Alain Vidal

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alain Vidal is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Vidal has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Environmental Engineering, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alain Vidal's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Alain Vidal is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Alain Vidal collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Alain Vidal's co-authors include M. Susan Moran, Yoshio Inoue, Thomas R. Clarke, D. Troufleau, Jean-Paul Lhomme, Bruno Monteny, Delphine Luquet, Jean Dauzat, William P. Kustas and Martin Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alain Vidal

37 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Estimating crop water deficit using the relation between ... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Estimating crop water deficit using the relation between surface-air temperature and spectral vegetation index
    1994 962 citations M. Susan Moran, Yoshio Inoue et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alain Vidal France 18 996 856 592 419 283 38 1.9k
Xiufang Zhu China 30 1.7k 1.7× 441 0.5× 1.1k 1.8× 580 1.4× 624 2.2× 92 3.0k
Nathan Torbick United States 23 748 0.8× 579 0.7× 910 1.5× 312 0.7× 148 0.5× 52 1.8k
Juan Manuel Sánchez Spain 29 1.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 443 0.7× 650 1.6× 334 1.2× 106 2.4k
Shuhe Zhao China 22 836 0.8× 763 0.9× 814 1.4× 565 1.3× 308 1.1× 55 2.0k
Nguyễn Thanh Sơn Taiwan 23 889 0.9× 535 0.6× 1.1k 1.9× 537 1.3× 360 1.3× 91 2.0k
Thomas R. Clarke United States 20 1.3k 1.3× 907 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 385 0.9× 756 2.7× 35 2.3k
Suhong Liu China 21 1.3k 1.3× 703 0.8× 870 1.5× 671 1.6× 164 0.6× 116 2.3k
Ioannis Ν. Daliakopoulos Greece 25 803 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 364 0.6× 294 0.7× 519 1.8× 72 2.8k
Vinay Kumar Sehgal India 24 569 0.6× 350 0.4× 447 0.8× 232 0.6× 630 2.2× 157 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Vidal

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vidal, Alain. (2024). Looking back at the causes of 25-year crop yield stagnation in Europe. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 17(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Bousquet, Jean, Tari Haahtela, Susana Fonseca, et al.. (2020). Cabbage and fermented vegetables: From death rate heterogeneity in countries to candidates for mitigation strategies of severe COVID‐19. Allergy. 76(3). 735–750. 82 indexed citations
3.
Bousquet, Jean, Jean‐Paul Cristol, Tari Haahtela, et al.. (2020). Nrf2-interacting nutrients and COVID-19: time for research to develop adaptation strategies. Clinical and Translational Allergy. 10(1). 58–58. 53 indexed citations
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Brocke, Kirsten Vom, et al.. (2016). Anatomical features of an African sorghum landrace adapted to flooded conditions. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 10(10). 1489–1495. 2 indexed citations
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Cook, Simón, Myles Fisher, Tassilo T. Tiemann, & Alain Vidal. (2011). Water, food and poverty: global- and basin-scale analysis. Water International. 36(1). 1–16. 16 indexed citations
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Schultz, Bart, et al.. (2009). Role of water management for global food production and poverty alleviation. Irrigation and Drainage. 58(S1). 17 indexed citations
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Marlet, Serge, et al.. (2008). Diagnostic et analyse du fonctionnement d'un périmètre oasien Cas de l'oasis de Fatnassa Nord, Kébili, sud tunisien. Agritrop (Cirad). 4 indexed citations
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Luquet, Delphine, Alain Vidal, Martin Smith, & Jean Dauzat. (2005). ‘More crop per drop’: how to make it acceptable for farmers?. Agricultural Water Management. 76(2). 108–119. 53 indexed citations
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Vidal, Alain, et al.. (2002). La riziculture irriguée en Afrique sahélienne : rompre avec le pessimisme. Cahiers Agricultures. 11(1). 59–64. 2 indexed citations
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Luquet, Delphine, Jean Dauzat, Alain Vidal, Pascal Clouvel, & Agnès Bégué. (2001). 3D Simulation of leaves temperature in a cotton-row crop: toward an improvement of thermal infrared signal interpretation to monitor crop water status. Agritrop (Cirad). 4 indexed citations
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Moran, M. Susan, et al.. (1998). Ku- and C-band SAR for discriminating agricultural crop and soil conditions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 36(1). 265–272. 76 indexed citations
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Troufleau, D., Jean-Paul Lhomme, Bruno Monteny, & Alain Vidal. (1997). Sensible heat flux and radiometric surface temperature over sparse Sahelian vegetation. I. An experimental analysis of the kB−1 parameter. Journal of Hydrology. 188-189. 815–838. 100 indexed citations
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Vidal, Alain, et al.. (1997). Effect of influent quality variability on biofilter operation. Water Science & Technology. 36(1). 111–117. 4 indexed citations
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Vidal, Alain, et al.. (1995). La télédétection dans la prévision des incendies de forêts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations
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Carlson, Toby N., O. Taconet, Alain Vidal, et al.. (1995). An overview of the workshop on thermal remote sensing held at La Londe les Maures, France, September 20–24, 1993. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 77(3-4). 141–151. 29 indexed citations
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Carlson, Toby N., O. Taconet, Alain Vidal, et al.. (1995). An overview of the workshop on thermal remote sensing held at La Londe les Maures, France, September 20–24, 1993. Remote Sensing Reviews. 12(3-4). 147–158. 6 indexed citations
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Loumagne, C., et al.. (1995). Evaluation of the ERS 1/Synthetic Aperture Radar Capacity to Estimate Surface Soil Moisture: Two‐Year Results Over the Naizin Watershed. Water Resources Research. 31(4). 975–982. 48 indexed citations
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Vidal, Alain, et al.. (1994). Rapport annuel 1993. Agritrop (Cirad). 2 indexed citations
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Moran, M. Susan, William P. Kustas, Alain Vidal, et al.. (1994). Use of ground‐based remotely sensed data for surface energy balance evaluation of a semiarid rangeland. Water Resources Research. 30(5). 1339–1349. 79 indexed citations
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Yang, Chongjun & Alain Vidal. (1990). Combination of digital elevation models with SPOT-1 HRV multispectral imagery for reflectance factor mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment. 32(1). 35–45. 19 indexed citations

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