Bertrand Bessagnet

11.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Bertrand Bessagnet is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Bertrand Bessagnet has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Atmospheric Science, 102 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Bertrand Bessagnet's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (124 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (98 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (46 papers). Bertrand Bessagnet is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (124 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (98 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (46 papers). Bertrand Bessagnet collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Spain. Bertrand Bessagnet's co-authors include Laurent Menut, Robert Vautard, Laurence Rouïl, Augustin Colette, Alma Hodžić, Philippe Thunis, Guillaume Siour, Sylvain Mailler, Frédérik Meleux and Gabriele Curci and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Bertrand Bessagnet

154 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

Impact of lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 on air quality over western Europe

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Yang Zhang United States

Augustin Colette France

Daniel Tong United States

J. M. Baldasano Spain

Sunling Gong China

Lu Shen United States

Pavlos Kassomenos Greece

Kan Huang China

Yuanhang Zhang China

Yang Zhang United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bertrand Bessagnet

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Cholakian, Arineh, Dino Zardi, Federico Bianchi, et al.. (2025). Across land, sea, and mountains: sulphate aerosol sources and transport dynamics over the northern Apennines. Environmental Science Atmospheres. 5(9). 1023–1034. 1 indexed citations

Thunis, Philippe, Jeroen Kuenen, Enrico Pisoni, et al.. (2024). Emission ensemble approach to improve the development of multi-scale emission inventories. Geoscientific model development. 17(9). 3631–3643. 4 indexed citations

Menut, Laurent, Bertrand Bessagnet, Arineh Cholakian, et al.. (2024). What is the relative impact of nudging and online coupling on meteorological variables, pollutant concentrations and aerosol optical properties?. Geoscientific model development. 17(9). 3645–3665. 2 indexed citations

Bo, Xin, Peng Wang, Xin Xu, et al.. (2023). The impacts of clean energy policies on air pollutants and CO2 emission reduction in Shaanxi, China. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 14(12). 101937–101937. 6 indexed citations

Menut, Laurent, Arineh Cholakian, Guillaume Siour, et al.. (2023). Impact of Landes forest fires on air quality in France during the 2022 summer. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(13). 7281–7296. 11 indexed citations

Thunis, Philippe, Alain Clappier, Enrico Pisoni, et al.. (2022). A multi-pollutant and multi-sectorial approach to screening the consistency of emission inventories. Geoscientific model development. 15(13). 5271–5286. 5 indexed citations

Menut, Laurent, Guillaume Siour, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. (2022). Impact of Wildfires on Mineral Dust Emissions in Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(24). 8 indexed citations

Amadou, Amina, Thomas Coudon, Florian Couvidat, et al.. (2021). Long-term atmospheric exposure to PCB153 and breast cancer risk in a case-control study nested in the French E3N cohort from 1990 to 2011. Environmental Research. 195. 110743–110743. 17 indexed citations

Dufour, G., Didier Hauglustaine, Yunjiang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Recent ozone trends in the Chinese free troposphere: role of the local emission reductions and meteorology. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(20). 16001–16025. 12 indexed citations

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Amadou, Amina, Thomas Coudon, Delphine Praud, et al.. (2020). Chronic Low-Dose Exposure to Xenoestrogen Ambient Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk: XENAIR Protocol for a Case-Control Study Nested Within the French E3N Cohort. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(9). e15167–e15167. 15 indexed citations

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Couvidat, Florian, et al.. (2020). Modeling organic aerosol over Europe in summer conditions with the VBS-GECKO parameterization: sensitivity to secondary organic compound properties and IVOC (intermediate-volatility organic compound) emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(8). 4905–4931. 9 indexed citations

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Menut, Laurent, Sylvain Mailler, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. (2017). An alternative way to evaluate chemistry-transport model variability. Geoscientific model development. 10(3). 1199–1208. 1 indexed citations

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Mailler, Sylvain, Laurent Menut, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, et al.. (2016). CHIMERE-2016: From urban to hemispheric chemistry-transport modeling. 9 indexed citations

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Menut, Laurent, Guillaume Siour, Sylvain Mailler, Florian Couvidat, & Bertrand Bessagnet. (2016). Observations and regional modeling of aerosol optical properties, speciation and size distribution over Northern Africa and western Europe. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(20). 12961–12982. 17 indexed citations

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Kiesewetter, Gregor, Jens Borken, Wolfgang Schöpp, et al.. (2015). Modelling street level PM ₁₀ concentrations across Europe: source apportionment and possible futures. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(3). 1539–1553. 61 indexed citations

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Menut, Laurent, Sylvain Mailler, Guillaume Siour, et al.. (2015). Ozone and aerosol tropospheric concentrations variability analyzed using the ADRIMED measurements and the WRF and CHIMERE models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(11). 6159–6182. 23 indexed citations

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Colette, Augustin, Laurence Rouïl, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. (2013). Pollution atmosphérique et climat. Pollution atmosphérique. 78–83. 1 indexed citations

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Menut, Laurent, Bertrand Bessagnet, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, et al.. (2013). CHIMERE 2013: a model for regional atmospheric composition modelling. Geoscientific model development. 6(4). 981–1028. 350 indexed citations

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Siour, Guillaume, Augustin Colette, Bertrand Bessagnet, et al.. (2010). Bridging the scales in a eulerian air quality model to assess the impact of megacity pollution export at the regional level. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 4236. 1 indexed citations

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Honoré, Cécile, Laurence Rouïl, Laure Malherbe, et al.. (2004). Le système PREV’AIR : cartographie et prévision de la qualité de l’air à grande échelle en Europe. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 3(3). 156–164. 1 indexed citations

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