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Göran Ekström 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 Göran Ekström sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 323 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Göran Ekström 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 Göran Ekström sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004

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

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

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

  • The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present

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

  • The unique anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle

    Göran Ekström;Adam M. Dziewonski

  • Measurements and global models of surface wave propagation

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

  • A Common Origin for Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and Multiplets

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

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

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

  • Simple Scaling of Catastrophic Landslide Dynamics

    Göran Ekström;Colin P. Stark

  • European–Mediterranean regional centroid-moment tensors: 1997–2000

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

  • Evidence of bias in estimations of earthquake size

    Göran Ekström;Adam M. Dziewonski

  • 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

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

    Göran Ekström

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

    Joseph J. Durek;Göran Ekström

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

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

  • Ambient Earth noise: A survey of the Global Seismographic Network

    Jonathan Berger;Peter Davis;Göran Ekström

  • Centroid-moment tensor solutions for October–December 1995

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

  • Seismic strain rates in regions of distributed continental deformation

    Göran Ekström;Philip England

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

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

  • Seasonality and Increasing Frequency of Greenland Glacial Earthquakes

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam M. Dziewonski
Adam M. Dziewonski Harvard University
James L. Davis
James L. Davis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
John H. Woodhouse
John H. Woodhouse University of Oxford
Gordon S. Hamilton
Gordon S. Hamilton University of Maine
Andreas P. Ahlstrøm
Andreas P. Ahlstrøm Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
René Forsberg
René Forsberg Technical University of Denmark
Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Shfaqat Abbas Khan Technical University of Denmark
Andrea Morelli
Andrea Morelli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Rachel E. Abercrombie
Rachel E. Abercrombie Boston University
Lapo Boschi
Lapo Boschi University of Padua

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