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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 50 3460 3169 242 226 114 8156

Renaud Caby publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Renaud Caby between 1975 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Renaud Caby published across 51 years, from 1975 to 2025, averaging 2.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 6 publications in 1996. 6 of the 121 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1975 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 6. Peak 6 publications in 1996. 1975: 1 publication 1976: 1 publication 1977: 2 publications 1978: 3 publications 1979: 4 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 3 publications 1983: 1 publication 1984: 1 publication 1985: 3 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 3 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 2 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 4 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 2 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 0 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 5 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 1 publication 2018: 2 publications 2019: 1 publication 2020: 2 publications 2021: 1 publication 2022: 2 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 1 publication
1975 2025

121 publications in total across all disciplines

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Renaud Caby: publications per year, 1975 to 2025
Year Publications
1975 1
1976 1
1977 2
1978 3
1979 4
1980 0
1981 1
1982 3
1983 1
1984 1
1985 3
1986 1
1987 3
1988 1
1989 2
1990 0
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 4
1995 3
1996 6
1997 2
1998 5
1999 5
2000 2
2001 4
2002 4
2003 3
2004 2
2005 1
2006 2
2007 4
2008 3
2009 4
2010 2
2011 1
2012 0
2013 1
2014 5
2015 3
2016 5
2017 1
2018 2
2019 1
2020 2
2021 1
2022 2
2023 4
2024 5
2025 1
Total 121
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Renaud Caby 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 Renaud Caby sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 108–117 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 114 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484 114
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Renaud Caby 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 Renaud Caby sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 50 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183 50
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Renaud Caby is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans 31 publications in this main field, with a focus on several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Earth-Surface Processes, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, notably Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies worldwide, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological formations and processes, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Recent publications include:

  • Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A case study of in situ analyses (major and trace elements, U-Pb geochronology and Hf-O isotopes) of a zircon megacryst: Implication for the evolution of the Egéré terrane (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria), 2020, Precambrian Research
  • The Variscan belts of North-West Africa: An African legacy to the Wilson Cycle concept, 2023, Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Fast exhumation of Earth's earliest ultrahigh-pressure rocks in the West Gondwana orogen, Mali, 2023, Geology
  • Passive continental margin subducted to mantle depths: Coesite-bearing metasedimentary rocks from the Neoproterozoic Brasília Orogen, West Gondwana margin, 2024, Precambrian Research

Frequent co-authors in Renaud Caby's research include Olivier Bruguier, Delphine Bosch, Abderrahmane Bendaoud, Mário da Costa Campos Neto, and Carlos E. Ganade. Their collaboration has contributed to multiple publications addressing various geological and geophysical phenomena.

Renaud Caby's research outputs have appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Geology
  • Geochemistry

Best Publications

  • The Borborema shear zone system, NE Brazil

    A. Vauchez;S. Neves;S. Neves;R. Caby;M. Corsini

  • Pan-African displaced terranes in the Tuareg shield (central Sahara)

    R. Black;L. Latouche;Jean-Paul Liégeois;R. Caby

  • Evidence for late Precambrian plate tectonics in West Africa

    R. Black;R. Caby;A. Moussine-Pouchkine;R. Bayer

  • Terrane assembly and geodynamic evolution of central–western Hoggar: a synthesis

    Renaud Caby

  • Precambrian terranes of Benin-Nigeria and northeast Brazil and the Late Proterozoic south Atlantic fit

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  • Obliquely convergent tectonics and granite emplacement in the Trans-Saharan belt of Eastern Nigeria: a synthesis

    Eric Ferré;Gérard Gleizes;Renaud Caby

  • Ediacaran 2,500-km-long synchronous deep continental subduction in the West Gondwana Orogen

    Carlos Ganade de Araujo;Daniela Rubatto;Joerg Hermann;Umberto Cordani

  • Geology of the northern Borborema Province, NE Brazil and its correlation with Nigeria, NW Africa

    M. H. Arthaud;R. Caby;R. A. Fuck;E. L. Dantas

  • The oldest UHP eclogites of the World: age of UHP metamorphism, nature of protoliths and tectonic implications

    Bor-ming Jahn;Renaud Caby;Patrick Monie

  • Crustal Evolution and the Brasiliano Orogeny in Northeast Brazil

    R. Caby;A. N. Sial;M. Arthaud;A. Vauchez

  • Chapter 16 Pan-African Ocean Closure and Continental Collision in the Hoggar-Iforas Segment, Central Sahara

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  • Pan-African, post-collisional, ferro-potassic granite and quartz–monzonite plutons of Eastern Nigeria

    E.C. Ferré;R. Caby;J.J. Peucat;R. Capdevila

  • Geodynamic evolution of the Pan-African orogenic belt: A new interpretation of the Hoggar shield (Algerian Sahara)

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  • Neoproterozoic high-pressure metamorphism and tectonic constraint from the nappe system south of the São Francisco Craton, southeast Brazil

    Mario da Costa Campos Neto;Renaud Caby

  • Precambrian coesite from northern Mali; first record and implications for plate tectonics in the trans-Saharan segment of the Pan-African belt

    Renaud Caby

  • Terrane accretion and upward extrusion of high-pressure granulites in the Neoproterozoic nappes of Southeast Brazil: petrologic and structural constraints

    Mario da Costa Campos Neto;Renaud Caby

  • Late Proterozoic arc–continent and continent–continent collision in the pan-African trans-Saharan belt of Mali

    Renaud Caby;Uranie Andreopoulos-Renaud;Christian Pin

  • Geochronology of sedimentary and metasedimentary Precambrian rocks of the West African craton

    Norbert Clauer;Renaud Caby;Daniel Jeannette;Roland Trompette

  • Geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Tilemsi belt of Iforas (Mali, Sahara): a crustal section of an oceanic island arc

    J. Dostal;C. Dupuy;R. Caby

  • Amphibolite facies conditions in the oceanic crust: example of amphibolitized flaser-gabbro and amphibolites from the Chenaillet ophiolite massif (Hautes Alpes, France)

    Catherine Mevel;Renaud Caby;Jean-Robert Kienast

  • Alpine and late-hercynian geochronological constraints in the Argentera Massif (Western Alps)

    Michel Corsini;Gilles Ruffet;Renaud Caby

  • Late Precambrian metamorphism and cooling in the Arabian–Nubian Shield: Petrology and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks of the Elat area (southern Israel)

    M.A Cosca;A Shimron;R Caby

  • Pan-African nappe system in southwest Nigeria: the Ife-Ilesha schist belt

    R. Caby;J.M. Boessé

  • Geology of Western Gondwana (2000-500 Ma). Pan-African-Brasiliano aggregation of South America and Africa: Roland Trompette. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1994, 350 pp., Dfl. 185.50, ISBN 90-54-10-1652

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Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Bruguier
Olivier Bruguier University of Montpellier
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Patrick Monié
Patrick Monié University of Montpellier
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
J. Dostal
J. Dostal Saint Mary's University
Joerg Hermann
Joerg Hermann University of Bern
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Jean-Paul Liégeois
Jean-Paul Liégeois Royal Museum for Central Africa
Alain Vauchez
Alain Vauchez University of Montpellier
Roberto F. Weinberg
Roberto F. Weinberg Monash University

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