Malcolm Sambridge

18.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
166 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

Malcolm Sambridge is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Malcolm Sambridge has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Geophysics, 42 papers in Ocean Engineering and 29 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Malcolm Sambridge's work include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (66 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (49 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers). Malcolm Sambridge is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (66 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (49 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers). Malcolm Sambridge collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Malcolm Sambridge's co-authors include Nicholas Rawlinson, Thomas Bodin, Kerry Gallagher, Klaus Mosegaard, B. L. N. Kennett, Jean Braun, Anthony Purcell, Hélène Rouby, Kurt Lambeck and Yiying Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Malcolm Sambridge

161 papers receiving 12.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

2014 1.7k citations Malcolm Sambridge et al. profile →
Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm—I. Searching a parameter space

1999 1.2k citations Malcolm Sambridge Geophysical Journal International profile →
Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm—II. Appraising the ensemble

1999 649 citations Malcolm Sambridge Geophysical Journal International profile →
MONTE CARLO METHODS IN GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS

2002 591 citations Malcolm Sambridge, Klaus Mosegaard profile →
Mixture modeling of multi-component data sets with application to ion-probe zircon ages

1994 471 citations Malcolm Sambridge et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

2011 355 citations Thomas Bodin, Malcolm Sambridge et al. profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Malcolm Sambridge. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Malcolm Sambridge 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 Malcolm Sambridge. Malcolm Sambridge is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Trans‐Conceptual Sampling: Bayesian Inference With Competing Assumptions 2025 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Malcolm Sambridge, A. P. Valentine, Juerg Hauser	0
2	BayesBay: A Versatile Bayesian Inversion Framework Written in Python 2025 ·Seismological Research Letters ·(unknown), Jiawen He, Malcolm Sambridge	0
3	Upscaling and downscaling Monte Carlo ensembles with generative models 2022 ·Geophysical Journal International ·(unknown), A. P. Valentine, Malcolm Sambridge	9
4	Lowermost Mantle Shear‐Velocity Structure From Hierarchical Trans‐Dimensional Bayesian Tomography 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Rhys Hawkins, Malcolm Sambridge	8
5	Small-scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle beneath Alaska and northern Pacific revealed from shear-wave triplications 2021 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·(unknown), Meghan S. Miller, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Malcolm Sambridge	8
6	Evidence for the Innermost Inner Core: Robust Parameter Search for Radially Varying Anisotropy Using the Neighborhood Algorithm 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Malcolm Sambridge	22
7	AusArray: Toward updatable, high-resolution seismic velocity models of the Australian lithosphere 2019 ·ASEG Extended Abstracts ·A. Gorbatov, Karol Czarnota, (unknown), Rakib Hassan, Babak Hejrani, (unknown), M. Salmon, Malcolm Sambridge, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Huaiyu Yuan, Nicholas Rawlinson, Anya M. Reading, B. L. N. Kennett	1
8	Transdimensional Bayesian Attenuation Tomography of the Upper Inner Core 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Rhys Hawkins, Malcolm Sambridge, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić	12
9	Earth's Correlation Wavefield: Late Coda Correlation 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Thanh‐Son Phạm, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Malcolm Sambridge, B. L. N. Kennett	48
10	Attenuation tomography of the upper inner core 2017 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Malcolm Sambridge, Vernon F. Cormier, Roberto Benavente	19
11	Towards a fully probabilistic reconstruction of the elastic, thermal and petrological structure of the Earth's mantle transition zone 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Benoît Tauzin, (unknown), Malcolm Sambridge, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Seongryong Kim, Thomas Bodin	1
12	Assessing uncertainty in geophysical problems — Introduction 2013 ·Geophysics ·A. Fournier, Klaus Mosegaard, Henning Omre, Malcolm Sambridge, Luis Tenorio	3
13	Inference from noisy data with an unknown number of discontinuities: ideas from outside the box. 2010 ·Exploration Geophysics ·Malcolm Sambridge, Thomas Bodin, Anya M. Reading, Kerry Gallagher	2
14	Down the borehole but outside the box: innovative approaches to wireline log data interpretation 2010 ·Exploration Geophysics ·Anya M. Reading, Thomas Bodin, Malcolm Sambridge, (unknown), Michael Roach	3
15	TerraWulf II: Many hands make light work of data analysis 2009 ·eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Malcolm Sambridge, Paul Tregoning, Thomas Bodin, H. McQueen, (unknown), (unknown)	1
16	A holistic approach to inversion of frequency-domain airborne EM data 2006 ·Geophysics ·Ross Brodie, Malcolm Sambridge	86
17	Automatic Dfferentiation in Geophysical Inverse Problems 2005 ·AGUFM ·Malcolm Sambridge, Peter Rickwood, Nicholas Rawlinson	1
18	Holistically calibrating, processing and inverting frequency domain AEM surveys 2004 ·ASEG Extended Abstracts ·Ross Brodie, Malcolm Sambridge	5
19	Multiple reflection and transmission phases in complex layered media using a multistage fast marching method 2004 ·Geophysics ·Nicholas Rawlinson, Malcolm Sambridge	161
20	Uncertainty reduction in reservoir modelling 2002 ·Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society ·(unknown), Michael Andrew Christie, Malcolm Sambridge	12

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