple-scattering system. Applied Physics Letters. 79(14). 2294–2296. 15 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Luis Tenorio. (2000). Prior information and uncertainty in inverse problems. Geophysics. 66(2). 389–397. 173 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Roel Snieder. (1999). Computers and creativity. Geophysics. 64(5). 1347–1348. 2 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Roel Snieder. (1998). What is noise?. Geophysics. 63(4). 1122–1124. 54 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Roel Snieder. (1997). To Bayes or not to Bayes?. Geophysics. 62(4). 1045–1046. 97 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Roel Snieder. (1997). Humility and nonlinearity. Geophysics. 62(5). 1355–1358. 5 indexed citations

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Scales, John A. & Erik S. Van Vleck. (1997). Lyapunov Exponents and Localization in Randomly Layered Media. Journal of Computational Physics. 133(1). 27–42. 24 indexed citations

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Gouveia, Wences P., et al.. (1996). The CWP object-oriented optimization library. The Leading Edge. 15(5). 365–369. 12 indexed citations

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Scales, John A.. (1993). On the use of localization theory to characterize elastic wave propagation in randomly stratified 1-D media. Geophysics. 58(1). 177–179. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Martin L., et al.. (1992). Global search and genetic algorithms. The Leading Edge. 11(1). 22–26. 38 indexed citations

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Scales, John A.. (1987). Tomographic inversion via the conjugate gradient method. Geophysics. 52(2). 179–185. 162 indexed citations

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