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45
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4348
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Guy Masters 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 Guy Masters sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 118 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guy Masters 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 Guy Masters sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% 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

  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Guy Masters is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic waves and analysis

Masters has contributed to multiple publications in the Geophysical Journal International. Notable recent papers include:

  • Global reference seismological data sets: multimode surface wave dispersion, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Probabilistic estimation of structure coefficients and their uncertainties, for inner-core sensitive modes, using matrix autoregression, 2020, Geophysical Journal International

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • P. Moulik
  • V. Lekić
  • Barbara Romanowicz
  • Zhitu Ma
  • A. J. Schaeffer

In 2005, Guy Masters was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Update on CRUST1.0 - A 1-degree Global Model of Earth's Crust

    Gabi Laske;Guy Masters;Zhitu Ma;Mike Pasyanos

  • Finite-Frequency Tomography Reveals a Variety of Plumes in the Mantle

    Raffaella Montelli;Guust Nolet;F. A. Dahlen;Guy Masters

  • The Relative Behavior of Shear Velocity, Bulk Sound Speed, and Compressional Velocity in the Mantle: Implications for Chemical and Thermal Structure

    Guy Masters;Gabi Laske;Harold Bolton;Adam Dziewonski

  • A catalogue of deep mantle plumes: New results from finite‐frequency tomography

    R. Montelli;R. Montelli;G. Nolet;F. A. Dahlen;G. Masters

  • A Shear-Velocity Model of the Mantle [and Discussion]

    Guy Masters;Stuart Johnson;Gabi Laske;Harold Bolton

  • The Seismic Anisotropy of the Earth's Mantle: from Single Crystal to Polycrystal

    D. Mainprice;G. Barruol;W. Ben IsmaïL

  • Aspherical Earth structure from fundamental spheroidal-mode data

    Guy Masters;Thomas H. Jordan;Paul G. Silver;Freeman Gilbert

  • Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms

    C. Houser;G. Masters;P. Shearer;G. Laske

  • Earth's Deep Interior: Mineral Physics and Tomography From the Atomic to the Global Scale

    Shun-ichiro Karato;Alessandro Forte;Robert Liebermann;Guy Masters

  • On the resolution of density within the Earth

    Guy Masters;David Gubbins

  • An inversion for radial viscosity structure using seismic tomography

    Scott D. King;Guy Masters

  • Spherically symmetric attenuation within the Earth from normal mode data

    Rudolf Widmer;Guy Masters;Freeman Gilbert

  • Constraints on global phase velocity maps from long-period polarization data

    G. Laske;G. Masters

  • Superplumes or plume clusters

    G Schubert;G Masters;P Olson;P Tackley

  • Global upper mantle structure from long-period differential travel times

    Robert L. Woodward;Guy Masters

  • CRUST1.0: An Updated Global Model of Earth's Crust

    G. Laske;G. Masters;Z. Ma;M. E. Pasyanos

  • Global P and PP traveltime tomography: rays versus waves

    R. Montelli;G. Nolet;G. Masters;F. A. Dahlen

  • Gross thermodynamics of two-component core convection

    David Gubbins;Dario Alfè;Guy Masters;G. David Price

  • Observations of anomalous splitting and their interpretation in terms of aspherical structure

    Michael Ritzwoller;Guy Masters;Freeman Gilbert

  • Observational constraints on the chemical and thermal structure of the Earth's deep interior

    Guy Masters

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabi Laske
Gabi Laske University of California, San Diego
Guust Nolet
Guust Nolet Université Côte d'Azur
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer University of California, San Diego
James Wookey
James Wookey University of Bristol
Michael E. Pasyanos
Michael E. Pasyanos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Gubbins
David Gubbins University of Leeds
Michael H. Ritzwoller
Michael H. Ritzwoller University of Colorado Boulder
Hrvoje Tkalčić
Hrvoje Tkalčić Australian National University
Alessandro M. Forte
Alessandro M. Forte University of Florida
J-M Kendall
J-M Kendall University of Oxford

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