2026 Rainer Kind: 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	72	865	764	52	48	253	17501

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Rainer Kind is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics. Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science and Artificial Intelligence, contributing to a broad scientific understanding of the Earth's physical processes.

Among the main topics covered in their work are earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and seismology and earthquake studies.

Rainer Kind has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with notable papers including:

New insights into the structural elements of the upper mantle beneath the contiguous United States from S-to-P converted seismic waves (2020, Geophysical Journal International)
The GEOFON Program in 2020 (2021, Seismological Research Letters)
Lateral growth of NE Tibetan Plateau restricted by the Asian lithosphere: Results from a dense seismic profile (2020, Gondwana Research)
Moho and uppermost mantle structure in the Alpine area from S-to-P converted waves (2021, Solid Earth)
Moho depths beneath the European Alps: a homogeneously processed map and receiver functions database (2023, Earth system science data)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rainer Kind include:

Frederik Tilmann
Xiaohui Yuan
Konstantinos Michailos
György Hetényi
Matteo Scarponi

Rainer Kind's work has been published in various scientific venues, notably:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Journal International
Seismological Research Letters
Gondwana Research
Solid Earth

Over the course of their career, Rainer Kind has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2002.

Best Publications

Partially Molten Middle Crust Beneath Southern Tibet: Synthesis of Project INDEPTH Results

K. D. Nelson;Wenjin Zhao;L. D. Brown;J. Kuo

1525
Citations
Seismic Images of Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian Plate Subduction

R. Kind;X. Yuan;J. Saul;D. Nelson

824
Citations
Seismic Evidence for a Detached Indian Lithospheric Mantle Beneath Tibet

G. Kosarev;R. Kind;S. V. Sobolev;X. Yuan

570
Citations
Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of southern Tibet from a seismological passive source experiment

Xiaohui Yuan;James Ni;Rainer Kind;James Mechie

543
Citations
The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate

Prakash Kumar;Xiaohui Yuan;M. Ravi Kumar;Rainer Kind

537
Citations
The boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet

Junmeng Zhao;Xiaohui Yuan;Hongbing Liu;Prakash Kumar

508
Citations
Subduction and collision processes in the Central Andes constrained by converted seismic phases

X. Yuan;S. V. Sobolev;R. Kind;O. Oncken

453
Citations
Evidence from Earthquake Data for a Partially Molten Crustal Layer in Southern Tibet

Rainer Kind;James Ni;Wenjin Zhao;Jianxin Wu

351
Citations
Moho topography in the central Andes and its geodynamic implications

X Yuan;S.V Sobolev;R Kind

350
Citations
Seismic signature of the collision between the east Tibetan escape flow and the Sichuan Basin

Zhongjie Zhang;Xiaohui Yuan;Yun Chen;Xiaobo Tian

349
Citations
Tibetan plate overriding the Asian plate in central and northern Tibet

Wenjin Zhao;Prakash Kumar;James Mechie;Rainer Kind

306
Citations
Rejuvenation of the lithosphere by the Hawaiian plume

Xueqing Li;Rainer Kind;Xiaohui Yuan;Ingo Wölbern

296
Citations
Receiver functions at the stations of the German Regional Seismic Network (GRSN)

R. Kind;G. L. Kosarev;N. V. Petersen

286
Citations
Seismic polarization anisotropy beneath the central Tibetan Plateau

Wei-Chuang Huang;James F. Ni;Frederik Tilmann;Doug Nelson

281
Citations
Imaging the colliding Indian and Asian lithospheric plates beneath Tibet

Prakash Kumar;Xiaohui Yuan;Rainer Kind;James Ni

280
Citations
The S receiver functions: synthetics and data example

Xiaohui Yuan;Rainer Kind;Xueqing Li;Rongjiang Wang

270
Citations
The lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary in the Tien Shan‐Karakoram region from S receiver functions: Evidence for continental subduction

P. Kumar;X. Yuan;R. Kind;G. Kosarev

263
Citations
The Nature of the 660-Kilometer Upper-Mantle Seismic Discontinuity from Precursors to the PP Phase

Charles H. Estabrook;Rainer Kind

226
Citations
Mapping the Hawaiian plume conduit with converted seismic waves

Xueqing Li;Rainer Kind;K. Priestley;Stephan V. Sobolev

226
Citations
Lithospheric structure of the Aegean obtained from P and S receiver functions

F. Sodoudi;R. Kind;D. Hatzfeld;K. F. Priestley

225
Citations
Rejuvenation of the Lithosphere by the Hawaiian Plume

R. Kind;X. Li;X. Yuan;I. Woelbern

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohui Yuan University of Potsdam

James Mechie University of Potsdam

Stephan V. Sobolev University of Potsdam

Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin

Eric Sandvol University of Missouri

James Ni New Mexico State University

Lawrence D. Brown Cornell University

Simon L. Klemperer Stanford University

Frank Scherbaum University of Potsdam

Lev Vinnik Russian Academy of Sciences

External Links

Personal website of Rainer Kind

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