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Researcher · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · France

Xavier Le Pichon

Xavier Le Pichon publishes mostly in Geophysics, Geology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

ORCID 0000-0002-6680-7996 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,905
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#5,104
of 324,115
Works
287
Citations
24k
Citations per work
85.3
h-index
82
i10-index 185Top 0.2% in Geophysics
Xavier Le Pichon

What does Xavier Le Pichon research?

Xavier Le Pichon's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (74%), Arts and Humanities (3%).

Physical Sciences: 212 works · 74.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 212 works · 74.0% of their workGeophysics: 146 works · 50.8% of their workGeology: 22 works · 7.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 16 works · 5.5% of their workEarth-Surface Processes: 14 works · 5.0% of their workOceanography: 14 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 66 works · 22.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 3.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 3.1% of their workArcheology: 9 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKXavier Le Pichon287works
Physical Sciences74%Social Sciences3%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences21274.0%
  2. Everything else6622.9%
    1. Arts and Humanities93.1%
  1. 1Geophysics51% of their works
  2. 2Geology8% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography5% of their works
  5. 5Earth-Surface Processes5% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Xavier Le Pichon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Subduction, Earthquakes, Plate Boundaries, Tectonics, Geochronology, Zircon and Holocene.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics2113 topics
  2. Subduction1852 topics
  3. Earthquakes1451 topic
  4. Plate Boundaries1451 topic
  5. Tectonics1412 topics
  6. Geochronology1061 topic
  7. Zircon1061 topic
  8. Holocene662 topics
  9. Sea Level662 topics
  10. Mediterranean642 topics
  11. Crystal Structure Prediction631 topic
  12. Mantle Dynamics631 topic
  13. Sedimentation592 topics
  14. Cenozoic Evolution421 topic
  15. Climate Change421 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology421 topic
  17. Rifting421 topic
  18. Western Mediterranean401 topic
  19. geodynamics401 topic
  20. Fluvial Systems351 topic
  21. Sequence Stratigraphy351 topic
  22. Black Sea241 topic
  23. paleoceanography241 topic

Where does Xavier Le Pichon work?

Xavier Le Pichon's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

How many publications and citations does Xavier Le Pichon have?

OpenAlex counts 287 works and 24,471 citations for Xavier Le Pichon, an h-index of 82, ranking #45,905 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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