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Agust Gudmundsson publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Agust Gudmundsson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 289 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Agust Gudmundsson D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Agust Gudmundsson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Agust Gudmundsson is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span primarily the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 77 publications, and Environmental Science, with 22 publications. Within these areas, their subfields of expertise include Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Mechanics of Materials, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics: earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geology and paleoclimatology research, rock mechanics and modeling, landslides and related hazards, and energy and environment impacts.

Agust Gudmundsson has co-authored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including Nahid Mohajeri, John Browning, Mohsen Bazargan, Kyriaki Drymoni, and Michael Davies.

Key publication venues for their research include the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Nature Geoscience, Bulletin of Volcanology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). The scientist has also contributed to book publications, notably "Volcanotectonics," published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Recent papers authored by Agust Gudmundsson include:

  • Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Quantifying the technical geothermal potential from shallow borehole heat exchangers at regional scale, 2020, Renewable Energy
  • Dyke-arrest scenarios in extensional regimes: Insights from field observations and numerical models, Santorini, Greece, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • The propagation paths of fluid-driven fractures in layered and faulted rocks, 2022, Geological Magazine
  • Urban-rural disparity in global estimation of PM2·5 household air pollution and its attributable health burden, 2023, The Lancet Planetary Health

Agust Gudmundsson has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2002.

Best Publications

  • Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • How local stresses control magma-chamber ruptures, dyke injections, and eruptions in composite volcanoes

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Infrastructure and mechanics of volcanic systems in Iceland

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Magma chambers: Formation, local stresses, excess pressures, and compartments

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Effects of internal structure and local stresses on fracture propagation, deflection, and arrest in fault zones

    Agust Gudmundsson;Trine H. Simmenes;Belinda Larsen;Sonja L. Philipp

  • Emplacement and arrest of sheets and dykes in central volcanoes

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Deflection of dykes into sills at discontinuities and magma-chamber formation

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Dynamics of Volcanic Systems in Iceland: Example of Tectonism and Volcanism at Juxtaposed Hot Spot and Mid-Ocean Ridge Systems

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Emplacement of dikes, sills and crustal magma chambers at divergent plate boundaries

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Geometry, formation and development of tectonic fractures on the Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest Iceland

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Formation and geometry of fractures, and related volcanism, of the Krafla fissure swarm, northeast Iceland

    John Arne Opheim;Agust Gudmundsson

  • Vertical and lateral collapses on Tenerife (Canary Islands) and other volcanic ocean islands

    Joan Martí;Marcel Hurlimann;Giray J. Ablay;Agust Gudmundsson

  • Form and dimensions of dykes in eastern Iceland

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Fracture networks and fluid transport in active fault zones

    Agust Gudmundsson;Silje S. Berg;Kellfrid B. Lyslo;Elin Skurtveit

  • The Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): an overlapping collapse caldera generated by magma-chamber migration

    J. Marti;A. Gudmundsson

  • Indication of high pore-fluid pressures in a seismically-active fault zone

    Stuart Crampin;Stuart Crampin;Theodora Volti;Theodora Volti;Sebastien Chastin;Agust Gudmundsson

  • Surface stresses associated with arrested dykes in rift zones

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Formation and growth of normal faults at the divergent plate boundary in Iceland

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Tectonics of the thingvellir fissure swarm, sw iceland

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • Magma chambers modeled as cavities explain the formation of rift zone central volcanoes and their eruption and intrusion statistics

    Agust Gudmundsson

  • ICELAND: Example of Tectonism and Volcanism at Juxtaposed Hot Spot and Mid-Ocean Ridge Systems

    Agust Gudmundsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Jean-Louis Scartezzini École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Philip G. Meredith
Philip G. Meredith University College London
Mohsen Bazargan
Mohsen Bazargan Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Valerio Acocella
Valerio Acocella Roma Tre University
Joan Martí
Joan Martí Spanish National Research Council
Jacques Angelier
Jacques Angelier Sorbonne University
Alessandro Tibaldi
Alessandro Tibaldi University of Milano-Bicocca
Thorvaldur Thordarson
Thorvaldur Thordarson University of Iceland
Jocelyn McPhie
Jocelyn McPhie University of Tasmania
Andri Stefánsson
Andri Stefánsson University of Iceland

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