Sylvain Barbot

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Barbot is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Barbot has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Geophysics, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Barbot's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (106 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (79 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (57 papers). Sylvain Barbot is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (106 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (79 papers) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (57 papers). Sylvain Barbot collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and China. Sylvain Barbot's co-authors include Jean‐Philippe Avouac, Yuri Fialko, S. Leprince, Yehuda Bock, N. Lapusta, Qiang Qiu, Lujia Feng, Teng Wang, Shengji Wei and James D. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Barbot

110 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Automatic and Precise Orthorectification, Coregistration, and Subpixel Correlation of Satellite Images, Application to Ground Deformation Measurements

2007 734 citations S. Leprince, Sylvain Barbot et al. profile →
Slip distribution of the February 6, 2023 Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.6, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake sequence in the East Anatolian Fault Zone

2023 123 citations Sylvain Barbot, Teng Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvain Barbot United States	40	4.1k	435	401	395	301	115	4.9k
Romain Jolivet France	29	2.4k 0.6×	497 1.1×	840 2.1×	276 0.7×	361 1.2×	71	3.3k
Corné Kreemer United States	35	3.7k 0.9×	437 1.0×	867 2.2×	390 1.0×	114 0.4×	99	4.6k
R. J. Walters United Kingdom	28	1.9k 0.5×	434 1.0×	971 2.4×	180 0.5×	472 1.6×	51	2.7k
Alessandro Bonforte Italy	31	1.9k 0.5×	364 0.8×	431 1.1×	188 0.5×	359 1.2×	88	2.3k
R. J. Mellors United States	24	1.6k 0.4×	192 0.4×	377 0.9×	299 0.8×	195 0.6×	90	2.1k
Yuri Fialko United States	45	5.6k 1.4×	500 1.1×	1.1k 2.8×	424 1.1×	608 2.0×	115	6.5k
Mikio Tobita Japan	23	1.7k 0.4×	253 0.6×	435 1.1×	255 0.6×	360 1.2×	50	2.2k
Christian Bignami Italy	27	1.2k 0.3×	614 1.4×	761 1.9×	224 0.6×	400 1.3×	123	2.5k
Shengji Wei Singapore	31	3.7k 0.9×	155 0.4×	223 0.6×	533 1.3×	245 0.8×	129	4.1k
Semih Ergintav Türkiye	33	3.0k 0.8×	157 0.4×	314 0.8×	333 0.8×	140 0.5×	105	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Barbot

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Güvercin, Sezim Ezgi, et al.. (2025). Frictional stability of Pelona–Orocopia–Rand schists under hydrothermal conditions and implications for seismic hazards in Southern California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 669. 119573–119573. 3 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain. (2024). Does the direct effect of friction increase continuously with absolute temperature?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(42). e2405111121–e2405111121. 8 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain. (2024). Transient and Steady‐State Friction in Non‐Isobaric Conditions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 25(2). 15 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2024). Velocity and Temperature Dependence of Steady‐State Friction of Natural Gouge Controlled by Competing Healing Mechanisms. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(11). 9 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain & Lei Zhang. (2023). Constitutive Behavior of Olivine Gouge Across the Brittle‐Ductile Transition. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(24). 14 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Pulse-like ruptures, seismic swarms, and tremorgenic slow-slip events with thermally activated friction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 603. 117983–117983. 20 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Islands of chaos in a sea of periodic earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 618. 118274–118274. 13 indexed citations

Jiang, Junle, Brittany A. Erickson, Valère Lambert, et al.. (2022). Community‐Driven Code Comparisons for Three‐Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(3). 41 indexed citations

Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2022). Coseismic Folding During Ramp Failure at the Front of the Sulaiman Fold‐and‐Thrust Belt. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(23). 2 indexed citations

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Weiss, Jonathan, Qiang Qiu, Sylvain Barbot, et al.. (2019). Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake. Science Advances. 5(12). eaax6720–eaax6720. 59 indexed citations

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Muto, Jun, James D. Moore, Sylvain Barbot, et al.. (2019). Coupled afterslip and transient mantle flow after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Science Advances. 5(9). 61 indexed citations

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Barbot, Sylvain. (2018). Asthenosphere Flow Modulated by Megathrust Earthquake Cycles. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(12). 6018–6031. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Teng, Mehdi Nikkhoo, Shengji Wei, et al.. (2018). The rise, collapse, and compaction of Mt. Mantap from the 3 September 2017 North Korean nuclear test. Science. 361(6398). 166–170. 88 indexed citations

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Daout, Simon, Sylvain Barbot, G. Peltzer, et al.. (2016). Constraining the kinematics of metropolitan Los Angeles faults with a slip‐partitioning model. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(21). 11192–11201. 29 indexed citations

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Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2016). Seafloor Geodesy using Wave Gliders to study Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards at Subduction Zones. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2016). The Parkfield Tremors: Slow and Fast Ruptures on the Same Asperity. European geosciences union general assembly. 1 indexed citations

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Lambert, Valère & Sylvain Barbot. (2016). The Role of Thermal Processes in Defining the Seismogenic Zone: The Interplay Between Faults and Shear Zones. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Barbot, Sylvain, et al.. (2012). Mechanisms of Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 M=7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 4 indexed citations

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Fialko, Yuri, et al.. (2010). Static Rupture Model of the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake from ALOS, ENVISAT, SPOT and GPS Data. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 9 indexed citations

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Barbot, Sylvain, Yuri Fialko, David T. Sandwell, & Yehuda Bock. (2008). Postseismic deformation due to the Mw6.0 Parkfield Earthquake: Stress-driven creep on a fault with spatially variable rate-and-state friction parameters. AGUSM. 2008. 16 indexed citations

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