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Karine Olu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karine Olu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Karine Olu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karine Olu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Karine Olu is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Sociology and Political Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Recent research publications include:

  • "Chiridota heheva-the cosmopolitan holothurian" (2020) published in Marine Biodiversity
  • "Impacts of an Eruption on Cold-Seep Microbial and Faunal Dynamics at a Mud Volcano" (2020) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "When Imagery and Physical Sampling Work Together: Toward an Integrative Methodology of Deep-Sea Image-Based Megafauna Identification" (2021) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Fluid seepage associated with slope destabilization along the Zambezi margin (Mozambique)" (2020) published in Marine Geology
  • "A threefold perspective on the role of a pockmark in benthic faunal communities and biodiversity patterns" (2020) published in Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Co-authorship collaborations have frequently included researchers such as Mélissa Hanafi-Portier, Daniela Zeppilli, Stéphanie Dupré, Sarah Samadi, and Laure Corbari.

Notable publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Marine Biodiversity
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Marine Geology

Best Publications

  • Biogeography, biodiversity and fluid dependence of deep-sea cold-seep communities at active and passive margins

    Myriam Sibuet;Karine Olu

  • Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

    Roberto Danovaro;Cinzia Corinaldesi;Gianfranco D'Onghia

  • Variations in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores plateau

    D. Desbruyères;M. Biscoito;J.-C. Caprais;A. Colaço

  • Cold seep communities as indicators of fluid expulsion patterns through mud volcanoes seaward of the Barbados accretionary prism

    Karine Olu;Sophie Lance;Myriam Sibuet;Pierre Henry

  • Trophic relationships in a deep Mediterranean cold-water coral bank (Santa Maria di Leuca, Ionian Sea)

    A. Carlier;E. Le Guilloux;Karine Olu;Jozee Sarrazin

  • Structure and distribution of cold seep communities along the Peruvian active margin: relationship to geological and fluid patterns

    Olu K;Duperret A;Sibuet M;Foucher Jp

  • Biodiversity of cold seep ecosystems along the European margins

    A. Vanreusel;A.C. Andersen;A. Boetius;D.P. Connelly

  • Spatial distribution of diverse cold seep communities living on various diapiric structures of the southern Barbados prism

    K. Olu;M. Sibuet;F. Harmegnies;J.-P. Foucher

  • ROV study of a giant pockmark on the Gabon continental margin

    H. Ondréas;K. Olu;Y. Fouquet;J. L. Charlou

  • An overview of chemosynthetic symbioses in bivalves from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

    Sebastien Duperron;Sylvie Marylene Gaudron;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Marina Pais Ribeiro da Cunha

  • Evidence for chemoautotrophic symbiosis in a Mediterranean cold seep clam (Bivalvia: Lucinidae): comparative sequence analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA, APS reductase and RubisCO genes.

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Aline Fiala-Médioni;Jean-Claude Caprais;Karine Olu

  • SUBMERSIBLE STUDY OF MUD VOLCANOES SEAWARD OF THE BARBADOS ACCRETIONARY WEDGE : SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRUCTURE AND RHEOLOGY

    Sophie Lance;Pierre Henry;Xavier Le Pichon;Siegfried Lallemant

  • Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats

    Saskia Van Gaever;Karine Olu;Sofie Derycke;Ann Vanreusel

  • Biogeography and Potential Exchanges Among the Atlantic Equatorial Belt Cold-Seep Faunas

    Karine Olu;Erik E. Cordes;Charles R. Fisher;James M. Brooks

  • Influence of seep emission on the non-symbiont-bearing fauna and vagrant species at an active giant pockmark in the Gulf of Guinea (Congo-Angola margin)

    Karine Olu;Jean-Claude Caprais;Joelle Galeron;R. Causse

  • Morphology, structure, composition and build-up processes of the active channel-mouth lobe complex of the Congo deep-sea fan with inputs from remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) multibeam and video surveys

    Bernard Dennielou;Laurence Droz;Nathalie Babonneau;Céline Jacq

  • High connectivity across the fragmented chemosynthetic ecosystems of the deep Atlantic Equatorial Belt: efficient dispersal mechanisms or questionable endemism?

    Sara Teixeira;Sara Teixeira;Karine Olu;Carole Decker;Regina L. Cunha

  • Large Vesicomyidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from cold seeps in the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Gabon, Congo and northern Angola

    Rudo von Cosel;Karine Olu

  • Gigantism in Mytilidae. A new Bathymodiolus from cold seep areas on the Barbados accretionary Prism

    Rudo von Cosel;Karine Olu

  • Eruption of a deep-sea mud volcano triggers rapid sediment movement

    Tomas Feseker;Tomas Feseker;Antje Boetius;Antje Boetius;Frank Wenzhöfer;Jerome Blandin

  • Fluid flow regimes and growth of a giant pockmark

    Yann Marcon;Hélène Ondréas;Heiko Sahling;Gerhard Bohrmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Claude Caprais
Jean-Claude Caprais French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jozée Sarrazin
Jozée Sarrazin University of Western Brittany
Christophe Rabouille
Christophe Rabouille University of Paris-Saclay
Myriam Sibuet
Myriam Sibuet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Alexis Khripounoff
Alexis Khripounoff University of Western Brittany
Sébastien Duperron
Sébastien Duperron Sorbonne University
Ann Vanreusel
Ann Vanreusel Ghent University
Bernard Dennielou
Bernard Dennielou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Pierre-Marie Sarradin
Pierre-Marie Sarradin University of Western Brittany

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