Marina Lévy

11.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
129 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Marina Lévy is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Lévy has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Oceanography, 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 33 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Marina Lévy's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (110 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (103 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (30 papers). Marina Lévy is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (110 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (103 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (30 papers). Marina Lévy collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Marina Lévy's co-authors include Patrice Klein, K. Shafer Smith, Peter J. S. Franks, Gurvan Madec, Francesco d’Ovidio, Anne‐Marie Tréguier, Olivier Aumont, Philip W. Boyd, Laurent Mémery and Laure Resplandy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marina Lévy

127 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Multi-faceted particle pumps drive carbon sequestration in the ocean

2019 501 citations Marina Lévy et al. profile →
Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

2017 493 citations Olivier Aumont, Marina Lévy et al. profile →
Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale

2012 377 citations Marina Lévy, Peter J. S. Franks et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
The role of submesoscale currents in structuring marine ecosystems

2018 290 citations Marina Lévy, Peter J. S. Franks et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Lévy France	46	6.1k	2.5k	1.8k	1.6k	559	129	7.1k
Peter G. Strutton Australia	42	4.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	510 0.9×	105	5.5k
Stephanie Henson United Kingdom	46	5.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	956 0.5×	2.2k 1.4×	588 1.1×	105	6.4k
William M. Balch United States	40	4.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	620 1.1×	113	5.8k
Daniele Iudicone Italy	30	4.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	449 0.8×	89	5.6k
Bernard Gentili France	47	6.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	430 0.8×	73	7.8k
Katja Fennel Canada	39	4.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	689 1.2×	148	6.2k
Keith Lindsay United States	44	4.5k 0.7×	4.9k 1.9×	3.0k 1.7×	1.4k 0.9×	743 1.3×	93	8.4k
Dennis J. McGillicuddy United States	51	8.3k 1.4×	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.6×	1.6k 2.8×	170	9.6k
Marlon R. Lewis Canada	41	5.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	782 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	710 1.3×	93	6.8k
Gene C. Feldman United States	28	4.9k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	362 0.6×	48	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Marina Lévy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marina Lévy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Lévy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marina Lévy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marina Lévy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marina Lévy. Marina Lévy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Keerthi, M. G., Olivier Aumont, Lester Kwiatkowski, & Marina Lévy. (2025). Inadequacies in the representation of sub-seasonal phytoplankton dynamics in Earth system models. Biogeosciences. 22(9). 2163–2180.

Lévy, Marina, et al.. (2025). Shift in phytoplankton community composition over fronts. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Gray, Patrick, Ivan Savelyev, Nicolas Cassar, et al.. (2024). Evidence for Kilometer‐Scale Biophysical Features at the Gulf Stream Front. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(3). 1 indexed citations

Sarma, V. V. S. S., B. Sridevi, Nicolas Metzl, et al.. (2023). Air‐Sea Fluxes of CO₂ in the Indian Ocean Between 1985 and 2018: A Synthesis Based on Observation‐Based Surface CO₂, Hindcast and Atmospheric Inversion Models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(5). 20 indexed citations

Resplandy, Laure, et al.. (2023). Pacific Decadal Oscillation Influences Tropical Oxygen Minimum Zone Extent and Obscures Anthropogenic Changes. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 3 indexed citations

Verneil, Alain de, Zouhair Lachkar, K. Shafer Smith, & Marina Lévy. (2022). Evaluating the Arabian Sea as a regional source of atmospheric CO ₂ : seasonal variability and drivers. Biogeosciences. 19(3). 907–929. 14 indexed citations

Lévy, Marina, et al.. (2022). Emergence of Broadband Variability in a Marine Plankton Model Under External Forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(12). 2 indexed citations

Lachkar, Zouhair, et al.. (2021). Fast local warming is the main driver of recent deoxygenation in the northern Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences. 18(20). 5831–5849. 28 indexed citations

Smith, K. Shafer, et al.. (2021). Intrinsic timescales of variability in a marine plankton model. Ecological Modelling. 443. 109446–109446. 5 indexed citations

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Lévy, Marina, et al.. (2021). Oceanic primary production decline halved in eddy-resolving simulations of global warming. Biogeosciences. 18(14). 4321–4349. 26 indexed citations

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Uchida, Takaya, Dhruv Balwada, Ryan Abernathey, et al.. (2019). The Contribution of Submesoscale over Mesoscale Eddy Iron Transport in the Open Southern Ocean. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(12). 3934–3958. 51 indexed citations

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Whitt, Daniel, Marina Lévy, & John R. Taylor. (2019). Submesoscales Enhance Storm‐Driven Vertical Mixing of Nutrients: Insights From a Biogeochemical Large Eddy Simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(11). 8140–8165. 21 indexed citations

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Lévy, Marina, et al.. (2019). Major Contribution of Reduced Upper Ocean Oxygen Mixing to Global Ocean Deoxygenation in an Earth System Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(21). 12239–12249. 15 indexed citations

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Lachkar, Zouhair, Marina Lévy, & K. Shafer Smith. (2019). Strong Intensification of the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone in Response to Arabian Gulf Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(10). 5420–5429. 59 indexed citations

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Lévy, Marina, Peter J. S. Franks, & K. Shafer Smith. (2018). The role of submesoscale currents in structuring marine ecosystems. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4758–4758. 290 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lachkar, Zouhair, Marina Lévy, & K. Shafer Smith. (2018). Intensification and deepening of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone in response to increase in Indian monsoon wind intensity. Biogeosciences. 15(1). 159–186. 61 indexed citations

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Keerthi, M. G., Matthieu Lengaigne, Marina Lévy, et al.. (2017). Physical control of interannual variations of the winter chlorophyll bloom in the northern Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences. 14(15). 3615–3632. 29 indexed citations

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Suresh, I., Matthieu Lengaigne, Christian Éthé, et al.. (2017). Positive Indian Ocean Dipole events prevent anoxia off the west coast of India. Biogeosciences. 14(6). 1541–1559. 44 indexed citations

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Resplandy, Laure, Marina Lévy, Laurent Bopp, et al.. (2012). Controlling factors of the oxygen balance in the Arabian Sea's OMZ. Biogeosciences. 9(12). 5095–5109. 91 indexed citations

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Cotté, Cédric, Francesco d’Ovidio, Alexis Chaigneau, et al.. (2010). Scale‐dependent interactions of Mediterranean whales with marine dynamics. Limnology and Oceanography. 56(1). 219–232. 92 indexed citations

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