Ludovic Métivier

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ludovic Métivier is a scholar working on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ludovic Métivier has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Geophysics, 57 papers in Ocean Engineering and 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ludovic Métivier's work include Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (107 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (88 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (32 papers). Ludovic Métivier is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (107 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (88 papers) and Geophysical Methods and Applications (32 papers). Ludovic Métivier collaborates with scholars based in France, Poland and China. Ludovic Métivier's co-authors include Romain Brossier, J. Virieux, R. Brossier, J. Virieux, Édouard Oudet, Quentin Mérigot, S. Operto, S. Operto, A. Ribodetti and Pengliang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Computational Physics and Geophysics.

In The Last Decade

Ludovic Métivier

101 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. A guided tour of multiparameter full-waveform inversion with multicomponent data: From theory to practice
    2013 305 citations S. Operto, Y. Gholami et al. The Leading Edge profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ludovic Métivier 2.4k 1.4k 668 118 98 113 2.6k
J. Virieux 2.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 648 1.0× 156 1.3× 56 0.6× 5 2.7k
S. Operto 2.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 620 0.9× 151 1.3× 58 0.6× 7 2.6k
René-Édouard Plessix 3.3k 1.4× 2.1k 1.5× 885 1.3× 183 1.6× 168 1.7× 74 3.6k
Romain Brossier 4.3k 1.8× 2.7k 1.9× 1.0k 1.6× 168 1.4× 108 1.1× 173 4.5k
John Etgen 2.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 672 1.0× 125 1.1× 48 0.5× 97 2.5k
Edip Baysal 1.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 420 0.6× 149 1.3× 53 0.5× 17 1.9k
Yi Luo 2.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 683 1.0× 178 1.5× 98 1.0× 111 2.9k
Joe Dellinger 1.7k 0.7× 937 0.7× 461 0.7× 124 1.1× 45 0.5× 63 1.8k
Peter Hubral 2.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 464 0.7× 167 1.4× 39 0.4× 131 2.8k
Martin Tygel 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 296 0.4× 107 0.9× 42 0.4× 154 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ludovic Métivier

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All Works

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Górszczyk, Andrzej, Rafael Almeida, Romain Brossier, Ludovic Métivier, & S. Operto. (2025). Constraining the Effect of Bathymetric High Subduction in an Accretionary Wedge: Evidence From the Tokai Area of the Nankai Trough, Japan. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 26(3).
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Cao, Jian, et al.. (2024). A fully scalable homogenization method to upscale 3-D elastic media. Geophysical Journal International. 238(1). 72–90.
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Brossier, Romain, et al.. (2022). Robust full-waveform inversion with graph-space optimal transport: Application to 3D ocean-bottom cable Valhall data. Geophysics. 87(3). R261–R280. 14 indexed citations
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Métivier, Ludovic, et al.. (2022). A review of the use of optimal transport distances for high resolution seismic imaging based on the full waveform. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 11(1). 3–42. 9 indexed citations
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Brossier, Romain, et al.. (2022). Robust and efficient waveform-based velocity-model building by optimal transport in the pseudotime domain: Methodology. Geophysics. 88(2). U49–U70. 8 indexed citations
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Métivier, Ludovic & Romain Brossier. (2021). Receiver-extension strategy for time-domain full-waveform inversion using a relocalization approach. Geophysics. 87(1). R13–R33. 7 indexed citations
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Brossier, Romain, et al.. (2021). On cycle-skipping and misfit function modification for full-wave inversion: Comparison of five recent approaches. Geophysics. 86(4). R563–R587. 37 indexed citations
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Brossier, Romain, et al.. (2020). Multiparameter full-waveform inversion of 3D ocean-bottom cable data from the Valhall field. Geophysics. 86(1). B15–B35. 19 indexed citations
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Altamimi, Z., Paul Rebischung, Xavier Collilieux, Ludovic Métivier, & Kristel Chanard. (2020). Toward ITRF2020: Enhancing the Modelling of Nonlinear Station Motions. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 1 indexed citations
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Métivier, Ludovic, Romain Brossier, Quentin Mérigot, & Édouard Oudet. (2019). A graph space optimal transport distance as a generalization of L p   distances: application to a seismic imaging inverse problem. Inverse Problems. 35(8). 85001–85001. 53 indexed citations
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Górszczyk, Andrzej, Ludovic Métivier, & Romain Brossier. (2019). Mitigating the nonlinearity of the crustal scale full waveform inversion through the graph space optimal transport misfit function. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Tago, Josué, et al.. (2018). An Evolutive Linear Kinematic Source Inversion. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 123(6). 4859–4885. 4 indexed citations
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Bodin, Thomas, et al.. (2018). An optimal transport approach to linearized inversion of receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International. 3 indexed citations
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Métivier, Ludovic, Romain Brossier, Quentin Mérigot, Édouard Oudet, & J. Virieux. (2016). Increasing the robustness and applicability of full-waveform inversion: An optimal transport distance strategy. The Leading Edge. 35(12). 1060–1067. 33 indexed citations
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Métivier, Ludovic & Romain Brossier. (2016). The SEISCOPE optimization toolbox: A large-scale nonlinear optimization library based on reverse communication. Geophysics. 81(2). F1–F15. 119 indexed citations
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Asnaashari, A., Romain Brossier, Stéphane Garambois, et al.. (2016). A downscaling strategy from FWI to microscale reservoir properties from high-resolution images. The Leading Edge. 35(2). 146–150. 17 indexed citations
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Yang, Pengliang, Romain Brossier, Ludovic Métivier, & J. Virieux. (2016). Wavefield reconstruction in attenuating media: A checkpointing-assisted reverse-forward simulation method. Geophysics. 81(6). R349–R362. 49 indexed citations
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Operto, S., Y. Gholami, V. Prieux, et al.. (2013). A guided tour of multiparameter full-waveform inversion with multicomponent data: From theory to practice. The Leading Edge. 32(9). 1040–1054. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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