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Olivier Ribolzi 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 Olivier Ribolzi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 127 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Olivier Ribolzi 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 Olivier Ribolzi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 5th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Olivier Ribolzi is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a strong emphasis on water-related topics. Their work spans various subfields including water science and technology, ecology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and soil science.

The main topics addressed in their publications include hydrology and watershed management studies, soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and sediment transport processes, fecal contamination and water quality, urban stormwater management solutions, flood risk assessment and management, and child nutrition and water access.

Ribolzi has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, most notably Laurie Boithias, Norbert Silvera, Emma Rochelle-Newall, Bounsamay Soulileuth, and Alain Pierret. These partnerships reflect ongoing interdisciplinary investigations within environmental and water science.

Their research has appeared in a variety of publication venues. The most frequent include IRD, Water, Hydrological Processes, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Hydrology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Olivier Ribolzi cover diverse aspects of hydrology, water quality, and land use. Selected recent works include:

  • Effects of hydrological regime and land use on in-stream Escherichia coli concentration in the Mekong basin, Lao PDR (2021), Scientific Reports
  • Quantifying the effect of overland flow on Escherichia coli pulses during floods: Use of a tracer-based approach in an erosion-prone tropical catchment (2020), Journal of Hydrology
  • Understory Limits Surface Runoff and Soil Loss in Teak Tree Plantations of Northern Lao PDR (2020), Water
  • Surface and sub-surface flow estimation at high temporal resolution using deep neural networks (2020), Journal of Hydrology
  • The Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS critical zone observatory M-TROPICS dataset II: Land use, hydrology and sediment production monitoring in Houay Pano, northern Lao PDR (2021), Hydrological Processes

Best Publications

  • Runoff and sediment losses from 27 upland catchments in Southeast Asia: impact of rapid land use changes and conservation practices.

    C. Valentin;F. Agus;R. Alamban;A. Boosaner

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • CO2 evasion along streams driven by groundwater inputs and geomorphic controls

    Clément Duvert;David E. Butman;Anne Marx;Olivier Ribolzi

  • Impact of slope gradient on soil surface features and infiltration on steep slopes in northern Laos

    Olivier Ribolzi;J. Patin;L.M. Bresson;K.O. Latsachack

  • Techniques for simultaneous quantification of wind and water erosion in semi-arid regions

    S.M. Visser;G. Sterk;O. Ribolzi

  • Measurement and modelling of high resolution flow-velocity data under simulated rainfall on a low-slope sandy soil

    Lucile Tatard;Olivier Planchon;John Wainwright;Guillaume Nord

  • Speciation and origin of particulate copper in runoff water from a Mediterranean vineyard catchment

    O Ribolzi;V Valles;L Gomez;M Voltz

  • Contribution of groundwater and overland flows to storm flow generation in a cultivated Mediterranean catchment. Quantification by natural chemical tracing

    O Ribolzi;P Andrieux;V Valles;R Bouzigues

  • Contradictory hydrological impacts of afforestation in the humid tropics evidenced by long-term field monitoring and simulation modelling

    Guillaume Lacombe;Olivier Ribolzi;Anneke de Rouw;Alain Pierret

  • Linking crop structure, throughfall, soil surface conditions, runoff and soil detachment: 10 land uses analyzed in Northern Laos

    Guillaume Lacombe;Christian Valentin;Phabvilay Sounyafong;Anneke de Rouw

  • Land use and water quality along a Mekong tributary in northern Lao P.D.R.

    Olivier Ribolzi;Juliette Cuny;Phonexay Sengsoulichanh;Claire Mousquès

  • Influence of shallow infiltration on time-lapse ERT: Experience of advanced interpretation

    Rémi Clément;Marc Descloitres;Thomas Günther;Olivier Ribolzi

  • Analysis of runoff production at the plot scale during a long-term survey of a small agricultural catchment in Lao PDR

    J. Patin;E. Mouche;O. Ribolzi;V. Chaplot

  • Importance of soil surface characteristics on water erosion in a small grazed Sahelian catchment

    H. Karambiri;O. Ribolzi;J. P. Delhoume;J. Ducloux

  • Soils and brine geochemistry and mineralogy of hyperarid desert playa, Ouargla Basin, Algerian Sahara

    Belhadj Hamdi-Aissa;Vincent Valles;Alain Aventurier;Olivier Ribolzi

  • Effect of land use and hydrological processes on Escherichia coli concentrations in streams of tropical, humid headwater catchments

    Emma J. Rochelle-Newall;Olivier Ribolzi;Marion Viguier;Chanthamousone Thammahacksa

  • Field and modelling studies of Escherichia coli loads in tropical streams of montane agro-ecosystems

    Jean Causse;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Thierry Henri-des-Tureaux

  • Hydrological Regime and Water Shortage as Drivers of the Seasonal Incidence of Diarrheal Diseases in a Tropical Montane Environment.

    Laurie Boithias;Marc Choisy;Marc Choisy;Noy Souliyaseng;Marine Jourdren

  • Hydrological modeling of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in a tropical mountain catchment.

    Minjeong Kim;Laurie Boithias;Kyung Hwa Cho;Norbert Silvera

  • Combining multiple fallout radionuclides (137Cs, 7Be, 210Pbxs) to investigate temporal sediment source dynamics in tropical, ephemeral riverine systems

    Olivier Evrard;J. Patrick Laceby;Sylvain Huon;Irène Lefèvre

  • Comparison of Hydrograph Deconvolutions using Residual Alkalinity, Chloride, and Oxygen 18 as Hydrochemical Tracers

    O. Ribolzi;V. Vallès;T. Bariac

  • From shifting cultivation to teak plantation: effect on overland flow and sediment yield in a montane tropical catchment

    Olivier Ribolzi;Olivier Evrard;Sylvain Huon;Anneke de Rouw

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Pierret
Alain Pierret Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Christian Valentin
Christian Valentin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Emma Rochelle-Newall
Emma Rochelle-Newall Sorbonne University
David A. B. Dance
David A. B. Dance University of Oxford
Olivier Evrard
Olivier Evrard University of Paris-Saclay
Vincent Chaplot
Vincent Chaplot University of KwaZulu-Natal
Marc Descloitres
Marc Descloitres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paul N. Newton
Paul N. Newton University of Oxford
Kyung Hwa Cho
Kyung Hwa Cho Korea University
Nicolas Gratiot
Nicolas Gratiot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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