D. Di Giacomo and D. Storchak

Recent developments of the ISC Seimic Event Bibliography

www.isc.ac.uk/event_bibliography/index.phpor

http://colossus.iris.washington.edu/event_bibliography/index.php

IUGG 2015 Prague, Session S03

Motivation

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Great East Japan earthquake 2011?

Fukushima? Tohoku tsunami?

Higashiihon daishinsai?

Tohoku earthquake?

Sendai earthquake?

• Seismologists often need to identify scientific articles related to specific seismic events that occurred at particular times or in specific regions.

• Most advanced bibliographical searches such as Google Scholar would require them to type a text string containing a commonly used name for the earthquake or the region and date it occurred.

• The search may need to be repeated several times to account for all possible transliterations of a place name in English, several different ways of specifying a date and a variety of names of the area where the earthquake has occurred.

• The results then have to be merged and the unavoidable duplicates removed. The procedure is daunting and often leads to unstable results.

ISC Event Bibliography: What does it do?

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• Search for references of scientific publications associated with seismic events in the ISC Bulletin;

• Publications regard both natural and anthropogenic events;

• The link between references and seismic events within the ISC Bulletin allows users to perform an interactive search based on event parameters (location, time, magnitude, etc.) and/or publication parameters (author name, journal, year of publication, etc.).

Example from the great Tohoku earthquake, 2011Link to ISC Bulletin

Event parameters

Total number of papers linked

Link to the paper abstract webpage via the DOI

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• The database covers about last 50 years of publications (from nearly 500 titles) relevant to seismic events; also significant events in the first part of last century are included;

• Publications dealing with catalogues and/or large dataset in a specific region are not included;

• Most of the events are linked to one or two papers, few to some hundreds;

• Ongoing work to add missing references (Authors are encouraged to check for missing publications and contact us).

• As of June 2015, the ISC Event Bibliography includes over 17,000 papers associated to ~14,200 seismic events (natural or man-made);

Content of the ISC Event Bibliography

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• Not surprisingly, events with many references are in Japan, Euro-Mediterranean and U.S. West coast areas;

• Some events attracted the attention of many researches in various geoscience disciplines (with a few having several hundreds publications linked).

Most referenced

events

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• With rare exceptions, we include only publications with English title and abstract;

• We make no judgement of the quality of the articles.

• Currently we follow ~280 journals, not limited to seismology…

First 20 Journals with more poublications

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The ISC Event Bibliography is not limited to publications in• Seismology

but also:

• Earthquake engineering• Tectonics• Structural geology• Geodesy• Remote sensing• Nuclear test monitoring• Tsunami and coastal studies• Landslides• Environmental studies• Hydrology• Geochemistry• Atmospheric sciences• Geomagnetism• etc.

Various geoscience fields

Submit a missing article

9www.isc.ac.uk/event_bibliography/submit.php/

Summary We linked event parameters in the ISC Bulletin with publications dealing with specific seismic

events (natural or man-made). This association allows user to perform interactive searches based on event parameters (location, time) and/or publication parameters (author, journal, year of publication);

Links to the ISC Bulletin data and, if available, to the paper abstract via the DOI or to the journal homepage;

Articles describing catalogues and/or large datasets are not included;

Ongoing work to find and add missing references; authors are encouraged to let us know for missing papers by contacting us or using our submission form at: www.isc.ac.uk/event_bibliography/submit.php/

The ISC Event Bibliography is multidisciplinary and is an attractive tool for researchers and students from different fields;

This new ISC service is expected to facilitate the work of authors, reviewers and

journal editors during the entire process of scientific article publication.

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Visit www.isc.ac.uk/event_bibliography/index.php

orhttp://colossus.iris.washington.edu/event_bibliography/index.php