Olivier Bour

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Olivier Bour is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Bour has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Environmental Engineering, 50 papers in Geophysics and 32 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Olivier Bour's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (85 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (31 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (26 papers). Olivier Bour is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (85 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (31 papers) and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (26 papers). Olivier Bour collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Olivier Bour's co-authors include Philippe Davy, Jean‐Raynald de Dreuzy, Tanguy Le Borgne, N. E. Odling, Caroline Darcel, Brian Berkowitz, P. A. Cowie, Ian Main, Victor Bense and Sian Loveless and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Bour

120 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Scaling of fracture syste... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2013 250 500 750 1000
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. Scaling of fracture systems in geological media
    2001 1.1k citations Olivier Bour, Philippe Davy et al. profile →
  2. Fault zone hydrogeology
    2013 564 citations Victor Bense, Olivier Bour et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Olivier Bour 4.3k 2.5k 2.3k 1.7k 1.2k 122 6.8k
Ghislain de Marsily 4.4k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 153 7.6k
John Bredehoeft 3.5k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 970 0.8× 100 7.1k
Jean‐Raynald de Dreuzy 3.2k 0.7× 869 0.4× 1.7k 0.7× 959 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 118 4.5k
Hongbin Zhan 4.3k 1.0× 686 0.3× 2.6k 1.1× 942 0.5× 2.9k 2.4× 344 7.8k
P.A. Witherspoon 5.7k 1.3× 1.8k 0.7× 4.3k 1.9× 2.8k 1.6× 2.8k 2.3× 148 9.3k
Vladimir Cvetković 3.9k 0.9× 650 0.3× 1.5k 0.6× 586 0.3× 2.2k 1.8× 165 5.6k
Chin‐Fu Tsang 5.9k 1.4× 1.9k 0.8× 4.6k 2.0× 4.0k 2.3× 2.8k 2.3× 173 10.1k
Paul A. Hsieh 1.5k 0.3× 1.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 608 0.5× 69 4.3k
Alberto Guadagnini 4.5k 1.1× 956 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 523 0.3× 1.6k 1.3× 277 6.2k
Yoram Rubin 5.5k 1.3× 2.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 269 0.2× 2.0k 1.6× 158 7.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Olivier Bour

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Bour

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klepikova, Maria, et al.. (2025). Impact of groundwater extraction on subsurface thermal regimes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 54048–54048. 1 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Variability of Hyporheic Flow in a Losing River Section. Water Resources Research. 60(6). 3 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2023). Monitoring groundwater fluxes variations through active-DTS measurements. Journal of Hydrology. 622. 129755–129755. 9 indexed citations
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Guillaumot, Luca, Laurent Longuevergne, Jean Marçais, Nicolas Lavenant, & Olivier Bour. (2022). Frequency domain water table fluctuations reveal impacts of intense rainfall and vadose zone thickness on groundwater recharge. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(22). 5697–5720. 8 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Combining passive and active distributed temperature sensing measurements to locate and quantify groundwater discharge variability into a headwater stream. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(5). 1459–1479. 12 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, Nicolas Lavenant, Gilles Porel, et al.. (2020). Numerical and Experimental Validation of the Applicability of Active‐DTS Experiments to Estimate Thermal Conductivity and Groundwater Flux in Porous Media. Water Resources Research. 57(1). 41 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2019). Dipole and Convergent Single-Well Thermal Tracer Tests for Characterizing the Effect of Flow Configuration on Thermal Recovery. Geosciences. 9(10). 440–440. 4 indexed citations
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Longuevergne, Laurent, et al.. (2017). Understanding the Hydromechanical Behavior of a Fault Zone From Transient Surface Tilt and Fluid Pressure Observations at Hourly Time Scales. Water Resources Research. 53(12). 10558–10582. 11 indexed citations
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Longuevergne, Laurent, Olivier Bour, Matthew W. Becker, et al.. (2017). Combining periodic hydraulic tests and surface tilt measurements to explore in situ fracture hydromechanics. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 122(8). 6046–6066. 15 indexed citations
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Shakas, Alexis, Niklas Linde, Ludovic Baron, et al.. (2017). Neutrally buoyant tracers in hydrogeophysics: Field demonstration in fractured rock. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(8). 3663–3671. 12 indexed citations
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Read, T., Victor Bense, Rébecca Hochreutener, et al.. (2015). Thermal-plume fibre optic tracking (T-POT) test for flow velocity measurement in groundwater boreholes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 197–202. 17 indexed citations
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Boisson, Alexandre, Pietro de Anna, Olivier Bour, et al.. (2013). Reaction chain modeling of denitrification reactions during a push–pull test. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 148. 1–11. 29 indexed citations
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Goc, Romain Le, et al.. (2008). Uncertainty and variability analysis of Discrete Fracture Network models from extensive outcrop and borehole field data. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 10. 1 indexed citations
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Borgne, Tanguy Le, et al.. (2005). Cross‐Borehole Flowmeter Tests for Transient Heads in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Ground Water. 44(3). 444–452. 40 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2003). Stochastic models of fracture networks based on the broad-range fracture length distribution and the long-range fracture correlations.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Borgne, Tanguy Le, et al.. (2003). Flow model relevant to fractured crystalline aquifers : insights from a scaling interpretation of pumping tests.. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 4165. 3 indexed citations
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Bour, Olivier, et al.. (2002). Permeability of 2D Multiscale Fracture Networks. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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