2026 Alan D. Chave: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	57	2273	2063	964	852	199	11235

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Alan D. Chave is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Mathematics, with a focus on subfields including Ocean Engineering, Statistics and Probability, Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their work encompasses multiple specialized topics such as Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Oil and Gas Production Techniques, Statistical Methods and Inference, Neural Networks and Applications, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

Recent publications by Alan D. Chave include the following papers:

A Characterization of Periodicity in the Voltage Time Series of a Riometer, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
DSDP Leg 74, Hole 527 - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
DSDP Leg 74, Hole 527 - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
DSDP Leg 74, Hole 528 - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
DSDP Leg 74, Hole 528 - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors working with Chave include Theodore C. Moore, Philip D. Rabinowitz, Anne Boersma, Peter E. Borella, and G. Duee.

Their publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

In recognition of their contributions, Alan D. Chave was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

The magnetotelluric method : theory and practice

Alan D. Chave;Alan G. Jones

801
Citations
On the robust estimation of power spectra, coherences, and transfer functions

Alan D. Chave;David J. Thomson;Mark E. Ander

504
Citations
Controlled electromagnetic sources for measuring electrical conductivity beneath the oceans: 1. Forward problem and model study

Alan D. Chave;Charles S. Cox

391
Citations
Bounded influence magnetotelluric response function estimation

Alan D. Chave;David J. Thomson

359
Citations
A comparison of techniques for magnetotelluric response function estimation

Alan G. Jones;Alan D. Chave;Gary D. Egbert;Don Auld

358
Citations
Numerical integration of related Hankel transforms by quadrature and continued fraction expansion

Alan D. Chave

310
Citations
Some comments on magnetotelluric response function estimation

Alan D. Chave;David J. Thomson

308
Citations
ELECTRICAL EXPLORATION METHODS FOR THE SEAFLOOR

Alan D. Chave;Steven C. Constable;R. Nigel Edwards

297
Citations
Geophysical evidence from the MELT area for compositional controls on oceanic plates

Rob L. Evans;Greg Hirth;Kiyoshi Baba;Donald W. Forsyth

292
Citations
Controlled-source electromagnetic sounding of the oceanic lithosphere

C. S. Cox;S. C. Constable;A. D. Chave;S. C. Webb

254
Citations
On electric and magnetic galvanic distortion tensor decompositions

Alan D. Chave;J. Torquil Smith

248
Citations
Resistivity cross section through the Juan de Fuca Subduction System and its tectonic implications

Philip E. Wannamaker;John R. Booker;Alan G. Jones;Alan D. Chave

242
Citations
Optical modem technology for seafloor observatories

N. Fair;A.D. Chave;L. Freitag;J. Preisig

225
Citations
Mantle dynamics beneath the East Pacific Rise at 17°S : insights from the Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) experiment

Kiyoshi Baba;Kiyoshi Baba;Alan D. Chave;Rob L. Evans;Greg Hirth

221
Citations
Northeastern Pacific mantle conductivity profile from long-period magnetotelluric sounding using Hawaii-to-California submarine cable data

Daniel Lizarralde;Alan Chave;Greg Hirth;Adam Schultz

208
Citations
On the theory of sea-floor conductivity mapping using transient electromagnetic systems

S. J. Cheesman;R. N. Edwards;A. D. Chave

204
Citations
Electromagnetic induction by a finite electric dipole source over a 2-D earth

Martyn J. Unsworth;Bryan J. Travis;Alan D. Chave

201
Citations
Asymmetric Electrical Structure in the Mantle Beneath the East Pacific Rise at 17°S

R. L. Evans;P. Tarits;A. D. Chave;A. White

194
Citations
Joint inversion of marine magnetotelluric and gravity data incorporating seismic constraints: Preliminary results of sub-basalt imaging off the Faroe Shelf

Marion D. Jegen;Richard W. Hobbs;Pascal Tarits;Alan Chave

188
Citations
Comparison of continental and oceanic mantle electrical conductivity: Is the Archean lithosphere dry?

Greg Hirth;Rob L. Evans;Alan D. Chave

187
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan G. Jones Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies

Rob L. Evans Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

John A. Orcutt University of California, San Diego

Frank L. Vernon University of California, San Diego

Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gary D. Egbert Oregon State University

Greg Hirth Brown University

Dana R. Yoerger Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Philip E. Wannamaker University of Utah

Bruce M. Howe University of Hawaii at Manoa

External Links

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