Roland Bürgmann

27.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
389 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Roland Bürgmann is a scholar working on Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Bürgmann has authored 389 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 335 papers in Geophysics, 64 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 44 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Roland Bürgmann's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (323 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (174 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (160 papers). Roland Bürgmann is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (323 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (174 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (160 papers). Roland Bürgmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Roland Bürgmann's co-authors include E. J. Fielding, Paramesh Banerjee, Fred F. Pollitz, Georg Dresen, Zheng‐Kang Shen, Min Wang, D. A. Schmidt, A. M. Freed, R. M. Nadeau and P. A. Rosen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roland Bürgmann

375 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

2004 1.3k citations Peizhen Zhang, Zheng‐Kang Shen et al. profile →
Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations

2008 865 citations Roland Bürgmann et al. profile →
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Measure Earth’s Surface Topography and Its Deformation

2000 819 citations Roland Bürgmann, E. J. Fielding et al. profile →
Contemporary crustal deformation around the southeast borderland of the Tibetan Plateau

2005 684 citations Zheng‐Kang Shen, Min Wang et al. profile →
Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

2009 493 citations Zheng‐Kang Shen, Peizhen Zhang et al. profile →
Time‐dependent land uplift and subsidence in the Santa Clara valley, California, from a large interferometric synthetic aperture radar data set

2003 472 citations Roland Bürgmann et al. profile →
The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip

2018 310 citations Roland Bürgmann Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
What’s down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor

2021 127 citations Roland Bürgmann et al. profile →

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A New Fault Slip Mode Unveiled in the Regional Dynamic Triggering of the 2023 Turkey Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence 2025 ·AGU Advances ·Heng Luo, Yijian Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), Teng Wang, Han Yue, (unknown), Nan Hu, Abhijit Ghosh, Xiaodong Song, Roland Bürgmann	0
2	Hydrologically-induced crustal stress changes and their association with seismicity rates in Taiwan 2024 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Ya‐Ju Hsu, Roland Bürgmann, Zhongshan Jiang, Chi‐Hsien Tang, Christopher Johnson, (unknown), Hsin‐Hua Huang, (unknown), Xinghai Yang	0
3	Coseismic Shallow Slip Deficit Accounted for by Diffuse Off‐Fault Deformation 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Yann Klinger, Kang Wang, Roland Bürgmann	7
4	Transition and Drivers of Elastic to Inelastic Deformation in the Abarkuh Plain From InSAR Multi‐Sensor Time Series and Hydrogeological Data 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Sayyed Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh, Shuanggen Jin, Estelle Chaussard, Roland Bürgmann, Abolfazl Rezaei, (unknown), Andreas Braun	3
5	Characterizing Deep, Shallow, and Surface Fault Zone Deformation of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo, China, Earthquake 2023 ·Seismological Research Letters ·Dezheng Zhao, Chunyan Qu, Roland Bürgmann, Xinjian Shan	3
6	Spatiotemporal Variations of Surface Deformation, Shallow Creep Rate, and Slip Partitioning Between the San Andreas and Southern Calaveras Fault 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Roland Bürgmann, T. Taira	8
7	Finite-Source Model of the 8 July 2021 M 6.0 Antelope Valley, California, Earthquake 2023 ·Seismological Research Letters ·Kang Wang, Douglas S. Dreger, Roland Bürgmann, T. Taira	3
8	Postseismic Deformation of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Illuminates Lithospheric Rheological Structure and Dynamics of Eastern Tibet 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Min Wang, Zheng‐Kang Shen, Yanzhao Wang, Roland Bürgmann, (unknown), Peizhen Zhang, Hua Liao, Rui Zhang, Qi Wang, Zaisen Jiang, Weitao Chen, Ming Hao, Yu Li, (unknown), Wei Tao, Kang Wang, Lian Xue	61
9	Characterization of Irreversible Land Subsidence in the Yazd‐Ardakan Plain, Iran From 2003 to 2020 InSAR Time Series 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Sayyed Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh, Shuanggen Jin, Esmaeel Parizi, Estelle Chaussard, Roland Bürgmann, José Manuel Delgado Blasco, Meisam Amani, Han Bao, (unknown)	29
10	Bookshelf Kinematics and the Effect of Dilatation on Fault Zone Inelastic Deformation: Examples From Optical Image Correlation Measurements of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Christopher Milliner, Andrea Donnellan, Saif Aati, Jean‐Philippe Avouac, Robert Zinke, James F. Dolan, Kang Wang, Roland Bürgmann	42
11	Complex Migration of Tremor Near Cholame, CA, Resolved by Seismic Array Analysis 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Asaf Inbal, Amanda M. Thomas, (unknown), Roland Bürgmann	3
12	Four-dimensional surface motions of the Slumgullion landslide and quantification of hydrometeorological forcing 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Xie Hu, Roland Bürgmann, William H. Schulz, E. J. Fielding	100
13	Rheology of a Debris Slide From the Joint Analysis of UAVSAR and LiDAR Data 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Xie Hu, Roland Bürgmann	13
14	Separation of Sources of Seasonal Uplift in China Using Independent Component Analysis of GNSS Time Series 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Danan Dong, Roland Bürgmann, Kathryn Materna, (unknown), (unknown), Junping Chen	34
15	Mobility, Thickness, and Hydraulic Diffusivity of the Slow‐Moving Monroe Landslide in California Revealed by L‐Band Satellite Radar Interferometry 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Xie Hu, Roland Bürgmann, Zhong Lu, Alexander L. Handwerger, Teng Wang, (unknown)	59
16	Seasonal Modulation of Deep Slow-slip and Earthquakes on the Main Himalayan Thrust 2019 ·(unknown), Bhaskar Kundu, Vineet K. Gahalaut, Roland Bürgmann, Birendra Jha, (unknown), Rajeev Kumar Yadav, Naresh Krishna Vissa, (unknown)	1
17	Spatiotemporal Evolution of Postseismic Deformation Following the 2001 Mw7.8 Kokoxili, China, Earthquake from 7 Years of Insar Observations 2018 ·Remote Sensing ·Dezheng Zhao, Chunyan Qu, Xinjian Shan, Roland Bürgmann, Wenyu Gong, (unknown)	13
18	The rise, collapse, and compaction of Mt. Mantap from the 3 September 2017 North Korean nuclear test 2018 ·Science ·Teng Wang, (unknown), Mehdi Nikkhoo, Shengji Wei, Sylvain Barbot, Douglas S. Dreger, Roland Bürgmann, Mahdi Motagh, Qi‐Fu Chen	88
19	Applicability of Sentinel‐1 Terrain Observation by Progressive Scans multitemporal interferometry for monitoring slow ground motions in the San Francisco Bay Area 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Manoochehr Shirzaei, Roland Bürgmann, E. J. Fielding	51
20	Fast geodetic strain-rates in eastern Sicily (southern Italy): New insights into block tectonics and seismic potential in the area of the great 1693 earthquake 2014 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·(unknown), Enrico Serpelloni, Andrea Argnani, Alessandro Bonforte, Roland Bürgmann, Marco Anzidei, P. Baldi, Giuseppe Puglisi	47

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