Kai Tao

594 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 479 citations indexed

About

Kai Tao is a scholar working on Geophysics, Signal Processing and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Tao has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 479 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Geophysics, 2 papers in Signal Processing and 1 paper in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Kai Tao's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (10 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (8 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (8 papers). Kai Tao is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (10 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (8 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (8 papers). Kai Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Kai Tao's co-authors include Fenglin Niu, S. P. Grand, Jieyuan Ning, Masayuki Obayashi, Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Satoru Tanaka, James Ni, Chunquan Yu, Tianze Liu and Yongshun John Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

Kai Tao

14 papers receiving 465 citations

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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.

Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Asia From Full Waveform Seismic Tomography

2018 198 citations Kai Tao, S. P. Grand et al. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems profile →

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15 of 15 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Cartesian Meshing Spherical Earth (CMSE): A Code Package to Incorporate the Spherical Earth in SPECFEM3D Cartesian Simulations 2022 ·Seismological Research Letters ·(unknown), Kai Tao, Min Chen, Jiaqi Li, Ross Maguire, Xiaodan Ma	3
2	Hydraulic Injection‐Induced Velocity Changes Revealed by Surface Wave Coda and Polarization Data at a Shale Play Site in Southwest China 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Fenglin Niu, Kai Tao, Jieyuan Ning, Haichao Chen, Youcai Tang	5
3	Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity, Particle Motion, and Teleseismic Body Wave Data for Sedimentary Structures 2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Fenglin Niu, Yingjie Yang, Kai Tao	14
4	Temporal Variations of Near‐Surface Anisotropy Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing at a Shale Play Site in Southwest China 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Qiankun Zuo, Youcai Tang, Fenglin Niu, (unknown), Haichao Chen, Kai Tao, (unknown)	5
5	Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Eastern Asia From Full Waveform Seismic Tomography breakdown → 2018 ·Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ·Kai Tao, S. P. Grand, Fenglin Niu	198
6	Toward the Origin of Long‐Period Long‐Duration Seismic Events during Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment: A Case Study in the Shale Play of Sichuan Basin, China 2018 ·Seismological Research Letters ·Haichao Chen, Fenglin Niu, Youcai Tang, Kai Tao	10
7	Full-waveform inversion of triplicated data using a normalized-correlation-coefficient-based misfit function 2017 ·Geophysical Journal International ·Kai Tao, S. P. Grand, Fenglin Niu	40
8	Broadband target beam-space transformation in generalized likelihood ratio test using acoustic vector sensor array 2015 ·Acta Physica Sinica ·Guolong Liang, Kai Tao, Jinjin Wang, (unknown)	1
9	An efficient adaptive beam-space transformation technique and its application in array processing 2015 ·Acta Physica Sinica ·(unknown), Guolong Liang, Jinjin Wang, Yan Wang, Kai Tao	0
10	Estimating sedimentary and crustal structure using wavefield continuation: theory, techniques and applications 2014 ·Geophysical Journal International ·Kai Tao, Tianze Liu, Jieyuan Ning, Fenglin Niu	31
11	Crustal structure beneath NE China imaged by NECESSArray receiver function data 2014 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Kai Tao, Fenglin Niu, Jieyuan Ning, (unknown), (unknown), Hitoshi Kawakatsu, Satoru Tanaka, Masayuki Obayashi, James Ni	103
12	Focal Mechanism Solutions of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake sequence from P-wave polarities and SH/P amplitude ratios: new results and implications 2013 ·Earthquake Science ·Yuan Tian, Jieyuan Ning, Chunquan Yu, Chen Cai, Kai Tao	8
13	Thick crust beneath the Ordos plateau: Implications for instability of the North China craton 2012 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Chunquan Yu, Wang‐Ping Chen, Jieyuan Ning, Kai Tao, T. Tseng, Xinding Fang, Yongshun John Chen, Robert D. van der Hilst	51
14	Spatial distribution and focal mechanism solutions of the Wenchuan earthquake series: Results and implications 2011 ·Earthquake Science ·Chen Cai, Chunquan Yu, Kai Tao, (unknown), Yuan Tian, Hao Zhang, Xiaofeng Cui, Jieyuan Ning	9
15	A new stacking technique in ambient noise tomography 2010 ·Earthquake Science ·(unknown), Youcai Tang, Kai Tao, Chunquan Yu, Jie Chen, Jieyuan Ning, Yongshun John Chen, (unknown)	1

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