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Yann Rolland 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 Yann Rolland sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 159 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Yann Rolland 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 Yann Rolland sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yann Rolland is affiliated with Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics primarily within the fields of geophysics and atmospheric science, with additional focus on earth-surface processes, management and policy related to environmental sciences, and applications involving artificial intelligence.

Their primary research interests include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, worldwide geological and geophysical studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes, and seismic wave analysis.

Yann Rolland has published in several scientific journals, with frequent publications in venues such as:

  • Geomorphology
  • Terra Nova
  • Tectonophysics
  • Lithos
  • Geophysical Journal International

Notable recent papers by Rolland include:

  • Lithospheric transdimensional ambient-noise tomography of W-Europe: implications for crustal-scale geometry of the W-Alps, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Extensional reactivation of the Penninic frontal thrust 3 Myr ago as evidenced by U-Pb dating on calcite in fault zone cataclasite, 2021, Solid Earth
  • The cold and hot collisional orogens: Thermal regimes and metallogeny of the Alpine versus Himalayan-Tibetan belts, 2021, Ore Geology Reviews
  • Role of mantle indentation in collisional deformation evidenced by deep geophysical imaging of Western Alps, 2024, Communications Earth & Environment

The scientist collaborates regularly with several colleagues, with frequent co-authors including Stéphane Schwartz, Thierry Dumont, Dorian Bienveignant, Louise Boschetti, and Ahmed Nouibat.

Best Publications

  • A slab breakoff model for the Neogene thermal evolution of South Karakorum and South Tibet

    G Mahéo;S Guillot;J Blichert-Toft;Y Rolland

  • Subductions, obduction and collision in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), new insights

    M. Sosson;Y. Rolland;C. Müller;T. Danelian

  • Rare earth and trace element mobility in mid-crustal shear zones: insights from the Mont Blanc Massif (Western Alps)

    Yann Rolland;Stephen Cox;Anne-Marie Boullier;Giorgio Pennacchioni

  • Jurassic back-arc and Cretaceous hot-spot series In the Armenian ophiolites — Implications for the obduction process

    Yann Rolland;Ghazar Galoyan;Ghazar Galoyan;Delphine Bosch;Marc Sosson

  • Middle Cretaceous back-arc formation and arc evolution along the Asian margin: the Shyok Suture Zone in northern Ladakh (NW Himalaya)

    Y. Rolland;A. Pêcher;C. Picard

  • The cretaceous Ladakh arc of NW himalaya—slab melting and melt-mantle interaction during fast northward drift of Indian Plate

    Yann Rolland;Christian Picard;Arnaud Pecher;Henriette Lapierre

  • Jurassic accretionary complex and ophiolite from northeast Turkey: No evidence for the Cimmerian continental ribbon

    Gültekin Topuz;Gönenç Göçmengil;Yann Rolland;Ö. Faruk Çelik

  • Relationships between tectonics, slope instability and climate change: cosmic ray exposure dating of active faults, landslides and glacial surfaces in the SW Alps.

    G. Sanchez;Yan Rolland;M. Corsini;Regis Braucher

  • Evidence for ∼80–75 Ma subduction jump during Anatolide–Tauride–Armenian block accretion and ∼48 Ma Arabia–Eurasia collision in Lesser Caucasus–East Anatolia

    Yann Rolland;Dogan Perincek;Nuretdin Kaymakci;Marc Sosson

  • Collision kinematics in the western external Alps

    Nicolas Bellahsen;Nicolas Bellahsen;Frédéric Mouthereau;Frédéric Mouthereau;Alexandre Boutoux;Alexandre Boutoux;Mathieu Bellanger

  • Caucasus collisional history: Review of data from East Anatolia to West Iran

    Y. Rolland

  • Blueschists of the Amassia-Stepanavan Suture Zone (Armenia): linking Tethys subduction history from E-Turkey to W-Iran

    Yann Rolland;Sandra Billo;Michel Corsini;Marc Sosson

  • Late evolution of the southern European Variscan belt: Exhumation of the lower crust in a context of oblique convergence

    Michel Corsini;Yann Rolland

  • The Armenian Ophiolite: insights for Jurassic back-arc formation, Lower Cretaceous hot spot magmatism and Upper Cretaceous obduction over the South Armenian Block

    Yan Rolland;Gh. Galoyan;Gh. Galoyan;M. Sosson;R. Melkonyan

  • 40Ar/ 39Ar dating of Penninic Front tectonic displacement (W Alps) during the Lower Oligocene (31–34 Ma)

    T. Simon-Labric;Y. Rolland;T. Dumont;T. Heymes

  • Dating low-temperature deformation by 40Ar/39Ar on white mica, insights from the Argentera-Mercantour Massif (SW Alps)

    Guillaume Sanchez;Yann Rolland;Julie Schneider;Michel Corsini

  • Quantified sensitivity of small lake sediments to record historic earthquakes: Implications for paleoseismology

    Bruno Wilhelm;Bruno Wilhelm;Bruno Wilhelm;Jerome Nomade;Christian Crouzet;Camille Litty

  • Geology, geochemistry and 40Ar/39Ar dating of Sevan ophiolites (Lesser Caucasus, Armenia): Evidence for Jurassic Back-arc opening and hot spot event between the South Armenian Block and Eurasia

    Ghazar Galoyan;Ghazar Galoyan;Yann Rolland;Marc Sosson;Michel Corsini

  • Prolonged Variscan to Alpine history of an active Eurasian margin (Georgia, Armenia) revealed by 40Ar/39Ar dating

    Y. Rolland;M. Sosson;Sh. Adamia;N. Sadradze

  • Jurassic ophiolite formation and emplacement as backstop to a subduction-accretion complex in northeast Turkey, the Refahıye ophiolite, and relation to the Balkan ophiolites

    Gültekın Topuz;Ö. Faruk Çelık;A. M. Celâl Şengör;I. Emır Altintaş

  • The cretaceous Ladakh arc of NW himalaya—slab melting and melt-mantle interaction during fast northward drift of

    Yann Rolland;Christian Picard;Arnaud Pecher;Henriette Lapierre

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Sosson
Marc Sosson Université Côte d'Azur
Stéphane Guillot
Stéphane Guillot Grenoble Alpes University
Pierre Lanari
Pierre Lanari University of Bern
Nicolas Bellahsen
Nicolas Bellahsen Sorbonne University
Arnaud Pêcher
Arnaud Pêcher Grenoble Alpes University
Delphine Bosch
Delphine Bosch University of Montpellier
Régis Braucher
Régis Braucher Aix-Marseille University
Stephen F. Cox
Stephen F. Cox Australian National University
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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