Olivier Bénichou

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Olivier Bénichou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Mathematical Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Bénichou has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Molecular Biology, 78 papers in Mathematical Physics and 67 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Olivier Bénichou's work include Diffusion and Search Dynamics (114 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (78 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (50 papers). Olivier Bénichou is often cited by papers focused on Diffusion and Search Dynamics (114 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (78 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (50 papers). Olivier Bénichou collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Olivier Bénichou's co-authors include Raphaël Voituriez, M. Moreau, Claude Loverdo, Vincent Tejedor, S. Condamin, Gleb Oshanin, J. Klafter, Mathieu Coppey, Manon Moreau and B. Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Bénichou

179 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400
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. First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media
    2007 422 citations S. Condamin, Olivier Bénichou et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olivier Bénichou France 48 5.2k 2.7k 1.6k 1.3k 1.0k 185 8.0k
Raphaël Voituriez France 59 5.9k 1.1× 2.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 2.8k 2.7× 191 11.8k
Kunihiko Kaneko Japan 55 3.6k 0.7× 4.7k 1.7× 815 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 581 0.6× 342 11.5k
Yuhai Tu United States 44 3.4k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 256 0.2× 3.0k 2.3× 1.4k 1.3× 142 9.1k
James P. Keener United States 49 2.3k 0.4× 3.0k 1.1× 295 0.2× 467 0.4× 897 0.9× 170 9.4k
Hugues Chaté France 57 1.4k 0.3× 3.9k 1.4× 828 0.5× 6.2k 4.8× 1.5k 1.5× 164 10.5k
Mogens H. Jensen Denmark 43 1.3k 0.3× 2.1k 0.8× 704 0.4× 1.6k 1.3× 385 0.4× 196 6.5k
Vincent Hakim France 44 1.0k 0.2× 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.5× 501 0.5× 89 7.2k
Erwin Frey Germany 57 2.6k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 3.9k 3.0× 2.6k 2.5× 281 12.3k
Alexander M. Berezhkovskii United States 41 2.8k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 381 0.2× 305 0.2× 1.6k 1.6× 276 5.7k
Barry D. Hughes Australia 31 1.2k 0.2× 705 0.3× 671 0.4× 767 0.6× 469 0.5× 106 4.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Olivier Bénichou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Bénichou

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Voituriez, Raphaël, et al.. (2024). Aging dynamics of d−dimensional locally activated random walks. Physical review. E. 110(1). 14604–14604. 2 indexed citations
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Rizkallah, P.J., et al.. (2023). Duality relations in single-file diffusion. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2023(1). 13202–13202. 8 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Statistics of the maximum and the convex hull of a Brownian motion in confined geometries. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(14). 144002–144002. 3 indexed citations
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Voituriez, Raphaël, et al.. (2021). Distribution of the span of one-dimensional confined random processes before hitting a target. Physical review. E. 103(3). 32107–32107. 11 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2021). Statistics of the maximum and the convex hull of a Brownian motion in\n confined geometries. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Vasilyev, Oleg A., Olivier Bénichou, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, Eric R. Weeks, & Gleb Oshanin. (2017). Cooperative behavior of biased probes in crowded interacting systems. Soft Matter. 13(41). 7617–7624. 13 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2016). Exit Time Distribution in Spherically Symmetric Two-Dimensional Domains. 29 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2016). Universality classes of foraging with resource renewal. Physical review. E. 93(3). 32403–32403. 12 indexed citations
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Maiuri, Paolo, Jean-François Rupprecht, Stefan Wieser, et al.. (2015). Actin Flows Mediate a Universal Coupling between Cell Speed and Cell Persistence. Cell. 161(2). 374–386. 304 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2015). Survival probability of a Brownian motion in a planar wedge of arbitrary angle. Physical Review E. 91(3). 32106–32106. 15 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2015). Convex hull of a Brownian motion in confinement. Physical Review E. 91(5). 12 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2015). Mean perimeter of the convex hull of a random walk in a semi-infinite medium. Physical Review E. 92(2). 22145–22145. 10 indexed citations
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Illien, Pierre, Olivier Bénichou, Gleb Oshanin, & Raphaël Voituriez. (2014). Velocity Anomaly of a Driven Tracer in a Confined Crowded Environment. Physical Review Letters. 113(3). 30603–30603. 15 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, et al.. (2014). Mean cover time of one-dimensional persistent random walks. Physical Review E. 89(6). 62129–62129. 10 indexed citations
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Bénichou, Olivier, Anna Bodrova, Dipanjan Chakraborty, et al.. (2013). Geometry-Induced Superdiffusion in Driven Crowded Systems. Physical Review Letters. 111(26). 260601–260601. 60 indexed citations
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Bloecker, K., W. Wirth, Olivier Bénichou, et al.. (2012). Quantification of tibial coverage, meniscus position and meniscus size in knees with and without joint space narrowing - data from the OA initiative. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 20. S201–S202. 1 indexed citations
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Guérin, Thomas, Olivier Bénichou, & Raphaël Voituriez. (2012). Non-Markovian polymer reaction kinetics. Nature Chemistry. 4(7). 568–573. 87 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Raymond J., Renaud Poincloux, Olivier Bénichou, et al.. (2011). Spontaneous Contractility-Mediated Cortical Flow Generates Cell Migration in Three-Dimensional Environments. Biophysical Journal. 101(5). 1041–1045. 110 indexed citations
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Loverdo, Claude, Olivier Bénichou, M. Moreau, & Raphaël Voituriez. (2009). Robustness of optimal intermittent search strategies in one, two, and three dimensions. Physical Review E. 80(3). 31146–31146. 92 indexed citations
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Condamin, S., Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Tejedor, Raphaël Voituriez, & J. Klafter. (2007). First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media. Nature. 450(7166). 77–80. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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