Alexandre Nicolas

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Nicolas is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Nicolas has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ocean Engineering, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Nicolas's work include Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (20 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (13 papers) and Traffic control and management (9 papers). Alexandre Nicolas is often cited by papers focused on Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (20 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (13 papers) and Traffic control and management (9 papers). Alexandre Nicolas collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and Japan. Alexandre Nicolas's co-authors include Jean‐Louis Barrat, Kirsten Martens, Ezequiel E. Ferrero, Sebastián Bouzat, Marcelo N. Kuperman, Jörg Rottler, Fadratul Hafinaz Hassan, Alexander Morozov, Ángel Garcimartín and Iker Zuriguel and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Nicolas

54 papers receiving 998 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: An updated review of mesoscale elastoplastic models

2017 318 citations Alexandre Nicolas, Ezequiel E. Ferrero et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre Nicolas France	18	446	235	191	178	147	60	1.0k
Zhong-Jun Ding China	16	230 0.5×	178 0.8×	174 0.9×	83 0.5×	25 0.2×	52	856
János Török Hungary	18	172 0.4×	133 0.6×	70 0.4×	153 0.9×	366 2.5×	52	965
Hang Ji China	23	322 0.7×	71 0.3×	96 0.5×	68 0.4×	153 1.0×	72	2.2k
Yajun Yin China	19	376 0.8×	40 0.2×	236 1.2×	51 0.3×	191 1.3×	117	1.4k
Teng Zhang China	19	283 0.6×	98 0.4×	561 2.9×	33 0.2×	47 0.3×	72	877
W. N. Reynolds United Kingdom	24	695 1.6×	44 0.2×	430 2.3×	122 0.7×	117 0.8×	68	1.7k
Yue Fan United States	20	900 2.0×	17 0.1×	707 3.7×	206 1.2×	127 0.9×	53	1.4k
Daniel L. Blair United States	24	673 1.5×	161 0.7×	238 1.2×	237 1.3×	646 4.4×	41	2.0k
Veena Tikare United States	29	1.3k 2.8×	30 0.1×	1.3k 6.8×	142 0.8×	269 1.8×	90	2.6k
Masahiro Fukumoto Japan	24	491 1.1×	54 0.2×	679 3.6×	91 0.5×	238 1.6×	172	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nicolas, Alexandre, et al.. (2026). Codebase release 1.0 for LEMONS.

Simonin, Olivier, et al.. (2025). Near-future projections in continuous agent-based models for crowd dynamics: mathematical structures in use and their implications. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2025(3). 33403–33403.

Tang, Tie‐Qiao, et al.. (2024). Continuous agent-based modeling of adult-child pairs based on a pseudo-energy: Relevance for public safety and egress efficiency. Safety Science. 177. 106576–106576. 3 indexed citations

Sannier, Gérémy, Alexandre Nicolas, Manon Nayrac, et al.. (2024). Enhanced detection of antigen-specific T cells by a multiplexed AIM assay. Cell Reports Methods. 4(1). 100690–100690. 13 indexed citations

Schadschneider, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Dimensionless numbers reveal distinct regimes in the structure and dynamics of pedestrian crowds. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae120–pgae120. 4 indexed citations

Mendez, Simon, et al.. (2023). From Microscopic Droplets to Macroscopic Crowds: Crossing the Scales in Models of Short‐Range Respiratory Disease Transmission, with Application to COVID‐19. Advanced Science. 10(19). e2205255–e2205255. 5 indexed citations

Tang, Tie‐Qiao, et al.. (2023). Adult–child pairs walking down stairs: empirical analysis and optimal-step-based modeling of a complex pedestrian flow, with an exploration of flow-improvement strategies. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2023(1). 13404–13404. 11 indexed citations

Nicolas, Alexandre, et al.. (2022). Spontaneous emergence of counterclockwise vortex motion in assemblies of pedestrians roaming within an enclosure. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2647–2647. 7 indexed citations

Mendez, Simon, et al.. (2021). Model-based assessment of the risks of viral transmission in non-confined crowds. Safety Science. 144. 105453–105453. 20 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, et al.. (2018). Mechanical response of dense pedestrian crowds to the crossing of\n intruders. arXiv (Cornell University). 26 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, et al.. (2018). マウス上丘における運動空間の三次元表現【JST・京大機械翻訳】. Current Biology. 28(11). 1744–1755. 12 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, Santiago González-Varas Ibáñez, Marcelo N. Kuperman, & Sebastián Bouzat. (2018). A counterintuitive way to speed up pedestrian and granular bottleneck flows prone to clogging: Can 'more' escape faster?. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 16 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre & Jörg Rottler. (2018). Orientation of plastic rearrangements in two-dimensional model glasses under shear. Physical review. E. 97(6). 63002–63002. 10 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, Ezequiel E. Ferrero, Kirsten Martens, & Jean‐Louis Barrat. (2017). Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: a review of mesoscale elastoplastic models. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 7 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre & Matthias Fuchs. (2016). Le caractère rhéofluidifiant des suspensions colloïdales denses et ses conséquences sur les instabilités élastiques : des équations du mouvement microscopique à une approximation de la rhéologie macroscopique. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 7 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, Jean‐Louis Barrat, & Jörg Rottler. (2016). Effects of Inertia on the Steady-Shear Rheology of Disordered Solids. Physical Review Letters. 116(5). 58303–58303. 28 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, Sebastián Bouzat, & Marcelo N. Kuperman. (2016). Statistical fluctuations in pedestrian evacuation times and the effect of social contagion. Physical review. E. 94(2). 22313–22313. 25 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, F. Puosi, Hideyuki Mizuno, & Jean‐Louis Barrat. (2015). Elastic consequences of a single plastic event: Towards a realistic account of structural disorder and shear wave propagation in models of flowing amorphous solids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 78. 333–351. 20 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre, et al.. (2015). A Microfluidic Diffusion Cell for Fast and Easy Percutaneous Absorption Assays. Pharmaceutical Research. 32(8). 2704–12. 7 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexandre & Jean‐Louis Barrat. (2013). A mesoscopic model for the rheology of soft amorphous solids, with application to microchannel flows. Faraday Discussions. 167. 567–600. 19 indexed citations

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