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Gerard T. Schuster

Gerard T. Schuster

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
13462
World Ranking
2807
National Ranking
1154

Gerard T. Schuster 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 Gerard T. Schuster sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 375 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gerard T. Schuster 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 Gerard T. Schuster sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gerard T. Schuster is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and specializes primarily in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence applied to this field. Their work spans various subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Ecology.

The scientist's research concentrates on seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismic waves and analysis, and seismology and earthquake studies. Additional topics include geophysical methods and applications, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and reservoir engineering and simulation methods.

Schuster has produced numerous publications, with recent papers that include:

  • Review of physics-informed machine-learning inversion of geophysical data, 2024, Geophysics
  • Seismic inversion by Newtonian machine learning, 2020, Geophysics
  • Deep convolutional neural network and sparse least-squares migration, 2020, Geophysics
  • High-resolution stable isotope profiles of modern elephant (Loxodonta africana) tusk dentin and tail hair from Kenya: Implications for identifying seasonal variability in climate, ecology, and diet in ancient proboscideans, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Semi-universal geo-crack detection by machine learning, 2023, Frontiers in Earth Science

The primary venues where Schuster publishes include:

  • Geophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Second International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy
  • Seismic Soundoff Podcasts
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Frequent collaborators in Schuster's research include Shihang Feng, Yuqing Chen, Sherif M. Hanafy, Daniel Trentman, and Tian Qiao. This collaboration network underscores a multidisciplinary and cooperative approach within their studies.

In addition to journal articles, Schuster has contributed to academic books, including the publication titled Machine Learning Methods in Geoscience (2024) released by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Best Publications

  • Wave-equation traveltime inversion

    Yi Luo;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Least-squares migration of incomplete reflection data

    Tamas Nemeth;Chengjun Wu;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Interferometric/daylight seismic imaging

    G. T. Schuster;J. Yu;J. Sheng;J. Rickett

  • Finite‐difference solution of the eikonal equation along expanding wavefronts

    Fuhao Qin;Yi Luo;Kim Bak Olsen;Wenying Cai

  • Multi‐source least‐squares reverse time migration

    Wei Dai;Wei Dai;Paul Fowler;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Plane-wave least-squares reverse-time migration

    Wei Dai;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Wavepath eikonal traveltime inversion: Theory

    Gerard T. Schuster;Aksel Quintus-Bosz

  • Elastic least-squares reverse time migration

    Zongcai Feng;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Attenuation compensation for least-squares reverse time migration using the viscoacoustic-wave equation

    Gaurav Dutta;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Early arrival waveform tomography on near-surface refraction data

    Jianming Sheng;Alan Leeds;Maike Buddensiek;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Least-squares migration of multisource data with a deblurring filter

    Wei Dai;Xin Wang;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Theory of Multisource Crosstalk Reduction by Phase Encoded Statics

    G. T. Schuster;X. Wang;Y. Huang;W. Dai

  • Prestack migration deconvolution

    Jianhua Yu;Jianxing Hu;Gerard T. Schuster;Robert Estill

  • Acoustic wave-equation traveltime and waveform inversion of crosshole seismic data

    Changxi Zhou;Wenying Cai;Yi Luo;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Least-Squares Cross-Well Migration

    Gerard T. Schuster

  • An efficient multiscale method for time-domain waveform tomography

    Chaiwoot Boonyasiriwat;Paul Valasek;Partha Routh;Weiping Cao

  • Attenuation Compensation in Least-Squares Reverse Time Migration Using the Visco-Acoustic Wave Equation

    Gaurav Dutta;Kai Lu;Xin Wang;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Fast Least Squares Migration With a Deblurring Filter

    Naoshi Aoki;Gerard T. Schuster

  • Poststack migration deconvolutionPoststack Migration Deconvolution

    Jianhua Yu;Jianxing Hu;Gerard T. Schuster;Robert Estill

  • A theoretical overview of model-based and correlation-based redatuming methods

    Gerard T. Schuster;Min Zhou

  • Theory of Daylight/Interferometric Imaging - Tutorial

    G.T. Schuster

  • Seismic Interferometry by Gerard Thomas Schuster

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Frequent Co-Authors

Fan Chi Lin
Fan Chi Lin University of Utah
Kim B. Olsen
Kim B. Olsen San Diego State University
Kurt J. Marfurt
Kurt J. Marfurt University of Oklahoma
Ian G. Stanistreet
Ian G. Stanistreet University of Liverpool
George Wittemyer
George Wittemyer Colorado State University
Harley M. Benz
Harley M. Benz United States Geological Survey
Harald Stollhofen
Harald Stollhofen University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hongliu Zeng
Hongliu Zeng The University of Texas at Austin
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Iain Douglas-Hamilton Save the Elephants

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