William W. Symes

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
204 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

William W. Symes is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William W. Symes has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Geophysics, 75 papers in Ocean Engineering and 41 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William W. Symes's work include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (146 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (93 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (50 papers). William W. Symes is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (146 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (93 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (50 papers). William W. Symes collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. William W. Symes's co-authors include Fadil Santosa, Joakim O. Blanch, Johan O. A. Robertsson, Biondo Biondi, Jianliang Qian, James J. Carazzone, Peng Shen, Jos Van Trier, Christiaan C. Stolk and Antoine Guitton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Computational Physics and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

William W. Symes

198 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Linear Inversion of Band-Limited Reflection Seismograms

1986 449 citations William W. Symes et al. profile →
Migration velocity analysis and waveform inversion

2008 375 citations William W. Symes profile →

Peers

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Robert Burridge United States

Dan Kosloff Israel

Gregory Beylkin United States

Norman Bleistein United States

Peter Lindqvist Sweden

Anthony Peirce Canada

Omar Ghattas United States

Mrinal K. Sen United States

Christopher C. Paige Canada

Douglas W. Oldenburg Canada

Robert Burridge United States

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890 ×0.3

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326 ×0.2

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376 ×0.5

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353 ×0.6

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William W. Symes

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Symes, William W., et al.. (2016). Flexibly preconditioned extended least-squares migration in shot-record domain. Geophysics. 81(5). S299–S315. 18 indexed citations

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Symes, William W., et al.. (2016). Kinematic artifacts in the subsurface-offset extended image and their elimination by a dip-domain specularity filter. Geophysics. 81(6). S477–S495. 15 indexed citations

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Symes, William W., et al.. (2016). An alternative formula for approximate extended Born inversion. Geophysics. 82(1). S1–S8. 17 indexed citations

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Symes, William W., et al.. (2016). Scattering and dip angle decomposition based on subsurface offset extended wave-equation migration. Geophysics. 81(3). S119–S138. 16 indexed citations

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Symes, William W., et al.. (2015). An approximate inverse to the extended Born modeling operator. Geophysics. 80(6). R331–R349. 88 indexed citations

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Stolk, Christiaan C., Maarten V. de Hoop, & William W. Symes. (2009). Kinematics of shot-geophone migration. Geophysics. 74(6). WCA19–WCA34. 38 indexed citations

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Shen, Peng & William W. Symes. (2008). Automatic velocity analysis via shot profile migration. Geophysics. 73(5). VE49–VE59. 193 indexed citations

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Symes, William W.. (2007). Reverse time migration with optimal checkpointing. Geophysics. 72(5). SM213–SM221. 281 indexed citations

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Scott, Shannon D., et al.. (2004). The Standard Vector Library: a software framework for coupling complex simulation and optimization. Rice University's digital scholarship archive (Rice University).

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Gao, Fuchun, et al.. (2004). Waveform tomography at a ground water contamination site: comparison with depth migration. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Dorney, Timothy D., et al.. (2003). Single-cycle terahertz electromagnetic pulses: A new test bed for physical seismic modeling. Geophysics. 68(1). 308–313. 8 indexed citations

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Qian, Jianliang & William W. Symes. (2002). An adaptive finite-difference method for traveltimes and amplitudes. Geophysics. 67(1). 167–176. 111 indexed citations

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Qian, Jianliang & William W. Symes. (2002). Finite-difference quasi- P traveltimes for anisotropic media. Geophysics. 67(1). 147–155. 68 indexed citations

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Symes, William W.. (1999). All stationary points of differential semblance are asymptotic global minimizers: Layered acoustics 1. Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (Rice University). 86(Beih.). 13–4. 19 indexed citations

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Minkoff, Susan E. & William W. Symes. (1997). Full waveform inversion of marine reflection data in the plane-wave domain. Geophysics. 62(2). 540–553. 31 indexed citations

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Blanch, Joakim O., Johan O. A. Robertsson, & William W. Symes. (1995). Modeling of a constant Q; methodology and algorithm for an efficient and optimally inexpensive viscoelastic technique. Geophysics. 60(1). 176–184. 278 indexed citations

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Symes, William W. & James J. Carazzone. (1991). Velocity inversion by differential semblance optimization. Geophysics. 56(5). 654–663. 323 indexed citations

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Trier, Jos Van & William W. Symes. (1991). Upwind finite-difference calculation of traveltimes. Geophysics. 56(6). 812–821. 230 indexed citations

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Symes, William W., et al.. (1990). The effects of caustics in acoustic inverse scattering experiments. Rice. 1 indexed citations

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Symes, William W.. (1979). On Systems of Toda Type.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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