Michel Cuney

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
170 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Michel Cuney is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Cuney has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Geophysics, 98 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 66 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michel Cuney's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (150 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (98 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (66 papers). Michel Cuney is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (150 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (98 papers) and Radioactive element chemistry and processing (66 papers). Michel Cuney collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and China. Michel Cuney's co-authors include Julien Mercadier, Jean‐Louis Vigneresse, Christian Marignac, Pierre Barbey, ‪Michel Cathelineau, Marie‐Christine Boiron, Antonin Richard, Christophe Bonnetti, Kurt Kyser and Lutz Hecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Michel Cuney

164 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Rheological Transitions During Partial Melting and Crystallization with Application to Felsic Magma Segregation and Transfer

1996 472 citations Jean‐Louis Vigneresse, Michel Cuney et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michel Cuney France	50	6.5k	3.7k	2.3k	1.2k	551	170	7.6k
‪Michel Cathelineau France	45	5.4k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	217	7.4k
Mostafa Fayek Canada	33	2.1k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	713 0.6×	335 0.6×	192	4.1k
Marie‐Christine Boiron France	43	3.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	688 0.3×	909 0.8×	788 1.4×	158	5.0k
Philip J. Potts United Kingdom	40	2.2k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	458 0.2×	847 0.7×	218 0.4×	136	4.9k
Christian Pin France	47	6.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.6×	577 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	134 0.2×	157	7.8k
R. L. Hervig United States	54	6.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	579 0.3×	1.6k 1.3×	422 0.8×	185	8.6k
Craig C. Lundstrom United States	41	3.1k 0.5×	971 0.3×	734 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	105 0.2×	120	4.9k
Cristiana L. Ciobanu Australia	48	6.9k 1.1×	6.0k 1.6×	751 0.3×	2.4k 2.0×	258 0.5×	189	8.5k
Reid R. Keays Australia	59	8.2k 1.3×	4.6k 1.2×	419 0.2×	2.1k 1.8×	361 0.7×	154	10.0k
Paul Sylvester Canada	52	7.7k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	753 0.3×	1.7k 1.4×	397 0.7×	170	10.0k

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Cuney, Michel, et al.. (2025). Uranium mineralization associated with albitization in a Paleoproterozoic granite: Example of the Saraya granite, (Eastern Senegal, West Africa). Journal of African Earth Sciences. 226. 105570–105570.

Moyen, Jean‐François, et al.. (2021). Multi-scale spatial distribution of K, Th and U in an Archaean potassic granite: a case study from the Heerenveen batholith, Barberton Granite-Greenstone Terrain, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 124(1). 53–86. 6 indexed citations

Bonnetti, Christophe, Xiaodong Liu, Julien Mercadier, et al.. (2020). Genesis of the volcanic-related Be-U-Mo Baiyanghe deposit, West Junggar (NW China), constrained by mineralogical, trace element and U-Pb isotope signatures of the primary U mineralisation. Ore Geology Reviews. 128. 103921–103921. 16 indexed citations

Cuney, Michel, et al.. (2016). The Geology and Geochemistry of Uranium and Thorium Deposits. 36 indexed citations

Bouabdellah, Mohammed, et al.. (2015). Pangea rifting and onward pre-Central Atlantic opening as the main ore-forming processes for the genesis of the Aouli REE-rich fluorite–barite vein system, Upper Moulouya District, Morocco. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 108. 22–39. 42 indexed citations

Moyen, Jean‐François, et al.. (2014). Generating contrasting granitic melts from the same source: the ca. 3.1 Ga Heerenveen and Mpuluzi batholiths, South Africa. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4506. 1 indexed citations

Marignac, Christian & Michel Cuney. (2012). Evidence of Nb-Ta mobility in high temperature F-rich fluids evidenced by the La Bosse quartz-Nb-ferberite stockwork (Echassières, French Massif Central).. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11121. 2 indexed citations

Mercadier, Julien, Michel Cuney, Philippe Lach, et al.. (2011). Origin of uranium deposits revealed by their rare earth element signature. Terra Nova. 23(4). 264–269. 161 indexed citations

Mercadier, Julien, et al.. (2010). U redox fronts and kaolinisation in basement-hosted unconformity-related U ores of the Athabasca Basin (Canada): late U remobilisation by meteoric fluids. Mineralium Deposita. 46(2). 105–135. 42 indexed citations

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Cuney, Michel, et al.. (2009). Geochemistry of uraninite from the Elliot Lake and Wits basins : New insights on the source of uranium. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 73. 2 indexed citations

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Cuney, Michel & Kurt Kyser. (2009). Recent and Not-so-recent Developments in Uranium Deposits and Implications for Exploration. 160 indexed citations

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Richard, Antonin, ‪Michel Cathelineau, Marie‐Christine Boiron, et al.. (2007). Origin of U-mineralizing brines in the Athabasca Basin, Canada. Clinical Radiology. 73(6). 687–90. 2 indexed citations

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Henry, Christopher D., et al.. (2006). Timing of Oldest Steens Basalt Magmatism From Precise Dating of Silicic Volcanic Rocks, McDermitt Caldera and Northwest Nevada Volcanic Field. AGUFM. 2006. 11 indexed citations

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Cathelineau, ‪Michel, et al.. (2005). Mixing of Sodic and Calcic Brines and Uranium Deposition at McArthur River, Saskatchewan, Canada: A Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopic Study of Fluid Inclusions. Economic Geology. 100(8). 1529–1545. 148 indexed citations

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Cuney, Michel, et al.. (2005). The Xiangshan uraniferous caldera, Southeast China: Geochemistry and melt inclusions. 1 indexed citations

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Kister, Philippe, et al.. (2004). Radiogenic lead mobility in the Shea Creek unconformity-related uranium deposit (Saskatchewan, Canada): migration pathways and Pb loss quantification. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 336(3). 205–215. 11 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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Cuney, Michel, Pierre Sabaté, Philippe Vidal, Moacyr Moura Marinho, & Herbet Conceição. (1990). The 2 Ga peraluminous magmatism of the Jacobina — Contendas Mirante Belt (Bahia) Brazil): Major and trace-element geochemistry and metallogenic potential. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 44(1-2). 123–141. 21 indexed citations

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Bienfait, G., et al.. (1989). Heat flow and heat production in Brittany (Western France). Tectonophysics. 159(1-2). 61–72. 18 indexed citations

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Dubessy, Jean, Claire Ramboz, C. Nguyen-Trung, et al.. (1987). Physical and chemical controls (fO2,T,pH) of the opposite behaviour of U and Sn-W as examplified by hydrothermal deposits in France and Great-Britain, and solubility data. Bulletin de Minéralogie. 110(2). 261–281. 40 indexed citations

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