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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 63 1584 1416 98 88 310 15495

Xiwei Xu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Xiwei Xu between 1992 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Xiwei Xu published across 34 years, from 1992 to 2025, averaging 14.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 57 publications in 2025. 84 of the 490 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 57. Peak 57 publications in 2025. 1992: 1 publication 1993: 1 publication 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 2 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 10 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 13 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 25 publications 2014: 17 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 38 publications 2020: 38 publications 2021: 47 publications 2022: 41 publications 2023: 43 publications 2024: 27 publications 2025: 57 publications
1992 2025

490 publications in total across all disciplines

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Xiwei Xu: publications per year, 1992 to 2025
Year Publications
1992 1
1993 1
1994 0
1995 1
1996 2
1997 0
1998 1
1999 1
2000 1
2001 2
2002 1
2003 10
2004 5
2005 5
2006 6
2007 9
2008 8
2009 7
2010 13
2011 11
2012 16
2013 25
2014 17
2015 17
2016 15
2017 12
2018 12
2019 38
2020 38
2021 47
2022 41
2023 43
2024 27
2025 57
Total 490
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 308–317 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 310 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107 310
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 63 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83 63
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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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

  • 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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