Claire Chenu

23.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
163 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Claire Chenu is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Claire Chenu has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Soil Science, 54 papers in Ecology and 26 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Claire Chenu's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (114 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (26 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (23 papers). Claire Chenu is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (114 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (26 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (23 papers). Claire Chenu collaborates with scholars based in France, Morocco and United Kingdom. Claire Chenu's co-authors include Jérôme Balesdent, Dominique Arrouays, P. Puget, May Balabane, Yves Le Bissonnais, Pierre Barré, Fernando Moyano, Naoise Nunan, Stefano Manzoni and Samuel Abiven and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Claire Chenu

157 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Relationship of soil organic matter dynamics to physical protection and tillage

2000 993 citations Claire Chenu et al. profile →
Responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to moisture availability: An exploration of processes and models

2013 717 citations Claire Chenu et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Organic Matter Influence on Clay Wettability and Soil Aggregate Stability

2000 631 citations Claire Chenu, Dominique Arrouays et al. profile →
The effects of organic inputs over time on soil aggregate stability – A literature analysis

2008 570 citations Samuel Abiven, Claire Chenu et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Increasing organic stocks in agricultural soils: Knowledge gaps and potential innovations

2018 480 citations Claire Chenu, Denis A. Angers et al. profile →
Particulate organic matter as a functional soil component for persistent soil organic carbon

2021 476 citations Claire Chenu et al. profile →
How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

2019 443 citations Pete Smith, Jean‐François Soussana et al. profile →
Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review

2017 369 citations Pierre Barré, Lauric Cécillon et al. profile →
The 4p1000 initiative: Opportunities, limitations and challenges for implementing soil organic carbon sequestration as a sustainable development strategy

2019 233 citations Cornélia Rumpel, Farshad Amiraslani et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claire Chenu

