2026 Göran Ekström: 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	86	360	309	190	158	323	25996

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Göran Ekström is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to geophysics. Key subfields include geophysics, artificial intelligence, oceanography, management, monitoring, policy and law, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, including:

Earthquake and tectonic studies
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Seismic waves and analysis
Geological and geochemical analysis
Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
Earthquake detection and analysis
Seismology and earthquake studies

Göran Ekström has been published frequently in the following venues:

Geophysical Journal International (7 publications)
Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors (2 publications)
Geophysical Research Letters (1 publication)
Seismological Research Letters (1 publication)
Nature (1 publication)

Recent notable papers include:

"The 28 November 2020 Landslide, Tsunami, and Outburst Flood - A Hazard Cascade Associated With Rapid Deglaciation at Elliot Creek, British Columbia, Canada" (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters
"Global reference seismological data sets: multimode surface wave dispersion" (2021), published in Geophysical Journal International
"Controls on surface wave overtone interference" (2021), published in Geophysical Journal International
"Three-dimensional seismic anisotropy in the Pacific upper mantle from inversion of a surface-wave dispersion data set" (2022), published in Geophysical Journal International
"The Pacific OBS Research into Convecting Asthenosphere (ORCA) Experiment" (2021), published in Seismological Research Letters

Frequent co-authors of Göran Ekström include:

P. Moulik
A. J. Schaeffer
Keith Priestley
M. Nettles
Paul G. Richards

Throughout their career, Göran Ekström has received recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 and was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1999.

Best Publications

The global CMT project 2004–2010: Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017 earthquakes

G. Ekström;M. Nettles;A.M. Dziewoński

3150
Citations
The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004

Thorne Lay;Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Charles J. Ammon;Meredith Nettles

1535
Citations
Anisotropic shear‐wave velocity structure of the Earth's mantle: A global model

B. Kustowski;B. Kustowski;G. Ekström;A. M. Dziewoński

666
Citations
The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present

S. Pondrelli;S. Salimbeni;G. Ekström;A. Morelli

566
Citations
The unique anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle

Göran Ekström;Adam M. Dziewonski

487
Citations
Measurements and global models of surface wave propagation

Göran Ekström;Jeroen Tromp;Erik W. F. Larson

471
Citations
A Common Origin for Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and Multiplets

Karen R. Felzer;Rachel E. Abercrombie;Göran Ekström

338
Citations
Determination of surface-wave phase velocities across USArray from noise and Aki's spectral formulation

Göran Ekström;Geoffrey A. Abers;Spahr C. Webb

325
Citations
Simple Scaling of Catastrophic Landslide Dynamics

Göran Ekström;Colin P. Stark

322
Citations
European–Mediterranean regional centroid-moment tensors: 1997–2000

S. Pondrelli;A. Morelli;G. Ekström;S. Mazza

315
Citations
Evidence of bias in estimations of earthquake size

Göran Ekström;Adam M. Dziewonski

312
Citations
Triggering of the 1999 MW 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake by aftershocks of the 1992 MW 7.3 Landers earthquake

Karen R. Felzer;Thorsten W. Becker;Rachel E. Abercrombie;Göran Ekström

307
Citations
A global model of Love and Rayleigh surface wave dispersion and anisotropy, 25–250 s

Göran Ekström

300
Citations
A radial model of anelasticity consistent with long-period surface-wave attenuation

Joseph J. Durek;Göran Ekström

296
Citations
Global seismicity of 2003: centroid–moment-tensor solutions for 1087 earthquakes

G. Ekström;A.M. Dziewoński;N.N. Maternovskaya;M. Nettles

274
Citations
Ambient Earth noise: A survey of the Global Seismographic Network

Jonathan Berger;Peter Davis;Göran Ekström

268
Citations
Centroid-moment tensor solutions for October–December 1995

A.M. Dziewonski;G. Ekström;M.P. Salganik

252
Citations
Seismic strain rates in regions of distributed continental deformation

Göran Ekström;Philip England

247
Citations
Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland

Ian Joughin;Ian Howat;Richard B. Alley;Goran Ekstrom

242
Citations
Seasonality and Increasing Frequency of Greenland Glacial Earthquakes

Göran Ekström;Göran Ekström;Meredith Nettles;Meredith Nettles;Victor C. Tsai;Victor C. Tsai

236
Citations
Models of the mantle shear velocity and discontinuities in the pattern of lateral heterogeneities

Yu J. Gu;Adam M. Dziewonski;Weijia Su;Göran Ekström

229
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam M. Dziewonski Harvard University

James L. Davis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

John H. Woodhouse University of Oxford

Gordon S. Hamilton University of Maine

Andreas P. Ahlstrøm Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

René Forsberg Technical University of Denmark

Shfaqat Abbas Khan Technical University of Denmark

Andrea Morelli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Rachel E. Abercrombie Boston University

Lapo Boschi University of Padua

External Links

Personal website of Göran Ekström Google Scholar page

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