Stephen Hartzell

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Stephen Hartzell is a scholar working on Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Hartzell has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Geophysics, 64 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Stephen Hartzell's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (79 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (72 papers) and Seismic Performance and Analysis (61 papers). Stephen Hartzell is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (79 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (72 papers) and Seismic Performance and Analysis (61 papers). Stephen Hartzell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and China. Stephen Hartzell's co-authors include Thomas H. Heaton, Carlos Mendoza, Ralph J. Archuleta, Arthur D. Frankel, David Carver, Stephen C. Harmsen, Donald V. Helmberger, Jim Mori, James N. Brune and L. Ramirez-Guzmán and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Hartzell

110 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Inversion of strong ground motion and teleseismic waveform data for the fault rupture history of the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake

1983 869 citations Stephen Hartzell, Thomas H. Heaton Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America profile →
Earthquake aftershocks as Green's functions

1978 704 citations Stephen Hartzell Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Hartzell United States	43	5.5k	2.6k	751	325	240	113	6.2k
Paul Somerville United States	37	4.3k 0.8×	4.3k 1.6×	409 0.5×	349 1.1×	148 0.6×	128	6.2k
Dino Bindi Germany	42	4.6k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	352 1.1×	335 1.4×	198	5.7k
Yuehua Zeng United States	34	4.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	770 1.0×	309 1.0×	150 0.6×	71	5.3k
Frank Scherbaum Germany	45	5.9k 1.1×	3.9k 1.5×	865 1.2×	432 1.3×	679 2.8×	161	7.5k
Marco Mucciarelli Italy	33	2.3k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	275 0.4×	239 0.7×	321 1.3×	149	3.2k
William B. Joyner United States	32	4.7k 0.9×	5.1k 2.0×	350 0.5×	464 1.4×	239 1.0×	56	6.3k
Kojiro Irikura Japan	36	4.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	532 0.7×	439 1.4×	154 0.6×	164	5.1k
Kenneth W. Campbell United States	36	4.0k 0.7×	5.8k 2.2×	342 0.5×	410 1.3×	139 0.6×	108	6.5k
Kazuki Koketsu Japan	32	2.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	391 0.5×	137 0.4×	220 0.9×	140	3.3k
Roger D. Borcherdt United States	26	3.3k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	359 0.5×	275 0.8×	429 1.8×	73	4.1k

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Hartzell, Stephen, M. Meremonte, L. Ramirez-Guzmán, & D. E. McNamara. (2013). Ground Motion in the Presence of Complex Topography: Earthquake and Ambient Noise Sources. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 104(1). 451–466. 53 indexed citations

Boyd, Oliver S., et al.. (2010). Earthquake Ground Motion Simulations in the Central United States. AGUFM. 2010. 2 indexed citations

Aagaard, B., M. Barall, Thomas M. Brocher, et al.. (2009). Data files for ground-motion simulations of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and scenario earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault. Data series. 2 indexed citations

Hartzell, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Source analysis using regional empirical Green's functions: The 2008 Wells, Nevada, earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters. 36(11). 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Ray Ruichong, et al.. (2005). An Alternative Approach to Characterize Nonlinear Site Effects. Earthquake Spectra. 21(1). 243–274. 4 indexed citations

Hartzell, Stephen, R. C. Jachens, Thomas M. Brocher, & Arthur D. Frankel. (1998). Imaging and ground motion in urban sedimentary basins: The Santa Clara and San Bernardino Valleys. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 1 indexed citations

Carver, David & Stephen Hartzell. (1996). Earthquake site response in Santa Cruz, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 86(1A). 55–65. 11 indexed citations

Liu, Pengcheng, Ji Chen, & Stephen Hartzell. (1995). An Improved Simulated Annealing-Downhill Simplex Hybrid Global Inverse Algorithm.. 58–59. 7 indexed citations

Hartzell, Stephen, C. J. Langer, & Carlos Mendoza. (1994). Rupture histories of eastern North American earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 84(6). 1703–1724. 39 indexed citations

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Mendoza, Carlos, Stephen Hartzell, & Tony Monfret. (1994). Wide-band analysis of the 3 March 1985 central Chile earthquake: Overall source process and rupture history. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 84(2). 269–283. 71 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen. (1992). Estimation of near-source ground motions from a teleseismically derived rupture model of the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 82(5). 1991–2013. 2 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen, Gordon S. Stewart, & Carlos Mendoza. (1991). Comparison of L1 and L2 norms in a teleseismic waveform inversion for the slip history of the Loma Prieta, California, earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 81(5). 1518–1539. 76 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen & Carlos Mendoza. (1991). Application of an iterative least-squares waveform inversion of strong-motion and teleseismic records to the 1978 Tabas, Iran, earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 81(2). 305–331. 46 indexed citations

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Heaton, Thomas H. & Stephen Hartzell. (1989). Estimation of strong ground motions from hypothetical earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone, Pacific Northwest. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 129(1-2). 131–201. 56 indexed citations

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Heaton, Thomas H. & Stephen Hartzell. (1986). Source characteristics of hypothetical subduction earthquakes in the northwestern United States. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 76(3). 675–708. 64 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen & Donald V. Helmberger. (1982). STRONG-MOTION MODELING OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY EARTHQUAKE OF 1979. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 72(2). 571–596. 111 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen. (1982). Simulation of ground accelerations for the May 1980 Mammoth Lakes, California, earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 72. 2381–2387. 39 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen. (1980). Faulting process of the May 17, 1976 Gazli, USSR earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 70(5). 1715–1736. 50 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen. (1979). Analysis of the Bucharest strong ground motion record for the March 4, 1977 Romanian earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 69(2). 513–530. 21 indexed citations

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Hartzell, Stephen. (1978). Interpretation of earthquake strong ground motion and implications for earthquake mechanism. PhDT. 5 indexed citations

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