22 March 2021—Seismological Research Letters papers on the 2019 Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence and papers on seismological tools and instrumentation were among the top-cited papers from the journal published in 2020. The ranking of all papers noted below reflect citation and download numbers through 31 January 2021:
- D.R. Shelly “A High‐Resolution Seismic Catalog for the Initial 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Foreshocks, Aftershocks, and Faulting Complexity”
- X. Xu et al. “Coseismic Displacements and Surface Fractures from Sentinel‐1 InSAR: 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes”
- C. Milliner and A. Donnellan “Using Daily Observations from Planet Labs Satellite Imagery to Separate the Surface Deformation between the 4 July Mw 6.4 Foreshock and 5 July Mw 7.1 Mainshock during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence”
- M. Wathelet et al. “Geopsy: A User‐Friendly Open‐Source Tool Set for Ambient Vibration Processing”
- D.J. Ponti et al. “Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground‐Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence”
The top five downloaded SRL papers in 2020 were:
- J.F.Anderson et al. “The Gem Infrasound Logger and Custom‐Built Instrumentation”
- Z. Zhan “Distributed Acoustic Sensing Turns Fiber‐Optic Cables into Sensitive Seismic Antennas”
- D.R. Shelly “A High‐Resolution Seismic Catalog for the Initial 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Foreshocks, Aftershocks, and Faulting Complexity”
- X. Xu et al. “Coseismic Displacements and Surface Fractures from Sentinel‐1 InSAR: 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes”
- C. Jiang and M.A. Denolle “NoisePy: A New High‐Performance Python Tool for Ambient‐Noise Seismology”
For a longer-term perspective, here are top five cited SRL papers from 2016 to 2020:
- L. Chiaraluce et al. (2017) “The 2016 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: A First Look at the Mainshocks, Aftershocks, and Source Models”
- G.M. Atkinson et al. (2016) “Hydraulic Fracturing and Seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin”
- A. Kaiser et al. (2017) “The 2016 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake: Preliminary Seismological Report”
- Q. Kong et al. (2018) “Machine Learning in Seismology: Turning Data into Insights”
- M.D. Petersen et al. (2017) “2017 One‐Year Seismic‐Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes”