Max Wyss

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
203 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Max Wyss is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Max Wyss has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Geophysics, 61 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Max Wyss's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (163 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (82 papers) and Earthquake Detection and Analysis (76 papers). Max Wyss is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (163 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (82 papers) and Earthquake Detection and Analysis (76 papers). Max Wyss collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. Max Wyss's co-authors include Stefan Wiemer, Danijel Schorlemmer, James N. Brune, R. E. Habermann, Thomas C. Hanks, Stephen R. McNutt, Stewart W. Smith, Péter Molnár, Kunihiko Shimazaki and Zhong Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Max Wyss

194 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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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.

Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes

2005 807 citations Danijel Schorlemmer, Stefan Wiemer et al. profile →
Towards a Physical Understanding of the Earthquake Frequency Distribution

1973 496 citations Max Wyss profile →
Seismic moment, stress, and source dimensions for earthquakes in the California-Nevada region

1968 463 citations Max Wyss et al. profile →

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Quantitative Earthquake Loss Estimates the New Frontier 2023 ·Seismological Research Letters ·Max Wyss	1
2	Human Losses and Damage Expected in Future Earthquakes on Faial Island–Azores 2019 ·Pure and Applied Geophysics ·(unknown), Philippe Rosset, Max Wyss, Mourad Bezzeghoud, José Fernando Borges, (unknown)	7
3	Global Dynamic Exposure and the OpenBuildingMap - Communicating Risk and Involving Communities 2017 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Danijel Schorlemmer, Naoshi Hirata, Kuo‐Fong Ma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Fabrice Cotton, Max Wyss	4
4	Bike share in the Australian city: Assessing the feasibility of a future bike share program for Adelaide 2016 ·Road and transport research ·Elliot K. Fishman, Max Wyss	2
5	Lessons from the conviction of the L'Aquila seven: The standard probabilistic earthquake hazard and risk assessment is ineffective 2013 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Max Wyss	1
6	Constructing City Models to Estimate Losses Due to Earthquakes Worldwide: Application to Bucharest, Romania 2009 ·Earthquake Spectra ·(unknown), Max Wyss, Philippe Rosset, (unknown)	33
7	Estimation of damage and human losses due to earthquakes worldwide - QLARM strategy and experience 2009 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·(unknown), Philippe Rosset, Max Wyss, Stefan Wiemer, (unknown), G. Cua	2
8	A new Tool for Estimating Losses due to Earthquakes: QUAKELOSS2 2007 ·AGUFM ·(unknown), Max Wyss, (unknown), Stefan Wiemer, (unknown)	1
9	Consequences for communities around the Marmara Sea due to possible future earthquakes near Istanbul 2003 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Max Wyss, (unknown), (unknown)	1
10	Magmatism in the Denali Volcanic Gap, Southern Alaska 2002 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·C. J. Nye, Max Wyss, Natalia A. Ratchkovski, (unknown)	3
11	The Great Alaska "Earthquake" of 1998-2001 2001 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Jeffrey T. Freymueller, (unknown), Hilary J. Fletcher, Sigrún Hreinsdóttir, Steven C. Cohen, Max Wyss	36
12	Seismicity Patterns, their Statistical Significance and Physical Meaning 1999 ·Birkhäuser Basel eBooks ·Max Wyss, Kunihiko Shimazaki, (unknown)	18
13	Earthquake prediction : state of the art 1997 ·Birkhäuser-Verlag eBooks ·Max Wyss, Renata Dmowska	17
14	Seismic quiescence before the landers (M = 7.5) and big bear (M = 6.5) 1992 earthquakes 1994 ·Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ·Stefan Wiemer, Max Wyss	161
15	Estimates of orientations of stress and strain tensors based on fault-plane solutions in the epicentral area of the great Hawaiian earthquake of 1868 1991 ·Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ·(unknown), Max Wyss	13
16	Seismic quiescence precursor to the 1983 Kaoiki (MS = 6.6), Hawaii, earthquake 1986 ·Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ·Max Wyss	54
17	Background seismicity rates and precursory seismic quiescence: Imperial Valley, California 1984 ·Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ·R. E. Habermann, Max Wyss	44
18	Sea-level changes before large earthquakes 1978 ·Max Wyss	4
19	Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland earthquake swarm of September 1972 and its tectonic and geothermal implications (Abstract) 1976 ·F. Klein, Páll Einarsson, Max Wyss	1
20	A Discussion on the measurement and interpretation of changes of strain in the Earth - Derivation of rupture area and stress-drop from body wave displacement spectra and the relative material strength in deep seismic zones 1973 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Max Wyss	1

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