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Olivier Vidal 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 Vidal sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 122 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Olivier Vidal 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 Vidal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Olivier Vidal is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses heavily on geophysics and incorporates elements of management information systems, organizational behavior, and anthropology.

Their recent publications include research on geological and tectonic processes and geophysical analysis. Notable papers are:

  • Geodynamic evolution of a wide plate boundary in the Western Mediterranean, near-field versus far-field interactions (2021), published in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Cenozoic mountain building and topographic evolution in Western Europe: impact of billions of years of lithosphere evolution and plate kinematics (2021), published in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Passive imaging of collisional orogens: a review of a decade of geophysical studies in the Pyrénées (2022), published in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Revisiting orogens during the OROGEN project: tectonic maturity, a key element to understand orogenic variability (2024), published in Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • Métaphores en sciences de gestion (2021), published in Revue française de gestion

Vidal collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sylvain Calassou
  • Sébastien Chevrot
  • Mary Ford
  • Emmanuel Masini
  • Giänreto Manatschal

Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
  • ACCRA
  • Revue française de gestion
  • Déméter

The main fields of study in Vidal's research center on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary subfield focus on geophysics. Additional subfields addressed include management information systems, organizational behavior, and anthropology.

The key topics covered in their work are:

  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Global and Cross-Cultural Management

Best Publications

  • Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance

    Saleem H. Ali;Saleem H. Ali;Saleem H. Ali;Damien Giurco;Nicholas Arndt;Edmund Nickless

  • XMapTools: A MATLAB©-based program for electron microprobe X-ray image processing and geothermobarometry

    Pierre Lanari;Pierre Lanari;Olivier Vidal;Vincent De Andrade;Benoít Dubacq;Benoít Dubacq;Benoít Dubacq

  • Exhumation Processes in Oceanic and Continental Subduction Contexts: A Review

    Stéphane Guillot;Keiko Hattori;Philippe Agard;Stéphane Schwartz

  • Metals for a low-carbon society

    Olivier Vidal;Bruno Goffé;Nicholas Arndt

  • A THERMODYNAMIC MODEL FOR Fe-Mg ALUMINOUS CHLORITE USING DATA FROM PHASE EQUILIBRIUM EXPERIMENTS AND NATURAL PELITIC ASSEMBLAGES IN THE 100° to 600°C, 1 to 25 kb RANGE

    Olivier Vidal;Teddy Parra;Fabien Trotet

  • A thermodynamic model for di-trioctahedral chlorite from experimental and natural data in the system MgO–FeO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O: applications to P–T sections and geothermometry

    Pierre Lanari;Pierre Lanari;Thomas Wagner;Olivier Vidal

  • Exhumation paths of high‐pressure metapelites obtained from local equilibria for chlorite–phengite assemblages

    O. Vidal;T. Parra

  • Carpholite, sudoite, and chloritoid in low-grade high-pressure metapelites from Crete and the Peloponnese, Greece

    Thomas Theye;Eberhard Seidel;Olivier Vidal

  • Thermodynamic properties of the Tschermak solid solution in Fe-chlorite: Application to natural examples and possible role of oxidation

    Olivier Vidal;Teddy Parra;Philippe Vieillard

  • Relation between the intensity of deformation and retrogression in blueschist metapelites of Tinos Island (Greece) evidenced by chlorite mica local equilibria

    Teddy Parra;Olivier Vidal;Laurent Jolivet

  • P–T-deformation-Fe3+/Fe2+ mapping at the thin section scale and comparison with XANES mapping: application to a garnet-bearing metapelite from the Sambagawa metamorphic belt (Japan)

    O. Vidal;V. De Andrade;E. Lewin;M. Munoz

  • Modern-style plate subduction preserved in the Palaeoproterozoic West African craton

    Jérôme Ganne;V. De Andrade;V. De Andrade;R.F. Weinberg;O. Vidal

  • Tectono-metamorphic evolution of Syros and Sifnos islands (Cyclades, Greece)

    Fabien Trotet;Laurent Jolivet;Olivier Vidal

  • Mineralogical evidence for H2 degassing during serpentinization at 300 °C/300 bar

    Clément Marcaillou;Manuel Munoz;Olivier Vidal;T. Parra

  • A thermodynamic model for Fe-Mg dioctahedral K white micas using data from phase-equilibrium experiments and natural pelitic assemblages

    Teddy Parra;Olivier Vidal;Phillipe Agard

  • The tectono-metamorphic history of the Valaisan domain from the Western to the Central Alps: New constraints on the evolution of the Alps

    Romain Bousquet;Bruno Goffé;Olivier Vidal;Roland Oberhänsli

  • Dehydration of dioctahedral aluminous phyllosilicates: thermodynamic modelling and implications for thermobarometric estimates

    Benoã®T. Dubacq;Benoã®T. Dubacq;Olivier Vidal;Vincent de Andrade

  • Thermodynamic modelling of clay dehydration, stability and compositional evolution with temperature, pressure and H2O activity

    O. Vidal;B. Dubacq

  • Neotethys closure history of Anatolia: insights from 40Ar–39Ar geochronology and P–T estimation in high pressure metasedimentary rocks

    Amaury Pourteau;Masafumi Sudo;Osman Candan;P. Lanari

  • Experimental study of the stability of sudoite and magnesiocarpholite and calculation of a new petrogenetic grid for the system FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O

    O. Vidal;B. Goffé;T. Theye

  • Interlayer and Si content of phengite in HP–LT carpholite‐bearing metapelites

    P. Agard;O. Vidal;B. Goffé

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Lanari
Pierre Lanari University of Bern
Bruno Goffé
Bruno Goffé Aix-Marseille University
Stéphane Guillot
Stéphane Guillot Grenoble Alpes University
Fabrice Brunet
Fabrice Brunet Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Roland Oberhänsli
Roland Oberhänsli University of Potsdam
Philippe Agard
Philippe Agard Sorbonne University
Eric Lewin
Eric Lewin Grenoble Alpes University
Stéphane Schwartz
Stéphane Schwartz Grenoble Alpes University
Stephen F. Cox
Stephen F. Cox Australian National University
Nicholas T. Arndt
Nicholas T. Arndt Grenoble Alpes University

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