Philippe Davy

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
159 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Philippe Davy is a scholar working on Geophysics, Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Davy has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Geophysics, 56 papers in Environmental Engineering and 26 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Philippe Davy's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (56 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (38 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (28 papers). Philippe Davy is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (56 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (38 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (28 papers). Philippe Davy collaborates with scholars based in France, Sweden and United States. Philippe Davy's co-authors include Olivier Bour, Jean‐Raynald de Dreuzy, P.R. Cobbold, Dimitri Lague, Caroline Darcel, N. E. Odling, Alain Crave, Brian Berkowitz, Tanguy Le Borgne and Didier Sornette and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Davy

158 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

2001 1.1k citations Olivier Bour, Philippe Davy et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Davy France	59	5.0k	3.9k	2.4k	2.1k	1.4k	159	11.3k
Herbert E. Huppert United Kingdom	69	5.1k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	3.4k 2.5×	271	15.5k
Michael Manga United States	72	10.2k 2.0×	1.3k 0.3×	819 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	3.1k 2.2×	391	16.6k
Ghislain de Marsily France	44	1.6k 0.3×	4.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	401 0.3×	153	7.6k
Olivier Bour France	44	2.5k 0.5×	4.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	225 0.2×	122	6.8k
P. A. Cowie United Kingdom	47	6.0k 1.2×	911 0.2×	792 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	82	8.3k
Andrew Binley United Kingdom	63	7.3k 1.4×	5.9k 1.5×	413 0.2×	338 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	281	16.2k
Pietro Teatini Italy	44	1.1k 0.2×	1.8k 0.5×	485 0.2×	675 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	236	6.3k
John Bredehoeft United States	38	2.6k 0.5×	3.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	221 0.2×	100	7.1k
Lee Slater United States	49	6.3k 1.3×	2.6k 0.7×	297 0.1×	440 0.2×	755 0.6×	241	8.9k
Wolfgang Kinzelbach Switzerland	55	797 0.2×	4.3k 1.1×	818 0.3×	325 0.2×	814 0.6×	221	8.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Davy, Philippe, et al.. (2024). Structural and hydrodynamic controls on fluid travel time distributions across fracture networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2414901121–e2414901121. 3 indexed citations

Heyman, Joris, Emmanuel Villermaux, Philippe Davy, & Tanguy Le Borgne. (2024). Mixing as a correlated aggregation process. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 992. 1 indexed citations

Darcel, Caroline, et al.. (2024). Coupling stress and transmissivity to define equivalent directional hydraulic conductivity of fractured rocks. Engineering Geology. 342. 107739–107739. 10 indexed citations

Davy, Philippe, et al.. (2023). Assessing Stress Variability in Fractured Rock Masses with Frictional Properties and Power Law Fracture Size Distributions. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 57(4). 2407–2420. 6 indexed citations

Simone, Silvia De, et al.. (2023). Equivalent Biot and Skempton Poroelastic Coefficients for a Fractured Rock Mass from a DFN Approach. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 56(12). 8907–8925. 8 indexed citations

Simone, Silvia De, Olivier Bour, & Philippe Davy. (2023). Impact of Matrix Diffusion on Heat Transport Through Heterogeneous Fractured Aquifers. Water Resources Research. 59(2). 7 indexed citations

Darcel, Caroline, et al.. (2023). Controls on fracture openness and reactivation in Forsmark, Sweden. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6686–6686. 3 indexed citations

Bonnet, Stéphane, et al.. (2022). Autogenic knickpoints in laboratory landscape experiments. Earth Surface Dynamics. 10(2). 229–246. 6 indexed citations

Bonnet, Stéphane, et al.. (2021). Generation of autogenic knickpoints in laboratory landscape experiments evolving under constant forcing. 2 indexed citations

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Payrastre, Olivier, François Bourgin, Éric Gaumé, et al.. (2021). Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 2979–2995. 36 indexed citations

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Payrastre, Olivier, François Bourgin, Éric Gaumé, et al.. (2020). Performance of automated flood inundation mapping methods in acontext of flash floods: a comparison of three methods based eitheron the Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) concept, or on1D/2D shallow water equations. 6 indexed citations

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Bonnet, Stéphane, et al.. (2019). Landscape dynamics revealed by luminescence signals of feldspars from fluvial terraces. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8569–8569. 22 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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Davy, Philippe, et al.. (2016). Connectivity, permeability, and channeling in randomly distributed and kinematically defined discrete fracture network models. Water Resources Research. 52(11). 8526–8545. 150 indexed citations

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Aquilina, Luc, Virginie Vergnaud-Ayraud, Hélène Pauwels, et al.. (2015). Impact of climate changes during the last 5 million years on groundwater in basement aquifers. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14132–14132. 32 indexed citations

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Aquilina, Luc, et al.. (2015). Timescales of regional circulation of saline fluids in continental crystalline rock aquifers (Armorican Massif, western France). Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(3). 1413–1426. 10 indexed citations

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Aquilina, Luc, et al.. (2014). Time scales of regional circulation of saline fluids in continental aquifers (Armorican massif, Western France). HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 4 indexed citations

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Méheust, Yves, et al.. (2010). Horizontal pre-asymptotic solute transport in a plane fracture with significant density contrasts. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 120-121. 184–197. 13 indexed citations

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Dreuzy, Jean‐Raynald de, Jacques Bodin, Philippe Davy, et al.. (2006). General Database for Ground Water Site Information. Ground Water. 44(5). 743–748. 34 indexed citations

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Dreuzy, Jean‐Raynald de, Philippe Davy, & Olivier Bour. (2000). Percolation parameter and percolation-threshold estimates for three-dimensional random ellipses with widely scattered distributions of eccentricity and size. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 62(5). 5948–5952. 95 indexed citations

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