Jacques Locat

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Jacques Locat is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacques Locat has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 47 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 45 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jacques Locat's work include Geological formations and processes (49 papers), Landslides and related hazards (47 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (28 papers). Jacques Locat is often cited by papers focused on Geological formations and processes (49 papers), Landslides and related hazards (47 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (28 papers). Jacques Locat collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Jacques Locat's co-authors include Homa J. Lee, Serge Leroueil, Monty A. Hampton, Marc-André Bérubé, Marc Choquette, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Denis Demers, Jasim Imran, Sueng Won Jeong and Gary Parker and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth-Science Reviews and Reviews of Geophysics.

In The Last Decade

Jacques Locat

119 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Submarine landslides

1996 742 citations Monty A. Hampton, Homa J. Lee et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
Submarine landslides: advances and challenges

2002 527 citations Jacques Locat, Homa J. Lee Canadian Geotechnical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacques Locat Canada	37	2.4k	2.1k	1.7k	1.5k	1.3k	122	5.8k
Nabil Sultan France	34	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	708 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	97	4.3k
Brandon Dugan United States	33	769 0.3×	719 0.3×	300 0.2×	959 0.7×	913 0.7×	106	5.1k
Serge Leroueil Canada	48	7.4k 3.1×	377 0.2×	4.5k 2.7×	1.2k 0.8×	531 0.4×	157	10.4k
Achim Kopf Germany	39	335 0.1×	1.1k 0.5×	388 0.2×	1.5k 1.0×	3.0k 2.3×	189	5.6k
Marcelo H. García United States	50	1.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.9×	447 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	434 0.3×	282	9.1k
Mark E. Reid United States	29	1.1k 0.4×	225 0.1×	2.8k 1.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	73	4.2k
N. R. Morgenstern Canada	42	5.5k 2.3×	313 0.1×	3.6k 2.1×	1.5k 1.0×	473 0.4×	152	8.1k
Jo De Waele Italy	33	175 0.1×	2.3k 1.1×	658 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	807 0.6×	188	3.7k
María Ángeles García del Cura Spain	31	651 0.3×	2.0k 0.9×	172 0.1×	853 0.6×	702 0.5×	126	3.4k
Kaare Høeg Norway	32	1.5k 0.6×	313 0.1×	696 0.4×	286 0.2×	552 0.4×	76	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jacques Locat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacques Locat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacques Locat

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jacques Locat. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jacques Locat based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jacques Locat. Jacques Locat is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jaboyedoff, Michel, et al.. (2023). Comparing Flow-R, Rockyfor3D and RAMMS to Rockfalls from the Mel de la Niva Mountain: A Benchmarking Exercise. Geosciences. 13(7). 200–200. 10 indexed citations

Jaboyedoff, Michel, Julien Travelletti, Battista Matasci, et al.. (2023). Highly energetic rockfalls: back analysis of the 2015 event from the Mel de la Niva, Switzerland. Landslides. 20(8). 1561–1582. 9 indexed citations

Jaboyedoff, Michel, et al.. (2021). Impact-Detection Algorithm That Uses Point Clouds as Topographic Inputs for 3D Rockfall Simulations. Geosciences. 11(5). 188–188. 17 indexed citations

Locat, Jacques, et al.. (2020). Morphological signature of gully development by rapid slide retrogression in a layered coarse-grained delta foreslope. Geological Society London Special Publications. 500(1). 219–234. 1 indexed citations

Turmel, Dominique, Gary Parker, & Jacques Locat. (2016). Reprint of Evolution of an anthropic source to sink system: Wabush lake. Earth-Science Reviews. 153. 175–191. 3 indexed citations

Turmel, Dominique, Jacques Locat, & Gary Parker. (2015). Morphological evolution of a well‐constrained, subaerial–subaqueous source to sink system: Wabush Lake. Sedimentology. 62(6). 1636–1664. 19 indexed citations

Higgins, Michael D., Patrick Lajeunesse, Guillaume St‐Onge, et al.. (2011). BATHYMETRIC AND PETROLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR A YOUNG (PLEISTOCENE?) 4-KM DIAMETER IMPACT CRATER IN THE GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE, CANADA.. LPI. 1504. 8 indexed citations

Jeong, Sueng Won, Serge Leroueil, & Jacques Locat. (2009). Applicability of power law for describing the rheology of soils of different origins and characteristics. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 46(9). 1011–1023. 69 indexed citations

Jaboyedoff, Michel, R. Metzger, Thierry Oppikofer, et al.. (2007). New insight techniques to analyze rock-slope relief using DEM and 3D-imaging cloud points: COLTOP-3D software. IRIS. 1. 61–68. 73 indexed citations

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Úrgeles, Roger, et al.. (2007). Mechanisms leading to overpressure and slope instability in the Gulf of Mexico continental slope. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 1 indexed citations

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Lévesque, Mathieu, et al.. (2003). Nature and microstructure of some late-Holocene Adriatic shelf sediments. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 6000. 1 indexed citations

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Locat, Jacques & Homa J. Lee. (2002). Submarine landslides: advances and challenges. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 39(1). 193–212. 527 indexed citations breakdown →

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Couture, R, Stephen G. Evans, & Jacques Locat. (2002). Introduction. Natural Hazards. 26(1). 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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Faure, R., et al.. (2001). Base de données internationale sur les glissements de terrain. Application du projet WASSS aux mouvements de versants. Revue Française de Géotechnique. 183–187.

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Tanaka, Hiroyuki & Jacques Locat. (1999). A microstructural investigation of Osaka Bay clay: the impact of microfossils on its mechanical behaviour. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 36(3). 493–508. 139 indexed citations

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Leroueil, Serge, Didier Perret, & Jacques Locat. (1996). Strain Rate and Structuring Effects on the Compressibility of a Young Clay. 137–150. 15 indexed citations

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Hampton, Monty A., Homa J. Lee, & Jacques Locat. (1996). Submarine landslides. Reviews of Geophysics. 34(1). 33–59. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

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Locat, Jacques, et al.. (1993). GLISSEMENT ET COULEE DE LA VALETTE DANS LES ALPES DE HAUTE-PROVENCE. PRESENTATION GENERALE ET MODELISATION DE LA COULEE. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 13 indexed citations

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Choquette, Marc, Marc-André Bérubé, & Jacques Locat. (1991). Behavior of common rock-forming minerals in a strongly basic NaOH solution. The Canadian Mineralogist. 29(1). 163–173. 35 indexed citations

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Bérubé, Marc-André, et al.. (1986). Black shale heaving at Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 23(11). 1774–1781. 18 indexed citations

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