{"id":1417,"date":"2026-02-06T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:19:49","slug":"yehuda-ben-zion-2025-highly-ranked-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2026\/02\/yehuda-ben-zion-2025-highly-ranked-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Yehuda Ben-Zion"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/yehuda-ben-zion-600x338-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Yehuda Ben-Zion\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/yehuda-ben-zion-600x338-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/yehuda-ben-zion-600x338-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/yehuda-ben-zion\/\">Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/a><\/strong>, professor of Earth sciences and director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center based at USC Dornsife, has been listed as a Highly Ranked Scholar for 2025 by <a href=\"https:\/\/scholargps.com\/scholars\/38283502166159\/yehuda-ben-zion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScholarGPS<\/a>. Based on his lifetime career accomplishments, Ben-Zion ranks No. 5 overall in Southern California, No. 20 in geophysics, No. 21 in Earthquakes as a specialty, and No. 161 in Earth and planetary sciences, putting him in the top 0.05% globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/yehuda-ben-zion\/\"><strong>Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/strong><\/a>, professor of Earth sciences, has been listed as a Highly Ranked Scholar for 2025 by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholargps.com\/scholars\/38283502166159\/yehuda-ben-zion\"> ScholarGPS<\/a>. Based on his lifetime career accomplishments, Ben-Zion ranks No. 5 overall in Southern California, No. 20 in geophysics, No. 21 in Earthquakes as a specialty, and No. 161 in Earth and planetary sciences, putting him in the top 0.05% globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-natural-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben-Zion ranks No. 21 globally based on his accomplishments over the entirety of his career, putting him in the top 0.05% globally\" 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