René Guiraud

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

René Guiraud is a scholar working on Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, René Guiraud has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Geophysics, 11 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 4 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in René Guiraud's work include Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide (27 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (23 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (14 papers). René Guiraud is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide (27 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (23 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (14 papers). René Guiraud collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Algeria. René Guiraud's co-authors include William Bosworth, Jean‐Christophe Maurin, Jacques Thierry, Marjorie Wilson, A.J. Bumby, J.D. Fairhead, Christian Moreau, Yves Bellion, Jean Benkhelil and Jean Mascle and has published in prestigious journals such as Geology, Tectonophysics and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

René Guiraud

33 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Phanerozoic geological evolution of Northern and Central ... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
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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. Phanerozoic geological evolution of Northern and Central Africa: An overview
    2005 660 citations René Guiraud, William Bosworth et al. Journal of African Earth Sciences profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
René Guiraud France 25 2.6k 1.2k 998 738 666 33 3.8k
William Bosworth United States 29 3.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 1.0k 1.4× 477 0.7× 59 4.6k
P.L. Hancock United Kingdom 22 2.8k 1.1× 823 0.7× 846 0.8× 502 0.7× 432 0.6× 58 3.8k
A. J. Tankard Canada 18 2.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 685 0.7× 791 1.1× 799 1.2× 32 3.6k
François Roure France 36 3.6k 1.4× 777 0.7× 863 0.9× 332 0.4× 425 0.6× 123 4.2k
Trevor P. Burchette United Kingdom 15 963 0.4× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.3× 864 1.2× 1.4k 2.0× 24 3.2k
Cécile Robin France 36 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 529 0.5× 595 0.8× 615 0.9× 111 3.1k
Michel Séranne France 31 2.3k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 631 0.6× 497 0.7× 294 0.4× 68 3.3k
David I. M. Macdonald United Kingdom 24 1.1k 0.4× 628 0.5× 556 0.6× 663 0.9× 513 0.8× 61 2.2k
Dominique Frizon de Lamotte France 42 5.4k 2.1× 846 0.7× 659 0.7× 300 0.4× 342 0.5× 102 6.0k
Nick Kusznir United Kingdom 48 5.6k 2.2× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 2.3k 3.1× 272 0.4× 150 6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of René Guiraud

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fairhead, J.D., Chris Green, Sheona Masterton, & René Guiraud. (2013). The role that plate tectonics, inferred stress changes and stratigraphic unconformities have on the evolution of the West and Central African Rift System and the Atlantic continental margins. Tectonophysics. 594. 118–127. 100 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René, et al.. (2006). The relationships between tectonics and sedimentation in the Late Cretaceous series of the eastern Atlasic Domain (Algeria). Journal of African Earth Sciences. 46(4). 346–370. 38 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René, et al.. (2006). End Cretaceous to recent polyphased compressive tectonics along the “Môle Constantinois” and foreland (NE Algeria). Journal of African Earth Sciences. 45(1). 123–136. 24 indexed citations
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Bumby, A.J. & René Guiraud. (2005). The geodynamic setting of the Phanerozoic basins of Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 43(1-3). 1–12. 123 indexed citations
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Basile, Christophe, Jean Mascle, & René Guiraud. (2005). Phanerozoic geological evolution of the Equatorial Atlantic domain. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 43(1-3). 275–282. 99 indexed citations
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Piqué, Alain, Pierre Tricart, René Guiraud, et al.. (2002). The Mesozoic-Cenozoic Atlas belt (North Africa): an overview. Geodinamica Acta. 15(3). 185–208. 64 indexed citations
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Ngounouno, Ismaı̈la, et al.. (2001). Magmatismes tholéiitique et alcalin des demi-grabens crétacés de Mayo Oulo–Léré et de Babouri–Figuil (Nord du Cameroun–Sud du Tchad) en domaine d'extension continentale. Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science. 333(4). 201–207. 23 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Peter A., Sierd Cloetingh, René Guiraud, & Gérard M. Stampfli. (1999). Peritethyan platforms; dynamics of rifting and basin inversion.. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René & William Bosworth. (1999). Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of northeastern Africa and the northwestern Arabian platform. Tectonophysics. 315(1-4). 73–104. 248 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René. (1998). Mesozoic rifting and basin inversion along the northern African Tethyan margin: an overview. Geological Society London Special Publications. 132(1). 217–229. 213 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René & William Bosworth. (1997). Senonian basin inversion and rejuvenation of rifting in Africa and Arabia: synthesis and implications to plate-scale tectonics. Tectonophysics. 282(1-4). 39–82. 433 indexed citations
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Maurin, Jean‐Christophe & René Guiraud. (1993). Basement control in the development of the early cretaceous West and Central African rift system. Tectonophysics. 228(1-2). 81–95. 102 indexed citations
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Wilson, Marjorie & René Guiraud. (1992). Magmatism and rifting in Western and Central Africa, from Late Jurassic to Recent times. Tectonophysics. 213(1-2). 203–225. 164 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René & Jean‐Christophe Maurin. (1991). Le Rifting en Afrique au Cretace inferieur; synthese structurale, mise en evidence de deux etapes dans la genese des bassins, relations avec les ouvertures oceaniques peri-africaines. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 162(5). 811–823. 118 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René. (1977). Sur la neotectonique des regions ouest-constantinoises. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. S7-XIX(3). 645–650. 30 indexed citations
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Armijo, Rolando, et al.. (1977). Les resultats de l'analyse structurale et de la neotectonique des littoraux; A, Les resultats de l'analyse structurale en Espagne. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. S7-XIX(3). 591–594. 9 indexed citations
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Guiraud, René. (1975). L'EVOLUTION POST-TRIASIQUE DE L'AVANT-PAYS DE LA CHAINE ALPINE EN ALGERIE D'APRES L'ETUDE DU BASSIN DU HODNA ET DES REGIONS VOISINES.. 64 indexed citations
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Boyer, F. & René Guiraud. (1964). Observations nouvelles sur le passage du Cambrien a l'Ordovicien dans la Montagne-Noire. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. S7-VI(4). 515–522. 3 indexed citations

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