1.Guo AZ, Ni SD*, Xie J, Freymueller JT, Wang Y, Zhang BL, Yu ZY, Yao YX, Ma WJ. Millimeter-level ultra-long period multiple Earth-circling surface waves retrieved from dense high-rate GPS network. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 525, 2019: 115705. 

2.Zang C, Ni SD*, Shen ZC. Rupture Directivity Analysis of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake and Its Seismotectonic Implication. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 90(6), 2019: 2121-2131. 

3.Xu HL, Ni SD*, Liu WX, Zhu HF, Wang XL. Focal mechanisms of the 2017 North Korean nuclear test and its early collapse event. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, 2019. 

4.Ding SB, Ni SD*, Kim YH, He XH. Constraints on crust-mantle transition zone with Pn waveforms: A case study of eastern China and southern Korean Peninsula. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS, 289, 2019: 11-19. 

5.He XH, Zhang PZ, Ni SD, Zheng WJ. Resolving Focal Depth in Sparse Network with Local Depth Phase sPL: A Case Study for the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake Sequence. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 109(2), 2019: 745-755. 

6.Zhang BL, Ni SD*, Sun DY. Seismological Constraints on the Small‐scale Heterogeneity in the Lowermost Mantle Beneath East Asia and Implication for its Mineralogical Origin. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 2019, 46. 

7.Wu WB, Ni SD*, Irving Jessica CE. Inferring Earth’s discontinuous chemical layering from the 660-kilometer boundary topography. SCIENCE. 363(6428), 2019: 736-740. 

8.Ojo AO, Ni SD*, Xie J, Zhao L. Further constraints on the shear wave velocity structure of Cameroon from joint inversion of receiver function, Rayleigh wave dispersion and ellipticity measurements. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 217 (1), 2019: 589-619.  

9.Xie J, Ni SD*. Imaging 3D Upper‐Mantle Structure with Autocorrelation of Seismic Noise Recorded on a Transportable Single Station. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 90 (2A), 2019: 708-715.  

10.Zhu W, Ni SD*, Zeng XF, Somerville P. The Contribution of Postcritical Moho Reflections SmS to Ground Motions of the 2008  Mw7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 109(1), 2019: 298-311. 

11.Meng QJ, Ni SD*, Guo AZ, Zhou Y. Ground Surface Deformation Caused by the M-w 5.8 Early Strong Aftershock following the 13 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Mainshock. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 89(6), 2018: 2214-2226. 

12.Wu WB, Ni SD*, Zhan ZW, Wei SJ. An SEM-DSM three-dimensional hybrid method for modelling teleseismic waves with complicated source-side structures. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 215(1), 2018: 133-154.

13.Dong YB, Ni SD*, Yuen DA, Li ZW. Crustal Rheology from Focal Depths in the North China Basin. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 497, 2018: 123-138.  

14.Chen HP, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Chong JJ, Liu ZK, Zhu LB. Influence of the off-great-circle propagation of Rayleigh waves on event-based surface wave tomography in Northeast China. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 214(2), 2018: 1105-1124.

15.Xia YJ, Ni SD*, Tape C. Multipathing Rayleigh Waves from Long-Distance Noise Cross Correlation along an Ocean-Continent Boundary (Alaska to California). GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 45(12), 2018: 6051-6060.

16.Li ZW, Ni SD, Roecker S, Bao F, Wei X, Yuen DA. Seismic Imaging of Source Region in the 1976 M-s 7.8 Tangshan Earthquake Sequence and Its Implications for the Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 108(3A), 2018: 1302-1313.  

17.Zhang BL, Ni SD*, Sun DY, Shen ZC, Jackson JM, Wu WB. Constraints on small-scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle from observations of near podal PcP precursors. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 489, 2018: 267-276.

18.Ping P, Chu RS, Chong JJ, Ni SD, Zhang Y. Insight into large-scale topography on analysis of high-frequency Rayleigh waves. JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 150, 2018: 1-10. 

19.Chong JJ, Chu RS, Ni SD, Meng QJ, Guo AZ. Receiver function HV ratio: a new measurement for reducing non-uniqueness of receiver function waveform inversion. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 212(2), 2018: 1475-1485.  

20.Ojo AO, Ni SD*, Chen HP, Xie J. Crust-mantle coupling mechanism in Cameroon, West Africa, revealed by 3D S-wave velocity and azimuthal anisotropy. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 274, 2018: 195-213. 

21.Xie J, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Xia YJ. Assessing the short-term clock drift of early broadband stations with burst events of the 26 s persistent and localized microseism. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 212(1), 2018: 324-332. 

