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D-Index
63
Citations
15495
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1584
National Ranking
98

Xiwei Xu 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 Xiwei Xu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 310 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiwei Xu 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 Xiwei Xu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xiwei Xu is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's main topics of research include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, landslides and related hazards, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic waves and analysis, flood risk assessment and management, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Xiwei Xu has contributed publications to various scholarly venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Natural Hazards Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Tectonophysics
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

The scientist has coauthored extensively with several researchers, frequently collaborating with:

  • Chong Xu
  • Kang Li
  • Jia Cheng
  • Paul Tapponnier
  • Shaolin Liu

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Xiwei Xu include:

  • Scientific challenges in disaster risk reduction for the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, 2022, Engineering Geology
  • An open-accessed inventory of landslides triggered by the MS 6.8 Luding earthquake, China on September 5, 2022, 2022, Earthquake research advances
  • Landslide development within 3 years after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2020, Landslides
  • AutoGluon: A revolutionary framework for landslide hazard analysis, 2021, Natural Hazards Research
  • Landslides Triggered by the 2020 Qiaojia Mw5.1 Earthquake, Yunnan, China: Distribution, Influence Factors and Tectonic Significance, 2021, Journal of Earth Science

In addition to articles, Xiwei Xu has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Nature:

  • Earthquake Geology and Tectonophysics around Eastern Tibet and Taiwan, 2020

Best Publications

  • Coseismic reverse- and oblique-slip surface faulting generated by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China

    Xiwei Xu;Xueze Wen;Gui Hua Yu;Guihua Chen

  • Three (nearly) complete inventories of landslides triggered by the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake of China and their spatial distribution statistical analysis

    Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;Xin Yao;Fuchu Dai

  • GIS-based support vector machine modeling of earthquake-triggered landslide susceptibility in the Jianjiang River watershed, China

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Fuchu Dai;Xiwei Xu;Yuan Hsi Lee

  • Pattern of latest tectonic motion and its dynamics for active blocks in Sichuan-Yunnan region, China

    Xiwei Xu;Xueze Wen;Rongzhang Zheng;Wentao Ma

  • Late Quaternary and present-day rates of slip along the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Pei-Zhen Zhang;Peter Molnar;Xiwei Xu

  • Historical pattern and behavior of earthquake ruptures along the eastern boundary of the Sichuan-Yunnan faulted-block, southwestern China

    Xue-ze Wen;Sheng-li Ma;Xi-wei Xu;Yong-nian He

  • High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Mapping of the Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Mw ∼7.8, 14 November 2001 Kokoxili Earthquake, Kunlun Fault, Northern Tibet, China

    Yann Klinger;Xiwei Xu;Paul Tapponnier;Jerome Van der Woerd

  • Scientific challenges in disaster risk reduction for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway

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  • Comparison of different models for susceptibility mapping of earthquake triggered landslides related with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China

    Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;Fuchu Dai;Arun K. Saraf

  • Blockchain-Based Federated Learning for Device Failure Detection in Industrial IoT

    Weishan Zhang;Qinghua Lu;Qiuyu Yu;Zhaotong Li

  • Lushan M S7.0 earthquake: A blind reserve-fault event

    XiWei Xu;XueZe Wen;ZhuJun Han;GuiHua Chen

  • Rapid slip along the central Altyn Tagh Fault: Morphochronologic evidence from Cherchen He and Sulamu Tagh

    A. S. Meriaux;A. S. Meriaux;F. J. Ryerson;Paul Tapponnier;J. van der Woerd;J. van der Woerd

  • Shallow creep on the Haiyuan Fault (Gansu, China) revealed by SAR Interferometry

    R. Jolivet;R. Jolivet;C. Lasserre;M.-P. Doin;S. Guillaso

  • Measurement of interseismic strain across the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China), by InSAR

    O. Cavalié;Cécile Lasserre;M.-P. Doin;G. Peltzer;G. Peltzer

  • Database and spatial distribution of landslides triggered by the Lushan, China Mw 6.6 earthquake of 20 April 2013

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;J. Bruce H. Shyu

  • Geodynamics of the Shanxi Rift system, China

    Xiwei Xu;Xingyuan Ma

  • Landslide hazard mapping using GIS and weight of evidence model in Qingshui River watershed of 2008 Wenchuan earthquake struck region

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;Fuchu Dai;Jianzhang Xiao

  • Neotectonic activity along the Shanxi rift system, China

    Xiwei Xu;Xingyuan Ma;Qidong Deng

  • Late Quaternary sinistral slip rate along the Altyn Tagh fault and its structural transformation model

    Xiwei Xu;Feng Wang;Rongzhang Zheng;Wenbin Chen

  • Application of an incomplete landslide inventory, logistic regression model and its validation for landslide susceptibility mapping related to the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake of China

    Chong Xu;Chong Xu;Xiwei Xu;Fuchu Dai;Zhide Wu

  • Paleoseismic evidence and repeat time of large earthquakes at three sites along the Longmenshan fault zone

    Yongkang Ran;Lichun Chen;Jie Chen;Hu Wang

  • Surface Rupture of the Kunlunshan Earthquake (Ms 8.1), Northern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Xiwei Xu;Wenbin Chen;Wentao Ma;Guihua Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chong Xu
Chong Xu China Earthquake Administration
Liming Zhu
Liming Zhu Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Paul Tapponnier
Paul Tapponnier China Earthquake Administration
Yann Klinger
Yann Klinger Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Zheng-Kang Shen
Zheng-Kang Shen University of California, Los Angeles
Cécile Lasserre
Cécile Lasserre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lina Yao
Lina Yao Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gilles Peltzer
Gilles Peltzer University of California, Los Angeles
Zhenchang Xing
Zhenchang Xing Australian National University
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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