2026 John Douglas: 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	42	5153	4761	556	521	162	8919

Overview

John Douglas is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Civil and Structural Engineering as well as Geophysics.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. The main topics they address in their research include:

Seismic Performance and Analysis
Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Landslides and Related Hazards
Disaster Management and Resilience

John Douglas has published frequently in several academic venues, including:

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Natural Hazards
Seismological Research Letters
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Their recent papers highlight a range of topics related to seismic risk and disaster analysis. These include:

"Reclassifying historical disasters: From single to multi-hazards" (2023), published in The Science of The Total Environment
"Modelling the spatial correlation of earthquake ground motion: Insights from the literature, data from the 2016-2017 Central Italy earthquake sequence and ground-motion simulations" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
"Evaluating alternative approaches for the seismic design of structures" (2020), published in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
"Examining the contribution of near real-time data for rapid seismic loss assessment of structures" (2021), published in Structural Health Monitoring
"Seismic risk management through insurance and its sensitivity to uncertainty in the hazard model" (2021), published in Natural Hazards

Throughout their career, John Douglas has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Alireza Azarbakht
Enrico Tubaldi
Guillermo Aldama-Bustos
Manuela Daví
John Thornley

Best Publications

Equations for the Estimation of Strong Ground Motions from Shallow Crustal Earthquakes Using Data from Europe and the Middle East: Horizontal Peak Ground Acceleration and Spectral Acceleration

N.N. Ambraseys;John Douglas;S.K. Sarma;P. M. Smit

792
Citations
Earthquake ground motion estimation using strong-motion records: a review of equations for the estimation of peak ground acceleration and response spectral ordinates

J Douglas

641
Citations
Internet site for European strong-motion data

N. N. Ambraseys;P. Smit;J. Douglas;B. Margaris

630
Citations
Magnitude calibration of north Indian earthquakes

Nicholas Ambraseys;John Douglas

609
Citations
On the Selection of Ground-Motion Prediction Equations for Seismic Hazard Analysis

Julian J. Bommer;John Douglas;Frank Scherbaum;Fabrice Cotton

430
Citations
Reference database for seismic ground-motion in Europe (RESORCE)

S. Akkar;M. A. Sandikkaya;M. A. Sandikkaya;M. Senyurt;A. Azari Sisi

360
Citations
Near-field horizontal and vertical earthquake ground motions

N.N Ambraseys;J Douglas

301
Citations
Toward a ground-motion logic tree for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in Europe

Elise Delavaud;Fabrice Cotton;Fabrice Cotton;Sinan Akkar;Frank Scherbaum

294
Citations
Style-of-faulting in ground-motion prediction equations

Julian J. Bommer;John Douglas;Fleur O. Strasser

250
Citations
A Survey of Techniques for Predicting Earthquake Ground Motions for Engineering Purposes

John Douglas;Hideo Aochi

231
Citations
Recent and future developments in earthquake ground motion estimation

John Douglas;Benjamin Edwards

228
Citations
Physical vulnerability modelling in natural hazard risk assessment

John Douglas

227
Citations
Ground-motion prediction equations based on data from the himalayan and zagros regions

Mukat Lal Sharma;John Douglas;Hilmar Bungum;Jainish Kotadia

190
Citations
Selection of Ground Motion Prediction Equations for the Global Earthquake Model

Jonathan P. Stewart;John Douglas;Mohammad Javanbarg;Yousef Bozorgnia

186
Citations
Vector-valued fragility functions for seismic risk evaluation

Pierre Gehl;Darius M. Seyedi;John Douglas

152
Citations
Development of seismic fragility surfaces for reinforced concrete buildings by means of nonlinear time-history analysis

Darius Seyedi;Pierre Gehl;John Douglas;L. Davenne

144
Citations
Risk-targeted seismic design maps for mainland France

John Douglas;Thomas Ulrich;Caterina Negulescu

143
Citations
High-frequency filtering of strong-motion records

John Douglas;David M. Boore

141
Citations
A κ Model for Mainland France

John Douglas;Pierre Gehl;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Céline Gélis

120
Citations
Predicting ground motion from induced earthquakes in geothermal areas

John Douglas;Benjamin Edwards;Benjamin Edwards;Vincenzo Convertito;Nitin Sharma

112
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Cotton University of Potsdam

Luis Fabian Bonilla Université Gustave Eiffel

Benjamin R. Edwards University of Liverpool

N. N. Ambraseys Imperial College London

Peter Suhadolc University of Trieste

Julian J. Bommer Imperial College London

David M. Boore United States Geological Survey

Frank Scherbaum University of Potsdam

Sinan Akkar Boğaziçi University

Enrico Tubaldi University of Strathclyde

External Links

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