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Early pedogenesis of a young Technosol made from organic wastes 2025 ·Geoderma ·Baptiste Grard, (unknown), Claire Chenu	0
2	Four approaches to setting soil health targets and thresholds in agricultural soils 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Amanda Matson, Maria Fantappiè, (unknown), (unknown), J.H. Faber, Lucas Carvalho Gomes, Rudi Hessel, Marcos Lana, Stéfano Mocali, Pete Smith, David A. Robinson, Antonio Bispo, Fenny van Egmond, Saskia Keesstra, Nicolas Saby, Bożena Smreczak, (unknown), Azamat Suleymanov, Claire Chenu	4
3	European agricultural soil management: Towards climate‐smart and sustainability, knowledge needs and research approaches 2023 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Saskia Keesstra, Claire Chenu, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Sophie Cornu, P.J. Kuikman, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, A.A. Lototskaya, Saskia Visser	14
4	Elemental stoichiometry and Rock-Eval® thermal stability of organic matter in French topsoils 2023 ·SOIL ·(unknown), Pierre Barré, François Baudin, Dominique Arrouays, Antonio Bispo, Line Boulonne, Claire Chenu, Claudy Jolivet, Manuel Martín, Céline Ratié, Nicolas Saby, (unknown), Lauric Cécillon	10
5	A well‐established fact: Rapid mineralization of organic inputs is an important factor for soil carbon sequestration 2022 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Denis A. Angers, Dominique Arrouays, Rémi Cardinael, Claire Chenu, Marc Corbeels, Julien Demenois, Mark Farrell, Manuel Martín, Budiman Minasny, Sylvie Recous, Johan Six	21
6	A robust initialization method for accurate soil organic carbon simulations 2021 ·(unknown), Lauric Cécillon, François Baudin, Hugues Clivot, Fabien Ferchaud, Sabine Houot, Florent Levavasseur, Bruno Mary, Laure Soucémarianadin, Claire Chenu, Pierre Barré	2
7	Toward an Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Services Delivered by Urban Micro-Farms 2021 ·Sustainability ·(unknown), Jean-Noël Consalès, Baptiste Grard, (unknown), Claire Chenu	14
8	Long-term bare-fallow soil fractions reveal thermo-chemical properties controlling soil organic carbon dynamics 2021 ·Biogeosciences ·Mathieu Chassé, Suzanne Lutfalla, Lauric Cécillon, François Baudin, Samuel Abiven, Claire Chenu, Pierre Barré	13
9	Partitioning soil organic carbon into its centennially stable and active fractions with machine-learning models based on Rock-Eval® thermal analysis (PARTY _SOC v2.0 and PARTY _SOC v2.0 _EU ) 2021 ·Geoscientific model development ·Lauric Cécillon, François Baudin, Claire Chenu, Bent T. Christensen, Uwe Franko, Sabine Houot, (unknown), Thomas Kätterer, Ines Merbach, Folkert van Oort, Christopher Poeplau, (unknown), (unknown), Laure Soucémarianadin, Pierre Barré	21
10	Role of different size classes of organisms in cropped soils: What do litterbag experiments tell us? A meta-analysis 2021 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), Laure Vieublé Gonod, Claire Chenu, Sophie Joimel	19
11	Modelling dynamic interactions between soil structure and the storage and turnover of soil organic matter 2020 ·Biogeosciences ·Katharina Meurer, Claire Chenu, Elsa Coucheney, Anke M. Herrmann, Thomas Keller, Thomas Kätterer, (unknown), Nicholas Jarvis	42
12	The « 4 per 1000 » initiative. Soils for food security and climate. 2018 ·SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·Claire Chenu, Farshad Amiraslani, (unknown), Jean‐François Soussana, (unknown), Lydie‐Stella Koutika, (unknown), B. E. Madari, Yasuhito Shirato, Pete Smith, Brahim Soudi, David Whitehead, Lini Wollenberg	5
13	Soil organic matter stabilization at the pluri-decadal scale: Insight from bare fallow soils with contrasting physicochemical properties and macrostructures 2016 ·Geoderma ·Remigio Paradelo, Folkert van Oort, Pierre Barré, Daniel Billiou, Claire Chenu	26
14	Soil pyrogenic carbon lacks long-term persistence 2015 ·EGUGA ·Suzanne Lutfalla, Samuel Abiven, Pierre Barré, Daniel B. Wiedemeier, Bent T. Christensen, Sabine Houot, Thomas Kätterer, A. J. Macdonald, (unknown), Claire Chenu	1
15	Les services écosystémiques des sols : du concept à sa valorisation 2015 ·HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Christian Walter, Antonio Bispo, Claire Chenu, Alexandra Langlais, Christophe Schwartz	1
16	Microscale Heterogeneity Explains Experimental Variability and Non-Linearity in Soil Organic Matter Mineralisation 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Ruth E. Falconer, (unknown), Steven K. Schmidt, Philippe C. Baveye, Claire Chenu, Wilfred Otten	49
17	Localization of soil organic matter in soil aggregates using synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography 2014 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Stephan Peth, Claire Chenu, (unknown), Anneka Mordhorst, Patricia Garnier, Naoise Nunan, Valérie Pot, Malte Ogurreck, Felix Beckmann	77
18	Les matières organiques des sols : Rôles agronomiques et environnementaux Ed. 3 2011 ·Raoul Calvet, Claire Chenu, Sabine Houot	1
19	Relative importance of adsorption versus aggregation for organic matter storage in subsoil horizons of two contrasting soils 2010 ·EGUGA ·Christophe Moni, Cornélia Rumpel, Iñigo Virto, Abad Chabbi, Claire Chenu	4
20	Distribution granulo-densimétrique de la matière organique dans un sol argileux sous semis direct avec couverture végétale des Hautes Terres malgaches 2007 ·Bernard Barthès, Tantely Razafimbelo, Claire Chenu, Éric Blanchart, (unknown), (unknown), Christian Feller, (unknown), (unknown), Alain Albrecht	4

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