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Zvi Ben-Avraham

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2026

Zvi Ben-Avraham 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 Zvi Ben-Avraham sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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

Zvi Ben-Avraham 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 Zvi Ben-Avraham sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 15 scientists 31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32 D-Index: 60 scientists 33 D-Index: 90 scientists 34 D-Index: 103 scientists 35 D-Index: 108 scientists 36 D-Index: 142 scientists 37 D-Index: 147 scientists 38 D-Index: 147 scientists 39 D-Index: 152 scientists 40 D-Index: 143 scientists 41 D-Index: 157 scientists 42 D-Index: 141 scientists 43 D-Index: 151 scientists 44 D-Index: 140 scientists 45 D-Index: 135 scientists 46 D-Index: 121 scientists 47 D-Index: 108 scientists 48 D-Index: 128 scientists 49 D-Index: 111 scientists 50 D-Index: 106 scientists 51 D-Index: 112 scientists 52 D-Index: 102 scientists 53 D-Index: 103 scientists 54 D-Index: 94 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 101 scientists 57 D-Index: 71 scientists 58 D-Index: 65 scientists 59 D-Index: 78 scientists 60 D-Index: 93 scientists 61 D-Index: 56 scientists 62 D-Index: 58 scientists 63 D-Index: 52 scientists 64 D-Index: 63 scientists 65 D-Index: 49 scientists 66 D-Index: 53 scientists 67 D-Index: 57 scientists 68 D-Index: 50 scientists 69 D-Index: 44 scientists 70 D-Index: 44 scientists 71 D-Index: 31 scientists 72 D-Index: 33 scientists 73 D-Index: 33 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 32 scientists 76 D-Index: 24 scientists 77 D-Index: 17 scientists 78 D-Index: 19 scientists 79 D-Index: 9 scientists 80 D-Index: 21 scientists 81 D-Index: 20 scientists 82 D-Index: 17 scientists 83 D-Index: 19 scientists 84 D-Index: 19 scientists 85 D-Index: 14 scientists 86 D-Index: 6 scientists 87 D-Index: 14 scientists 88 D-Index: 17 scientists 89 D-Index: 10 scientists 90 D-Index: 8 scientists 91 D-Index: 8 scientists 92 D-Index: 9 scientists 93 D-Index: 6 scientists 94+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 94+

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2006 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1996 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Zvi Ben-Avraham is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and focuses their research primarily within the Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to the field with 57 publications. Their specialized work concentrates largely on Geophysics, supported by substantial contributions to related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Archeology, and Oceanography.

Their research topics emphasize earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and geology and paleoclimatology research. Other significant areas include geological formations and processes, high-pressure geophysics and materials, maritime and coastal archaeology, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Ben-Avraham has published papers in several notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Positioning
  • Geotectonics
  • Sedimentology
  • Marine Geology
  • ANAS Transactions Earth Sciences

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Giant Quasi-Ring Mantle Structure in the African-Arabian Junction: Results Derived from the Geological-Geophysical Data Integration, 2021, Geotectonics
  • Estimating drawdown magnitudes of the Mediterranean Sea in the Levant basin during the Lago Mare stage of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, 2020, Marine Geology
  • Combined Multifactor Evidence of a Giant Lower-Mantle Ring Structure below the Eastern Mediterranean, 2020, Positioning
  • Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective, 2021, Sedimentology
  • Variations of the seismic b-value along the Dead Sea transform, 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science

Frequent co-authors in Ben-Avraham's work are:

  • Lev Eppelbaum
  • Youri Katz
  • Emanuele Lodolo
  • Uri Schattner
  • Anat Ash-Mor

Throughout their career, Ben-Avraham has received recognition from several prestigious organizations, including:

  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1999)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1996)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The structure of the Dead Sea basin

    Zvi Garfunkel;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Continental Accretion: From Oceanic Plateaus to Allochthonous Terranes

    Z. Ben-Avraham;A. Nur;D. Jones;A. Cox

  • Origin and Development of the Philippine Sea

    Seiya Uyeda;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Oceanic plateaus, the fragmentation of continents, and mountain building

    Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Structural framework of the Gulf of Elat (AQABA), Northern Red Sea

    Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Crustal structure of the Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean

    Zvi Ben-Avraham;Avihu Ginzburg;Jannis Makris;Lev Eppelbaum

  • The evolution of the China Basin and the mesozoic paleogeography of Borneo

    Zvi. Ben-Avraham;Seiya Uyeda

  • The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting

    Tina M. Niemi;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Joel Gat

  • Sediments and structure of the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba)—Northern Red Sea

    Zvi Ben-Avraham;Gideon Almagor;Zvi Garfunkel

  • Transform-normal extension and asymmetric basins: An alternative to pull-apart models

    Zvi Ben-Avraham;Mark D. Zoback

  • Magallanes‐Fagnano continental transform fault (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America)

    Emanuele Lodolo;Marco Menichetti;Roberto Bartole;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • The Evolution of the Pacific Ocean margins

    Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • The anatomy of a pull‐apart basin: Seismic reflection observations of the Dead Sea Basin

    Uri S. ten Brink;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Structure of the Dead Sea Pull-Apart Basin From Gravity Analyses

    U. S. Ten Brink;Z. Ben-Avraham;Robin E. Bell;M. Hassouneh

  • Lost Pacifica continent

    Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Narrow subducting slabs and the origin of backarc basins

    Jack Dvorkin;Amos Nur;Gary Mavko;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Structural Framework of Sunda Shelf

    Zvi Ben-Avraham;K. O. Emery

  • Chlorophyll distribution in Lake Kinneret determined from Landsat Thematic Mapper data

    M. Mayo;A. Gitelson;Y. Z. Yacobi;Z. Ben-Avraham

  • Spatial gaps in arc volcanism: The effect of collision or subduction of oceanic plateaus

    Susan McGeary;Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

  • Origin of marginal basins of the NW Pacific and their plate tectonic reconstructions

    Junyuan Xu;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Tom Kelty;Ho-Shing Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Garfunkel
Zvi Garfunkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amos Nur
Amos Nur Stanford University
James Mechie
James Mechie University of Potsdam
Amotz Agnon
Amotz Agnon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ivan Koulakov
Ivan Koulakov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Sierd Cloetingh
Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University
Vladimir Lyakhovsky
Vladimir Lyakhovsky Geological Survey of Israel
Friedemann Wenzel
Friedemann Wenzel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stephan V. Sobolev
Stephan V. Sobolev University of Potsdam
Trond Ryberg
Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam

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