2026 Jack W. Baker: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	56	2752	2632	835	759	195	20969
Earth Science	57	2224	2016	945	834	183	21001

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Engineering and Technology

2752

2632

835

759

195

20969

Earth Science

2224

2016

945

834

183

21001

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

20969

World Ranking

2752

National Ranking

835

Earth Science

D-Index

Citations

21001

World Ranking

2224

National Ranking

945

Overview

Jack W. Baker is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on Civil and Structural Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Geophysics, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

Seismic Performance and Analysis
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Disaster Management and Resilience
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Baker has published frequently in venues such as:

Earthquake Spectra
Natural Hazards Review
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Population Research and Policy Review

Their recent papers include:

Digital technologies can enhance climate resilience of critical infrastructure, 2021, Climate Risk Management
Quantification of disaster impacts through household well-being losses, 2020, Nature Sustainability
G-DIF: A geospatial data integration framework to rapidly estimate post-earthquake damage, 2020, Earthquake Spectra
Risk-Informed Recommendations for Managing Hydraulic Fracturing-Induced Seismicity via Traffic Light Protocols, 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 at a district general hospital in Surrey, UK, 2020, Clinical Medicine

Frequent coauthors of Baker include:

Rodrigo Costa
Brendon Bradley
Ganyu Teng
Peter J. Stafford
Nicolas Luco

Baker has also contributed to several book publications. These include works published by RAND Corporation eBooks and Cambridge University Press, such as Novel Methods to Assess the Military's Evolving Prevention Capabilities: Development and Pilot Test of the On-Site Installation Evaluation Process (2023) and Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis (2021).

Best Publications

EFFICIENT ANALYTICAL FRAGILITY FUNCTION FITTING USING DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Jack W. Baker

1770
Citations
Quantitative Classification of Near-Fault Ground Motions Using Wavelet Analysis

Jack W. Baker

1554
Citations
Conditional Mean Spectrum: Tool for Ground-Motion Selection

Jack W. Baker

1355
Citations
Spectral shape, epsilon and record selection

Jack W. Baker;C. Allin Cornell

1103
Citations
A vector-valued ground motion intensity measure consisting of spectral acceleration and epsilon

Jack W. Baker;C. Allin Cornell

983
Citations
NGA-West2 Research Project:

Yousef Bozorgnia;Norman A. Abrahamson;Linda Al Atik;Timothy D. Ancheta

755
Citations
A Computationally Efficient Ground-Motion Selection Algorithm for Matching a Target Response Spectrum Mean and Variance

Nirmal Jayaram;Ting Lin;Jack W. Baker

728
Citations
Correlation of Spectral Acceleration Values from NGA Ground Motion Models

Jack W. Baker;Nirmal Jayaram

681
Citations
Correlation model for spatially distributed ground‐motion intensities

Nirmal Jayaram;Jack W. Baker

626
Citations
Incorporating modeling uncertainties in the assessment of seismic collapse risk of buildings

Abbie B. Liel;Curt B. Haselton;Gregory G. Deierlein;Jack W. Baker

614
Citations
On the assessment of robustness

Jack W. Baker;Matthias Schubert;Michael Havbro Faber

559
Citations
Oklahoma’s recent earthquakes and saltwater disposal

F. Rall Walsh;Mark D. Zoback

479
Citations
An Efficient Algorithm to Identify Strong-Velocity Pulses in Multicomponent Ground Motions

Shrey K. Shahi;Jack W. Baker

438
Citations
An Empirically Calibrated Framework for Including the Effects of Near-Fault Directivity in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

Shrey K. Shahi;Jack W. Baker

428
Citations
Conditional spectrum-based ground motion selection. Part I: Hazard consistency for risk-based assessments

Ting Lin;Curt B. Haselton;Jack W. Baker

410
Citations
Quantifying the Influence of Ground Motion Duration on Structural Collapse Capacity Using Spectrally Equivalent Records

Reagan Chandramohan;Jack W. Baker;Gregory G. Deierlein

400
Citations
Correlation of Response Spectral Values for Multicomponent Ground Motions

Jack W. Baker;C. Allin Cornell

394
Citations
Vector-valued ground motion intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand analysis

Jack W. Baker

325
Citations
An Improved Algorithm for Selecting Ground Motions to Match a Conditional Spectrum

Jack W. Baker;Cynthia Lee

299
Citations
Conditional Spectrum Computation Incorporating Multiple Causal Earthquakes and Ground-Motion Prediction Models

Ting Lin;Stephen C. Harmsen;Jack W. Baker;Nicolas Luco

272
Citations
Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses | NIST

Andrew Whittaker;Gail Atkinson;Jack Baker;Jonathan Bray

121
Citations
An Introduction to Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA)

Jack W. Baker

111
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendon A. Bradley University of Canterbury

Gregory G. Deierlein Stanford University

C. Allin Cornell Stanford University

Jonathan P. Stewart University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Havbro Faber Aalborg University

Norman A. Abrahamson University of California, Berkeley

Paul Spudich United States Geological Survey

Thomas C. Hanks United States Geological Survey

Paul Somerville Aecom (United States)

Andrew S. Whittaker University at Buffalo, State University of New York

External Links

Personal website of Jack W. Baker Google Scholar page

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