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Xavier Le Pichon

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

World rank
#40,808
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#2,248
of 96,116
Works
50
Citations
554
Citations per work
11.1

What does Xavier Le Pichon research?

Geophysics: 60.0%Earth-Surface Processes: 6.0%Atmospheric Science: 6.0%Geology: 6.0%other fields: 22.0%60%top field
Geophysics60.0%Earth-Surface Processes6.0%Atmospheric Science6.0%Geology6.0%other fields22.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geophysics60% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes6% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  4. 4Geology6% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Xavier Le Pichon's research?

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

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Subduction142 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics132 topics
  3. Tectonics112 topics
  4. Earthquakes101 topic
  5. Plate Boundaries101 topic
  6. Geochronology81 topic
  7. Zircon81 topic
  8. Crystal Structure Prediction51 topic
  9. Mantle Dynamics51 topic
  10. Western Mediterranean41 topic
  11. geodynamics41 topic
  12. Climate Change31 topic
  13. Fluvial Systems31 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  15. Sedimentation31 topic
  16. Geomagnetic Field21 topic
  17. Machine Learning21 topic
  18. Magnetosome Formation21 topic
  19. Mineral Prospectivity21 topic

Where does Xavier Le Pichon work?

Xavier Le Pichon's main affiliation in the publication record is Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, France.

How many publications and citations does Xavier Le Pichon have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 554 citations for Xavier Le Pichon, ranking #40,808 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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