Mario Ruiz

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Mario Ruiz is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mario Ruiz has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Geophysics, 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mario Ruiz's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (59 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (54 papers) and Seismology and Earthquake Studies (42 papers). Mario Ruiz is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (59 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (54 papers) and Seismology and Earthquake Studies (42 papers). Mario Ruiz collaborates with scholars based in Ecuador, United States and France. Mario Ruiz's co-authors include Jonathan M. Lees, Matt Welsh, G. Werner-Allen, J. Johnson, Konrad Lorincz, Omar Marcillo, J. B. Johnson, Patricia Mothes, Hugo Yépes and Stephen Hernández and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Mario Ruiz

120 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Deploying a wireless sensor network on an active volcano

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mario Ruiz Ecuador	28	1.7k	973	666	556	215	126	3.2k
Guido Cervone United States	30	576 0.3×	53 0.1×	879 1.3×	540 1.0×	636 3.0×	100	3.2k
Brian Borchers United States	22	616 0.4×	112 0.1×	241 0.4×	102 0.2×	827 3.8×	72	2.5k
Thomas Owens United States	39	5.4k 3.1×	346 0.4×	432 0.6×	409 0.7×	168 0.8×	175	6.4k
Yang China	16	159 0.1×	561 0.6×	602 0.9×	360 0.6×	37 0.2×	266	1.7k
Abani Patra United States	28	513 0.3×	287 0.3×	242 0.4×	93 0.2×	487 2.3×	129	2.3k
Feng Shen China	18	1.9k 1.1×	62 0.1×	280 0.4×	225 0.4×	180 0.8×	129	2.8k
M. E. West United States	31	2.1k 1.2×	54 0.1×	434 0.7×	42 0.1×	447 2.1×	129	3.0k
Paresh Nath Singha Roy India	18	462 0.3×	165 0.2×	267 0.4×	74 0.1×	28 0.1×	63	1.1k
Jianxin Liu China	25	1.2k 0.7×	31 0.0×	278 0.4×	275 0.5×	43 0.2×	278	2.6k
Yang Gao Canada	37	212 0.1×	137 0.1×	520 0.8×	785 1.4×	87 0.4×	343	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mario Ruiz

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Meltzer, A., S. W. Roecker, S. L. Beck, et al.. (2025). High‐Density Seismic Network for Improved Tomographic Imaging of the Ecuadorian Forearc: Slip Mode Controlled by In Situ Material Heterogeneity. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(12).

Ruiz, Mario, et al.. (2024). Travel-time seismic tomography for the seismic stratigraphic interpretation of the crust around the San Rafael knickpoint at Coca River, Ecuador. Brazilian Journal of Geology. 54(1).

Ortiz, H. D., Robin S. Matoza, Benjamin Bernard, Rodrigo De Negri, & Mario Ruiz. (2024). Seismo‐Acoustic Characterization of the 2018 Sierra Negra Caldera Resurgence and Fissure Eruption in the Galápagos Islands. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(10). 2 indexed citations

Bie, Lidong, Hans Agurto‐Detzel, Andreas Rietbrock, et al.. (2021). 3D Local Earthquake Tomography of the Ecuadorian Margin in the Source Area of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(3). 13 indexed citations

Fee, David, et al.. (2021). Fitting Jet Noise Similarity Spectra to Volcano Infrasound Data. Earth and Space Science. 8(11). 4 indexed citations

Ortiz, H. D., et al.. (2021). Autocorrelation Infrasound Interferometry. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(4). 11 indexed citations

Grijalva, Felipe, et al.. (2021). ESeismic-GAN: A Generative Model for Seismic Events From Cotopaxi Volcano. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 7111–7120. 10 indexed citations

Butcher, Steven P., Andrew Bell, Stephen Hernández, et al.. (2020). Drumbeat LP “Aftershocks” to a Failed Explosive Eruption at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 5 indexed citations

Pérez, Noel, et al.. (2020). Benchmarking Seismic-Based Feature Groups to Classify the Cotopaxi Volcanic Activity. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 9 indexed citations

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Pérez, Noel, et al.. (2019). Combining Filter-Based Feature Selection Methods and Gaussian Mixture Model for the Classification of Seismic Events From Cotopaxi Volcano. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(6). 1991–2003. 21 indexed citations

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Femina, P. C. La, Andrew Bell, Machel Higgins, et al.. (2019). Deformation of a Basaltic Shield Volcano: Uplift, Trapdoor Faulting, Eruption Triggering and Subsidence associated with the 2018 eruption of Sierra Negra Volcano, Galapagos. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Battaglia, Jean, et al.. (2015). Location and Waveform Classification of Seismicity at Tungurahua Volcano (Ecuador) During the February and April 2014 Eruptive Phases. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Torres-Palma, Ricardo A., Daniel Gómez, Mario Ruiz, et al.. (2015). Intense Seismic Activity at Chiles and Cerro Negro Volcanoes on the Colombia-Ecuador Border. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Hernández, Stephen, Mario Ruiz, Wendy McCausland, et al.. (2015). Recent Seismic and Geodetic Activity at Multiple Volcanoes in the Ecuadorean Andes. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz, Mario, et al.. (2014). Similarities in Eruption Dynamics: A Seismo-Acoustic Analysis of Explosion Sequences at Tungurahua Volcano in May-July 2010 & December 2012. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 84. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz, A., et al.. (2013). Multiparameter Monitoring Techniques for Reducing Volcanic Risk from Cuicocha Crater Lake, Ecuador. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Régnier, Marc, P. Jarrín, Jean‐Mathieu Nocquet, et al.. (2011). Local seismicity in the region of the Mw 8.8 1906 Colombia-Ecuador subduction earthquake: new evidences of the margin segmentation and of the depth of the coupled zone. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz, Mario, et al.. (2011). Analysis of chugging signals from Reventador volcano, Ecuador. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz, Mario & Santiago Arellano. (2008). Characteristics and Distribution of Infrasound Signals at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Ruiz, Mario, Jonathan M. Lees, & J. B. Johnson. (2004). Blasts, Roars, and Chugs at Tungurahua Volcano. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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