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, Kurt Lambeck, Hélène Rouby 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

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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 et al. 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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Malcolm Sambridge	9.2k	2.3k	2.2k	1.7k	952	166	13.5k
Michael Manga	10.2k 1.1×	832 0.4×	3.1k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	262 0.3×	391	16.6k
Herbert E. Huppert	5.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	3.4k 1.6×	841 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	271	15.5k
Jean‐Philippe Avouac	21.9k 2.4×	922 0.4×	5.0k 2.3×	2.0k 1.2×	845 0.9×	320	27.0k
Donald L. Turcotte	15.9k 1.7×	787 0.3×	3.4k 1.6×	3.2k 1.9×	721 0.8×	371	27.5k
G. C. P. King	13.0k 1.4×	330 0.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	749 0.8×	141	15.4k
Domenico Giardini	12.7k 1.4×	849 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	282 0.3×	322	15.0k
Paul Wessel	18.8k 2.0×	760 0.3×	3.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	3.1k 3.3×	114	24.0k
Robert L. Parker	7.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	563 0.3×	1.5k 1.5×	180	11.8k
Andrew W. Woods	3.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	293 0.2×	336 0.4×	266	8.6k
Kerry Gallagher	7.6k 0.8×	402 0.2×	2.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	171 0.2×	141	10.1k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sambridge, Malcolm, A. P. Valentine, & Juerg Hauser. (2025). Trans‐Conceptual Sampling: Bayesian Inference With Competing Assumptions. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(8).

He, Jiawen, et al.. (2025). BayesBay: A Versatile Bayesian Inversion Framework Written in Python. Seismological Research Letters. 96(3). 2052–2064.

Valentine, A. P., et al.. (2022). Upscaling and downscaling Monte Carlo ensembles with generative models. Geophysical Journal International. 230(2). 916–931. 9 indexed citations

Tkalčić, ‪Hrvoje, et al.. (2021). Lowermost Mantle Shear‐Velocity Structure From Hierarchical Trans‐Dimensional Bayesian Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(9). 8 indexed citations

Miller, Meghan S., et al.. (2021). Small-scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle beneath Alaska and northern Pacific revealed from shear-wave triplications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 559. 116768–116768. 8 indexed citations

Tkalčić, ‪Hrvoje, et al.. (2020). Evidence for the Innermost Inner Core: Robust Parameter Search for Radially Varying Anisotropy Using the Neighborhood Algorithm. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(1). 22 indexed citations

Gorbatov, A., Karol Czarnota, Rakib Hassan, et al.. (2019). AusArray: Toward updatable, high-resolution seismic velocity models of the Australian lithosphere. ASEG Extended Abstracts. 2019(1). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

Hawkins, Rhys, et al.. (2019). Transdimensional Bayesian Attenuation Tomography of the Upper Inner Core. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(2). 1929–1943. 12 indexed citations

Phạm, Thanh‐Son, ‪Hrvoje Tkalčić, Malcolm Sambridge, & B. L. N. Kennett. (2018). Earth's Correlation Wavefield: Late Coda Correlation. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(7). 3035–3042. 48 indexed citations

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Tregoning, Paul, et al.. (2018). A statistical fracture model for Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers. The cryosphere. 12(10). 3187–3213. 9 indexed citations

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Tkalčić, ‪Hrvoje, et al.. (2017). Attenuation tomography of the upper inner core. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 122(4). 3008–3032. 19 indexed citations

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Tauzin, Benoît, et al.. (2017). Towards a fully probabilistic reconstruction of the elastic, thermal and petrological structure of the Earth's mantle transition zone. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5855. 1 indexed citations

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Zaroli, Christophe, Malcolm Sambridge, Jean‐Jacques Lévêque, E. Debayle, & Guust Nolet. (2013). An objective rationale for the choice of regularisation parameter with application to global multiple-frequency S -wave tomography. Solid Earth. 4(2). 357–371. 18 indexed citations

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Sambridge, Malcolm, Thomas Bodin, Anya M. Reading, & Kerry Gallagher. (2010). Inference from noisy data with an unknown number of discontinuities: ideas from outside the box.. Exploration Geophysics. 2010(1). 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Reading, Anya M., et al.. (2010). Down the borehole but outside the box: innovative approaches to wireline log data interpretation. Exploration Geophysics. 2010(1). 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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Sambridge, Malcolm, et al.. (2009). TerraWulf II: Many hands make light work of data analysis. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 21–23. 1 indexed citations

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Sambridge, Malcolm, Peter Rickwood, & Nicholas Rawlinson. (2005). Automatic Dfferentiation in Geophysical Inverse Problems. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Brodie, Ross & Malcolm Sambridge. (2004). Holistically calibrating, processing and inverting frequency domain AEM surveys. ASEG Extended Abstracts. 2004(1). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

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Rawlinson, Nicholas & Malcolm Sambridge. (2004). Multiple reflection and transmission phases in complex layered media using a multistage fast marching method. Geophysics. 69(5). 1338–1350. 161 indexed citations

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Christie, Michael Andrew, et al.. (2002). Uncertainty reduction in reservoir modelling. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 457–467. 12 indexed citations

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