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Timothy H. Dixon publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Timothy H. Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 388 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Timothy H. Dixon 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 Timothy H. Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Timothy H. Dixon is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad areas of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The main topics covered in their research include earthquake and tectonic studies, landslides and related hazards, geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, seismic waves and analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, and earthquake detection and analysis.

Timothy H. Dixon has a substantial record of publications in several scientific venues, with the most frequent outlets listed as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • The Leading Edge

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Surface Deformation and Induced Seismicity Due to Fluid Injection and Oil and Gas Extraction in Western Texas, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Novel Quantification of Shallow Sediment Compaction by GPS Interferometric Reflectometry and Implications for Flood Susceptibility, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Isolated Cavities Dominate Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamic Response to Lake Drainage, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Novel Integration of Geodetic and Geologic Methods for High-Resolution Monitoring of Subsidence in the Mississippi Delta, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Modeling the Contribution of Poroelastic Deformation to Postseismic Geodetic Signals, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Timothy H. Dixon include:

  • Surui Xie
  • F. Deng
  • R. Malservisi
  • Taha Sadeghi Chorsi
  • Jochen Braunmiller

A notable recognition in their career is election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • REVEL: A model for Recent plate velocities from space geodesy

    Giovanni F. Sella;Giovanni F. Sella;Timothy H. Dixon;Ailin Mao

  • Noise in GPS coordinate time series

    Ailin Mao;Christopher G. A. Harrison;Timothy H. Dixon

  • Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera

    Timothy H. Dixon;Meghan Miller;Frederic Farina;Hongzhi Wang

  • Observation of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in “Stable” North America with GPS

    Giovanni F. Sella;Seth Stein;Timothy H. Dixon;Michael Craymer

  • GPS geodetic constraints on Caribbean-North America plate motion

    Charles DeMets;Pamela E. Jansma;Glen S. Mattioli;Timothy H. Dixon

  • New kinematic models for Pacific‐North America motion from 3 Ma to present, I: Evidence for steady motion and biases in the NUVEL‐1A Model

    Charles DeMets;Timothy H. Dixon

  • An introduction to the global positioning system and some geological applications

    Timothy H. Dixon

  • Space Geodetic Observations of Nazca-South America Convergence Across the Central Andes

    Edmundo Norabuena;Lisa Leffler-Griffin;Ailin Mao;Timothy H. Dixon

  • Mexico City subsidence observed with persistent scatterer InSAR

    Batuhan Osmanoğlu;Timothy H. Dixon;Shimon Wdowinski;Enrique Cabral-Cano

  • Lateral variation in upper mantle viscosity: role of water

    Jacqueline E. Dixon;Timothy H. Dixon;D. R. Bell;Rocco Malservisi

  • Space geodesy: Subsidence and flooding in New Orleans

    Timothy H. Dixon;Falk Amelung;Alessandro Ferretti;Fabrizio Novali

  • GPS estimate of relative motion between the Caribbean and South American plates, and geologic implications for Trinidad and Venezuela

    John C. Weber;Timothy H. Dixon;Charles DeMets;William B. Ambeh

  • Decelerating Nazca-South America and Nazca-Pacific Plate motions

    Edmundo O. Norabuena;Timothy H. Dixon;Seth Stein;Christopher G. A. Harrison

  • Transpressional rupture of an unmapped fault during the 2010 Haiti earthquake

    Éric Calais;Andrew M. Freed;Glen S. Mattioli;Glen S. Mattioli;Falk Amelung

  • Constraints on present‐day Basin and Range deformation from space geodesy

    Timothy H. Dixon;Stefano Robaudo;Jeffrey Lee;Marith C. Reheis

  • Petrology and chemistry of recent lavas in the northern Marianas: Implications for the origin of island arc basalts

    Timothy H. Dixon;R. Batiza

  • Recent increases in Arctic freshwater flux affects Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning circulation

    Qian Yang;Timothy H. Dixon;Paul G. Myers;Jennifer Bonin

  • Fore-arc motion and Cocos Ridge collision in Central America

    Peter LaFemina;Peter LaFemina;Timothy H. Dixon;Rob Govers;Edmundo Norabuena

  • Bathymetric prediction from Seasat altimeter data

    Timothy H. Dixon;M. Naraghi;M. K. McNutt;S. M. Smith

  • Refined kinematics of the Eastern California shear zone from GPS observations, 1993-1998

    M. Meghan Miller;Daniel J. Johnson;Timothy H. Dixon;Roy K. Dokka

  • Slow deformation and lower seismic hazard at the new madrid seismic zone

    Andrew Newman;Seth Stein;John Weber;Joseph Engeln

  • The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults

    Timothy H. Dixon;J. Casey Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Shimon Wdowinski
Shimon Wdowinski Florida International University
Falk Amelung
Falk Amelung University of Miami
Marino Protti
Marino Protti University of California, Santa Cruz
Susan Y. Schwartz
Susan Y. Schwartz University of California, Santa Cruz
Charles DeMets
Charles DeMets University of Wisconsin–Madison
Seth Stein
Seth Stein Northwestern University
David M. Holland
David M. Holland New York University
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol
Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern The University of Texas at Dallas

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