2026 Zvi Ben-Avraham: 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	71	941	833	1	1	298	13641

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

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

418
Citations
Continental Accretion: From Oceanic Plateaus to Allochthonous Terranes

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

389
Citations
Origin and Development of the Philippine Sea

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

325
Citations
Oceanic plateaus, the fragmentation of continents, and mountain building

Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

322
Citations
Structural framework of the Gulf of Elat (AQABA), Northern Red Sea

Zvi Ben-Avraham

307
Citations
Crustal structure of the Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean

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

251
Citations
The evolution of the China Basin and the mesozoic paleogeography of Borneo

Zvi. Ben-Avraham;Seiya Uyeda

249
Citations
The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting

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

231
Citations
Sediments and structure of the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba)—Northern Red Sea

Zvi Ben-Avraham;Gideon Almagor;Zvi Garfunkel

220
Citations
Transform-normal extension and asymmetric basins: An alternative to pull-apart models

Zvi Ben-Avraham;Mark D. Zoback

209
Citations
Magallanes‐Fagnano continental transform fault (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America)

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

205
Citations
The Evolution of the Pacific Ocean margins

Zvi Ben-Avraham

179
Citations
The anatomy of a pull‐apart basin: Seismic reflection observations of the Dead Sea Basin

Uri S. ten Brink;Zvi Ben-Avraham

172
Citations
Structure of the Dead Sea Pull-Apart Basin From Gravity Analyses

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

169
Citations
Lost Pacifica continent

Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

169
Citations
Narrow subducting slabs and the origin of backarc basins

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

164
Citations
Structural Framework of Sunda Shelf

Zvi Ben-Avraham;K. O. Emery

164
Citations
Chlorophyll distribution in Lake Kinneret determined from Landsat Thematic Mapper data

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

162
Citations
Spatial gaps in arc volcanism: The effect of collision or subduction of oceanic plateaus

Susan McGeary;Amos Nur;Zvi Ben-Avraham

155
Citations
Origin of marginal basins of the NW Pacific and their plate tectonic reconstructions

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

154
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Garfunkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amos Nur Stanford University

James Mechie University of Potsdam

Amotz Agnon Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ivan Koulakov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Sierd Cloetingh Utrecht University

Vladimir Lyakhovsky Geological Survey of Israel

Friedemann Wenzel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Stephan V. Sobolev University of Potsdam

Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam

External Links

Personal website of Zvi Ben-Avraham

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