22.He XH, Ni SD, Zhang P, Freymueller JT. The 1 May 2017 British Columbia-Alaska Earthquake Doublet and Implication for Complexity Near Southern End of Denali Fault System. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 45(12), 2018: 5937-5947. 

23.He XH, Ni SD. Resolving Horizontal Rupture Directivity of Moderate Crustal Earthquake in Sparse Network With Ambient Noise Location. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 123(1), 2018: 533-552.   

24.Qian YY, Ni SD*, Wei SJ, Almeida R, Zhang H. The effects of core-reflected waves on finite fault inversions with teleseismic body wave data. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 211(2), 2017: 936-951. 

25.He XH, Ni SD*. Rapid rupture directivity determination of moderate dip‐slip earthquakes with teleseismic body waves assuming reduced finite source approximation. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 122 (7), 2017, 5344-5368. 

26.Kim YH, He XH, Ni SD, Lim H, Park SC. Earthquake Source Mechanism and Rupture Directivity of the 12 September 2016 Mw 5.5 Gyeongju, South Korea, Earthquake. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 107(5), 2017: 2525-2531.  

27.Zhang H, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Schmandt B. An algorithm for computing synthetic body waves due to underside conversion on an undulating interface and application to the 410 km discontinuity. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 210(3), 2017: 1858-1871. 

28.Chen XW, Nakata N, Pennington C, Haffener J, Chang JC, He XH, Zhan ZW, Ni SD, Walter JI. The Pawnee earthquake as a result of the interplay among injection, faults and foreshocks. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 7, 2017: 4945. 

29.Wang HC, Ni SD, Jin P, Liu WX, Xu X, Pan CZ, Zhu HF, Xu HL. Anomalous Pn Amplitudes through the Southeastern Tarim Basin and Western Tien Shan along Two Profiles: Observations and Interpretations. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 107(2), 2017: 760-769. 

30.Lv Y, Ni SD, Chen L, Chen QF. Pn tomography with Moho depth correction from eastern Europe to western China. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 122(2), 2017: 1284-1301.  

31.Ojo AO, Ni SD*, Li ZW. Crustal radial anisotropy beneath Cameroon from ambient noise tomography. TECTONOPHYSICS. 696, 2017: 37-51. 

32.Zheng LL, Lin JM, Ni SD, Zhu HH, Zheng H. Characteristics and generation mechanisms of double frequency microseisms generated by typhoons. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 60(1), 2017: 187-197.  

33.Jia Z, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Zhan ZW. Joint Inversion for Earthquake Depths Using Local Waveforms and Amplitude Spectra of Rayleigh Waves. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 174(1), 2017: 261-277.  

34.Liu QX, Koper KD, Burlacu R, Ni SD, Wang FY, Zou CQ, Wei YH, Gal M, Reading AM. Source locations of teleseismic P, SV, and SH waves observed in microseisms recorded by a large aperture seismic array in China. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 449, 2016: 39-47.  

35.Zhou Y, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Yao HJ. Accuracy of the water column approximation in numerically simulating propagation of teleseismic PP waves and Rayleigh waves. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 206(2), 2016: 1315-1326. 

36.Xie J, Yang YJ, Ni SD. On the accuracy of long-period Rayleigh waves extracted from ambient noise. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 206(1), 2016: 48-55. 

37.Qian YY, Ni SD*. The effects of the core-reflected wave ScS on source parameters in inversion with teleseismic body waves. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 59(6), 2016: 2014-2027. 

38.Li ZW, Ni SD, Zhang BL, Bao F, Zhang SQ, Deng Y, Yuen DA. Shallow magma chamber under the Wudalianchi Volcanic Field unveiled by seismic imaging with dense array. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 43(10), 2016: 4954-4961. 

39.Shen ZC, Ni SD*, Wu WB, Sun DY. Short period ScP phase amplitude calculations for core-mantle boundary with intermediate scale topography. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 253, 2016: 64-73. 

40.Chong JJ, Ni SD*, Chu RS, Somerville P. Joint Inversion of Body-Wave Receiver Function and Rayleigh-Wave Ellipticity. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 106(2), 2016: 537-551.  

41.Kim B, Hashash YMA, Rathje EM, Stewart JP, Ni SD, Somerville P, Kottke AR, Silva WJ, Campbell KW. Subsurface Shear Wave Velocity Characterization Using P-Wave Seismograms in Central and Eastern North America. EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA. 32(1), 2016: 143-169. 

42.He XH, Ni SD*, Ye LL, Lay T, Liu QX, Koper KD. Rapid Seismological Quantification of Source Parameters of the 25 April 2015 Nepal Earthquake. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 86(6), 2015: 1568-1577. 

