Gaël Le Roux

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Gaël Le Roux is a scholar working on Pollution, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gaël Le Roux has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Pollution, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gaël Le Roux's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Heavy metals in environment (31 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (20 papers). Gaël Le Roux is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Heavy metals in environment (31 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (20 papers). Gaël Le Roux collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United Kingdom. Gaël Le Roux's co-authors include Deonie Allen, Vernon R. Phoenix, Steve Allen, Didier Galop, Anaëlle Simonneau, Stéphane Binet, Jeroen E. Sonke, William Shotyk, François De Vleeschouwer and Andriy K. Cheburkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Gaël Le Roux

100 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment

2019 1.6k citations Steve Allen, Deonie Allen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gaël Le Roux France	34	3.1k	1.6k	1.4k	994	970	106	5.1k
Vernon R. Phoenix United Kingdom	32	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	370 0.3×	406 0.4×	544 0.6×	68	6.0k
Ludwig Haumaier Germany	37	994 0.3×	528 0.3×	798 0.6×	537 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	64	6.1k
J. O. Skjemstad Australia	37	1.3k 0.4×	434 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	740 0.7×	2.0k 2.0×	61	8.8k
Hao Yang China	36	901 0.3×	543 0.3×	535 0.4×	715 0.7×	986 1.0×	233	4.6k
Priyadarsi D. Roy Mexico	38	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	884 0.7×	553 0.6×	383 0.4×	169	4.7k
Anna Sànchez‐Vidal Spain	34	2.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	778 0.6×	404 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	103	4.9k
Karl E. Havens United States	49	726 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	327 0.2×	686 0.7×	4.1k 4.2×	181	10.8k
Gabriel Filippelli United States	41	1.5k 0.5×	302 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	663 0.7×	135	5.1k
Xosé Luís Otero Spain	41	1.4k 0.5×	301 0.2×	457 0.3×	589 0.6×	2.0k 2.1×	197	5.2k
Evelyn S. Krull Australia	35	826 0.3×	388 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	231 0.2×	1.4k 1.4×	65	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gaël Le Roux

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Sonke, Jeroen E., et al.. (2025). Majority of potable water microplastics are smaller than the 20 μm EU methodology limit for consumable water quality. PLOS Water. 4(1). e0000250–e0000250. 6 indexed citations

Hamard, Samuel, Romain Walcker, Ellen Dorrepaal, et al.. (2025). Microbial photosynthesis mitigates carbon loss from northern peatlands under warming. Nature Climate Change. 15(4). 436–443. 6 indexed citations

Roux, Gaël Le, et al.. (2025). Human exposure to PM10 microplastics in indoor air. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0328011–e0328011. 5 indexed citations

Chevalier, Laurence, F. Candaudap, Gaël Le Roux, et al.. (2025). Commercial formulations of copper-based conventional and nano-formulated pesticides affect chironomid-associated microbiota and hosts traits. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 499. 140294–140294.

Sonke, Jeroen E., et al.. (2025). EasyMP: Diverse and Environmentally Relevant Microplastic Reference Materials Encompassing Fragments and Fibers. Nano Select. 6(10). 1 indexed citations

Jacotot, Adrien, Christine Delire, Stéphane Binet, et al.. (2024). Mountain Peatlands and Drought: Carbon Cycling in the Pyrenees Amidst Global Climate Change. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(7). 1 indexed citations

Roux, Gaël Le, et al.. (2024). Plastics in Upper Vicdessos - Bridging the gapS for a better understanding of atmospheric microplastics in mountain environments (PVC#2). SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

Guasch, Helena, Gaël Le Roux, Anna Vila‐Gispert, et al.. (2023). Distinct dynamics in mountain watersheds: Exploring mercury and microplastic pollution—Unraveling the influence of atmospheric deposition, human activities, and hydrology. Environmental Research. 242. 117760–117760. 3 indexed citations

Li, Chuxian, Maxime Enrico, Beatriz Ferreira Araújo, et al.. (2022). A peat core Hg stable isotope reconstruction of Holocene atmospheric Hg deposition at Amsterdam Island (37.8oS). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 341. 62–74. 15 indexed citations

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Hamard, Samuel, Régis Céréghino, Maialen Barret, et al.. (2021). Contribution of microbial photosynthesis to peatland carbon uptake along a latitudinal gradient. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3424–3441. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Chuxian, Jeroen E. Sonke, Gaël Le Roux, et al.. (2020). Holocene dynamics of the southern westerly winds over the Indian Ocean inferred from a peat dust deposition record. Quaternary Science Reviews. 231. 106169–106169. 18 indexed citations

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Gandois, Laure, Alison M. Hoyt, Stéphane Mounier, et al.. (2020). From canals to the coast: dissolved organic matter and trace metal composition in rivers draining degraded tropical peatlands in Indonesia. Biogeosciences. 17(7). 1897–1909. 30 indexed citations

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Gandois, Laure, et al.. (2019). Peatland Contribution to Stream Organic Carbon Exports From a Montane Watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(11). 3448–3464. 26 indexed citations

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Allen, Steve, Deonie Allen, Vernon R. Phoenix, et al.. (2019). Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment. Nature Geoscience. 12(5). 339–344. 1608 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hansson, Sophia V., Adrien Claustres, Anne Probst, et al.. (2017). Atmospheric and terrigenous metal accumulation over 3000 years in a French mountain catchment: Local vs distal influences. Anthropocene. 19. 45–54. 25 indexed citations

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Enrico, Maxime, Gaël Le Roux, Nicolas Marusczak, et al.. (2016). Atmospheric Mercury Transfer to Peat Bogs Dominated by Gaseous Elemental Mercury Dry Deposition. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(5). 2405–2412. 230 indexed citations

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Roux, Gaël Le, Natalia Piotrowska, Emmanuelle Javaux, et al.. (2013). Mid- and late Holocene dust deposition in western Europe: the Misten peat bog (Hautes Fagnes – Belgium). Climate of the past. 9(5). 2285–2298. 16 indexed citations

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Roux, Gaël Le & William A. Marshall. (2011). Constructing Recent Peat Accumulation Chronologies Using Atmospheric Fall-Out Radionuclides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 35 indexed citations

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Pourcelot, L., Ph. Renaud, & Gaël Le Roux. (2008). Variability of atmospheric depositions on moutainous area. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12).

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Roux, Gaël Le, Alain Véron, & Christophe Morhange. (2005). Lead pollution in the ancient harbours of Marseilles. Méditerranée. 104. 31–35. 20 indexed citations

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