Gilles Ruffet

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
128 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Gilles Ruffet is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilles Ruffet has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Geophysics, 37 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gilles Ruffet's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (110 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (58 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (37 papers). Gilles Ruffet is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (110 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (58 papers) and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (37 papers). Gilles Ruffet collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and United States. Gilles Ruffet's co-authors include Gilbert Féraud, Michel Ballèvre, Koen de Jong, P.R. Cobbold, Alain Tremblay, Philippe Boulvais, Fabrice Colin, Anicet Beauvais, Mehmet Arslan and İ̇rfan Temizel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Gilles Ruffet

126 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data

2019 218 citations Jan Westerweel, Pierrick Roperch et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gilles Ruffet France	39	3.8k	1.4k	698	494	450	128	4.4k
Michael A. Cosca United States	41	4.2k 1.1×	984 0.7×	830 1.2×	372 0.8×	305 0.7×	113	4.7k
Alastair H.F. Robertson United Kingdom	43	5.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	492 1.0×	878 2.0×	109	6.0k
Scott E. Bryan Australia	30	3.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	800 1.1×	275 0.6×	626 1.4×	81	3.8k
Yahui Yue China	31	3.3k 0.9×	965 0.7×	740 1.1×	367 0.7×	552 1.2×	86	4.1k
Hervé Bertrand France	38	4.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	684 1.0×	411 0.8×	1.1k 2.4×	81	4.4k
Constantino Mpodozis Chile	35	4.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	774 1.1×	370 0.7×	568 1.3×	76	5.3k
P. Manetti Italy	43	5.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	859 1.2×	467 0.9×	277 0.6×	121	5.7k
Jamshid Hassanzadeh United States	32	3.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	575 0.8×	311 0.6×	567 1.3×	58	4.0k
Françoise Roger France	26	5.8k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	349 0.7×	363 0.8×	41	6.6k
G. Bellieni Italy	28	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	503 0.7×	454 0.9×	986 2.2×	77	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilles Ruffet

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Famin, Vincent, Laurent Michon, Xavier Quidelleur, et al.. (2025). Phases of Magmatism and Tectonics Along the Madagascar‐Comoros Volcanic Chain, and Synchronous Changes in the Kinematics of the Lwandle and Somalia Plates. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 130(1). 3 indexed citations

Licht, Alexis, Faruk Ocakoğlu, François Demory, et al.. (2025). Updating the timeline of faunal endemism in Balkanatolia, the biogeographic province connecting Europe, Asia and Africa. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 290. 106661–106661. 1 indexed citations

Dopico, Carmen I. Martínez, Gilles Ruffet, Miguel Ângelo Stipp Basei, et al.. (2024). Timing of the deformation in the Gondwanide orogeny: A structural and geochemical shift from syn- to post-tectonic magmatism recorded in the Permian Mamil Choique granitoids, Patagonia. Lithos. 482-483. 107717–107717. 2 indexed citations

Putter, Thierry De, et al.. (2024). Depositional setting and hydrothermal alteration of Paleoproterozoic manganiferous metasedimentary rocks in the Ampanihy district (Southern Madagascar). Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 267. 107579–107579.

Soejono, Igor, Gilles Ruffet, Andrew Kylander‐Clark, et al.. (2024). Late Cambrian Syn‐Intrusive Thickening of the Ikh Mongol Arc Domains in the Mongolian Collage. Tectonics. 44(1). 1 indexed citations

Barbarand, Jocelyn, Gilles Ruffet, Yves Missenard, et al.. (2023). Intraplate orogenesis as a driver of multistage karst-hosted mineralization: the Imini manganese case (Atlas, Morocco). Mineralium Deposita. 59(3). 453–472. 3 indexed citations

Aminov, Jovid, Pierrick Roperch, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet, et al.. (2023). Contractional deformation between extensional dome exhumation in Central Pamir at 17–15 Ma constrained by metamorphic and paleomagnetic data from the Bartang volcanic rocks, Tajikistan. Tectonophysics. 868. 230080–230080. 2 indexed citations

Guillot, Stéphane, Gilles Ruffet, Marc Poujol, et al.. (2023). Polarity and Timing of the Deformation Along the Jinsha Suture Zone (Yushu Area, Northeastern Tibet). Tectonics. 42(12).

Gébelin, Aude, Philippe Boulvais, Gilles Ruffet, et al.. (2022). Timing and duration of meteoric water infiltration in the Quiberon detachment zone (Armorican Massif, Variscan belt, France). Journal of Structural Geology. 156. 104546–104546. 10 indexed citations

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Westerweel, Jan, Pierrick Roperch, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2019). Burma Terrane part of the Trans-Tethyan arc during collision with India according to palaeomagnetic data. Nature Geoscience. 12(10). 863–868. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Putter, Thierry De, Florias Mees, Germain Bayon, et al.. (2017). Coupling between tectonics and surface processes in the Congo Basin: Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentation and erosion triggered by climatic and tectonic factors. EGUGA. 13815. 1 indexed citations

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Jong, Koen de, et al.. (2016). Isotopic age constraints on provenance of exotic terranes, latest Permian collision and fast Late Triassic post-collisional cooling and tectonic exhumation of the Korean collision belt. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Gervais, Félix, et al.. (2014). Tectono-metamorphic history of the eastern Taureau shear zone, Mauricie area, Québec: Implications for the exhumation of the mid-crust in the Grenville Province. Precambrian Research. 257. 22–46. 30 indexed citations

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Tartèse, Romain, Marc Poujol, Gilles Ruffet, et al.. (2011). New U-Pb zircon and 40Ar/39Ar muscovite age constraints on the emplacement of the Lizio syn-tectonic granite (Armorican Massif, France). Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 343(7). 443–453. 25 indexed citations

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Tremblay, Alain, Gilles Ruffet, & Jean H. Bédard. (2011). Obduction of Tethyan-type ophiolites—A case-study from the Thetford-Mines ophiolitic Complex, Quebec Appalachians, Canada. Lithos. 125(1-2). 10–26. 35 indexed citations

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Crochet, Jean‐Yves, Jean‐Loup Welcomme, Gilles Ruffet, et al.. (2009). Une nouvelle faune de vertébrés continentaux, associée à des artefacts dans le Pléistocène inférieur de l’Hérault (Sud de la France), vers 1,57 Ma. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 8(8). 725–736. 64 indexed citations

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Duclaux, Guillaume, Yann Rolland, Gilles Ruffet, et al.. (2008). Superimposed Neoarchaean and Paleoproterozoic tectonics in the Terre Adélie Craton (East Antarctica): Evidence from Th–U–Pb ages on monazite and 40Ar/39Ar ages. Precambrian Research. 167(3-4). 316–338. 34 indexed citations

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Alexandre, Paul, et al.. (2002). Datation 40Ar/39Ar des leucogranites sous couverture du complexe plutonique de Charroux–Civray (Vienne). Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 334(16). 1141–1148. 12 indexed citations

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Camps, Pierre, et al.. (1996). Paleomagnetic and geochronological study of a geomagnetic field reversal or excursion recorded in pliocene volcanic rocks from Georgia (Lesser Caucasus). Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 96(1). 41–59. 28 indexed citations

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Aguirre, Luis, et al.. (1995). Middle Jurassic volcanism in the Northern and Central Andes. Andean geology. 22(2). 245–259. 27 indexed citations

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