2026 David W. Eaton: 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	62	1711	1534	77	67	386	12117

Overview

David W. Eaton is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering.

The main fields of study include:

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Engineering

Their work delves into several subfields such as:

Geophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Ocean Engineering
Mechanics of Materials

Key research topics covered in their publications are:

Earthquake and tectonic studies
Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Seismology and Earthquake Studies
Earthquake Detection and Analysis
High-pressure geophysics and materials

David W. Eaton has contributed frequently to several publication venues. The most common ones include:

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Seismological Research Letters
Geophysical Research Letters
Scientific Reports
Geophysics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eaton include:

"Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Episodic Lithospheric Deformation in Eastern Tibet Inferred From Seismic Anisotropy," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
"Large-Scale Fracture Systems Are Permeable Pathways for Fault Activation During Hydraulic Fracturing," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
"InSAR data reveal that the largest hydraulic fracturing-induced earthquake in Canada, to date, is a slow-slip event," 2022, Scientific Reports
"Machine Learning-Based Analysis of Geological Susceptibility to Induced Seismicity in the Montney Formation, Canada," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors working with Eaton consist of:

Rebecca O. Salvage
Jan Dettmer
Yuanyuan Ma
Chaoyi Wang
Nadine Igonin

In addition to scientific articles, Eaton has also contributed to book publications. Notably, they have authored a book published by Cambridge University Press:

Environmental Impacts from the Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reserves, 2022

Best Publications

Fault activation by hydraulic fracturing in western Canada.

Xuewei Bao;David W. Eaton

642
Citations
The elusive lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath cratons

David W. Eaton;Fiona Darbyshire;Rob L. Evans;Herman Grütter

486
Citations
Hydraulic Fracturing and Seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Gail M. Atkinson;David W. Eaton;Hadi Ghofrani;Dan Walker

481
Citations
Two crustal low-velocity channels beneath SE Tibet revealed by joint inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions

Xuewei Bao;Xuewei Bao;Xiaoxiao Sun;Mingjie Xu;David W. Eaton

410
Citations
Hydraulic Fracturing-Induced Seismicity

Ryan Schultz;Robert Skoumal;Michael R. Brudzinski;David Eaton

363
Citations
The role of aseismic slip in hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity.

Thomas S. Eyre;David W. Eaton;Dmitry I. Garagash;Megan Zecevic

287
Citations
Hydraulic fracturing volume is associated with induced earthquake productivity in the Duvernay play

R. Schultz;G. Atkinson;D. W. Eaton;Y. J. Gu

269
Citations
A review and appraisal of arrival-time picking methods for downhole microseismic data

Jubran Akram;David W. Eaton

245
Citations
Spatiotemporal variations in the b-value of earthquake magnitude-frequency distributions: Classification and causes

Z.H. El-Isa;David W. Eaton

225
Citations
Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing

Gail M. Atkinson;David W. Eaton;Nadine Igonin

209
Citations
Application of the S transform to prestack noise attenuation filtering

C. Robert Pinnegar;David W. Eaton

179
Citations
Seismic imaging of massive sulfide deposits; Part II, Reflection seismic profiling

Bernd Milkereit;David Eaton;J. Wu;G. Perron

158
Citations
Microseismic Monitoring Developments in Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation

Mirko van der Baan;David Eaton;Maurice Dusseault

157
Citations
Development of 3-D seismic exploration technology for deep nickel-copper deposits—A case history from the Sudbury basin, Canada

Bernd Milkereit;E. K. Berrer;Alan R. King;Anthony H. Watts

152
Citations
How the crust meets the mantle: Lithoprobe perspectives on the Mohorovičić discontinuity and crust–mantle transition

Frederick A. CookF.A. Cook;Donald J. WhiteD.J. White;Alan G. JonesA.G. Jones;David W.S. EatonD.W.S. Eaton

145
Citations
Physical properties and seismic imaging of massive sulfides

Matthew H. Salisbury;Bernd Milkereit;Graham Ascough;Robin Adair

138
Citations
Plateau uplift in western Canada caused by lithospheric delamination along a craton edge

Xuewei Bao;David W. Eaton;Bernard Guest

137
Citations
Velocity-conductivity relationships for mantle mineral assemblages in Archean cratonic lithosphere based on a review of laboratory data and Hashin-Shtrikman extremal bounds

Alan G. Jones;Rob L. Evans;David W. Eaton

135
Citations
Precambrian crustal evolution: seismic constraints from the Canadian Shield

D.A Thompson;ID Bastow;GR Helffrich;J-M Kendall

134
Citations
Discriminating induced seismicity from natural earthquakes using moment tensors and source spectra

Hongliang Zhang;David W. Eaton;Ge Li;Yajing Liu

133
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Wu University of Hong Kong

Mirko van der Baan University of Alberta

Alan G. Jones Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies

Gerald M. Ross Geological Survey of Canada

Ian D. Bastow Imperial College London

Bernd Milkereit University of Toronto

Gail M. Atkinson University of Western Ontario

J-M Kendall University of Oxford

George Helffrich Tokyo Institute of Technology

James Wookey University of Bristol

External Links

Personal website of David W. Eaton

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