2026 Yixian Xu: 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	34	7963	7382	512	506	197	4467

Overview

Yixian Xu is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ocean Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

The scientist's work prominently features topics such as:

Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Earthquake and tectonic studies
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Earthquake Detection and Analysis
Geophysical Methods and Applications

Their recent publications include:

"Episodic Lithospheric Deformation in Eastern Tibet Inferred From Seismic Anisotropy," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
"Tomography of the source zone of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake," 2020, Nature Communications
"Magnetotelluric imaging of a fossil oceanic plate in northwestern Xinjiang, China," 2020, Geology
"A New Instrumental Array in Sichuan, China, to Monitor Vibrations and Perturbations of the Lithosphere, Atmosphere, and Ionosphere," 2021, Surveys in Geophysics
"Distinct Orogenic Processes in the South- and North-Central Tien Shan From Receiver Functions," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yixian Xu include:

Yi Zhang
Xuewei Bao
Bo Yang
Bingfeng Zhang

Yixian Xu has published repeatedly in several prominent venues, notably:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Journal International
Geophysical Research Letters
Geology
arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Rayleigh-wave dispersive energy imaging using a high-resolution linear radon transform

Yinhe Luo;Jianghai Xia;Richard D. Miller;Yixian Xu

332
Citations
On the limitations of interstation distances in ambient noise tomography

Yinhe Luo;Yingjie Yang;Yixian Xu;Hongrui Xu

201
Citations
Generating an image of dispersive energy by frequency decomposition and slant stacking

Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Richard D. Miller

180
Citations
Quantitative estimation of minimum offset for multichannel surface-wave survey with actively exciting source

Yixian Xu;Jianghai Xia;Richard D. Miller

172
Citations
Numerical investigation of implementation of air-earth boundary by acoustic-elastic boundary approach

Yixian Xu;Jianghai Xia;Richard D. Miller

169
Citations
Advantages of Using Multichannel Analysis of Love Waves (MALW) to Estimate Near-Surface Shear-Wave Velocity

Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Yinhe Luo;Richard D. Miller

164
Citations
Rayleigh-wave mode separation by high-resolution linear Radon transform

Yinhe Luo;Jianghai Xia;Richard D. Miller;Yixian Xu

140
Citations
A new passive seismic method based on seismic interferometry and multichannel analysis of surface waves

Feng Cheng;Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Zongbo Xu

129
Citations
Episodic Lithospheric Deformation in Eastern Tibet Inferred From Seismic Anisotropy

Xuewei Bao;Xiaodong Song;Xiaodong Song;David W. Eaton;Yixian Xu

123
Citations
Crustal structure beneath the Dabie orogenic belt from ambient noise tomography

Yinhe Luo;Yixian Xu;Yingjie Yang

116
Citations
Feasibility of detecting near-surface feature with Rayleigh-wave diffraction

Jianghai Xia;Jonathan E. Nyquist;Yixian Xu;Mary J.S. Roth

113
Citations
High-frequency Rayleigh-Wave method

Jianghai Xia;Richard D. Miller;Yixian Xu;Yinhe Luo

111
Citations
Simple equations guide high-frequency surface-wave investigation techniques

Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Chao Chen;Ronald D. Kaufmann

106
Citations
Crustal radial anisotropy beneath the Dabie orogenic belt from ambient noise tomography

Yinhe Luo;Yixian Xu;Yingjie Yang

78
Citations
ESTIMATION OF ELASTIC MODULI IN A COMPRESSIBLE GIBSON HALF-SPACE BY INVERTING RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY

Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Richard D. Miller;Chao Chen

76
Citations
Reason and Condition for Mode Kissing in MASW Method

Lingli Gao;Jianghai Xia;Yudi Pan;Yixian Xu

73
Citations
Research on the middle-of-receiver-spread assumption of the MASW method

Yinhe Luo;Jianghai Xia;Jiangping Liu;Yixian Xu

67
Citations
P wave anisotropic tomography of the Alps

Yuanyuan Hua;Yuanyuan Hua;Dapeng Zhao;Yixian Xu

66
Citations
Tomography of the source zone of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Yuanyuan Hua;Dapeng Zhao;Genti Toyokuni;Yixian Xu

62
Citations
Love-wave waveform inversion in time domain for shallow shear-wave velocity

Yudi Pan;Jianghai Xia;Yixian Xu;Lingli Gao

62
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianghai Xia Zhejiang University

Richard D. Miller University of Kansas

Lupei Zhu Saint Louis University

Yingjie Yang Southern University of Science and Technology

Juan Carlos Afonso University of Twente

Dapeng Zhao Tohoku University

William L. Griffin Macquarie University

J. P. Zheng China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

M. Santosh China University of Geosciences

Xin Liu Ocean University of China

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