Nicolas Eckert

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
137 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Eckert is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Eckert has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 95 papers in Atmospheric Science and 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Eckert's work include Landslides and related hazards (97 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (82 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers). Nicolas Eckert is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (97 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (82 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers). Nicolas Eckert collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Nicolas Eckert's co-authors include Emmanuel Thibert, Mohamed Naaïm, Samuel Morin, Markus Stoffel, Christophe Corona, Christian Vincent, M. Naaim, Éric Parent, H. Castebrunet and Guillaume Chambon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Eckert

133 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016

2019 703 citations Michael Zemp, Matthias Huss et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Eckert France	34	3.0k	2.1k	1.6k	420	295	137	4.0k
D. M. McClung Canada	32	3.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.4×	798 0.5×	825 2.0×	207 0.7×	133	3.6k
Ulrich Kamp United States	28	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	680 0.4×	122 0.3×	258 0.9×	57	2.9k
Holger Frey Switzerland	28	3.7k 1.2×	987 0.5×	760 0.5×	531 1.3×	194 0.7×	49	4.3k
John F. Shroder United States	29	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	550 0.4×	150 0.4×	384 1.3×	75	3.8k
Stephan Gruber Switzerland	41	5.1k 1.7×	2.0k 1.0×	529 0.3×	151 0.4×	307 1.0×	124	5.9k
Bernd Etzelmüller Norway	44	4.8k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	333 0.2×	116 0.3×	324 1.1×	140	5.3k
Marten Geertsema Canada	30	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	58 0.1×	340 1.2×	67	2.7k
Michael P. Bishop United States	32	2.6k 0.8×	973 0.5×	392 0.3×	307 0.7×	477 1.6×	83	4.0k
Duncan J. Quincey United Kingdom	40	4.8k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	671 0.4×	1.5k 3.5×	452 1.5×	130	6.2k
Stuart Dunning United Kingdom	24	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	437 0.3×	136 0.3×	404 1.4×	52	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Eckert

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Eckert

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Jacquemart, Mylène, Samuel Weber, Marta Chiarle, et al.. (2024). Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps. Earth-Science Reviews. 258. 104886–104886. 29 indexed citations

Eckert, Nicolas, Éric Rigolot, Thierry Caquet, et al.. (2023). Les risques environnementaux en 2020 : une feuille de route pour INRAE. Natures Sciences Sociétés. 31(3). 347–358.

Évin, Guillaume, et al.. (2023). Projection of snowfall extremes in the French Alps as a function of elevation and global warming level. The cryosphere. 17(11). 4691–4704. 6 indexed citations

Hugonnet, Romain, Fanny Brun, Étienne Berthier, et al.. (2022). Uncertainty Analysis of Digital Elevation Models by Spatial Inference From Stable Terrain. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 6456–6472. 47 indexed citations

Évin, Guillaume, et al.. (2022). A non-stationary extreme-value approach for climate projection ensembles: application to snow loads in the French Alps. Earth System Dynamics. 13(3). 1059–1075. 4 indexed citations

Giacona, Florie, Nicolas Eckert, Christophe Corona, et al.. (2021). Upslope migration of snow avalanches in a warming climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 47 indexed citations

Évin, Guillaume, et al.. (2021). Extreme avalanche cycles: Return levels and probability distributions depending on snow and meteorological conditions. Weather and Climate Extremes. 33. 100344–100344. 9 indexed citations

Évin, Guillaume, et al.. (2021). A non-stationary extreme value approach for climate projection ensembles: application to snow loads in the French Alps. 1 indexed citations

Zemp, Michael, Matthias Huss, Nicolas Eckert, et al.. (2020). Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations. The cryosphere. 14(3). 1043–1050. 17 indexed citations

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Évin, Guillaume, et al.. (2020). Non-stationary extreme value analysis of ground snow loads in the French Alps: a comparison with building standards. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(11). 2961–2977. 25 indexed citations

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Spandre, Pierre, Hugues François, Déborah Verfaillie, et al.. (2019). Climate controls on snow reliability in French Alps ski resorts. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8043–8043. 57 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Saez, Jérôme, et al.. (2019). Quantitative risk assessment in a rockfall-prone area: the case study of the Crolles municipality (Massif de la Chartreuse, French Alps). Géomorphologie relief processus environnement. 25(1). 7–19. 13 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Saez, Jérôme, et al.. (2019). Assessment of the recurrence intervals of rockfall through dendrogeomorphology and counting scar approach: A comparative study in a mixed forest stand from the Vercors massif (French Alps). Geomorphology. 340. 160–171. 15 indexed citations

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Eckert, Nicolas, et al.. (2018). Assessing Climate Change Impact on the Spatial Dependence of Extreme Snow Depth Maxima in the French Alps. Water Resources Research. 54(10). 7820–7840. 12 indexed citations

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Thibert, Emmanuel, et al.. (2018). Causes of Glacier Melt Extremes in the Alps Since 1949. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 817–825. 34 indexed citations

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Verfaillie, Déborah, Matthieu Lafaysse, Michel Déqué, et al.. (2018). Multi-component ensembles of future meteorological and natural snow conditions for 1500 m altitude in the Chartreuse mountain range, Northern French Alps. The cryosphere. 12(4). 1249–1271. 67 indexed citations

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Verfaillie, Déborah, Matthieu Lafaysse, Michel Déqué, et al.. (2017). Multi-components ensembles of future meteorological and natural snow conditions in the Northern French Alps. 1 indexed citations

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Favier, Philomène, Nicolas Eckert, Thierry Faug, D. Bertrand, & Mohamed Naaïm. (2016). Avalanche risk evaluation and protective dam optimal design using extreme value statistics. Journal of Glaciology. 62(234). 725–749. 21 indexed citations

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Castebrunet, H., Nicolas Eckert, G. Giraud, Y. Durand, & Samuel Morin. (2014). Projected changes of snow conditions and avalanche activity in a warming climate: the French Alps over the 2020–2050 and 2070–2100 periods. The cryosphere. 8(5). 1673–1697. 98 indexed citations

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Thibert, Emmanuel, et al.. (2008). Glaciological and volumetric mass-balance measurements: error analysis over 51 years for Glacier de Sarennes, French Alps. Journal of Glaciology. 54(186). 522–532. 145 indexed citations

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