2026 Philippe Davy: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	70	981	862	50	43	247	17132

Philippe Davy 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 Philippe Davy sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 603+

This scientist: 247 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philippe Davy 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 Philippe Davy sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Philippe Davy is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has substantial research contributions in the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses significant topics such as rock mechanics and modeling, groundwater flow and contamination studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

The scientist's recent research outputs include the following papers:

"Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods" (2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences)
"Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology" (2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences)
"Hydro-Geomorphic Metrics for High Resolution Fluvial Landscape Analysis" (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
"Which fractures are imaged with Ground Penetrating Radar? Results from an experiment in the Äspö Hardrock Laboratory, Sweden" (2020, Engineering Geology)
"A Discrete Fracture Network Model With Stress-Driven Nucleation: Impact on Clustering, Connectivity, and Topology" (2020, Frontiers in Physics)

Philippe Davy frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Caroline Darcel (12 co-authored works), Dimitri Lague (10), Diego Mas Ivars (6), Marine Le Minor (6), and Tanguy Le Borgne (5).

The scientist's publications are mainly found in venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with 5 publications
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, with 4 publications
Engineering Geology, with 3 publications
Earth Surface Dynamics, with 3 publications
Hydrology and earth system sciences, with 2 publications

Their subfields of study include geophysics, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and mechanical engineering. This interdisciplinary expertise supports the wide range of topics covered in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

E. Bonnet;O. Bour;N. E. Odling;P. Davy

1651
Citations
Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, Part 1: Boundary conditions and experiments scaled for gravity

Lothar Ratschbacher;Olivier Merle;Philippe Davy;Peter Cobbold

936
Citations
Connectivity of random fault networks following a power law fault length distribution

Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy

514
Citations
Experiments on shortening of a 4-layer model of the continental lithosphere

P. Davy;P.R. Cobbold

513
Citations
Discharge, discharge variability, and the bedrock channel profile

Dimitri Lague;Dimitri Lague;Niels Hovius;Philippe Davy

370
Citations
Impact of transient groundwater storage on the discharge of Himalayan rivers

Christoff Andermann;Christoff Andermann;Laurent Longuevergne;Stéphane Bonnet;Alain Crave

370
Citations
The Namche Barwa syntaxis: evidence for exhumation related to compressional crustal folding

Jean-Pierre Burg;Peter Nievergelt;Felix Oberli;Diane Seward

361
Citations
The dynamics of back‐arc extension: an experimental approach to the opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea

Claudio Faccenna;Philippe Davy;Jean-Pierre Brun;Renato Funiciello

327
Citations
Physical models of extensional tectonics at various scales

B. Vendeville;P. R. Cobbold;P. Davy;P. Choukroune

311
Citations
Evolution of soil surface roughness and flowpath connectivity in overland flow experiments

F Darboux;F Darboux;Ph. Davy;C Gascuel-Odoux;C Huang

298
Citations
Indentation tectonics in nature and experiment. I: Experiments scaled for gravity

P Davy;P. R Cobbold

295
Citations
Hydraulic properties of two-dimensional random fracture networks following a power law length distribution: 1. Effective connectivity

Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy;Philippe Davy;Olivier Bour

288
Citations
On the connectivity of three‐dimensional fault networks

Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy

267
Citations
A statistical scaling model for fracture network geometry, with validation on a multiscale mapping of a joint network (Hornelen Basin, Norway)

Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy;Caroline Darcel;Noëlle Odling

259
Citations
Exhumation during crustal folding in the Namche-Barwa syntaxis

Jean-Pierre Burg;Philippe Davy;Peter Nievergelt;Felix Oberli

256
Citations
Connectivity properties of two‐dimensional fracture networks with stochastic fractal correlation

C. Darcel;O. Bour;P. Davy;J. R. de Dreuzy

245
Citations
On the Frequency-Length Distribution of the San Andreas Fault System

P. Davy

243
Citations
OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

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

241
Citations
Fluvial erosion/transport equation of landscape evolution models revisited

Philippe Davy;Dimitri Lague

239
Citations
Indentation tectonics in nature and experiment. II: Central Asia

P. R. Cobbold;P. Davy

239
Citations
Hydraulic properties of two‐dimensional random fracture networks following a power law length distribution: 2. Permeability of networks based on lognormal distribution of apertures

Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy;Philippe Davy;Olivier Bour

238
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Bour University of Rennes

Dimitri Lague University of Rennes

Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes

Luc Aquilina University of Rennes

Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame

Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council

Richard Gloaguen Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes

Jean-Pierre Brun University of Rennes

Jesús Carrera Spanish National Research Council

External Links

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