R. Van Dissen

R. Van Dissen publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

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R. Van Dissen 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 R. Van Dissen sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

  Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  661
  Citations

• National Seismic Hazard Model for New Zealand: 2010 Update

  Mark Stirling;Graeme McVerry;Matthew Gerstenberger;Nicola Litchfield

  619
  Citations

• The New Zealand Active Faults Database

  RM Langridge;WF Ries;NJ Litchfield;P Villamor

  330
  Citations

• The kinematics of a transition from subduction to strike‐slip: An example from the central New Zealand plate boundary

  Laura Wallace;P. Barnes;J. Beavan;R. Van Dissen

  255
  Citations

• Surface rupture during the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake: Implications for fault rupture dynamics and seismic-hazard analysis

  M. Quigley;R. Van Dissen;N. Litchfield;P. Villamor

  250
  Citations

• A model of active faulting in New Zealand

  NJ Litchfield;R Van Dissen;R Sutherland;PM Barnes

  229
  Citations

• Hope fault, Jordan thrust, and uplift of the Seaward Kaikoura Range, New Zealand

  Russell Van Dissen;Robert S. Yeats

  218
  Citations

• Surface Rupture of Multiple Crustal Faults in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake

  Nicola J. Litchfield;Pilar Villamor;Russ J. Van Dissen;Andrew Nicol

  192
  Citations

• Surface rupture earthquakes over the last ∼1000 years in the Wellington region, New Zealand, and implications for ground shaking hazard

  Russ J. Van Dissen;Kelvin R. Berryman

  173
  Citations

• Earthquake Source Identification and Characterisation for the Canterbury Region, South Island, New Zealand

  Jarg R. Pettinga;Mark D. Yetton;Russ J. Van Dissen;Gaye Downes

  166
  Citations

• Long-term behaviour of Australian stable continental region (SCR) faults

  Unknown

  148
  Citations

• Ground Motion and Seismic Source Aspects of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence

  Brendon A. Bradley;Mark C. Quigley;Russ J. Van Dissen;Nicola J. Litchfield

  126
  Citations

• SURFACE RUPTURE OF THE GREENDALE FAULT DURING THE DARFIELD (CANTERBURY) EARTHQUAKE, NEW ZEALAND: INITIAL FINDINGS

  M. Quigley;R. Van Dissen;P. Villamor;N. Litchfield

  108
  Citations

• Growth of contractional structures during the last 10 m.y. at the southern end of the emergent Hikurangi forearc basin, New Zealand

  Andrew Nicol;Russell VanDissen;Paul Vella;Brent Alloway

  103
  Citations

• Tilting of active folds and faults in the Manawatu region, New Zealand: Evidence from surface drainage patterns

  James Jackson;Russ van Dissen;Kelvin Berryman

  102
  Citations

• The Mw7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake

  Mark W. Stirling;N. J. Litchfield;Pilar Villamor;Russ J. Van Dissen

  99
  Citations

• Estimates of the time‐varying hazard of rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, allowing for uncertainties

  D. A. Rhoades;R. J. Van Dissen

  92
  Citations

• The New Zealand Community Fault Model – version 1.0: an improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling

  Unknown

  91
  Citations

• Late Pleistocene surface rupture history of the Paeroa Fault, Taupo Rift, New Zealand

  Kelvin Berryman;Pilar Villamor;Ian Nairn;Russ van Dissen

  84
  Citations

• Late Holocene surface ruptures on the southern Wairarapa fault, New Zealand: Link between earthquakes and the uplifting of beach ridges on a rocky coast

  T.A. Little;R. Van Dissen;E. Schermer;R. Carne

  76
  Citations