Whitney Behr

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Whitney Behr is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Whitney Behr has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Geophysics, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Whitney Behr's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (50 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (47 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (40 papers). Whitney Behr is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (50 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (47 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (40 papers). Whitney Behr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Russia. Whitney Behr's co-authors include J. P. Platt, Roland Bürgmann, T. W. Becker, Greg Hirth, F. J. Cooper, J. Williams, Rachel Bernard, Kyle T. Ashley, Douglas Smith and Daniel F. Stöckli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Whitney Behr

58 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

What’s down there? The structures, materials and environm... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 40 80 120
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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.

  1. What’s down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor
    2021 127 citations Whitney Behr, Roland Bürgmann Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Whitney Behr United States 26 2.1k 187 167 137 84 58 2.2k
Vincent Famin France 24 1.4k 0.7× 243 1.3× 154 0.9× 150 1.1× 71 0.8× 62 1.5k
Frédéric Gueydan France 25 1.8k 0.8× 94 0.5× 115 0.7× 98 0.7× 91 1.1× 59 1.9k
Manish A. Mamtani India 22 1.3k 0.6× 67 0.4× 194 1.2× 176 1.3× 50 0.6× 74 1.4k
Guilhem Barruol France 36 3.7k 1.8× 150 0.8× 74 0.4× 142 1.0× 76 0.9× 93 3.9k
S. Kolzenburg Germany 19 708 0.3× 174 0.9× 103 0.6× 66 0.5× 59 0.7× 34 885
R. N. Pysklywec Canada 28 2.2k 1.1× 190 1.0× 113 0.7× 175 1.3× 189 2.3× 81 2.4k
Marc‐Antoine Longpré United States 16 903 0.4× 269 1.4× 41 0.2× 100 0.7× 41 0.5× 33 1.0k
S. Mueller Germany 14 632 0.3× 186 1.0× 100 0.6× 47 0.3× 78 0.9× 21 819
Didier Marquer France 27 2.2k 1.0× 304 1.6× 172 1.0× 340 2.5× 162 1.9× 67 2.3k
L. A. Porritt Canada 15 775 0.4× 189 1.0× 56 0.3× 290 2.1× 67 0.8× 30 893

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Fields of papers citing papers by Whitney Behr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Whitney Behr

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All Works

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Havird, Justin C., et al.. (2025). Fire season and drought influence fire effects on invasive grasses: A meta‐analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(5). 1296–1308. 1 indexed citations
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Zappone, Alba, Alexis Shakas, Florian Amann, et al.. (2024). Selection and characterization of the target fault for fluid-induced activation and earthquake rupture experiments. Solid Earth. 15(8). 1087–1112. 2 indexed citations
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Angiboust, Samuel, et al.. (2024). Fluid‐Driven Shear Instabilities in the Subducted Oceanic Mantle at Intermediate Depths: Insights From Western Alps Meta‐Ophiolites. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 25(8). 6 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2024). Benefits to Native Grasses from a Summer Fire Still Present 12 Years Later. Natural Areas Journal. 44(3). 3 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2023). Transient Permeability of a Deep‐Seated Subduction Interface Shear Zone. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 11 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2023). Diffusion Creep of Sodic Amphibole‐Bearing Blueschist Limited by Microboudinage. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(9). 4 indexed citations
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Ruh, Jonas B., et al.. (2022). Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting. Nature Geoscience. 15(7). 585–590. 14 indexed citations
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Schulte‐Pelkum, V., T. W. Becker, Whitney Behr, & Meghan S. Miller. (2021). Tectonic Inheritance During Plate Boundary Evolution in Southern California Constrained From Seismic Anisotropy. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(11). 7 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2021). Constraints From Exhumed Rocks on the Seismic Signature of the Deep Subduction Interface. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). e2021GL093831–e2021GL093831. 11 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney & Roland Bürgmann. (2021). What’s down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 379(2193). 20200218–20200218. 127 indexed citations breakdown →
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2021). Tracking Deep Sediment Underplating in a Fossil Subduction Margin: Implications for Interface Rheology and Mass and Volatile Recycling. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 22(3). e2020GC009463–e2020GC009463. 27 indexed citations
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Cisneros, Miguel, et al.. (2021). Insights from elastic thermobarometry into exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks from Syros, Greece. Solid Earth. 12(6). 1335–1355. 18 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney. (2019). Earth’s evolution explored. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2018). Dehydration-induced rheological heterogeneity and the deep tremor source in warm subduction zones. Geology. 46(5). 475–478. 97 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2017). The Rock Record of Seismic Nucleation: examples from pseudotachylites beneath the Whipple Detachment Fault, eastern California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Cooper, F. J., J. P. Platt, & Whitney Behr. (2017). Rheological transitions in the middle crust: insights from Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes. Solid Earth. 8(1). 199–215. 22 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2016). Holocene geologic slip rate for the Mission Creek strand of the Southern San Andreas Fault, northern Coachella Valley, CA.. AGUFM. 2016. 2 indexed citations
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Behr, Whitney, et al.. (2016). Early Miocene subduction in the western Mediterranean: Constraints from Rb-Sr multimineral isochron geochronology. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 17(5). 1842–1860. 32 indexed citations

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