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Andreas Fichtner

Andreas Fichtner

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
9721
World Ranking
3217
National Ranking
86

Andreas Fichtner 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 Andreas Fichtner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 357 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andreas Fichtner 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 Andreas Fichtner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Andreas Fichtner is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research work focuses primarily on geophysics and related subfields including ocean engineering, artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geophysics and sensor technology, along with geological and geochemical analysis.

Andreas Fichtner has authored numerous publications, some of which are:

  • Distributed acoustic sensing of microseismic sources and wave propagation in glaciated terrain (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Bayesian Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion Using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Empirical Investigations of the Instrument Response for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) across 17 Octaves (2020), published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Volcano-Glacial Environments-Mount Meager, British Columbia (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Global-Scale Full-Waveform Ambient Noise Inversion (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Their frequent coauthors include Sölvi Thrastarson, B. L. N. Kennett, Christian Boehm, Lion Krischer, and Patrick Paitz. Andreas Fichtner's work appears frequently in venues such as Geophysical Journal International, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich).

In addition to journal articles, Andreas Fichtner has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Exploiting Seismic Waveforms (2020)

Best Publications

  • Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion

    Andreas Fichtner

  • Full seismic waveform tomography for upper-mantle structure in the Australasian region using adjoint methods

    Andreas Fichtner;Brian L. N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

  • The adjoint method in seismology: I. Theory

    A. Fichtner;H.-P. Bunge;H. Igel

  • It's a Hard Lock Life: A Field Study of Smartphone (Un)Locking Behavior and Risk Perception

    Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Andreas Fichtner;Alexander De Luca

  • Theoretical background for continental‐ and global‐scale full‐waveform inversion in the time–frequency domain

    Andreas Fichtner;Brian L. N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

  • The Iceland-Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

    Florian Rickers;Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

  • Resolution analysis in full waveform inversion

    Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

  • Multiscale full waveform inversion

    Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert;Paul Cupillard;Erdinc Saygin

  • Hessian kernels of seismic data functionals based upon adjoint techniques

    Andreas Fichtner;Jeannot Trampert

  • Distributed acoustic sensing of microseismic sources and wave propagation in glaciated terrain

    Fabian Walter;Dominik Gräff;Fabian Lindner;Patrick Paitz

  • Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle

    Andreas Fichtner;Andreas Fichtner;Brian L.N. Kennett;Heiner Igel;Hans-Peter Bunge

  • Modular and flexible spectral-element waveform modelling in two and three dimensions

    Michael Afanasiev;Christian Boehm;Martin van Driel;Lion Krischer

  • Seismic Tomography and the Assessment of Uncertainty

    Nicholas Rawlinson;Andreas Fichtner;Malcolm Sambridge;Mallory K. Young

  • The deep structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone

    Andreas Fichtner;Erdinc Saygin;Tuncay Taymaz;Paul Cupillard

  • Hamiltonian Monte Carlo solution of tomographic inverse problems

    Andreas Fichtner;Andrea Zunino;Lars Gebraad

  • Crust and upper mantle of the western Mediterranean – Constraints from full-waveform inversion

    Andreas Fichtner;Antonio Villaseñor

  • Bayesian Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion Using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

    Lars Gebraad;Christian Boehm;Andreas Fichtner

  • Seismic ambient noise

    Nori Nakata;Lucia Gualtieri;Andreas Fichtner

  • Australian Seismological Reference Model (AuSREM): mantle component

    Brian Kennett;Andreas Fichtner;Stewart Fishwick;K Yoshizawa

  • Empirical Investigations of the Instrument Response for Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) across 17 Octaves

    Patrick Paitz;Pascal Edme;Dominik Gräff;Fabian Walter

  • Resolution analysis by random probing

    Andreas Fichtner;Tristan van Leeuwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiner Igel
Heiner Igel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jeannot Trampert
Jeannot Trampert Utrecht University
Brian Kennett
Brian Kennett Australian National University
Hans-Peter Bunge
Hans-Peter Bunge Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tuncay Taymaz
Tuncay Taymaz Istanbul Technical University
Dave A. May
Dave A. May University of Oxford
Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
Rob Govers
Rob Govers Utrecht University
Antonio Villaseñor
Antonio Villaseñor Spanish National Research Council

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