Michel Cara

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michel Cara is a scholar working on Geophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Cara has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Geophysics, 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Michel Cara's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (28 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (22 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (22 papers). Michel Cara is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (28 papers), Seismic Waves and Analysis (22 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (22 papers). Michel Cara collaborates with scholars based in France, Chile and United States. Michel Cara's co-authors include Vladislav Babuška, Jean‐Jacques Lévêque, E. Debayle, Barbara Romanowicz, D. Rouland, M. Frogneux, Valérie Maupin, Guust Nolet, Jeannot Trampert and David Baumont and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Michel Cara

46 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Seismic Anisotropy in the Earth 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Seismic Anisotropy in the Earth
    1991 531 citations Vladislav Babuška, Michel Cara profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michel Cara France 20 1.7k 172 117 97 54 48 1.8k
Wolfgang Friederich Germany 20 1.3k 0.8× 202 1.2× 170 1.5× 46 0.5× 54 1.0× 63 1.4k
Valérie Maupin Norway 23 1.2k 0.7× 208 1.2× 82 0.7× 32 0.3× 91 1.7× 67 1.3k
Charles A. Langston United States 24 3.2k 1.9× 175 1.0× 180 1.5× 226 2.3× 34 0.6× 70 3.3k
R. F. Mereu Canada 20 1.3k 0.8× 90 0.5× 142 1.2× 211 2.2× 47 0.9× 68 1.4k
D. Sicilia France 12 913 0.5× 263 1.5× 114 1.0× 312 3.2× 49 0.9× 17 1.0k
V. Schulte‐Pelkum United States 24 2.4k 1.4× 118 0.7× 172 1.5× 27 0.3× 22 0.4× 53 2.4k
Vadim Monteiller France 18 1.1k 0.7× 226 1.3× 81 0.7× 18 0.2× 83 1.5× 45 1.2k
Elmer Ruigrok Netherlands 17 1.2k 0.7× 376 2.2× 275 2.4× 92 0.9× 55 1.0× 73 1.3k
Haydar Al‐Shukri United States 15 490 0.3× 115 0.7× 68 0.6× 60 0.6× 23 0.4× 31 582
Tomomi Okada Japan 33 3.0k 1.7× 67 0.4× 408 3.5× 116 1.2× 37 0.7× 112 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michel Cara

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Cara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Cara

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cara, Michel. (2024). The Influence of Music Reading on Spatial Working Memory and Self-Assessment Accuracy. Brain Sciences. 14(11). 1152–1152. 1 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel. (2023). The effect of practice and musical structure on pianists’ eye-hand span and visual monitoring. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 16(2). 4 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Association between Musical Sophistication and Well-Being in Music Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(7). 3867–3867. 3 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2021). 1921–2021: 100 years of macroseismic studies at BCSF. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 353(S1). 23–51. 6 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel. (2019). Música contemporánea y estrategias de aprendizaje de una nueva pieza musical en la clase de piano. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 19.
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2018). El desarrollo de la competencia intermodal en el aprendizaje de la lectura musical inicial en adultos. 11(1). 94–123. 2 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2017). The 1905 Chamonix earthquakes: active tectonics in the Mont Blanc and Aiguilles Rouges massifs. Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 110(2). 631–651. 9 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel. (2017). Anticipation awareness and visual monitoring in reading contemporary music. Musicae Scientiae. 22(3). 322–343. 13 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2016). Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 9(7). 4 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (2015). MwEstimation from Crustal Coda Waves Recorded on Analog Seismograms. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 105(2A). 831–849. 14 indexed citations
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Maury, Julie, François Cornet, & Michel Cara. (2014). Influence of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary on the stress field northwest of the Alps. Geophysical Journal International. 199(2). 1006–1017. 6 indexed citations
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Duputel, Zacharie, Michel Cara, Luis Rivera, & Georges Herquel. (2010). Improving the analysis and inversion of multimode Rayleigh-wave dispersion by using group-delay time information observed on arrays of high-frequency sensors. Geophysics. 75(2). R13–R20. 6 indexed citations
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Fréchet, Julien, François Thouvenot, M. Frogneux, N. Deichmann, & Michel Cara. (2010). The MW 4.5 Vallorcine (French Alps) earthquake of 8 September 2005 and its complex aftershock sequence. Journal of Seismology. 15(1). 43–58. 25 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel, et al.. (1996). Anisotropy andP-wave tomography: a new approach for inverting teleseismic data from a dense array of stations. Geophysical Journal International. 126(1). 77–91. 29 indexed citations
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Trampert, Jeannot, Michel Cara, & M. Frogneux. (1993). SH Propagator Matrix and Qs Estimates From Borehole- and Surface-Recorded Earthquake Data. Geophysical Journal International. 112(2). 290–299. 40 indexed citations
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Babuška, Vladislav & Michel Cara. (1991). Seismic Anisotropy in the Earth. 531 indexed citations breakdown →
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Romanowicz, Barbara, et al.. (1984). GEOSCOPE: A French initiative in long‐period three‐component global seismic networks. Eos. 65(42). 753–753. 107 indexed citations
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Romanowicz, Barbara & Michel Cara. (1980). Reconsideration of the relations between S and P Station anomalies in North America. Geophysical Research Letters. 7(6). 417–420. 21 indexed citations
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Cara, Michel. (1979). Lateral variations of S velocity in the upper mantle from higher Rayleigh modes. Geophysical Journal International. 57(3). 649–670. 88 indexed citations

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