Professor Kim Youngseok of Pukyong National University’s Paper on “Fault Damage Zone” Cited 1,000 Times

Global Recognition for Outstanding Research Achievements in Structural Geology

The paper "Fault damage zones" by Professor Kim Youngseok (Department of Environmental Geology and Science) at Pukyong National University has surpassed 1,000 citations.

Professor Youngseok Kim.

This paper, published by Professor Kim in 2004 in a leading international journal in the field of structural geology, has recorded 1,008 citations as of May according to Google Scholar.

It is highly unusual for a paper in the field of structural geology to be cited more than 1,000 times, marking global recognition of the research. The paper presents the theory that fault damage zones develop differently depending on the movement characteristics at the three-dimensional ends of faults or the stress conditions at fault connections, and that studying these structures can elucidate the geometric properties of the faults.

This paper is also included in "Structural Geology" (Twiss & Moores), the most widely used English-language geology textbook internationally.

Professor Kim Youngseok, who has been leading earthquake-related research in Korea, has served as a technical advisory committee member at Korea Radioactive Waste Agency, a planning committee member for research and development at Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, chief planner for the Ministry of Public Safety and Security's "Multi-Ministry Joint Earthquake Fault Investigation R&D," and head of the National Active Fault Research Group. He is currently the president of the Geological Society of Korea and secretary-general of the IGC 2024 Organizing Committee.

In addition, as the director of the Active Fault and Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Institute at Pukyong National University, he is also serving as the head of the LAMP project group, an initiative supported by the Ministry of Education to promote basic sciences.

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