Earthquake Science

Top Research Topics at Earthquake Science?

Earthquake Science covers a variety of subjects, including Seismology, Fault (geology), Geodesy, Crust and Tectonics. Earthquake Science facilitates discussions on Seismology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Geophysics and Mantle (geology). The main emphasis of it is the subject of Fault (geology), focusing on Active fault.

Some problems in Crust that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Lithosphere and Receiver function. The research on Aftershock featured in Earthquake Science combines topics in other fields like Intraplate earthquake and Seismic gap. The Seismic gap study featured in the journal draws connections with the study of Interplate earthquake.

• Seismology (55.84%)
• Fault (geology) (12.46%)
• Geodesy (12.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Atmosphere-ionosphere response to the M9 Tohoku earthquake revealed by multi-instrument space-borne and ground observations: Preliminary results (75 citations)
• Component azimuths of the CEArray stations estimated from P-wave particle motion (74 citations)
• Middle Permian radiolarian assemblages in the Tamba District and an adjacent area, Southwest Japan. (65 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Earthquake Science:

The journal publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Seismology, Epicenter, Ionosphere, Fault (geology) and Geophysics. The studies on Seismology discussed at the published papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Global Positioning System, Mantle (geology) and Geodesy. The published papers focus on Fault (geology) but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Slip (materials science) which is concerned with Geotechnical engineering.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Statistics
• Seismology
• Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Seismology, China, Seismic array, Geodesy and Tectonics. Earthquake Science focuses on Seismology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Amplitude and Tomography. Issues in China were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Construction engineering, Regional science, Perspective (graphical) and Environmental resource management.

It explores topics in Seismic array which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Neuron network, Shear wave splitting, Plateau and Climb. Geodesy research featured in Earthquake Science incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Subduction, Calibration (statistics), Richter magnitude scale, Degree (temperature) and Gravitational field. Upper crust studies in the realm of Tectonics interact with fields like Stacking.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• A High-Resolution Seismic Catalog for the 2021 M S 6.4/M w 6.1 YangBi Earthquake Sequence, Yunnan, China: Application of AI picker and Matched Filter (1 citations)
• Shallow destructive earthquakes (1 citations)
• High resolution tomography of the Tanlu fault zone near Hefei with passive seismic and magnetotelluric linear array data (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Earthquake Science (based on the number of publications) are:

• Xiaofei Chen (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Yongshun John Chen (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jianwen Liang (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Sidao Ni (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Xuhui Shen (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Earthquake Science (based on the number of publications) are:

• China Earthquake Administration (179 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (85 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Peking University (37 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• University of Science and Technology of China (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
• China University of Petroleum (16 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 97.50% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 100.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 0.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.