2026 Finn Løvholt: 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	40	5784	5351	74	68	149	6644

Overview

Finn Løvholt is affiliated with the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute in Norway and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their research focus on earthquake and tectonic studies, landslides and related hazards, earthquake detection and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, earthquake and tsunami effects, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Stefano Lorito, Jacopo Selva, Sylfest Glimsdal, Manuela Volpe, and Roberto Tonini.

Finn Løvholt has published papers in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being Frontiers in Earth Science, Nature Communications, Landslides, Future Generation Computer Systems, and Geophysical Journal International.

Significant recent papers include:

The Making of the NEAM Tsunami Hazard Model 2018 (NEAMTHM18), 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis: A Review of Research Gaps, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
Probabilistic tsunami forecasting for early warning, 2021, Nature Communications
On the landslide tsunami uncertainty and hazard, 2020, Landslides
Granular porous landslide tsunami modelling - the 2014 Lake Askja flank collapse, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

Submarine landslides: processes, triggers and hazard prediction

D.G Masson;C.B Harbitz;R.B Wynn;G Pedersen

923
Citations
The Storegga Slide tsunami—comparing field observations with numerical simulations

Stein Bondevik;Finn Løvholt;Carl Harbitz;Jan Mangerud

358
Citations
Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis: Multiple Sources and Global Applications

Anita Grezio;Andrey Babeyko;Maria Ana Baptista;Jörn Behrens

273
Citations
Mechanisms of tsunami generation by submarine landslides - a short review

C.B. Harbitz;F. Lovholt;G. Pedersen;S. Glimsdal

267
Citations
Submarine landslide tsunamis: how extreme and how likely?

Carl B. Harbitz;Carl B. Harbitz;Finn Løvholt;Finn Løvholt;Hilmar Bungum;Hilmar Bungum

263
Citations
Dispersion of tsunamis: does it really matter?

Sylfest Glimsdal;Sylfest Glimsdal;Sylfest Glimsdal;Geir Kleivstul Pedersen;Geir Kleivstul Pedersen;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Finn Løvholt;Finn Løvholt;Finn Løvholt

257
Citations
Oceanic propagation of a potential tsunami from the La Palma Island

F. Løvholt;G. Pedersen;G. Gisler

241
Citations
On the characteristics of landslide tsunamis

Finn Løvholt;Geir Kleivstul Pedersen;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Sylfest Glimsdal

226
Citations
Foundation damping and the dynamics of offshore wind turbine monopiles

W. Carswell;J. Johansson;F. Løvholt;S.R. Arwade

191
Citations
The Making of the NEAM Tsunami Hazard Model 2018 (NEAMTHM18)

Roberto Basili;Beatriz Brizuela;André Herrero;Sarfraz Iqbal

167
Citations
Probabilistic tsunami hazard and Risk analysis: a review of research gaps

Jörn Behrens;Finn Løvholt;Fatemeh Jalayer;Stefano Lorito

164
Citations
A parametric study of tsunamis generated by submarine slides in the Ormen Lange/Storegga area off western Norway

Finn Løvholt;Carl B. Harbitz;Kjetil B. Haugen

158
Citations
The influence of land cover roughness on the results of high resolution tsunami inundation modeling

Gunilla Kaiser;L.. Scheele;Andreas Kortenhaus;Finn Løvholt

157
Citations
Rockslide tsunamis in complex fjords: From an unstable rock slope at Åkerneset to tsunami risk in western Norway

C.B. Harbitz;C.B. Harbitz;C.B. Harbitz;S. Glimsdal;S. Glimsdal;S. Glimsdal;F. Løvholt;F. Løvholt;F. Løvholt;V. Kveldsvik

147
Citations
Fundamental mechanisms for tsunami generation by submarine mass flows in idealised geometries

Kjetil Braathen Haugen;Finn Løvholt;Carl B. Harbitz

134
Citations
Tsunami hazard and exposure on the global scale

Finn Løvholt;Sylfest Glimsdal;Carl B. Harbitz;Natalia Zamora

131
Citations
A global probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment from earthquake sources

Gareth Davies;Jonathan Griffin;Finn Lovholt;Sylfest Glimsdal

115
Citations
Tsunami risk reduction – are we better prepared today than in 2004?

Finn Løvholt;Neysa J. Setiadi;Joern Birkmann;Carl B. Harbitz

110
Citations
Some giant submarine landslides do not produce large tsunamis

Finn Løvholt;Stein Bondevik;Stein Bondevik;Jan Sverre Laberg;Jihwan Kim;Jihwan Kim

108
Citations
Probabilistic tsunami forecasting for early warning.

J Selva;S Lorito;M Volpe;F Romano

93
Citations
Earthquake related tsunami hazard along the western coast of Thailand

Finn Løvholt;Finn Løvholt;Hilmar Bungum;Hilmar Bungum;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Carl Bonnevie Harbitz;Sylfest Glimsdal;Sylfest Glimsdal

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl B. Harbitz Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Jacopo Selva National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Andrey Babeyko Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Hilmar Bungum Norsar

Alessio Piatanesi National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Farrokh Nadim Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Roberto Basili National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Roger Urgeles Spanish National Research Council

Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos Hellenic Mediterranean University

Miquel Canals University of Barcelona

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