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Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 39 6205 5748 468 447 92 5301

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bernard Mercier de Lépinay between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bernard Mercier de Lépinay published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 2.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 7 publications in 2014. 2 of the 102 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 7. Peak 7 publications in 2014. 1986: 2 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 1 publication 1994: 2 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 4 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 2 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 2 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 2 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 0 publications 2025: 2 publications
1986 2025

102 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bernard Mercier de Lépinay: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 2
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 2
1991 1
1992 1
1993 1
1994 2
1995 2
1996 4
1997 6
1998 2
1999 1
2000 4
2001 3
2002 1
2003 2
2004 0
2005 2
2006 1
2007 2
2008 2
2009 2
2010 4
2011 4
2012 5
2013 3
2014 7
2015 5
2016 6
2017 5
2018 2
2019 2
2020 2
2021 4
2022 7
2023 0
2024 0
2025 2
Total 102
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Bernard Mercier de Lépinay publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Mercier de Lépinay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 88–97 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 92 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376 92
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Bernard Mercier de Lépinay D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Mercier de Lépinay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349 39
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay is affiliated with Université Côte d'Azur in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable emphasis on Geophysics. Other areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of seismic and tectonic topics. These topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • E. Calais
  • Steeve Symithe
  • Roby Douilly
  • Clément Garrocq
  • Serge Lallemand

Bernard Mercier de Lépinay has been published multiple times in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (3 publications)
  • Tectonics (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Earth Science (1 publication)

Significant recent papers by Bernard Mercier de Lépinay include:

  • "Genetic Relations Between the Aves Ridge and the Grenada Back-Arc Basin, East Caribbean Sea," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Polyphase Tectonic Evolution of Fore-Arc Basin Related to STEP Fault as Revealed by Seismic Reflection Data From the Alboran Sea (W-Mediterranean)," 2020, Tectonics
  • "A Socio-Seismology Experiment in Haiti," 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Strain Partitioning within the Caribbean-North America Transform Plate Boundary in Southern Haiti, Tectonic and Hazard Implications," 2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Rupture Segmentation of the 14 August 2021 Mw 7.2 Nippes, Haiti, Earthquake Using Aftershock Relocation from a Local Seismic Deployment," 2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The active Main Marmara Fault

    X. Le Pichon;X. Le Pichon;A.M.C. Şengör;E. Demirbağ;E. Demirbağ;C. Rangin

  • Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart (North Anatolian Fault): Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul

    Rolando Armijo;Nicolas Pondard;Bertrand Meyer;Gulsen Uçarkus

  • Active thrust faulting offshore Boumerdes, Algeria, and its relations to the 2003 Mw 6.9 earthquake

    Jacques Déverchère;K. Yelles;A. Domzig;B. Mercier de Lépinay

  • An alternative interpretation of the Cayman trough evolution from a reidentification of magnetic anomalies

    S. Leroy;A. Mauffret;P. Patriat;B. Mercier de Lépinay

  • Strain partitioning in the transition area between oblique subduction and continental collision, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil

  • From Oblique Subduction to Intra-Continental Transpression: Structures of the Southern Kermadec-Hikurangi Margin from Multibeam Bathymetry, Side-Scan Sonar and Seismic Reflection

    Jean-Yves Collot;Jean Delteil;Keith B. Lewis;Bryan Davy

  • Strain partitioning and fault slip rates in the northeastern Caribbean from GPS measurements

    Eric Calais;Yves Mazabraud;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Paul Mann

  • Rates and mechanics of rapid frontal accretion along the very obliquely convergent southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • The Guerrero suspect terrane (western Mexico) and coeval arc terranes (the Greater Antilles and the Western Cordillera of Colombia): a late Mesozoic intra-oceanic arc accreted to cratonal America during the Cretaceous

    M. Tardy;H. Lapierre;C. Freydier;C. Coulon

  • Searching for the Africa–Eurasia Miocene boundary offshore western Algeria (MARADJA'03 cruise)

    Anne Domzig;Karim Yelles;Charlotte Le Roy;Jacques Déverchère

  • Gas emissions and active tectonics within the submerged section of the North Anatolian Fault zone in the Sea of Marmara

    L. Géli;P. Henry;T. Zitter;S. Dupré

  • Multiple plume events in the genesis of the peri‐Caribbean Cretaceous oceanic plateau province

    Henriette Lapierre;Delphine Bosch;Vincent Dupuis;Mireille Polvé

  • Late Quaternary co-seismic sedimentation in the Sea of Marmara's deep basins

    Christian Beck;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Jean-Luc Schneider;Michel Cremer

  • Tectonic expression of an active slab‐tear from high‐resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore Sicily (Ionian Sea)

    Marc-André Gutscher;Stephane Dominguez;Bernard Mercier de Lepinay;Luis Pinheiro

  • Recent and active deformation pattern off the easternmost Algerian margin, Western Mediterranean Sea: New evidence for contractional tectonic reactivation

    Abdelaziz Kherroubi;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Abdelkarim Yelles;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Paleogeodynamic maps of the Caribbean; 14 steps from Lias to present

    J. F. Stephan;B. Mercier de Lepinay;E. Calais;M. Tardy

  • Cold seeps along the main Marmara Fault in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey)

    T.A.C. Zitter;P. Henry;G. Aloisi;G. Delaygue

  • Tectonic inheritance and Pliocene‐Pleistocene inversion of the Algerian margin around Algiers: Insights from multibeam and seismic reflection data

    Pierre Strzerzynski;Pierre Strzerzynski;Jacques Déverchère;Jacques Déverchère;Antonio Cattaneo;Anne Domzig

  • From transcurrent faulting to frontal subduction: A seismotectonic study of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary from Cuba to Puerto Rico

    Eric Calais;Nicole Béthoux;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay

  • Plate boundary segmentation in the northeastern Caribbean from geodetic measurements and Neogene geological observations

    Éric Calais;Steeve Symithe;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Claude Prépetit

  • Is the Lower Duarte Igneous Complex (Hispaniola) a Remnant of the Caribbean Plume-Generated Oceanic Plateau?

    Henriette Lapierre;Vincent Dupuis;Bernard Mercier de Lépinay;Marc Tardy;Marc Tardy

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Jacques Déverchère
Jacques Déverchère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Serge Lallemand
Serge Lallemand University of Montpellier
Stéphane Dominguez
Stéphane Dominguez University of Montpellier
Marc-André Gutscher
Marc-André Gutscher Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frauke Klingelhoefer
Frauke Klingelhoefer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Antonio Cattaneo
Antonio Cattaneo French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jacques Bourgois
Jacques Bourgois Sorbonne University

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