2026 Thomas H. Jordan: 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	97	163	139	81	68	350	31537

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
1998 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1983 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Thomas H. Jordan is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and a significant contribution to Computer Science.

Their main fields of study include:

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Computer Science

In terms of subfields, their work covers areas such as:

Geophysics
Artificial Intelligence
Civil and Structural Engineering
Information Systems and Management
Mechanical Engineering

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

Earthquake and tectonic studies
Seismology and Earthquake Studies
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Seismic Performance and Analysis
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Thomas H. Jordan has published extensively, including in notable venues such as:

Geophysical Journal International
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Frontiers in High Performance Computing
Seismological Research Letters
Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Some recent papers include:

"Toward Physics-Based Nonergodic PSHA: A Prototype Fully Deterministic Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California" (2021), published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
"Operational Earthquake Forecasting during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence with the UCERF3-ETAS Model" (2020), published in Seismological Research Letters
"A unified probabilistic framework for volcanic hazard and eruption forecasting" (2021), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
"Panel Review of the USGS 2023 Conterminous U.S. Time-Independent Earthquake Rupture Forecast" (2023), published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
"Elastic scattering dominates high-frequency seismic attenuation in Southern California" (2023), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators of Thomas H. Jordan include:

Kevin R. Milner
Christine Goulet
S. Callaghan
Edward H. Field
Warner Marzocchi

Their recognition within the scientific community is reflected in honors such as:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1983)

Best Publications

Present‐day plate motions

J. Bernard Minster;Thomas H. Jordan

2951
Citations
Numerical Modelling of Instantaneous Plate Tectonics

J. B. Minster;T. H. Jordan;P. Molnar;E. Haines

949
Citations
Composition and development of the continental tectosphere

Thomas H. Jordan

946
Citations
The continental tectosphere

Thomas H. Jordan

803
Citations
Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3 (UCERF3)—The Time‐Independent Model

Edward H. Field;Ramon J. Arrowsmith;Glenn P. Biasi;Peter Bird

770
Citations
Structure and Formation of the Continental Tectosphere

Thomas H. Jordan

620
Citations
Stochastic Modeling of Seafloor Morphology: Inversion of Sea Beam Data for Second-Order Statistics

John A. Goff;Thomas H. Jordan

612
Citations
CyberShake: A Physics-Based Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California

Robert Graves;Thomas H. Jordan;Scott Callaghan;Ewa Deelman

579
Citations
OPERATIONAL EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING. State of Knowledge and Guidelines for Utilization

Thomas H. Jordan;Yun-Tai Chen;Paolo Gasparini;Raul Madariaga

574
Citations
Slab penetration into the lower mantle beneath the Mariana and other island arcs of the northwest Pacific

Kenneth C. Creager;Thomas H. Jordan

511
Citations
OpenSHA: A Developing Community-modeling Environment for Seismic Hazard Analysis

Edward H. Field;Thomas H. Jordan;C. Allin Cornell

504
Citations
Mineralogies, Densities and Seismic Velocities of Garnet Lherzolites and their Geophysical Implications

Thomas H. Jordan

495
Citations
Teleseismic location techniques and their application to earthquake clusters in the South-Central Pacific

Thomas H. Jordan;Keith A. Sverdrup

454
Citations
Mantle layering from ScS reverberations: 3. The upper mantle

Justin Revenaugh;Thomas H. Jordan

409
Citations
Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

408
Citations
The present‐day motions of the Caribbean Plate

Thomas H. Jordan

406
Citations
Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 2 (UCERF 2)

Edward H Field;Timothy E Dawson;Karen R Felzer;Arthur D Frankel

387
Citations
Slab penetration into the lower mantle

Kenneth C. Creager;Thomas H. Jordan

363
Citations
Aspherical Earth structure from fundamental spheroidal-mode data

Guy Masters;Thomas H. Jordan;Paul G. Silver;Freeman Gilbert

352
Citations
Earthquake Predictability, Brick by Brick

Thomas H. Jordan

338
Citations
Present-day plate motions

J. B. Minster;T. H. Jordan

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward H. Field United States Geological Survey

Kim B. Olsen San Diego State University

Robert W. Graves United States Geological Survey

Warner Marzocchi University of Naples Federico II

Karan Vahi University of Southern California

Maximilian J. Werner University of Bristol

Ewa Deelman University of Southern California

David A. Rhoades GNS Science

Carl Kesselman University of Southern California

Gideon Juve Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

External Links

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