Stephen Hicks

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Stephen Hicks is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Hicks has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Geophysics, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Stephen Hicks's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (22 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (14 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Stephen Hicks is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (22 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (14 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11 papers). Stephen Hicks collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Stephen Hicks's co-authors include Andreas Rietbrock, Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi, Tuncay Taymaz, Isabelle Ryder, P. O. Montgomery, J. M. Kendall, Catherine A. Rychert, Nicholas Harmon and Chao-Shing Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Hicks

32 papers receiving 556 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.

Multi‐Scale Rupture Growth With Alternating Directions in a Complex Fault Network During the 2023 South‐Eastern Türkiye and Syria Earthquake Doublet

2023 76 citations Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Hicks United Kingdom	14	477	88	34	18	18	34	580
Antonio Ricciardi Italy	6	86 0.2×	54 0.6×	8 0.2×	12 0.7×	15 0.8×	12	233
Zoë Mildon United Kingdom	13	478 1.0×	79 0.9×	36 1.1×	14 0.8×	27 1.5×	32	597
Elena Eva Italy	18	621 1.3×	51 0.6×	25 0.7×	15 0.8×	23 1.3×	40	676
Ray Y. Chuang Taiwan	12	401 0.8×	74 0.8×	30 0.9×	24 1.3×	53 2.9×	36	519
L. S. Gee United States	15	910 1.9×	323 3.7×	78 2.3×	79 4.4×	10 0.6×	31	955
Chien-Hsin Chang Taiwan	14	551 1.2×	83 0.9×	52 1.5×	8 0.4×	16 0.9×	31	660
Matthew Agius Malta	14	527 1.1×	34 0.4×	18 0.5×	30 1.7×	6 0.3×	41	618
Stefano Solarino Italy	20	1.1k 2.2×	91 1.0×	32 0.9×	39 2.2×	27 1.5×	60	1.1k
Irene Molinari Italy	16	752 1.6×	122 1.4×	68 2.0×	33 1.8×	17 0.9×	46	826
Matthew d'Alessio United States	11	578 1.2×	47 0.5×	20 0.6×	16 0.9×	39 2.2×	23	706

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Hicks

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Lomax, Anthony, et al.. (2025). The 2025 Santorini unrest unveiled: Rebounding magmatic dike intrusion with triggered seismicity. Science. 390(6775). eadz8538–eadz8538.

Hammond, J. O. S., T. M. Mitchell, Stephen Hicks, et al.. (2025). Fluid pressure fluctuations and the seismic signature of a fault-controlled fluid migration pulse. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 662. 119388–119388.

Svennevig, Kristian, Stephen Hicks, Thomas Lecocq, et al.. (2024). Interdisciplinary insights into an exceptional giant tsunamigenic rockslide on September 16th 2023 in Northeast Greenland. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

Harris, Kathryn, Ana M. G. Ferreira, Maria Tsekhmistrenko, et al.. (2024). Clock drift corrections for large aperture ocean bottom seismometer arrays: application to the UPFLOW array in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Journal International. 239(3). 1709–1728. 3 indexed citations

Hicks, Stephen, Adriano Pimentel, Giacomo Belli, et al.. (2023). Exclusive Seismoacoustic Detection and Characterization of an Unseen and Unheard Fireball Over the North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(22). 4 indexed citations

Schlaphorst, David, Catherine A. Rychert, Nicholas Harmon, et al.. (2023). Local seismicity around the Chain Transform Fault at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from OBS observations. Geophysical Journal International. 234(2). 1111–1124. 7 indexed citations

Hicks, Stephen, Lidong Bie, Catherine A. Rychert, et al.. (2023). Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles. Science Advances. 9(5). eadd2143–eadd2143. 11 indexed citations

Rietbrock, Andreas, Lidong Bie, Saskia Goes, et al.. (2022). Bayesian regional moment tensor from ocean bottom seismograms recorded in the Lesser Antilles: implications for regional stress field. Geophysical Journal International. 233(2). 1036–1054. 6 indexed citations

Bie, Lidong, Stephen Hicks, Andreas Rietbrock, et al.. (2022). Imaging slab-transported fluids and their deep dehydration from seismic velocity tomography in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 586. 117535–117535. 13 indexed citations

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Healy, David & Stephen Hicks. (2022). De-risking the energy transition by quantifying the uncertainties in fault stability. Solid Earth. 13(1). 15–39. 9 indexed citations

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Goes, Saskia, Robert Allen, Andreas Rietbrock, et al.. (2021). Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4211–4211. 37 indexed citations

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Harmon, Nicholas, et al.. (2021). Tidal Triggering of Microseismicity at the Equatorial Mid‐Atlantic Ridge, Inferred From the PI‐LAB Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(9). 10 indexed citations

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Healy, David & Stephen Hicks. (2021). De-risking the energy transition by quantifying the uncertainties in fault stability. Aberdeen University Research Archive (Aberdeen University). 1 indexed citations

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Lacassin, Robin, Maud H. Devès, Stephen Hicks, et al.. (2020). Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events. 1 indexed citations

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Hicks, Stephen, Ryo Okuwaki, Andreas Steinberg, et al.. (2020). Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake. Nature Geoscience. 13(9). 647–653. 58 indexed citations

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Lacassin, Robin, Maud H. Devès, Stephen Hicks, et al.. (2020). Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 129–146. 29 indexed citations

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Hicks, Stephen, James P. Verdon, Brian Baptie, et al.. (2019). A Shallow Earthquake Swarm Close to Hydrocarbon Activities: Discriminating between Natural and Induced Causes for the 2018–2019 Surrey, United Kingdom, Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters. 90(6). 2095–2110. 15 indexed citations

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Rietbrock, Andreas, Lidong Bie, Valérie Clouard, et al.. (2019). Re-evaluation of the 2007 Mw7.4 intermediate-depth Martinique earthquake: evidence for rupture on orthogonal faults. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Rychert, Catherine A., Nicholas Harmon, Steven Constable, et al.. (2019). A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary dictated by variations in melt generation and migration: Results from the PI-LAB Experiment in the Equatorial Mid Atlantic. AGUFM. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Goes, Saskia, Stephen Hicks, Benjamin Maunder, et al.. (2019). Evidence for an Anomalously Large Cold Mantle Wedge Corner of the Caribbean Plate in the Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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