Wei‐An Chao

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 974 citations indexed

About

Wei‐An Chao is a scholar working on Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei‐An Chao has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 974 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Geophysics, 20 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Wei‐An Chao's work include Seismic Waves and Analysis (22 papers), Landslides and related hazards (20 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers). Wei‐An Chao is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Waves and Analysis (22 papers), Landslides and related hazards (20 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (18 papers). Wei‐An Chao collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, United States and China. Wei‐An Chao's co-authors include Yih‐Min Wu, Li Zhao, Himanshu Mittal, Hsin‐Hua Huang, Jui‐Ming Chang, Che‐Min Lin, Ting-Li Lin, Cheng‐Horng Lin, Daniel Farinotti and Fanny Brun and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Wei‐An Chao

41 papers receiving 953 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei‐An Chao Taiwan	17	533	391	299	272	140	43	974
Erwan Pathier France	22	810 1.5×	319 0.8×	245 0.8×	84 0.3×	129 0.9×	50	1.3k
Sebastian von Specht Germany	11	326 0.6×	111 0.3×	161 0.5×	85 0.3×	63 0.5×	24	612
Arnaud Burtin France	13	447 0.8×	383 1.0×	118 0.4×	155 0.6×	50 0.4×	27	673
Cunren Liang United States	22	1.1k 2.0×	274 0.7×	290 1.0×	149 0.5×	108 0.8×	51	1.6k
J. I. Walter United States	25	1.2k 2.3×	241 0.6×	398 1.3×	314 1.2×	27 0.2×	66	1.6k
Rakesh K. Dumka India	19	760 1.4×	327 0.8×	182 0.6×	82 0.3×	33 0.2×	44	1.0k
Pietro Tizzani Italy	22	1.0k 1.9×	504 1.3×	378 1.3×	92 0.3×	87 0.6×	72	1.8k
Heresh Fattahi United States	17	598 1.1×	346 0.9×	405 1.4×	55 0.2×	52 0.4×	39	1.5k
C.C. Nichita United States	7	215 0.4×	511 1.3×	204 0.7×	51 0.2×	116 0.8×	10	661

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei‐An Chao

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Chang, Jui‐Ming, et al.. (2025). Unraveling landslide failure mechanisms with seismic signal analysis for enhanced pre-survey understanding. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(2). 451–466.

Chang, Jui‐Ming, et al.. (2024). Coseismic and subsequent landslides of the 2024 Hualien earthquake (M7.2) on April 3 in Taiwan. Landslides. 21(10). 2591–2595. 11 indexed citations

Chang, Jui‐Ming, et al.. (2024). Landslide Warning Area Delineation through Seismic Signals and Landslide Characteristics: Insights from the Silabaku Landslide in Southern Taiwan. Seismological Research Letters. 95(5). 2986–2996. 2 indexed citations

Chang, Jui‐Ming, et al.. (2023). Field experiments: How well can seismic monitoring assess rock mass falling?. Engineering Geology. 323. 107211–107211. 5 indexed citations

Chao, Wei‐An, et al.. (2022). Outburst debris flow of Yusui Stream caused by a large-scale Silabaku landslide, Southern Taiwan. Landslides. 19(7). 1807–1811. 6 indexed citations

Lin, Yunung Nina, et al.. (2022). Performance Study of Landslide Detection Using Multi-Temporal SAR Images. Remote Sensing. 14(10). 2444–2444. 7 indexed citations

Chao, Wei‐An, Yu‐Ting Kuo, Chun-Hung Lin, et al.. (2021). Rigidity Strengthening of Landslide Materials Measured by Seismic Interferometry. Remote Sensing. 13(14). 2834–2834. 4 indexed citations

Chang, Jui‐Ming, et al.. (2021). Locating rock slope failures along highways and understanding their physical processes using seismic signals. Earth Surface Dynamics. 9(3). 505–517. 14 indexed citations

Wu, Yih‐Min, et al.. (2018). Relationship Between Earthquake b‐Values and Crustal Stresses in a Young Orogenic Belt. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(4). 1832–1837. 45 indexed citations

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Lin, Guan‐Wei, et al.. (2018). Evaluating critical rainfall conditions for large-scale landslides by detecting event times from seismic records. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(11). 2877–2891. 23 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An, Bradley P. Lipovsky, Niels Hovius, et al.. (2018). Dynamics of the Askja caldera July 2014 landslide, Iceland, from seismic signal analysis: precursor, motion and aftermath. Earth Surface Dynamics. 6(2). 467–485. 36 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An, Yih‐Min Wu, Li Zhao, et al.. (2017). A first near real-time seismology-based landquake monitoring system. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 43510–43510. 31 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An, et al.. (2016). Seismology-based early identification of dam-formation landquake events. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19259–19259. 29 indexed citations

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Mittal, Himanshu, et al.. (2016). A Study on Kappa Value in Taiwan Using Borehole and Surface Seismic Array. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 106(4). 1509–1517. 29 indexed citations

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Wu, Yih‐Min, Wen‐Tzong Liang, Himanshu Mittal, et al.. (2016). Performance of a Low‐Cost Earthquake Early Warning System (P‐Alert) during the 2016M_L 6.4 Meinong (Taiwan) Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters. 87(5). 1050–1059. 71 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An, et al.. (2015). Seismologically determined bedload flux during the typhoon season. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8261–8261. 31 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An, et al.. (2015). An Examination of the Threshold-Based Earthquake Early Warning Approach Using a Low-Cost Seismic Network. Seismological Research Letters. 86(6). 1664–1667. 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Yangming, et al.. (2011). Focal mechanism determination in North Vietnam and its tectonic implication. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Yih‐Min, et al.. (2011). Faster Short-Distance Earthquake Early Warning Using Continued Monitoring of Filtered Vertical Displacement: A Case Study for the 2010 Jiasian, Taiwan, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101(2). 701–709. 25 indexed citations

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Chao, Wei‐An. (2009). Optimization Research on Seismic Array Layout Based on Earthquake Early Warning System. Journal of Shenyang Jianzhu University. 1 indexed citations

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