Matthias Rosenau

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Matthias Rosenau is a scholar working on Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Rosenau has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Geophysics, 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Matthias Rosenau's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (49 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (31 papers). Matthias Rosenau is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (49 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (34 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (31 papers). Matthias Rosenau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and France. Matthias Rosenau's co-authors include Onno Oncken, Marcos Moreno, Daniel Melnick, Helmut Echtler, Fabio Corbi, Guido Schreurs, Jonathan Bedford, Shaoyang Li, Karen Leever and Michael Rudolf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Rosenau

73 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

  1. 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone
    2010 373 citations Marcos Moreno, Matthias Rosenau et al. Nature profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthias Rosenau Germany 26 2.0k 255 232 174 167 73 2.4k
K. M. Johnson United States 34 3.0k 1.5× 553 2.2× 250 1.1× 92 0.5× 133 0.8× 80 3.4k
Conrad Lindholm Norway 28 1.3k 0.6× 203 0.8× 260 1.1× 120 0.7× 162 1.0× 64 1.8k
M. R. Brudzinski United States 32 3.5k 1.8× 596 2.3× 162 0.7× 109 0.6× 49 0.3× 105 3.9k
Yong Wei United States 24 1.1k 0.5× 210 0.8× 423 1.8× 314 1.8× 48 0.3× 69 1.6k
Andreas Rietbrock United Kingdom 39 4.1k 2.0× 654 2.6× 217 0.9× 81 0.5× 70 0.4× 165 4.3k
Jackie E. Kendrick United Kingdom 25 1.2k 0.6× 95 0.4× 167 0.7× 85 0.5× 149 0.9× 71 1.6k
Junjie Ren China 15 768 0.4× 71 0.3× 215 0.9× 58 0.3× 228 1.4× 45 1.1k
Arvind K. Jain India 25 984 0.5× 174 0.7× 265 1.1× 192 1.1× 161 1.0× 100 1.9k
Jia Cheng China 15 1.3k 0.7× 114 0.4× 171 0.7× 27 0.2× 193 1.2× 48 1.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Rosenau

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All Works

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Rudolf, Michael, Matthias Rosenau, & Onno Oncken. (2023). Time-dependent frictional properties of granular materials used in analogue modelling: implications for mimicking fault healing during reactivation and inversion. Solid Earth. 14(3). 311–331. 2 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, et al.. (2022). Upper Plate Response to a Sequential Elastic Rebound and Slab Acceleration During Laboratory‐Scale Subduction Megathrust Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(9). 3 indexed citations
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Elger, Kirsten, Corrado Cimarelli, Fabio Corbi, et al.. (2022). The EPOS Multi-Scale Laboratories: A FAIR Framework for stimulating Open Science practice across European Earth Sciences Laboratories. Annals of Geophysics. 65(3). DM318–DM318. 4 indexed citations
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Rudolf, Michael, Matthias Rosenau, & Onno Oncken. (2021). The Spectrum of Slip Behaviors of a Granular Fault Gouge Analogue Governed by Rate and State Friction. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(12). 2 indexed citations
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Haug, Øystein Thordén, Matthias Rosenau, Michael Rudolf, Karen Leever, & Onno Oncken. (2021). Short communication: Runout of rock avalanches limited by basal friction but controlled by fragmentation. Earth Surface Dynamics. 9(3). 665–672. 10 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, et al.. (2020). On the Relationship Between Offshore Geodetic Coverage and Slip Model Uncertainty: Analog Megathrust Earthquake Case Studies. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(15). 9 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, Illia Horenko, Fabio Corbi, et al.. (2019). Synchronization of Great Subduction Megathrust Earthquakes: Insights From Scale Model Analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(4). 3646–3661. 21 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, et al.. (2019). Overprinting translational domains in passive margin salt basins: insights from analogue modelling. Solid Earth. 10(4). 1283–1300. 13 indexed citations
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Li, Shaoyang, Jonathan Bedford, Marcos Moreno, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal Variation of Mantle Viscosity and the Presence of Cratonic Mantle Inferred From 8 Years of Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 Maule, Chile, Earthquake. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 19(9). 3272–3285. 23 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, Fabio Corbi, & Stéphane Dominguez. (2017). Analogue earthquakes and seismic cycles: experimental modelling across timescales. Solid Earth. 8(3). 597–635. 44 indexed citations
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Li, Shaoyang, Marcos Moreno, Matthias Rosenau, et al.. (2017). Postseismic uplift of the Andes following the 2010 Maule earthquake: Implications for mantle rheology. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(4). 1768–1776. 26 indexed citations
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Rudolf, Michael, Matthias Rosenau, & Onno Oncken. (2016). Jelly Quakes - Characteristics of periodic slip events in an analog model of strike slip seismotectonics using ballistic gelatin.. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Leever, Karen, et al.. (2016). Scaling the sandbox—Mechanical (dis) similarities of granular materials and brittle rock. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 121(9). 6863–6879. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Shaoyang, Marcos Moreno, Matthias Rosenau, Daniel Melnick, & Onno Oncken. (2014). Splay fault triggering by great subduction earthquakes inferred from finite element models. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2229. 1 indexed citations
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Rosenau, Matthias, et al.. (2012). On the precision of sandbox experiments - insight from test-retest variability. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 7667. 1 indexed citations
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Moreno, Marcos, Daniel Melnick, Matthias Rosenau, et al.. (2012). Toward understanding tectonic control on the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 321-322. 152–165. 199 indexed citations
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Moreno, Marcos, Matthias Rosenau, & Onno Oncken. (2010). 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone. Nature. 467(7312). 198–202. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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