2026 Mary Lou Zoback: 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	32	8539	7935	2793	2473	93	12238

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - GSA Public Service Award, The Geological Society of America
2007 - Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
1995 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1987 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1987 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Mary Lou Zoback is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple interconnected fields including engineering, materials science, and environmental science.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

Nuclear and radioactivity studies
Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
Radioactive contamination and transfer

They have contributed to research within the following subfields:

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Materials Chemistry
Global and Planetary Change

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Among recent papers, their work includes:

"MOVING THE U.S. NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM FORWARD: SIX OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD," 2021, published in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include:

Jean Bahr
Steven M. Becker
Susan L. Brantley
A.G. Croff
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Mary Lou Zoback's recognition in the scientific community is shown by awards and honors received throughout their career. These include:

Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America (2007)
GSA Public Service Award, The Geological Society of America (2007)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995)
Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1987)
James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1987)

Best Publications

First‐ and second‐order patterns of stress in the lithosphere: The World Stress Map Project

Mary Lou Zoback

2519
Citations
New evidence on the state of stress of the San Andreas fault system

Mark D. Zoback;Mary Lou Zoback;Van S. Mount;John Suppe

1198
Citations
State of stress in the conterminous United States

Mary Lou Zoback;Mark D. Zoback

1188
Citations
Global patterns of tectonic stress

Mary Lou Zoback;Mark D. Zoback;J. Adams;M. Assumpção

882
Citations
Disaster resilience: A national imperative

Susan L. Cutter;Joseph A. Ahearn;Bernard Amadei;Patrick Crawford

759
Citations
The World Stress Map database release 2016 : Crustal stress pattern across scales

Oliver Heidbach;Mojtaba Rajabi;Xiaofeng Cui;Karl Fuchs

753
Citations
Regional patterns of tectonic stress in Europe

Birgit Müller;Mary Lou Zoback;Karl Fuchs;Larry Mastin

587
Citations
Cainozoic Evolution of the State of Stress and Style of Tectonism of the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States

Mary Lou Zoback;R. E. Anderson;G. A. Thompson

529
Citations
Stress field constraints on intraplate seismicity in eastern North America

Mary Lou Zoback

342
Citations
The Cordilleran Orogen

B. C. Burchfiel;Peter W. Lipman;Mary Lou C. Zoback

327
Citations
Tectonic stress field of North America and relative plate motions

Mark D. Zoback;Mary Lou Zoback

320
Citations
Chapter 24: Tectonic stress field of the continental United States

Mary Lou Zoback;Mark D. Zoback

289
Citations
Basin and Range rifting in northern Nevada: Clues from a mid-Miocene rift and its subsequent offsets

Mary Lou Zoback;George A. Thompson

257
Citations
Stress field variations in the Swiss Alps and the northern Alpine foreland derived from inversion of fault plane solutions

Ulrike Kastrup;Mary Lou Zoback;Nicholas Deichmann;Keith F. Evans

245
Citations
Regional geophysics of the Colorado Plateau

George A. Thompson;Mary Lou Zoback

245
Citations
Implications of selected subsurface data on the structural form and evolution of some basins in the northern Basin and Range province, Nevada and Utah

R. Ernest Anderson;Mary Lou Zoback;George A. Thompson

241
Citations
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

236
Citations
State of stress and modern deformation of the Northern Basin and Range Province

Mary Lou Zoback

230
Citations
The northern Nevada rift: Regional tectono-magmatic relations and middle Miocene stress direction

Mary Lou Zoback;Edwin H. McKEE;Richard J. Blakely;George A. Thompson

208
Citations
Recent state of stress change in the Walker Lane zone, western Basin and Range province, United States

Olivier Bellier;Mary Lou Zoback

166
Citations
Stress perturbation associated with the Amazonas and other ancient continental rifts

Mary Lou Zoback;Randall M. Richardson

144
Citations
State of Stress and Intraplate Earthquakes in the United States

Mark D. Zoback;Mary Lou Zoback

137
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Zoback Stanford University

George A. Thompson Stanford University

Karl Fuchs Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Douglas S. Dreger University of California, Berkeley

Eric L. Geist United States Geological Survey

Thomas M. Brocher United States Geological Survey

Stephen H. Hartzell United States Geological Survey

Stephen C. Harmsen United States Geological Survey

Robert W. Graves United States Geological Survey

Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina

External Links

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