43.Guo AZ, Ni SD*, Chen WW, Freymueller JT, Shen ZC. Rapid earthquake focal mechanism inversion using high-rate GPS velometers in sparse network. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES. 58(11), 2015: 1970-1981. 

44.Chong JJ, Ni SD*, Zhao L. Joint Inversion of Crustal Structure with the Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity Dispersion and the ZH Ratio. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 172(10), 2015: 2585-2600.  

45.Zheng Y, Jin BK, Xiong X, Ni SD*. An Adaptive 2D Planar Projection and Its Application in Geoscience Studies. JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE. 26(5), 2015: 724-728.  

46.Ramirez-Guzman L, Graves RW, Olsen KB, Boyd OS, Cramer C, Hartzell S, Ni SD, Somerville P, Williams RA, Zhong JQ. Ground-Motion Simulations of 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes, Central United States. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 105(4), 2015: 1961-1988. 

47.Xia YJ, Ni SD*, Zeng XF, Xie J, Wang BS, Yuan SY. Synchronizing Intercontinental Seismic Networks Using the 26 s Persistent Localized Microseismic Source. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 105(4), 2015: 2101-2108. 

48.Zeng XF, Xie J, Ni SD*. Ground Truth Location of Earthquakes by Use of Ambient Seismic Noise From a Sparse Seismic Network: A Case Study in Western Australia. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 172(6), 2015: 1397-1407.   

49.He XH, Ni SD*, Liu J. Rupture directivity of the August 3rd, 2014 Ludian earthquake (Yunan, China). SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES. 58(5), 2015: 795-804. 

50.Chen WW, Ni SD*, Kanamori H, Wei SJ, Jia Z, Zhu LP. CAPjoint, A Computer Software Package for Joint Inversion of Moderate Earthquake Source Parameters with Local and Teleseismic Waveforms. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 86(2), 2015: 432-441.   

51.Wu WB, Ni SD*, Shen ZC. Constraining the short scale core-mantle boundary topography beneath Kenai Peninsula (Alaska) with amplitudes of core-reflected PcP wave. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 236, 2014: 60-68. 

52.Qin LB, Chen WW, Ni SD*, Han LB, Luo Y. A method of resolving earthquake rupture directivity with relative centroid location and it's application to the 2008 Yingjiang M(s)6.0 earthquake. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 57(10), 2014: 3259-3269. 

53.Zeng XF, Ni SD*. Evidence for an Independent 26-s Microseismic Source near the Vanuatu Islands. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 171(9), 2014: 2155-2163. 

54.Bao F, Ni SD*, Xie J, Zeng XF, Li ZH, Li ZW. Validating Accuracy of Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Extracted from Ambient Seismic Noise Via Comparison with Data from a Ground-Truth Earthquake. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 104(4), 2014: 2133-2141.  

55.Chu RS, Ni SD, Pitarka A, Helmberger DV. Inversion of Source Parameters for Moderate Earthquakes Using Short-Period Teleseismic P Waves. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 171(7), 2014: 1329-1341.   

56.Li ZW, Ni SD*, Somerville P. Resolving Shallow Shear-Wave Velocity Structure beneath Station CBN by Waveform Modeling of the M-w 5.8 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake Sequence. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 104(2), 2014: 944-952.  

57.Li ZW, Ni SD, Roecker S. Interstation Pg and Sg differential traveltime tomography in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau: Implications for spatial extent of crustal flow and segmentation of the Longmenshan fault zone. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 227, 2014: 30-40. 

58.Han LB, Zeng XF, Jiang CS, Ni SD, Zhang HJ, Long F. Focal Mechanisms of the 2013 M-W 6.6 Lushan, China Earthquake and High-Resolution Aftershock Relocations. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 85(1), 2014: 8-14. 

59.Ni SD*, Li ZW, Somerville P. Estimating Subsurface Shear Velocity with Radial to Vertical Ratio of Local P Waves. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 85(1), 2014: 82-90. 

60.Yuen DA, Ni SD. Foreword: East-West Asymmetry of the Inner Core and Earth Rotational Dynamics. JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE. 24(5), 2013: 667-668. 

61.Zeng XF, Ni SD*. Constraining Shear Wave Velocity and Density Contrast at the Inner Core Boundary with PKiKP/P Amplitude Ratio. JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE. 24(5), 2013: 716-724. 

62.Guo AZ, Wang Y, Li ZW, Ni SD, Wu WB, Liu GY, Zheng Y, Simons M. Observation of Core Phase ScS from the M-w 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake with High-Rate GPS. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 84(4), 2013: 594-599. 

