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Jean Schmittbuhl

Jean Schmittbuhl

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
58
Citations
10526
World Ranking
2546
National Ranking
40

Jean Schmittbuhl publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean Schmittbuhl sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 259 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Jean Schmittbuhl D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean Schmittbuhl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jean Schmittbuhl is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their work primarily focuses on geophysical phenomena, particularly related to seismic activity and rock mechanics.

The scientist has published research in key venues, including:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geothermal Energy
  • Scientific Data
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schmittbuhl include Olivier Lengliné, Guido Blöcher, Mauro Cacace, Jannes Kinscher, and Vincent Magnenet. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary approaches within geophysics and engineering.

Their research spans several subfields such as Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. The main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Induced and triggered seismicity below the city of Strasbourg, France from November 2019 to January 2021" (2021), published in Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • "An open data infrastructure for the study of anthropogenic hazards linked to georesource exploitation" (2020), published in Scientific Data
  • "Abiotic hydrogen generation from biotite-rich granite: A case study of the Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal site, France" (2020), published in Applied Geochemistry
  • "Seismic asperity size evolution during fluid injection: case study of the 1993 Soultz-sous-Forêts injection" (2020), published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Permeability Evolution During Shear Zone Initiation in Low-Porosity Rocks" (2021), published in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Best Publications

  • Reliability of self-affine measurements

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Stéphane Roux

  • Roughness of fault surfaces over nine decades of length scales

    Thibault Candela;Thibault Candela;François Renard;François Renard;Yann Klinger;Karen Mair

  • Scaling invariance of crack surfaces

    Jean Schmittbuhl;François Schmitt;Christopher Scholz

  • Extended Nucleation of the 1999 Mw 7.6 Izmit Earthquake

    Michel Bouchon;Hayrullah Karabulut;Mustafa Aktar;Serdar Özalaybey

  • Field measurements of the roughness of fault surfaces

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Sylvie Gentier;Stéphane Roux

  • The long precursory phase of most large interplate earthquakes

    Michel Bouchon;Virginie Durand;Virginie Durand;David Marsan;Hayrullah Karabulut

  • Characterization of Fault Roughness at Various Scales: Implications of Three-Dimensional High Resolution Topography Measurements

    Thibault Candela;François Renard;Michel Bouchon;Alexandre Brouste

  • Correlation of multi-temporal ground-based optical images for landslide monitoring: Application, potential and limitations

    Julien Travelletti;Christophe Delacourt;Pascal Allemand;Jean-Philippe Malet

  • Interfacial crack pinning: Effect of nonlocal interactions.

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Stéphane Roux;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Knut Jorgen Måløy

  • Quantification of microcrack characteristics and implications for stiffness and strength of granite

    L. Griffiths;M.J. Heap;P. Baud;J. Schmittbuhl

  • Local waiting time fluctuations along a randomly pinned crack front.

    Knut Jørgen Måløy;Stéphane Santucci;Jean Schmittbuhl;Renaud Toussaint

  • Direct Observation of a Self-Affine Crack Propagation

    Jean Schmittbuhl;Knut Jørgen Måløy

  • Interface scaling in a two-dimensional porous medium under combined viscous, gravity, and capillary effects

    Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Competition of gravity, capillary and viscous forces during drainage in a two-dimensional porous medium, a pore scale study

    Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker

  • Hydrothermal characterization of wells GRT-1 and GRT-2 in Rittershoffen, France: Implications on the understanding of natural flow systems in the rhine graben

    C. Baujard;A. Genter;E. Dalmais;Vincent Maurer

  • Characterization of Fault Roughness at Various Scales: Implications of Three-Dimensional High Resolution Topography Measurements

    Thibault Candela;François Renard;Michel Bouchon;David Marsan

  • High resolution 3D laser scanner measurements of a strike-slip fault quantify its morphological anisotropy at all scales

    François Renard;François Renard;Christophe Voisin;David Marsan;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Anomalous scaling of fracture surfaces

    Juan M. López;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Geometrical heterogeneities and permeability anisotropy of rough fractures

    Y. Méheust;J. Schmittbuhl

  • Thermal Cracking in Westerly Granite Monitored Using Direct Wave Velocity, Coda Wave Interferometry, and Acoustic Emissions

    L. Griffiths;O. Lengliné;M. J. Heap;P. Baud

  • Origin of the Universal Roughness Exponent of Brittle Fracture Surfaces:Stress-Weighted Percolation in the Damage Zone

    Alex Hansen;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele-Shaw cell.

    Grunde Løvoll;Grunde Løvoll;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Yves Méheust;Renaud Toussaint;Renaud Toussaint;Jean Schmittbuhl

Frequent Co-Authors

Knut Jørgen Måløy
Knut Jørgen Måløy University of Oslo
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Alex Hansen
Alex Hansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hayrullah Karabulut
Hayrullah Karabulut Boğaziçi University
Michel Bouchon
Michel Bouchon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stéphane Roux
Stéphane Roux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Patrick Baud
Patrick Baud University of Strasbourg
Michael J. Heap
Michael J. Heap University of Strasbourg
David Marsan
David Marsan Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Jean-Pierre Gratier
Jean-Pierre Gratier Grenoble Alpes University

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