Philippe Agard

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
125 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Philippe Agard is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Agard has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Geophysics, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Philippe Agard's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (112 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (97 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (69 papers). Philippe Agard is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (112 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (97 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (69 papers). Philippe Agard collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Philippe Agard's co-authors include Laurent Jolivet, Samuel Angiboust, Jafar Omrani, Patrick Monié, Hubert Whitechurch, Philippe Yamato, Bruno Goffé, Alexis Plunder, Olivier Vidal and Stéphane Guillot and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Agard

124 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

2011 795 citations Philippe Agard, Laurent Jolivet et al. profile →
The subduction plate interface: rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

2018 213 citations Philippe Agard, Alexis Plunder et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Agard France	48	6.3k	1.1k	396	370	280	125	6.7k
B A Kjarsgaard Canada	40	4.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	370 0.9×	300 0.8×	332 1.2×	120	5.3k
Patrick Monié France	41	5.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	475 1.2×	229 0.6×	271 1.0×	109	6.1k
Toshiaki Tsunogae Japan	45	6.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	299 0.8×	131 0.4×	426 1.5×	230	6.6k
Torgeir B. Andersen Norway	49	5.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	329 0.8×	568 1.5×	318 1.1×	127	6.3k
Bin Fu China	40	5.2k 0.8×	2.2k 2.1×	365 0.9×	328 0.9×	324 1.2×	153	5.7k
Philippe Boulvais France	32	2.9k 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	281 0.7×	192 0.5×	270 1.0×	129	3.2k
Mark R. Handy Germany	37	5.4k 0.9×	611 0.6×	597 1.5×	553 1.5×	210 0.8×	83	5.8k
Marco Scambelluri Italy	49	5.7k 0.9×	890 0.8×	397 1.0×	365 1.0×	230 0.8×	118	6.0k
John W. Shervais United States	34	5.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.8×	460 1.2×	176 0.5×	343 1.2×	146	6.1k
Serge Fourcade France	40	3.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	542 1.4×	224 0.6×	346 1.2×	75	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Philippe Agard

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Soret, Mathieu, et al.. (2025). Grain-scale feedback between deformation mechanisms and metamorphic reactions: Dissolution-precipitation processes in the lower crust (Kågen gabbros). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 656. 119275–119275. 3 indexed citations

Weidle, Christian, Andreas Scharf, Philippe Agard, et al.. (2023). Lithospheric evolution of eastern Arabia based on surface wave and receiver function analyses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 611. 118145–118145. 13 indexed citations

Agard, Philippe, et al.. (2022). Hygrochronometry of punctuated metasomatic events during exhumation of the Cycladic blueschist unit (Syros, Greece). Terra Nova. 35(2). 101–112. 6 indexed citations

Soret, Mathieu, Guillaume Bonnet, Philippe Agard, et al.. (2022). Timescales of subduction initiation and evolution of subduction thermal regimes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 584. 117521–117521. 38 indexed citations

Weidle, Christian, Amr El‐Sharkawy, Thomas Meier, et al.. (2020). A 3-D crustal model of the eastern Arabian plate margin below the Oman Ophiolite. 1 indexed citations

Agard, Philippe, Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen, Jeroen Smit, et al.. (2020). Structure of the Offshore Obducted Oman Margin: Emplacement of Semail Ophiolite and Role of Tectonic Inheritance. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(2). 21 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Mathieu, Philippe Huchon, Nicolas Chamot‐Rooke, et al.. (2019). Successive shifts of the India-Africa transform plate boundary during the Late Cretaceous-Paleogene interval: Implications for ophiolite emplacement along transforms. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 191. 104225–104225. 15 indexed citations

Soret, Mathieu, Philippe Agard, Benoı̂t Ildefonse, et al.. (2019). Deformation mechanisms in mafic amphibolites and granulites: record from the Semail metamorphic sole during subduction infancy. Solid Earth. 10(5). 1733–1755. 33 indexed citations

Tappa, Michael J., et al.. (2019). Rb/Sr Geochemistry and Geochronology on Lawsonite from the Schiste Lustrés, France. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Soret, Mathieu, Philippe Agard, Benoît Dubacq, Alexis Plunder, & Philippe Yamato. (2017). Petrological evidence for stepwise accretion of metamorphic soles during subduction infancy (Semail ophiolite, Oman and UAE ). Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 35(9). 1051–1080. 90 indexed citations

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Prigent, C., Stéphane Guillot, Philippe Agard, et al.. (2017). Transfer of subduction fluids into the deforming mantle wedge during nascent subduction: Evidence from trace elements and boron isotopes (Semail ophiolite, Oman). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 484. 213–228. 56 indexed citations

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Labrousse, Loïc, et al.. (2016). U/Pb dating of subduction-collision in the Brooks Range: implications for Mesozoic geodynamics of Arctic Alaska. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Prigent, C., Stéphane Guillot, Philippe Agard, & Marguerite Godard. (2015). Mantle Wedge formation during Subduction Initiation: evidence from the refertilized base of the Oman ophiolitic mantle. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 9558. 1 indexed citations

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Guillot, Stéphane, Philippe Agard, Marguerite Godard, et al.. (2014). The basal part of the Oman ophiolitic mantle: a fossil Mantle Wedge?. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 10266. 1 indexed citations

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Duretz, Thibault, Philippe Agard, Philippe Yamato, & Evgueni Burov. (2013). Obduction at plate boundaries : thermo-mechanical modelling. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Plunder, Alexis, Philippe Agard, Christian Chopin, & Aral İ. Okay. (2013). Record of high-pressure overprint in metamorphic soles of the Tavşanli zone, Western Anatolia. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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François, Thomas, E. Burov, Philippe Agard, & B. Meyer. (2012). Evaluating the effect of rheology on the evolution of continental collision: Application to the Zagros orogen.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10283. 3 indexed citations

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Bebout, Gray E., et al.. (2012). Fluid-Rock Interaction and Carbon Retention in Deeply Subducted Basalts. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Plunder, Alexis, Philippe Agard, Benoît Dubacq, Christian Chopin, & Mathieu Bellanger. (2012). How continuous and precise is the record of P–T paths? Insights from combined thermobarometry and thermodynamic modelling into subduction dynamics (Schistes Lustrés, W. Alps). Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 30(3). 323–346. 77 indexed citations

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Bebout, Gray E., Philippe Agard, Takuya Moriguti, K. Kobayashi, & Eizo Nakamura. (2008). Reconstructing Subduction-Zone Devolatilization History of Italian Alps HP/UHP Metasedimentary Suites. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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