Fabrice Papa

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
136 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Fabrice Papa is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabrice Papa has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 77 papers in Oceanography and 54 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Fabrice Papa's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (63 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (49 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (40 papers). Fabrice Papa is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (63 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (49 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (40 papers). Fabrice Papa collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and India. Fabrice Papa's co-authors include Catherine Prigent, William B. Rossow, Filipe Aires, Fabien Durand, Frédéric Frappart, Elaine Matthews, Sujit Kumar Bala, Stéphane Calmant, C. Prigent and C. Jiménez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fabrice Papa

133 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability

2006 724 citations Fabrice Papa et al. profile →
A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping

2021 151 citations Rafaël Almar, Roshanka Ranasinghe et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Fabrice Papa

GPC

OCEAN

WST

ECOLO

Stéphane Calmant France

Yongwei Sheng United States

Christopher J. Merchant United Kingdom

Bertrand Decharme France

Tamlin M. Pavelsky United States

J. T. Reager United States

Marie‐Paule Bonnet France

Felix W. Landerer United States

Hannes Müller Schmied Germany

Laurent Longuevergne France

Stéphane Calmant France

Fabrice Papa

2.9k ×0.7

GPC

1.5k ×0.6

OCEAN

997 ×0.4

2.4k ×1.2

WST

882 ×0.7

ECOLO

Citations per year, relative to Fabrice Papa Fabrice Papa (= 1×) peers Stéphane Calmant

Countries citing papers authored by Fabrice Papa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabrice Papa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabrice Papa

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20 of 20 papers shown

Döll, Petra, et al.. (2025). The benefits and trade-offs of multi-variable calibration of the WaterGAP global hydrological model (WGHM) in the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(2). 567–596. 2 indexed citations

Rahman, Md Habibur, Tianran Chen, Yuyang Lin, et al.. (2025). Decadal variability and anthropogenic influence on trace element dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Evidence from high-resolution coral records. Environmental Research. 279(Pt 1). 121828–121828. 1 indexed citations

Moreira, Daniel Medeiros, Fabrice Papa, Alice César Fassoni‐Andrade, et al.. (2025). Widespread and Exceptional Reduction in River Water Levels Across the Amazon Basin During the 2023 Extreme Drought Revealed by Satellite Altimetry and SWOT. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(11). 1 indexed citations

Laipelt, Leonardo, Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva, Fernando Mainardi Fan, et al.. (2025). SWOT Reveals How the 2024 Disastrous Flood in South Brazil Was Intensified by Increased Water Slope and Wind Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(2). 4 indexed citations

Frappart, Frédéric, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the temporal resolution of water levels from altimetry using D-InSAR: A case study of 10 Swedish Lakes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100162–100162. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Xiaohua, et al.. (2023). Intensification of “river in the sea” along the western Bay of Bengal Coast during two consecutive La Niña events of 2020 and 2021 based on SMAP satellite observations. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 4 indexed citations

Tourian, Mohammad J., Peyman Saemian, Vagner G. Ferreira, et al.. (2023). A copula-supported Bayesian framework for spatial downscaling of GRACE-derived terrestrial water storage flux. Remote Sensing of Environment. 295. 113685–113685. 15 indexed citations

Crétaux, Jean‐François, Stéphane Calmant, Fabrice Papa, et al.. (2023). Inland Surface Waters Quantity Monitored from Remote Sensing. Surveys in Geophysics. 44(5). 1519–1552. 18 indexed citations

Papa, Fabrice, et al.. (2023). Characterizing near-surface salinity variability in the northern Bay of Bengal and its potential drivers during extreme freshening years of the 2011–2019 period. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 102. 101357–101357. 1 indexed citations

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Tourian, Mohammad J., Fabrice Papa, Omid Elmi, et al.. (2023). Current availability and distribution of Congo Basin’s freshwater resources. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 9 indexed citations

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Papa, Fabrice, Adrien Paris, Raphaël M. Tshimanga, et al.. (2023). A long-term monthly surface water storage dataset for the Congo basin from 1992 to 2015. Earth system science data. 15(7). 2957–2982. 9 indexed citations

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Pellet, Victor, Filipe Aires, Dai Yamazaki, & Fabrice Papa. (2021). Coherent Satellite Monitoring of the Water Cycle Over the Amazon. Part 1: Methodology and Initial Evaluation. Water Resources Research. 57(5). 6 indexed citations

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Almar, Rafaël, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, et al.. (2021). A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3775–3775. 151 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fleischmann, Ayan Santos, Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva, Walter Collischonn, et al.. (2020). Trade‐Offs Between 1‐D and 2‐D Regional River Hydrodynamic Models. Water Resources Research. 56(8). 25 indexed citations

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Pellet, Victor, Filipe Aires, Fabrice Papa, Simon Munier, & Bertrand Decharme. (2020). Long-term total water storage change from a Satellite Water Cycle reconstruction over large southern Asian basins. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(6). 3033–3055. 19 indexed citations

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Pellet, Victor, Filipe Aires, Fabrice Papa, Simon Munier, & Bertrand Decharme. (2019). Long-term Total Water Storage Change from a SAtellite Water Cycle (SAWC) reconstruction over large south Asian basins. 1 indexed citations

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Aires, Filipe, Catherine Prigent, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, et al.. (2018). Comparison of visible and multi-satellite global inundation datasets at high-spatial resolution. Remote Sensing of Environment. 216. 427–441. 43 indexed citations

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Bitar, Ahmad Al, Marie Parrens, Frédéric Frappart, et al.. (2016). How are the wetlands over tropical basins impacted by the extreme hydrological events?. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

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Papa, Fabrice, et al.. (2014). An assessment of terrestrial water storage, rainfall and river discharge over Northern India from satellite data. NOT FOUND REPOSITORY (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore). 12 indexed citations

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Kouraev, Alexei, Elena Zakharova, N. M. Mognard, et al.. (2005). SYNERGY OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SATELLITE MICROWAVE DATA FOR CRYOSPHERIC STUDIES. ESASP. 572(5). 851–4. 1 indexed citations

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