Mathieu Schuster

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Mathieu Schuster is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathieu Schuster has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Atmospheric Science, 35 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 29 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mathieu Schuster's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (45 papers), Geological formations and processes (31 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (29 papers). Mathieu Schuster is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (45 papers), Geological formations and processes (31 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (29 papers). Mathieu Schuster collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and Chad. Mathieu Schuster's co-authors include Michel Brunet, Gilles Ramstein, Jean‐François Ghienne, Philippe Duringer, Patrick Vignaud, Hassan Taïsso Mackaye, Pierre Sepulchre, Alexis Nutz, Jean‐Jacques Tiercelin and Frédéric Fluteau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mathieu Schuster

87 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Pa... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years
    2008 470 citations Mathieu Schuster et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathieu Schuster France 29 1.4k 985 779 732 474 92 3.0k
Raymonde Bonnefille France 35 2.4k 1.7× 1.1k 1.1× 665 0.9× 1.4k 2.0× 886 1.9× 68 3.9k
Sander van der Kaars Australia 41 3.2k 2.2× 1.1k 1.1× 888 1.1× 1.2k 1.6× 1.3k 2.7× 78 4.9k
Junyi Ge China 24 1.5k 1.0× 825 0.8× 428 0.5× 579 0.8× 213 0.4× 75 2.4k
Jean Maley France 33 1.5k 1.1× 459 0.5× 653 0.8× 815 1.1× 511 1.1× 93 3.1k
Jean‐Jacques Tiercelin France 30 1.1k 0.7× 805 0.8× 637 0.8× 587 0.8× 559 1.2× 66 2.9k
T. C. Partridge South Africa 29 1.8k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 1.4k 1.9× 538 1.1× 58 3.5k
William C. Clyde United States 29 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.7× 332 0.4× 345 0.5× 745 1.6× 69 2.9k
Hubert Vonhof Germany 35 1.7k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 732 0.9× 477 0.7× 924 1.9× 118 3.3k
Marie‐Pierre Ledru France 33 2.3k 1.6× 726 0.7× 771 1.0× 546 0.7× 1.2k 2.4× 106 3.8k
Ivo Karmann Brazil 25 2.2k 1.5× 609 0.6× 1.2k 1.5× 390 0.5× 838 1.8× 67 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mathieu Schuster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathieu Schuster

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mathieu Schuster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mathieu Schuster 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 Mathieu Schuster. Mathieu Schuster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Baby, Guillaume, Negar Haghipour, Cécile Blanchet, et al.. (2025). Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 255–255.
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Rizza, Magali, Alexis Nutz, Mathieu Schuster, et al.. (2024). Repeated failures of the giant Beshkiol Landslide and their impact on the long-term Naryn Basin floodings, Kyrgyz Tien Shan. Geomorphology. 453. 109121–109121. 1 indexed citations
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Pucéat, Emmanuelle, Géraldine Garcia, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie, et al.. (2024). Stable oxygen isotopes of crocodilian tooth enamel allow tracking Plio-Pleistocene evolution of freshwater environments and climate in the Shungura Formation (Turkana Depression, Ethiopia). Biogeosciences. 21(2). 437–454. 2 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Gerhard, et al.. (2024). Quantitative facies analysis of a fluvio-aeolian system: Lower Triassic Buntsandstein Group, eastern France. Sedimentary Geology. 465. 106634–106634. 5 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Gerhard, et al.. (2024). Sedimentary control on permeability heterogeneity: The middle Buntsandstein continental sandstones (Lower Triassic, eastern France). Marine and Petroleum Geology. 173. 107261–107261. 2 indexed citations
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Khalidi, Lamya, Lucie Coudert, Joséphine Lesur, et al.. (2020). 9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher-foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period. Quaternary Science Reviews. 243. 106459–106459. 18 indexed citations
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Nutz, Alexis, et al.. (2019). The Lorenyang lacustrine phase (early Quaternary) in the Omo Turkana basin (northern Turkana Depression, EARS): new insights on sedimentological signature and controlling factor. EGUGA. 17438. 1 indexed citations
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Sylvestre, Florence, Mathieu Schuster, Hendrik Vogel, et al.. (2018). The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing project (CHADRILL) – targeting  ∼ 10 million years of environmental and climate change in Africa. Scientific Drilling. 24. 71–78. 5 indexed citations
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Braitenberg, Carla, et al.. (2018). Gravimetry and petrophysics in the Chad basin area: determination of the basement depth and the implication for defining a scientific drilling site (ICDP-CHADRILL project). ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/). 20. 4713.
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Nutz, Alexis, Mathieu Schuster, Jean‐François Ghienne, et al.. (2015). Wind-driven bottom currents and related sedimentary bodies in Lake Saint-Jean (Québec, Canada). Geological Society of America Bulletin. 127(9-10). 1194–1208. 32 indexed citations
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Munschy, Marc, et al.. (2014). Bahariya. Pratiques funéraires et lieux de culte. In B. Midant-Reynes (éd.), Rapport d’activité 2013-2014.. 114. 195–201. 1 indexed citations
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Contoux, Camille, Anne Jost, Gilles Ramstein, et al.. (2013). Megalake Chad impact on climate and vegetation during the late Pliocene and the mid-Holocene. Climate of the past. 9(4). 1417–1430. 28 indexed citations
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Delagnes, Anne, et al.. (2011). Archaeological investigations in the Lower Omo Valley (Shungura Formation, Ethiopia): New data and perspectives. Journal of Human Evolution. 61(2). 215–222. 26 indexed citations
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Coster, Pauline, Mouloud Benammi, Vincent Lazzari, et al.. (2010). Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov. (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the early Oligocene of Zallah, Libya: first African caviomorph?. Die Naturwissenschaften. 97(8). 697–706. 31 indexed citations
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Sepulchre, Pierre, Gilles Ramstein, & Mathieu Schuster. (2009). Modelling the impact of tectonics, surface conditions and sea surface temperatures on Saharan and sub-Saharan climate evolution. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 341(8-9). 612–620. 8 indexed citations
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Strauch, Sebastian M., et al.. (2008). A Closed Ecological System in a Space Experiment. 553. 41. 4 indexed citations
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Battke, Florian, et al.. (2008). Palladium exposure of barley: uptake and effects. Plant Biology. 10(2). 272–276. 71 indexed citations
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Duringer, Philippe, Mathieu Schuster, Jorge F. Genise, et al.. (2006). The first fossil fungus gardens of Isoptera: oldest evidence of symbiotic termite fungiculture (Miocene, Chad basin). Die Naturwissenschaften. 93(12). 610–615. 26 indexed citations

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