Pascal Lacroix

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Pascal Lacroix is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Lacroix has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 34 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Pascal Lacroix's work include Landslides and related hazards (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (34 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (8 papers). Pascal Lacroix is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (34 papers) and Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (8 papers). Pascal Lacroix collaborates with scholars based in France, Peru and Norway. Pascal Lacroix's co-authors include Grégory Bièvre, Edú Taipe, Alexander L. Handwerger, Isabelle Malfant, Noélie Bontemps, Agnès Helmstetter, Étienne Berthier, Keitaro Nakatani, Marie‐Pierre Doin and Éric Larose and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Lacroix

57 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Life and death of slow-moving landslides 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Life and death of slow-moving landslides
    2020 270 citations Pascal Lacroix, Alexander L. Handwerger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pascal Lacroix France 25 1.2k 833 463 376 281 63 2.3k
Hongyan Xu China 17 124 0.1× 466 0.6× 133 0.3× 344 0.9× 256 0.9× 81 1.3k
Hiroshi Machida Japan 32 116 0.1× 1.0k 1.2× 136 0.3× 739 2.0× 579 2.1× 189 3.6k
P. Tissot United States 22 34 0.0× 252 0.3× 687 1.5× 943 2.5× 65 0.2× 112 2.1k
Max Suter Germany 26 45 0.0× 92 0.1× 73 0.2× 397 1.1× 952 3.4× 84 2.3k
David Schneider Canada 34 47 0.0× 626 0.8× 61 0.1× 127 0.3× 2.2k 7.7× 149 3.4k
Xiaoyuan Li China 23 17 0.0× 147 0.2× 211 0.5× 772 2.1× 79 0.3× 55 1.9k
Xiaohan Liu China 30 46 0.0× 392 0.5× 186 0.4× 368 1.0× 1.1k 3.8× 111 2.7k
Ernst Huenges Germany 26 54 0.0× 84 0.1× 31 0.1× 133 0.4× 1.4k 5.0× 132 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Pascal Lacroix

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pascal Lacroix

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pascal Lacroix

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pascal Lacroix. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pascal Lacroix based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pascal Lacroix. Pascal Lacroix is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Handwerger, Alexander L., Pascal Lacroix, Andrew Bell, et al.. (2025). Multi-sensor remote sensing captures geometry and slow-to-fast sliding transition of the 2017 Mud Creek landslide. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 29831–29831. 1 indexed citations
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Cusicanqui, Diego, Pascal Lacroix, Xavier Bodín, et al.. (2025). Detection and reconstruction of rock glacier kinematics over 24 years (2000–2024) from Landsat imagery. ˜The œcryosphere. 19(7). 2559–2581. 1 indexed citations
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Maufroy, Emeline, et al.. (2025). The i-FSC proxy for predicting inter-event and spatial variation of topographic site effects. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 23(2). 671–692.
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Lacroix, Pascal, et al.. (2023). Precursory Motion and Time‐Of‐Failure Prediction of the Achoma Landslide, Peru, From High Frequency PlanetScope Satellites. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(19). 9 indexed citations
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Cornou, Cécile, Pierre‐Yves Bard, Bertrand Guillier, et al.. (2023). Estimating urban seismic damages and debris from building-level simulations: application to the city of Beirut, Lebanon. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 21(13). 5949–5990. 9 indexed citations
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Ravanel, Ludovic, et al.. (2023). Climbing Mont Blanc (4808 m a.s.l.): What Are the Risks in the Grand Couloir Du Goûter and On the North Face of Mont Blanc Du Tacul?. Revue de géographie alpine. 111-2. 2 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, Joaquín M. C. Belart, Étienne Berthier, Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, & Kristín Jónsdóttir. (2022). Mechanisms of Landslide Destabilization Induced by Glacier‐Retreat on Tungnakvíslarjökull Area, Iceland. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(14). 17 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, et al.. (2022). SAR and optical images correlation illuminates post-seismic landslide motion after the Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal). Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6266–6266. 14 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, et al.. (2022). Multi-method monitoring of rockfall activity along the classic route up Mont Blanc (4809 m a.s.l.) to encourage adaptation by mountaineers. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(2). 445–460. 24 indexed citations
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Gnyawali, Kaushal Raj, et al.. (2021). Rapid Terrain Assessment for Earthquake-Triggered Landslide Susceptibility With High-Resolution DEM and Critical Acceleration. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. 14 indexed citations
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Bontemps, Noélie, Pascal Lacroix, Éric Larose, Jorge Jara, & Edú Taipe. (2020). Rain and small earthquakes maintain a slow-moving landslide in a persistent critical state. Nature Communications. 11(1). 780–780. 124 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, et al.. (2019). Self‐Entrainment Motion of a Slow‐Moving Landslide Inferred From Landsat‐8 Time Series. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 124(5). 1201–1216. 64 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, et al.. (2018). Use of Sentinel-2 images for the detection of precursory motions before landslide failures. Remote Sensing of Environment. 215. 507–516. 101 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, Étienne Berthier, & Edú Taipe. (2015). Earthquake-driven acceleration of slow-moving landslides in the Colca valley, Peru, detected from Pléiades images. Remote Sensing of Environment. 165. 148–158. 81 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, Isabelle Sasaki, Sonia Mallet‐Ladeira, et al.. (2013). Molecular materials for switchable nonlinear optics in the solid state, based on ruthenium-nitrosyl complexes. New Journal of Chemistry. 37(11). 3518–3518. 23 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Pascal, B. Legrésy, Frédérique Rémy, et al.. (2009). Rapid change of snow surface properties at Vostok, East Antarctica, revealed by altimetry and radiometry. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113(12). 2633–2641. 26 indexed citations

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