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Gerald P. Roberts 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 Gerald P. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 203 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gerald P. Roberts 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 Gerald P. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gerald P. Roberts is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in Geophysics. Their work also extends into related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Archeology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research themes focus on earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and geology and paleoclimatology research. Additional topics covered include earthquake detection and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Notable recent publications by Gerald P. Roberts include:

  • Fault2SHA Central Apennines database and structuring active fault data for seismic hazard assessment, 2021, Scientific Data
  • QUaternary fault strain INdicators database - QUIN 1.0 - first release from the Apennines of central Italy, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Temporal and spatial earthquake clustering revealed through comparison of millennial strain-rates from 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating and decadal GPS strain-rate, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Regional Deformation and Offshore Crustal Local Faulting as Combined Processes to Explain Uplift Through Time Constrained by Investigating Differentially Uplifted Late Quaternary Paleoshorelines: The Foreland Hyblean Plateau, SE Sicily, 2020, Tectonics

Gerald P. Roberts has frequently published in several journals and venues, including:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors in their body of work are:

  • Joanna Faure Walker
  • Claudia Sgambato
  • Zoë Mildon
  • Jennifer Robertson
  • Francesco Iezzi

Best Publications

  • Spatial and temporal variations in growth rates along active normal fault systems: an example from The Lazio–Abruzzo Apennines, central Italy

    Gerald P Roberts;Alessandro M Michetti

  • Bedrock channel adjustment to tectonic forcing: Implications for predicting river incision rates

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Constraining slip rates and spacings for active normal faults

    Patience A Cowie;Gerald P Roberts

  • Decoding temporal and spatial patterns of fault uplift using transient river long profiles

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Patience A. Cowie;Gregory E. Tucker

  • The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): A source mechanism and implications for seismic hazard

    R. J. Walters;J. R. Elliott;N. D'Agostino;P. C. England

  • Modeling fluvial incision and transient landscape evolution: Influence of dynamic channel adjustment

    Mikael Attal;G. E. Tucker;Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience Cowie

  • Contrasting transient and steady-state rivers crossing active normal faults: new field observations from the Central Apennines, Italy

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Fault scarps and deformation rates in Lazio–Abruzzo, Central Italy: Comparison between geological fault slip-rate and GPS data

    Ioannis D. Papanikolaou;Gerald P. Roberts;Alessandro M. Michetti

  • New constraints on sediment-flux-dependent river incision: implications for extracting tectonic signals from river profiles

    Patience A. Cowie;Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Gerald Roberts

  • Investigating the surface process response to fault interaction and linkage using a numerical modelling approach

    P.A. Cowie;M. Attal;G. E. Tucker;A. C. Whittaker

  • Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy

    M. Attal;P.A. Cowie;A.C. Whittaker;D. Hobley

  • Slip on a mapped normal fault for the 28th December 1908 Messina earthquake (Mw 7.1) in Italy

    M. Meschis;Gerald P. Roberts;Z.K. Mildon;Jennifer Robertson

  • Geometry, kinematics and deformation rates along the active normal fault system in the southern Apennines: Implications for fault growth

    Ioannis D. Papanikolaou;Gerald P. Roberts

  • Variation in fault-slip directions along active and segmented normal fault systems

    Gerald P. Roberts

  • Comparison of earthquake strains over 10(2) and 10(4) year timescales: Insights into variability in the seismic cycle in the central Apennines, Italy

    J. P. Faure Walker;G. P. Roberts;P. R. Sammonds;Patience Cowie

  • Fault-slip directions in central and southern Greece measured from striated and corrugated fault planes: Comparison with focal mechanism and geodetic data

    Gerald P. Roberts;Athanassios Ganas

  • Ground Effects during the 9 September 1998, Mw = 5.6 Lauria Earthquake and the Seismic Potential of the “Aseismic” Pollino Region in Southern Italy

    Alessandro M. Michetti;Luca Ferreli;Eliana Esposito;Sabina Porfido

  • Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence

    R. J. Walters;L. C. Gregory;L. N. J. Wedmore;T. J. Craig

  • Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults.

    P.A. Cowie;R.J. Phillips;Gerald P. Roberts;K. McCaffrey

  • The geometry, kinematics and rates of deformation within an en echelon normal fault segment boundary, central Italy

    Nigel C. Morewood;Gerald P. Roberts

  • Lateral propagation of the surface trace of the South Alkyonides normal fault segment, central Greece: its impact on models of fault growth and displacement–length relationships

    Nigel C Morewood;Gerald P Roberts

  • Fault scaling relationships, deformation rates and seismic hazards: an example from the Lazio-Abruzzo Apennines, central Italy

    Gerald P Roberts;Patience Cowie;Ioannis Papanikolaou;Alessandro M Michetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Ken McCaffrey
Ken McCaffrey Durham University
Alessandro Maria Michetti
Alessandro Maria Michetti University of Insubria
Alexander C. Whittaker
Alexander C. Whittaker Imperial College London
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Shinji Toda
Shinji Toda Tohoku University
Peter Sammonds
Peter Sammonds University College London
Tibor J. Dunai
Tibor J. Dunai University of Cologne
Lucilla Benedetti
Lucilla Benedetti Aix-Marseille University
Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino

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