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Luc Ortlieb 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 Luc Ortlieb sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 109 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luc Ortlieb 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 Luc Ortlieb sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Overview

Luc Ortlieb is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research focuses on environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and computer science, with particular attention to subfields such as pollution, geochemistry and petrology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent publication record includes work on the accumulation of heavy metals in industrialized environments. Specifically, they co-authored the paper titled "Human-induced metals accumulation in sediments of an industrialized bay of northern Chile. An enrichment and ecological risk assessment based on preindustrial values", published in 2023 in the Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Luc Ortlieb's research primarily addresses topics related to heavy metals in the environment, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Luc Ortlieb include:

  • Jorge Valdés
  • Abdelfettah Sifeddine
  • Alexis Castillo

Their work has appeared in venues such as:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Coastal cooling and increased productivity in the main upwelling zone off Peru since the mid-twentieth century

    Dimitri Gutiérrez;Ioanna Bouloubassi;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Sara Purca

  • Distribution and enrichment evaluation of heavy metals in Mejillones Bay (23 degrees S), Northern Chile: geochemical and statistical approach.

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  • Plio-quaternary vertical motions and the subduction of the Nazca ridge, central coast of Peru

    José Macharé;Luc Ortlieb

  • Rapid reorganization in ocean biogeochemistry off Peru towards the end of the Little Ice Age

    D. Gutiérrez;A. Sifeddine;A. Sifeddine;D. B. Field;D. B. Field;L. Ortlieb

  • Fault tectonics of the Baja California Peninsula and the opening of the Sea of Cortez, Mexico

    J. Angelier;B. Colletta;J. Chorowicz;L. Ortlieb

  • Stable isotopes and sclerochronology of the bivalve Mesodesma donacium: Potential application to Peruvian paleoceanographic reconstructions

    Matthieu Carré;Ilhem Bentaleb;Dominique Blamart;Neil Ogle

  • The MW=8.1 Antofagasta (North Chile) Earthquake of July 30, 1995: First results from teleseismic and geodetic data

    J. C. Ruegg;J. Campos;R. Armijo;S. Barrientos

  • ENSO tropical-extratropical climate teleconnections and mechanisms for Holocene debris flows along the hyperarid coast of western South America (17°-24°S)

    Gabriel Vargas;José Rutllant;Luc Ortlieb

  • Catálogo descriptivo de los moluscos litorales (Gastropoda y Pelecypoda) de la zona de Antofagasta, 23°S (Chile)

    Nury Guzmán;Sheyla Saá;Luc Ortlieb

  • Enhancement of coastal upwelling and interdecadal ENSO-like variability in the Peru-Chile Current since late 19th century

    Gabriel Vargas;Silvio Pantoja;José A. Rutllant;Carina B. Lange

  • Aluviones históricos en Antofagasta y su relación con eventos El Niño/Oscilación del Sur

    Gabriel Vargas;Gabriel Vargas;Luc Ortlieb;José Rutllant

  • Coastal neotectonics in Southern Central Andes: uplift and deformation of marine terraces in Northern Chile (27°S)

    Carlos Marquardt;Alain Lavenu;Luc Ortlieb;Estanislao Godoy

  • Marine radiocarbon reservoir effect along the northern Chile-southern Peru coast (14-24°S) throughout the Holocene

    Luc Ortlieb;Luc Ortlieb;Gabriel Vargas;Jean François Saliège

  • El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: The Documented Historical Record of El Niño Events in Peru: An Update of the Quinn Record (Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries)

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  • Coastal deformation and sea-level changes in the northern Chile subduction area (23°S) during the last 330 ky

    Luc Ortlieb;Luc Ortlieb;Cari Zazo;JoséLuis Goy;Claude Hillaire-Marcel

  • Change in El Niño flavours over 1958–2008: Implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Peru

    Boris Dewitte;J. Vazquez-Cuervo;Katerina Goubanova;Séréna Illig

  • Quaternary coastal uplift along the Talara Arc (Ecuador, Northern Peru) from new marine terrace data

    Kevin Pedoja;L. Ortlieb;J.-F. Dumont;M. Lamothe

  • Supratidal evaporitic dolomite at Ojo de Liebre Lagoon; mineralogical and isotopic arguments for primary crystallization

    Catherine Pierre;Luc Ortlieb;Alain Person

  • Plio-Quaternary uplift of the Manta Peninsula and La Plata Island and the subduction of the Carnegie Ridge, central coast of Ecuador

    Kevin Pedoja;J.-F. Dumont;M. Lamothe;L. Ortlieb

  • Laminated sediments from the central Peruvian continental slope: A 500 year record of upwelling system productivity, terrestrial runoff and redox conditions

    Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Dimitri Gutiérrez;Luc Ortlieb;Hugues Boucher

  • Former El Niño events: records from western South America

    Luc Ortlieb;José Macharé

  • A warm interglacial episode during oxygen isotope stage 11 in northern Chile

    Luc Ortlieb;Luc Ortlieb;Luc Ortlieb;Amanda Diaz;Amanda Diaz;Amanda Diaz;Nury Guzman;Nury Guzman

  • Determining the Early History of El Niño

    T. J. DeVries;L. Ortlieb;A. Diaz;L. Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitri Gutiérrez
Dimitri Gutiérrez Cayetano Heredia University
Carina B. Lange
Carina B. Lange University of Concepción
Ioanna Bouloubassi
Ioanna Bouloubassi Sorbonne University
Catherine Pierre
Catherine Pierre Université Paris Cité
Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez
Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez University of Concepción
José Luis Goy
José Luis Goy University of Salamanca
Bassam Ghaleb
Bassam Ghaleb University of Quebec at Montreal
Ruben Escribano
Ruben Escribano University of Concepción
Jacques Angelier
Jacques Angelier Sorbonne University
Yannicke Dauphin
Yannicke Dauphin Sorbonne University

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