Richard Styron

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Richard Styron is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Styron has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Geophysics, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard Styron's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (30 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (17 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (13 papers). Richard Styron is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (30 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (17 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (13 papers). Richard Styron collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Nepal. Richard Styron's co-authors include Michael H. Taylor, Marco Pagani, Kurt E. Sundell, Michael A. Murphy, Daniel F. Stöckli, Andrew McCallister, Lin Ding, Deliang Liu, E. A. Hetland and Andrés Mora and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Richard Styron

31 papers receiving 1.2k 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. The GEM Global Active Faults Database
    2020 225 citations Richard Styron, Marco Pagani Earthquake Spectra profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Richard Styron 1.1k 169 159 122 76 37 1.2k
Riccardo Civico 869 0.8× 98 0.6× 94 0.6× 128 1.0× 126 1.7× 58 1.0k
Yasuo Awata 754 0.7× 159 0.9× 106 0.7× 77 0.6× 122 1.6× 34 936
Alexandra Alvarado 1.2k 1.1× 100 0.6× 127 0.8× 111 0.9× 76 1.0× 51 1.3k
Hernando Tavera 1.8k 1.7× 126 0.7× 190 1.2× 150 1.2× 65 0.9× 97 1.9k
Dan Clark 1.2k 1.1× 225 1.3× 234 1.5× 103 0.8× 47 0.6× 46 1.3k
Hani Zahran 781 0.7× 140 0.8× 188 1.2× 127 1.0× 66 0.9× 47 870
Diane I. Doser 2.0k 1.9× 181 1.1× 219 1.4× 138 1.1× 98 1.3× 107 2.2k
C. S. Prentice 850 0.8× 224 1.3× 105 0.7× 101 0.8× 151 2.0× 53 1.1k
Alexandros Chatzipetros 644 0.6× 80 0.5× 122 0.8× 80 0.7× 53 0.7× 53 833
Thomas L. Pratt 1.4k 1.3× 252 1.5× 169 1.1× 193 1.6× 58 0.8× 97 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Styron

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Styron

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Styron

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Styron. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Styron based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Styron. Richard Styron is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Sundell, Kurt E., Richard Styron, Joel E. Saylor, et al.. (2025). Tectonic and climatic controls on late Cenozoic intra-arc basin development in the central Andes of southern Peru. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 666. 119487–119487. 1 indexed citations
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Rao, Anirudh, Kendra Johnson, Marco Pagani, et al.. (2025). Evolution of the OpenQuake Engine: Enhanced capabilities, collaborative development, and global adoption. Earthquake Spectra. 41(5). 3299–3336.
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Taylor, Michael H., Michael A. Murphy, Sean P. Bemis, et al.. (2025). Dextral slip along the Western Nepal Fault System accommodates significant orogen-parallel shear. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(11-12). 4971–4992.
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Daniel, M. K., Michael A. Murphy, Alexander C. Robinson, et al.. (2025). Geometry, kinematics, and slip of the Talphi fault in the Western Nepal Fault System: Implications for strain partitioning during growth of a thrust wedge. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(11-12). 5131–5147.
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Johnson, Kendra, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for the Dominican Republic. Earthquake Spectra. 40(4). 2504–2544. 1 indexed citations
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Wright, Tim, K. M. Johnson, Richard Styron, et al.. (2024). Strain Partitioning in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau From Kinematic Modeling of High‐Resolution Sentinel‐1 InSAR and GNSS. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(19). 3 indexed citations
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Dannberg, Juliane, et al.. (2023). High‐Resolution Mantle Flow Models Reveal Importance of Plate Boundary Geometry and Slab Pull Forces on Generating Tectonic Plate Motions. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(8). 6 indexed citations
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Pagani, Marco, Kendra Johnson, Valerio Poggi, et al.. (2020). The 2018 version of the Global Earthquake Model: Hazard component. Earthquake Spectra. 36(1S). 226–251. 75 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard & Marco Pagani. (2020). The GEM Global Active Faults Database. Earthquake Spectra. 36(1S). 160–180. 225 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Kendra, et al.. (2020). Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis model for the Philippines. Earthquake Spectra. 36(1S). 44–68. 24 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard, et al.. (2020). CCAF-DB: the Caribbean and Central American active fault database. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(3). 831–857. 36 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard. (2019). The impact of earthquake cycle variability on neotectonic and paleoseismic slip rate estimates. Solid Earth. 10(1). 15–25. 34 indexed citations
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Sundell, Kurt E., et al.. (2018). Peruvian Altiplano Stratigraphy Highlights Along‐Strike Variability in Foreland Basin Evolution of the Cenozoic Central Andes. Tectonics. 37(6). 1876–1904. 23 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard. (2018). cossatot/eq-slip-rate-variability-paper: Manuscript and code after paper acceptance. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard, José María García, & Marco Pagani. (2017). The GEM Global Active Faults Database: The growth and synthesis of a worldwide database of active structures for PSHA, research, and education. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Styron, Richard, Michael H. Taylor, & Kurt E. Sundell. (2015). Accelerated extension of Tibet linked to the northward underthrusting of Indian crust. Nature Geoscience. 8(2). 131–134. 93 indexed citations
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Elliott, A. J., et al.. (2012). How quickly do earthquakes get locked in the landscape? One year of erosion on El Mayor-Cucapah rupture scarps imaged by repeat terrestrial lidar scans. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Mattioli, G. S., et al.. (2006). Ongoing Surface Deformation Studies of Dominica, BWI: GPS Results and Interpretations From the 2006 NSF-REU Campaign. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006.

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