P. Wills

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

P. Wills is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Wills has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Geophysics, 29 papers in Ocean Engineering and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in P. Wills's work include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (37 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (21 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (19 papers). P. Wills is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (37 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (21 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (19 papers). P. Wills collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. P. Wills's co-authors include Jorge López, J. J. Mestayer, Albena Mateeva, Denis Kiyashchenko, S. Grandi, Zhaohui Yang, Kees Hornman, Wilfred Berlang, Barbara Cox and Rocco Detomo and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Prospecting, Journal of Petroleum Technology and The Leading Edge.

In The Last Decade

P. Wills

41 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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. Distributed acoustic sensing for reservoir monitoring with vertical seismic profiling
    2014 350 citations Albena Mateeva, Jorge López et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
P. Wills Netherlands 15 988 634 283 192 190 41 1.2k
Albena Mateeva Netherlands 17 1.1k 1.1× 615 1.0× 271 1.0× 148 0.8× 201 1.1× 54 1.2k
Denis Kiyashchenko Netherlands 11 799 0.8× 462 0.7× 271 1.0× 85 0.4× 182 1.0× 48 979
Kees Hornman Netherlands 13 607 0.6× 354 0.6× 231 0.8× 68 0.4× 121 0.6× 27 739
A. Clarke United Kingdom 10 569 0.6× 303 0.5× 334 1.2× 104 0.5× 224 1.2× 32 931
Valeriya Shulakova Australia 12 617 0.6× 350 0.6× 130 0.5× 162 0.8× 127 0.7× 28 777
S. Grandi Netherlands 7 511 0.5× 290 0.5× 202 0.7× 49 0.3× 121 0.6× 25 635
Hans Potters Netherlands 11 455 0.5× 318 0.5× 166 0.6× 85 0.4× 80 0.4× 19 611
E. Tessmer Germany 15 1.0k 1.0× 366 0.6× 94 0.3× 164 0.9× 138 0.7× 34 1.1k
Mark E. Willis United States 16 890 0.9× 520 0.8× 62 0.2× 201 1.0× 91 0.5× 91 975
Sudhendu Kashikar Canada 8 358 0.4× 301 0.5× 140 0.5× 88 0.5× 94 0.5× 16 539

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Fields of papers citing papers by P. Wills

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. Wills

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chalenski, David, Kanglin Wang, Jorge López, et al.. (2016). Small acoustic sources for low-cost reservoir monitoring offshore. The Leading Edge. 35(10). 860–866. 8 indexed citations
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Wills, P., et al.. (2016). Combining Frequent 4D Seismic and Mechanistic Reservoir Modeling to Improve the Effectiveness of Steam Injection Operations. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Han, Zhaohui Yang, P. Wills, et al.. (2015). Dual-well 3D vertical seismic profile enabled by distributed acoustic sensing in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Interpretation. 3(3). SW11–SW25. 30 indexed citations
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Wills, P., et al.. (2015). Continuous seismic reservoir monitoring at Peace River: Initial results and interpretation. 5440–5444. 11 indexed citations
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Mateeva, Albena, Jorge López, J. J. Mestayer, et al.. (2013). Distributed acoustic sensing for reservoir monitoring with VSP. The Leading Edge. 32(10). 1278–1283. 113 indexed citations
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Mateeva, Albena, J. J. Mestayer, Bart Cox, et al.. (2013). Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for Reservoir Monitoring with VSP. Proceedings. 14 indexed citations
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Wills, P., et al.. (2013). 3C deghosting for refraction time-lapse monitoring. 4910–4915. 4 indexed citations
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Mateeva, Albena, et al.. (2013). Dual-well 3D VSP in deepwater made possible by DAS. 5062–5066. 39 indexed citations
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Mateeva, Albena, J. J. Mestayer, Bart Cox, et al.. (2012). Advances in Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for VSP. 1–5. 97 indexed citations
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Mestayer, J. J., Bart Cox, P. Wills, et al.. (2012). Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Geophysical Monitoring. Proceedings. 19 indexed citations
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Mestayer, J. J., Bart Cox, P. Wills, et al.. (2011). Field trials of distributed acoustic sensing for geophysical monitoring. 4253–4257. 164 indexed citations
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Hansteen, Fredrik, P. Wills, Kees Hornman, Long Jin, & Stephen Bourne. (2010). Time-lapse Refraction Seismic Monitoring. 72nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010. 12 indexed citations
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Hatchell, Paul, P. Wills, & C. Didraga. (2009). Production Induced Effects on Near-surface Wave Velocities at Valhall. 71st EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2009. 14 indexed citations
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Zwartjes, Paul, P. Wills, J. W. de Maag, & Paul Hatchell. (2008). Shallow and Deep Time-lapse Effects on Valhall LoFS Converted Wave Data. 70th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2008. 8 indexed citations
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Wills, P. & Paul Hatchell. (2007). Time-lapse Measurements of Scholte Wave Velocity Over a Compacting Oil Field. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations
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Wills, P., et al.. (2006). Toward affordable permanent seismic reservoir monitoring using the sparse OBC concept. The Leading Edge. 25(4). 454–459. 1 indexed citations
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Tura, Ali, et al.. (2005). Monitoring primary depletion reservoirs using amplitudes and time shifts from high-repeat seismic surveys. The Leading Edge. 24(12). 1214–1221. 31 indexed citations
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Wills, P., et al.. (1992). Active and passive imaging of hydraulic fractures. The Leading Edge. 11(7). 15–22. 36 indexed citations

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