Shengji Wei

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
129 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Shengji Wei is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shengji Wei has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Geophysics, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Shengji Wei's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (84 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (40 papers). Shengji Wei is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (108 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (84 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (40 papers). Shengji Wei collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Shengji Wei's co-authors include Jean‐Philippe Avouac, Teng Wang, D. V. Helmberger, Lingsen Meng, Jean‐Paul Ampuero, Robert Graves, Hiroo Kanamori, Risheng Chu, Junle Jiang and Sylvain Barbot and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shengji Wei

121 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

The 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Mosaicking the Megathrust from Seconds to Centuries

2011 604 citations Shengji Wei et al. Science profile →
Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

2015 405 citations Shengji Wei, Teng Wang et al. profile →
Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M _w 7.5 Noto earthquake

2024 36 citations Zhangfeng Ma, Yosuke Aoki et al. Science profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shengji Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shengji Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shengji Wei 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 Shengji Wei. Shengji Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Supershear rupture sustained through a thick fault zone in the 2025 M _w 7.8 Mandalay earthquake 2025 ·Science ·Shengji Wei, Xin Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Zhangfeng Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Yihe Huang, (unknown), (unknown), Shun Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jianyong Zhang, Luca Dal Zilio, Xinjian Shan, Ling Chen	3
2	New Insights Into Active Faults Revealed by a Deep‐Learning‐Based Earthquake Catalog in Central Myanmar 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Shun Yang, Zhuowei Xiao, Shengji Wei, Yumei He, (unknown), Guangbing Hou, Myo Thant, Kyaing Sein, Mingming Jiang	7
3	Plate interface geometry complexity and persistent heterogenous coupling revealed by a high-resolution earthquake focal mechanism catalog in Mentawai, Sumatra 2024 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Xin Wang, Shengji Wei, (unknown), Zacharie Duputel, (unknown), Tianyao Hao, Liang Zhao	4
4	Mantle deformation in the highly oblique indo-burma subduction system inferred from shear wave splitting measurements 2024 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·(unknown), Shengji Wei, Patricia Persaud, M. S. Steckler, Frederik Tilmann, (unknown), J. B. Gaherty, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Eric Sandvol	6
5	A Novel 3‐D Seismic Scattering and Intrinsic Attenuation Tomography and Its Application to Northern Sumatra 2024 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Jia Wei, Qiancheng Liu, Ling Chen, Shengji Wei, Liang Zhao	1
6	Shear wave splitting of the 2018 Lombok earthquake aftershock area, Indonesia 2023 ·Geoscience Letters ·(unknown), Andri Dian Nugraha, Muzli Muzli, Sri Widiyantoro, (unknown), (unknown), Zulfakriza Zulfakriza, Shengji Wei, (unknown), (unknown), Pepen Supendi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
7	Secondary fault system in Northern Sumatra, evidenced by recent seismicity and geomorphic structure 2023 ·Journal of Asian Earth Sciences ·Umar Muksin, (unknown), Andrean V. H. Simanjuntak, (unknown), Muzli Muzli, Shengji Wei, E. Gunawan, Makoto Okubo	15
8	Rapid along-strike variations of shallow crustal structure in response to Indo-Burma subduction: Constraints from multi-type passive seismic data 2023 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·(unknown), Jiayuan Yao, Shucheng Wu, Shengji Wei, Yu Wang, S. Rondenay, Yumei He, Yinshuang Ai, Ping Tong, Mingming Jiang	5
9	A New Method to Estimate Slab Dip Direction Using Receiver Functions and Its Application in Revealing Slab Geometry and a Diffuse Plate Boundary Beneath Sumatra 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Ling Chen, Shengji Wei, Xin Wang, Xu Wang, (unknown)	5
10	Towards big SAR data era: An efficient Sentinel-1 Near-Real-Time InSAR processing workflow with an emphasis on co-registration and phase unwrapping 2022 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Zhangfeng Ma, Jihong Liu, Yosuke Aoki, Shengji Wei, Xiaojie Liu, Yan Cui, Jia Hu, Cheng Zhou, (unknown), Teng Huang, Zhen Li	11
11	The January 11, 2018, M _w 6.0 Bago‐Yoma, Myanmar Earthquake: A Shallow Thrust Event Within the Deforming Bago‐Yoma Range 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Eric O. Lindsey, Yu Wang, (unknown), Heng Luo, (unknown), (unknown), Shengji Wei	6
12	Highly Heterogeneous Pore Fluid Pressure Enabled Rupture of Orthogonal Faults During the 2019 Ridgecrest Mw7.0 Earthquake 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Shengji Wei	7
13	Stress Changes on the Garlock Fault during and after the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence 2020 ·Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yihe Huang, Shengji Wei	13
14	Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust 2020 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Nugroho D. Hananto, Frédérique Leclerc, (unknown), M. Etchebes, H. D. Carton, P. Tapponnier, (unknown), (unknown), S. C. Singh, Shengji Wei	24
15	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
16	Source characteristics of the 2017 Mw6.4 Moijabana, Botswana earthquake, a rare lower-crustal event within an ancient zone of weakness 2018 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Kathryn Materna, Shengji Wei, Xin Wang, (unknown), Teng Wang, (unknown), Rino Salman, Roland Bürgmann	16
17	Coulomb stress transfer and accumulation on the Sagaing Fault, Myanmar, over the past 110 years and its implications for seismic hazard 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Xiong Xiong, (unknown), (unknown), Shengji Wei, (unknown), Rongjiang Wang, Yong Zheng	43
18	Evidence for strong lateral seismic velocity variation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath the California margin 2017 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Voon Hui Lai, Robert Graves, Shengji Wei, D. V. Helmberger	2
19	Rapid Regional Centroid Solutions 2009 ·AGUFM ·Shengji Wei, Zhongwen Zhan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), D. V. Helmberger	2
20	Preliminary Evidence For The Presence Of The Hainan Plume From Shear Wave Splitting Analyses Of A Temporary Seismic Array 2008 ·AGUFM ·Shengji Wei, Ge Jin, (unknown)	1

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