Lev Vinnik

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Lev Vinnik is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Lev Vinnik has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Geophysics, 7 papers in Ocean Engineering and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Lev Vinnik's work include High-pressure geophysics and materials (110 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (103 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (83 papers). Lev Vinnik is often cited by papers focused on High-pressure geophysics and materials (110 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (103 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (83 papers). Lev Vinnik collaborates with scholars based in Russia, France and Germany. Lev Vinnik's co-authors include Véronique Farra, Larissa Makeyeva, Barbara Romanowicz, R. Kind, G. L. Kosarev, S. W. Roecker, S. I. Oreshin, Jean‐Paul Montagner, Alexander Milev and S. Kiselev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lev Vinnik

115 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Detection of waves converted from P to SV in the mantle 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 200 400 600
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.

  1. Detection of waves converted from P to SV in the mantle
    1977 627 citations Lev Vinnik Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lev Vinnik Russia 40 5.2k 125 97 92 47 117 5.3k
Miaki Ishii United States 23 2.3k 0.4× 108 0.9× 58 0.6× 346 3.8× 32 0.7× 42 2.4k
S. W. French United States 10 1.7k 0.3× 38 0.3× 56 0.6× 58 0.6× 29 0.6× 16 1.8k
R. Montelli United States 9 1.6k 0.3× 75 0.6× 106 1.1× 73 0.8× 21 0.4× 17 1.7k
S. Rondenay United States 32 3.8k 0.7× 160 1.3× 80 0.8× 224 2.4× 8 0.2× 93 3.8k
Satoshi Kaneshima Japan 31 2.4k 0.5× 61 0.5× 47 0.5× 136 1.5× 102 2.2× 66 2.5k
Maureen D. Long United States 38 4.9k 0.9× 78 0.6× 84 0.9× 121 1.3× 8 0.2× 163 5.0k
Fabio Cammarano Italy 21 1.4k 0.3× 96 0.8× 48 0.5× 39 0.4× 175 3.7× 33 1.6k
Manuele Faccenda Italy 26 2.6k 0.5× 21 0.2× 84 0.9× 106 1.2× 22 0.5× 69 2.6k
Sebastian Rost United Kingdom 26 2.4k 0.5× 184 1.5× 16 0.2× 317 3.4× 52 1.1× 72 2.6k
Kazunori Yoshizawa Japan 21 1.2k 0.2× 137 1.1× 75 0.8× 80 0.9× 62 1.3× 48 1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lev Vinnik

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lev Vinnik. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lev Vinnik based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lev Vinnik. Lev Vinnik is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vinnik, Lev. (2019). Receiver function seismology. Физика земли. 16–27.
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Vinnik, Lev, Yangfan Deng, G. Kosarev, Sergey Oreshin, & Larissa Makeyeva. (2018). Permian plume beneath Tarim from receiver functions. Solid Earth. 9(5). 1179–1185. 1 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, et al.. (2016). Melt in the mantle and seismic azimuthal anisotropy: evidence from Anatolia. Geophysical Journal International. 205(1). 523–530. 12 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, et al.. (2015). The Moho and the LAB under central Fennoscandia. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8410. 1 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, et al.. (2015). Mantle beneath the Gibraltar Arc from receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International. 200(2). 1153–1169. 21 indexed citations
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Komatitsch, Dimitri, Lev Vinnik, & Sébastien Chevrot. (2010). SHdiff‐SVdiff splitting in an isotropic Earth. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(B7). 33 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, et al.. (2005). Lehmann discontinuity beneath North America: No role for seismic anisotropy. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(9). 33 indexed citations
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Foulger, G. R., Lev Vinnik, & Zhixue Du. (2004). The mantle potential temperature anomaly beneath Iceland is insufficient for a thermal plume.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 2 indexed citations
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Farra, Véronique & Lev Vinnik. (2000). Upper mantle stratification by P and S receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International. 141(3). 699–712. 247 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, G. Kosarev, & N. Petersen. (1996). Mantle transition zone beneath Eurasia. Geophysical Research Letters. 23(12). 1485–1488. 36 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, Barbara Romanowicz, & Ludovic Bréger. (1994). Anisotropy in the center of the inner core. Geophysical Research Letters. 21(16). 1671–1674. 64 indexed citations
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Petersen, N., J. Goßler, R. Kind, Klaus Stammler, & Lev Vinnik. (1993). Precursors to SS and structure of transition zone of the north‐western Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 20(4). 281–284. 28 indexed citations
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Stammler, Klaus, R. Kind, N. Petersen, et al.. (1992). The upper mantle discontinuities: Correlated or anticorrelated?. Geophysical Research Letters. 19(15). 1563–1566. 51 indexed citations
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Farra, Véronique, Lev Vinnik, Barbara Romanowicz, G. L. Kosarev, & R. Kind. (1991). Inversion of teleseismic S particle motion for azimuthal anisotropy in the upper mantle: a feasibility study. Geophysical Journal International. 106(2). 421–431. 58 indexed citations
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Stammler, Klaus, R. Kind, G. L. Kosarev, et al.. (1991). Broadband observations of PS conversions from the upper mantle in Eurasia. Geophysical Journal International. 105(3). 801–804. 11 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev, Véronique Farra, & Barbara Romanowicz. (1989). AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY IN THE EARTH FROM OBSERVATIONS OF SKS AT GEOSCOPE AND NARS BROADBAND STATIONS. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 79(5). 1542–1558. 253 indexed citations
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Kind, R., G. L. Kosarev, Larissa Makeyeva, & Lev Vinnik. (1985). Observations of laterally inhomogeneous anisotropy in the continental lithosphere. Nature. 318(6044). 358–361. 67 indexed citations
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Лукк, А. А., et al.. (1980). Heterogeneities in the mantle inferred from seismic and gravity data. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 22(3-4). 244–254. 6 indexed citations
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Vinnik, Lev. (1977). Detection of waves converted from P to SV in the mantle. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 15(1). 39–45. 627 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vinnik, Lev. (1973). Sources of microseismicP waves. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 103(1). 282–289. 31 indexed citations

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