63.Xia YJ, Ni SD*, Zeng XF. Twin enigmatic microseismic sources in the Gulf of Guinea observed on intercontinental seismic stations. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 194(1), 2013: 362-366. 

64.Li ZW, You QY, Ni SD, Hao TY, Wang HT, Zhuang CT. Waveform Retrieval and Phase Identification for Seismic Data from the CASS Experiment. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS. 170(5), 2013: 815-830. 

65.Lv Y, Liu B, Ni SD, Pei SP. Sn velocity tomography beneath the Himalayan collision zone and surrounding regions. EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE. 65(7), 2013: 725-730. 

66.Zheng Y, Ni SD*, Chen Y, Tan Y, Helmberger DV. Magnitude and rupture duration from high frequency teleseismic P wave with projected landweber deconvolution. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES. 56(1), 2013: 13-21. 

67.Zhan ZW, Helmberger DV, Simons M, Kanamori H, Wu WB, Cubas N, Duputel Z, Chu RS, Tsai VC, Avouac JP, Hudnut KW, Ni SD, Hetland E, Culaciati FHO. Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 353, 2012: 121-133.  

68.Yu ZL, Ni SD*, Wei SJ, Zeng XF, Wu WB, Li ZW. An iterative algorithm for separation of S and ScS waves of great earthquakes. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 191(2), 2012: 591-600.   

69.Li ZW, Ni SD*, Hao TY, Xu Y, Roecker S. Uppermost mantle structure of the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau from interstation Pn traveltime difference tomography. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 335, 2012: 195-205. 

70.Wu WB, Ni SD*, Zeng XF. Evidence for P ' P ' asymmetrical scattering at near podal distances. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 39, 2012: L11306. 

71.Xie ZJ, Zheng Y, Ni SD, Xiong X, Wang XZ, Zhang B. Focal mechanism and focal depth of the 19 January 2011 Anqing earthquake. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 55(5), 2012: 1624-1634. 

72.Wei SJ, Zhan ZW, Tan Y, Ni SD, Helmberger, DV. Locating earthquakes with surface waves and centroid moment tensor estimation. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 117, 2012: B04309. 

73.Wang WT, Ni SD*, Wang BS. Studies on a persistent localized microseism source that produces precursors on noise correlation function observed using stations in central-eastern China. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 55(2), 2012: 503-512.   

74.Xu HL, Jin P, Ni SD, Liu WX, Wang HC, Li X. Investigation of surface fluctuation effects on the spectral null of Rg waves generated by CLVD source with Spectral Element Method simulation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION. 54(11), 2011: 810-817.  

75.Diao FQ, Xiong X, Ni SD, Zheng Y, Ge C. Slip model for the 2011 M-w 9.0 Sendai (Japan) earthquake and its M-w 7.9 aftershock derived from GPS data. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN. 56(27), 2011: 2941-2947.  

76.Zeng XF, Ni SD*. Correction to “A persistent localized microseismic source near the Kyushu Island, Japan”. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 38, 2011: L16320. 

77.Zhan ZW, Wei SJ, Ni SD, Helmberger DV. Earthquake Centroid Locations Using Calibration from Ambient Seismic Noise. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 101(3), 2011: 1438-1445. 

78.Luo Y, Ni SD*, Zeng XF, Xie J, Chen Y, Long F. The M5.0 Suining-Tongnan (China) earthquake of 31 January 2010: A destructive earthquake occurring in sedimentary cover. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN. 56(6), 2011: 521-525. 

79.Lv Y, Ni SD, Liu B, Sun YS. Pn tomographic velocity and anisotropy beneath the Tibetan Plateau and the adjacent regions. EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE. 63(11), 2011: 1169-1173.  

80.Wei SJ, Ni SD*, Zha XJ, Wang ZJ, Helmberger, DV. Source model of the 11th July 2004 Zhongba earthquake revealed from the joint inversion of InSAR and seismological data, EARTHQUAKE SCIENCE. 24(2), 2011: 207-220. 

81.Zeng XF, Ni SD*. A persistent localized microseismic source near the Kyushu Island, Japan. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 37, 2010: L24307. 

82.Luo Y, Tan Y, Wei SJ, Helmberger DV, Zhan ZW, Ni SD, Hauksson E, Chen Y. Source Mechanism and Rupture Directivity of the 18 May 2009 M-W 4.6 Inglewood, California, Earthquake. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 100(6), 2010: 3269-3277.  

83.Zhan ZW, Ni SD, Helmberger DV, Clayton RW. Retrieval of Moho-reflected shear wave arrivals from ambient seismic noise. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 182(1), 2010: 408-420. 

