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Renée Heilbronner

Renée Heilbronner

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6277
World Ranking
6416
National Ranking
142

Renée Heilbronner 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 Renée Heilbronner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 91 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Renée Heilbronner 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 Renée Heilbronner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Renée Heilbronner is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Within these fields, they have contributed notably to the subfields of Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Granular Flow and Fluidized Beds

Heilbronner has published research in a variety of scientific venues, frequently contributing to the following journals:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece

Their recent publications include:

  • "Transformation weakening: Diffusion creep in eclogites as a result of interaction of mineral reactions and deformation" (2020, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • "Mechanical properties and recrystallization of quartz in presence of H2O: Combination of cracking, subgrain rotation and dissolution-precipitation processes" (2022, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • "Amorphous material in experimentally deformed mafic rock and its temperature dependence: Implications for fault rheology during aseismic creep and seismic rupture" (2020, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • "Importance of grain boundary processes for plasticity in the quartz-dominated crust: Implications for flow laws" (2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • "Geology and deformation of the Serbo-Macedonian massif in the northern part of the Athos Peninsula, Northern Greece: Insights from two detailed cross-sections" (2020, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece)

Renée Heilbronner has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors including Holger Stünitz, Hugues Raimbourg, S.K. Ghosh, Jacques Précigout, and Ida Di Carlo. These collaborations have contributed to multiple joint publications and research projects.

Best Publications

  • The eastern Tonale fault zone: a ‘natural laboratory’ for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700 °C

    Michael Stipp;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Stefan M. Schmid

  • Dynamic recrystallization of quartz: correlation between natural and experimental conditions

    Michael Stipp;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Stefan M. Schmid

  • Evolution of c axis pole figures and grain size during dynamic recrystallization: Results from experimentally sheared quartzite

    Renée Heilbronner;Jan Tullis

  • Grain size distributions of fault rocks: A comparison between experimentally and naturally deformed granitoids

    Nynke Keulen;Renée Heilbronner;Holger Stünitz;Anne-Marie Boullier

  • Automatic grain boundary detection and grain size analysis using polarization micrographs or orientation images

    Renée Heilbronner

  • Quartz grain size reduction in a granitoid rock and the transition from dislocation to diffusion creep

    Rüdiger Kilian;Renée Heilbronner;Holger Stünitz

  • Image Analysis in Earth Sciences: Microstructures and Textures of Earth Materials

    Renée Heilbronner;Steve Barrett

  • The effect of static annealing on microstructures and crystallographic preferred orientations of quartzites experimentally deformed in axial compression and shear

    Renée Heilbronner;Jan Tullis

  • Grain size and grain shape analysis of fault rocks

    Renée Heilbronner;Nynke Keulen

  • The autocorrelation function: an image processing tool for fabric analysis

    Renée Panozzo Heilbronner

  • Integrated spatial and orientation analysis of quartz c-axes by computer-aided microscopy

    Renée Panozzo Heilbronner;Christian Pauli

  • Orientation analysis of localized shear deformation in quartz fibres at the brittle–ductile transition

    Mirjam van Daalen;Renée Heilbronner;Karsten Kunze

  • Image Analysis in Earth Sciences

    Renée Heilbronner;Steve Barrett

  • The influence of three-dimensional grain size distributions on the rheology of polyphase rocks

    Renée Heilbronner;David Bruhn

  • Evolution of quartz microstructure and c-axis crystallographic preferred orientation within ductilely deformed granitoids (Arolla unit, Western Alps)

    Luca Menegon;Giorgio Pennacchioni;Renee Heilbronner;Lidia Pittarello

  • Reaction-induced weakening of plagioclase–olivine composites

    A.A. de Ronde;H. Stünitz;J. Tullis;R. Heilbronner

  • Origin of pseudotachylites in slow creep experiments

    Matej Pec;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Martyn Drury

  • Transition from fracturing to viscous flow in granulite facies perthitic feldspar (Lofoten, Norway)

    Luca Menegon;Holger Stünitz;Pritam Nasipuri;Renee Heilbronner

  • Semi-brittle flow of granitoid fault rocks in experiments

    Matej Pec;Matej Pec;Holger Stünitz;Renée Heilbronner;Martyn Drury

  • Plastic anisotropy and fabric evolution in sheared and recrystallized quartz single crystals

    Jun Muto;Jun Muto;Greg Hirth;Renee Heilbronner;Jan Tullis

  • Fabric domains in quartz mylonites: localized three dimensional analysis of microstructure and texture

    Christian Pauli;Stefan M. Schmid;Renée Panozzo Heilbronner

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Stünitz
Holger Stünitz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jan Tullis
Jan Tullis Brown University
Martyn R. Drury
Martyn R. Drury Utrecht University
Harald Behrens
Harald Behrens University of Hannover
Marco Herwegh
Marco Herwegh University of Bern
Greg Hirth
Greg Hirth Brown University
Mark R. Handy
Mark R. Handy Freie Universität Berlin
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Karsten Kunze
Karsten Kunze ETH Zurich

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