Nicolas Coltice

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Coltice is a scholar working on Geophysics, Paleontology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Coltice has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Geophysics, 9 papers in Paleontology and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Coltice's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (48 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (44 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (32 papers). Nicolas Coltice is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (48 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (44 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (32 papers). Nicolas Coltice collaborates with scholars based in France, Australia and United States. Nicolas Coltice's co-authors include Patrice Rey, S. Labrosse, J. W. Hernlund, Yanick Ricard, Nicolas Flament, Paul Tackley, Benjamin Phillips, Martina Ulvrová, Tobias Rolf and Maëlis Arnould and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Coltice

65 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Coltice France 30 2.5k 358 349 310 245 66 3.0k
Craig O’Neill Australia 29 2.8k 1.1× 664 1.9× 381 1.1× 323 1.0× 464 1.9× 85 3.5k
A. Lenardic United States 37 3.5k 1.4× 811 2.3× 537 1.5× 394 1.3× 232 0.9× 120 4.3k
Eric Humler France 17 1.5k 0.6× 187 0.5× 265 0.8× 161 0.5× 225 0.9× 21 1.9k
Kim B. Knight United States 21 983 0.4× 195 0.5× 463 1.3× 514 1.7× 137 0.6× 67 1.8k
Renaud Merle Australia 25 1.3k 0.5× 240 0.7× 353 1.0× 288 0.9× 337 1.4× 71 1.7k
Dan J. Bower Switzerland 23 2.1k 0.8× 407 1.1× 389 1.1× 166 0.5× 167 0.7× 45 2.8k
Kyoungwon Min United States 19 2.4k 1.0× 354 1.0× 1.1k 3.1× 563 1.8× 721 2.9× 49 3.4k
P. J. A. McCausland Canada 20 2.0k 0.8× 390 1.1× 675 1.9× 874 2.8× 396 1.6× 82 2.7k
T. J. Lapen United States 30 2.2k 0.9× 1.0k 2.9× 537 1.5× 213 0.7× 459 1.9× 138 3.0k
Bernard Charlier Belgium 35 2.4k 1.0× 706 2.0× 417 1.2× 143 0.5× 968 4.0× 96 3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Coltice

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All Works

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Berdyugina, S. V., et al.. (2026). Water Versus Land on Temperate Rocky Planets. Space Science Reviews. 222(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Ziyin, Laëtitia Le Pourhiet, Nicolas Coltice, et al.. (2024). Geomorphology and mechanisms of subduction erosion in the sediment-starved Mariana convergent margin. Geomorphology. 454. 109161–109161. 2 indexed citations
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Coltice, Nicolas, et al.. (2021). Constraining the Range and Variation of Lithospheric Net Rotation Using Geodynamic Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(10). e2021JB022057–e2021JB022057. 2 indexed citations
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Coltice, Nicolas, Laurent Husson, Claudio Faccenna, & Maëlis Arnould. (2019). What drives tectonic plates?. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax4295–eaax4295. 84 indexed citations
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Coltice, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). An Anticipation Experiment for Plate Tectonics. Tectonics. 38(11). 3916–3938. 4 indexed citations
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Arnould, Maëlis, et al.. (2019). Promoting gender equality in academia through comic strips. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Arnould, Maëlis, Jérôme Ganne, Nicolas Coltice, & Xiaojun Feng. (2019). Northward drift of the Azores plume in the Earth’s mantle. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3235–3235. 15 indexed citations
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Arnould, Maëlis, et al.. (2018). On the Scales of Dynamic Topography in Whole‐Mantle Convection Models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 19(9). 3140–3163. 22 indexed citations
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Fournier, Alexandre, et al.. (2018). Ensemble Kalman filter for the reconstruction of the Earth's mantle circulation. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 25(1). 99–123. 12 indexed citations
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Coltice, Nicolas, et al.. (2017). Interactions of scales of convection in the Earth's mantle. Tectonophysics. 746. 669–677. 16 indexed citations
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Andréani, M., et al.. (2017). Evolution of spreading rate and H 2 production by serpentinization at mid-ocean ridges from 200 Ma to Present. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Arnould, Maëlis, et al.. (2017). Beyond statistics: local solutions to the underrepresentation of women in Geophysics. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17770. 1 indexed citations
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Ulvrová, Martina, Simon Williams, Nicolas Coltice, & Paul Tackley. (2017). Where does subduction initiate and die? Insights from global convection models with continental drift. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15780. 1 indexed citations
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Mallard, Claire, et al.. (2017). ADOPT: A tool for automatic detection of tectonic plates at the surface of convection models. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(8). 3197–3208. 4 indexed citations
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Coltice, Nicolas, et al.. (2015). A sequential data assimilation approach for the joint reconstruction of mantle convection and surface tectonics. Geophysical Journal International. 204(1). 200–214. 21 indexed citations
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Rey, Patrice, Nicolas Coltice, & Nicolas Flament. (2014). Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature. 513(7518). 405–408. 92 indexed citations
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Labrosse, S., J. W. Hernlund, & Nicolas Coltice. (2011). On the importance of lowermost mantle melt in the long term evolution of the Earth. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Labrosse, S., J. W. Hernlund, & Nicolas Coltice. (2008). The Heat Flow out of the Core and its Temporal Fluctuations. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Labrosse, S., J. W. Hernlund, & Nicolas Coltice. (2007). A crystallizing dense magma ocean at the base of the Earth’s mantle. Nature. 450(7171). 866–869. 609 indexed citations breakdown →
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Coltice, Nicolas & J. Schmalzl. (2006). Mixing times in the mantle of the early Earth derived from 2‐D and 3‐D numerical simulations of convection. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(23). 51 indexed citations

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