84.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV, Pitarka A. Rapid Source Estimation from Global Calibrated Paths. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 81(3), 2010: 498-504. 

85.Ni SD*, Wang WT, Li L. The April 14th, 2010 Yushu earthquake, a devastating earthquake with foreshocks. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES. 53(6), 2010: 791-793.  

86.Yun S, Ni SD, Park M, Lee WS. Southeast Indian Ocean-Ridge earthquake sequences from cross-correlation analysis of hydroacoustic data. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 179(1), 2009: 401-407. 

87.Wang WT, Ni SD*, Chen Y, Kanamori H. Magnitude estimation for early warning applications using the initial part of P waves: A case study on the 2008 Wenchuan sequence. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 36(16), 2009: L16305. 

88.Sun DY, Helmberger DV, Ni SD, Bower D. Direct measures of lateral velocity variation in the deep Earth. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 114, 2009: B05303.   

89.Zha XJ, Fu RS, Dai ZY, Jing P, Ni SD, Huang JS. Applying InSAR technique to accurately relocate the epicentre for the 1999 Ms=5.6 Kuqa earthquake in Xinjiang province, China. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 176(1), 2009: 107-112. 

90.An Q, Zheng LQ, Fu RS, Ni SD, Luo SN. Solid-liquid transitions of sodium chloride at high pressures. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 125(15), 2006: 154510.  

91.Zheng LQ, An Q, Fu RS, Ni SD, Luo SN. Densification of silica glass at ambient pressure. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 125(15), 2006: 154511. 

92.Ni SD, Ahrens TJ. Surface motion of a fluid planet induced by impacts. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 167(1), 2006: 445-452. 

93.Ammon CJ, Ji C, Thio HK, Robinson D, Ni SD, Hjorleifsdottir V, Kanamori H, Lay T, Das S, Helmberger DV, Ichinose G, Polet J, Wald D. Rupture process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. SCIENCE. 308(5725), 2005: 1133-1139.  

94.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV, Tromp J. Three-dimensional structure of the African superplume from waveform modelling. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 161(2), 2005: 283-294.  

95.Ni SD*, Kanamori H, Helmberger DV. Seismology - Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake. NATURE. 434(7033), 2005: 582-582. 

96.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV. Seismological constraints on the South African superplume; could be the oldest distinct structure on Earth. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 206(1-2), 2003: 119-131. 

97.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV. Further constraints on the African superplume structure. PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS. 140(1-3), 2003: 243-251. 

98.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV. Ridge‐like lower mantle structure beneath South Africa. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 108(B2), 2003: 12-1 - 12-14. 

99.Ni SD, Cormier VF, Helmberger DV. A comparison of synthetic seismograms for 2D structures: Semianalytical versus numerical. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 93(6), 2003: 2752-2757. 

100.Ni SD*, Tan E, Gurnis M, Helmberger DV. Sharp Sides to the African Superplume. SCIENCE. 296, 2002: 1850-1852. 

101.Luo SN, Ni SD, Helmberger DV. Relationship of D″ structure with the velocity variations near the inner‐core boundary. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 29(11), 2002: 22-1 – 22-4. 

102.Luo SN, Ni SD, Helmberger DV. Evidence for a sharp lateral variation of velocity at the core–mantle boundary from multipathed PKPab. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 189(3), 2001: 155-164. 

103.Ni SD, Helmberger DV. Horizontal transition from fast to slow structures at the core–mantle boundary, South Atlantic. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 187(3), 2001: 301-310. 

104.Ni SD*, Helmberger DV. Probing an ultra‐low velocity zone at the core mantle boundary with P and S waves. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 28(12), 2001: 2345-2348. 

105.Ni SD*, Ding XM, Helmberger DV*. Constructing synthetics from deep earth tomographic models. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 140(1), 2000: 71-82. 

106.Helmberger DV, Ni SD, Wen, LX, Ritsema, J. Seismic evidence for ultralow‐velocity zones beneath Africa and eastern Atlantic. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 105(B10), 2000: 23865-23878. 

107.Ni SD*, Ding XM, Helmberger DV, Gurnis M. Low-velocity structure beneath Africa from forward modeling. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS. 170(4), 1999: 497-507. 

108.Xu GM, Ni SD. The symmetries of the system matrix and propagator matrix for anisotropic media and of the system matrix for periodically layered media. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 135(2), 1998: 449-462.  

109.Ritsema J, Ni SD, Helmberger DV, Crotwell HP. Evidence for strong shear velocity reductions and velocity gradients in the lower mantle beneath Africa, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 25(23), 1998: 4245-4248.