Steven N. Ward

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Steven N. Ward is a scholar working on Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven N. Ward has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Geophysics, 15 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Steven N. Ward's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (61 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (26 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (18 papers). Steven N. Ward is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (61 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (26 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (18 papers). Steven N. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Steven N. Ward's co-authors include Sergio Barrientos, Simon Day, Gianluca Valensise, Lili Xiao, Jiajia Wang, M. Nettles, Stuart A. Sipkin, S. L. Beck, S. L. Bilek and Göran Ekström and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Steven N. Ward

73 papers receiving 4.5k 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 Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004

2005 858 citations Steven N. Ward et al. profile →
82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

2007 357 citations Steven N. Ward et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven N. Ward United States	36	3.7k	1.0k	661	537	445	74	4.9k
Roberto Isaia Italy	38	3.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	624 0.9×	485 0.9×	180 0.4×	98	4.8k
Joseph Martinod France	41	6.1k 1.6×	1.9k 1.9×	881 1.3×	339 0.6×	351 0.8×	110	7.5k
J Ramón Arrowsmith United States	41	3.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	426 0.6×	706 1.3×	727 1.6×	153	5.5k
Nicola Litchfield New Zealand	29	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	487 0.7×	327 0.6×	146 0.3×	93	3.3k
T. Rockwell United States	44	5.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	683 1.0×	549 1.0×	126 0.3×	204	6.0k
Steven Carey United States	37	2.9k 0.8×	2.0k 2.0×	707 1.1×	257 0.5×	204 0.5×	76	4.6k
Amotz Agnon Israel	40	3.1k 0.8×	2.6k 2.6×	1.1k 1.6×	337 0.6×	148 0.3×	123	5.4k
Christopher G. Newhall United States	24	2.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.8×	287 0.4×	526 1.0×	222 0.5×	48	4.3k
Grant Heiken United States	34	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	453 0.7×	191 0.4×	120 0.3×	92	4.6k
Steven G. Wesnousky United States	44	6.6k 1.8×	1.3k 1.3×	389 0.6×	568 1.1×	207 0.5×	104	7.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Purkis, Sam J., Steven N. Ward, Amy Clement, et al.. (2025). A 1600-year record of extreme rainfall in northern Arabia. Science Advances. 11(8). eadq3173–eadq3173. 2 indexed citations

Purkis, Sam J., Steven N. Ward, J. B. Garvin, et al.. (2023). The 2022 Hunga-Tonga megatsunami: Near-field simulation of a once-in-a-century event. Science Advances. 9(15). eadf5493–eadf5493. 37 indexed citations

Purkis, Sam J., Steven N. Ward, Giovanni Chimienti, et al.. (2022). Tsunamigenic Potential of an Incipient Submarine Landslide in the Tiran Straits. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(4). 14 indexed citations

Wang, Jiajia, Lili Xiao, & Steven N. Ward. (2021). Tsunami Squares modeling of landslide tsunami generation considering the ‘Push Ahead’ effects in slide/water interactions: Theory, experimental validation, and sensitivity analyses. Engineering Geology. 288. 106141–106141. 18 indexed citations

Rundle, John B., et al.. (2019). Tsunami Squares simulation of megathrust-generated waves: Application to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami. Progress in Disaster Science. 5. 100063–100063. 5 indexed citations

Tappin, David R., Stéphan T. Grilli, Steven N. Ward, et al.. (2019). The devastating eruption tsunami of Anak Krakatau - 22nd December 2018. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 18326. 1 indexed citations

Grilli, Stéphan T., Lauren Schambach, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2019). Modeling of the slide and tsunami generation from the 12/22/18 lateral collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano (Sunda Straits, Indonesia): comparison with recent field surveys of slide deposits and tsunami impact. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Jiajia, Steven N. Ward, & Lili Xiao. (2019). Tsunami Squares modeling of landslide generated impulsive waves and its application to the 1792 Unzen-Mayuyama mega-slide in Japan. Engineering Geology. 256. 121–137. 35 indexed citations

Xiao, Lili, Jiajia Wang, Steven N. Ward, & Lixia Chen. (2018). Numerical modeling of the June 24, 2015, Hongyanzi landslide generated impulse waves in Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Landslides. 15(12). 2385–2398. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiajia, Steven N. Ward, & Lili Xiao. (2015). Numerical simulation of the December 4, 2007 landslide-generated tsunami in Chehalis Lake, Canada. Geophysical Journal International. 201(1). 372–376. 51 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (2007). A note on the surface volume change of shallow earthquakes. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 85(2). 461–466. 1 indexed citations

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Ritsema, Jeroen, Steven N. Ward, & F. I. González. (1995). Inversion of deep-ocean tsunami records for 1987 to 1988 Gulf of Alaska earthquake parameters. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 85(3). 747–754. 15 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (1995). Area-based tests of long-term seismic hazard predictions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 85(5). 1285–1298. 31 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (1994). Constraints On the Seismotectonics of the Central Mediterranean From Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Geophysical Journal International. 117(2). 441–452. 144 indexed citations

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Valensise, Gianluca & Steven N. Ward. (1991). Long-term uplift of the Santa Cruz coastline in response to repeated earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 81(5). 1694–1704. 55 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (1991). A synthetic seismicity model for the Middle America Trench. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 96(B13). 21433–21442. 25 indexed citations

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Barrientos, Sergio & Steven N. Ward. (1990). The 1960 Chile earthquake: inversion for slip distribution from surface deformation. Geophysical Journal International. 103(3). 589–598. 233 indexed citations

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Barrientos, Sergio, Ross S. Stein, & Steven N. Ward. (1989). Comparison of the 1959 Hebgen Lake, Montana and the 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquakes from geodetic observations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 77(3). 784–808. 70 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (1985). Quasi-static propagator matrices: Creep on strike-slip faults. Tectonophysics. 120(1-2). 83–106. 14 indexed citations

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Ward, Steven N.. (1980). Relationships of tsunami generation and an earthquake source.. Journal of Physics of the Earth. 28(5). 441–474. 125 indexed citations

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