P. Ciais

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

P. Ciais is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Ciais has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in P. Ciais's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). P. Ciais is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). P. Ciais collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and United States. P. Ciais's co-authors include Philippe Peylin, Philippe Bousquet, Martina Schmidt, L. P. Steele, Catherine Prigent, J. B. Miller, E.-G. Brunke, Didier Hauglustaine, Guido R. van der Werf and Susan Tyler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

P. Ciais

24 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability

2006 724 citations Philippe Bousquet, P. Ciais et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. Ciais France	13	1.3k	709	338	289	218	25	1.8k
Zhenghua Hu China	24	936 0.7×	315 0.4×	319 0.9×	278 1.0×	355 1.6×	89	1.7k
D. Serça France	30	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	343 1.0×	437 1.5×	447 2.1×	65	2.7k
Elisabeth Graf Pannatier Switzerland	20	887 0.7×	738 1.0×	331 1.0×	259 0.9×	189 0.9×	43	1.7k
Qing Zhu United States	27	1.1k 0.9×	641 0.9×	615 1.8×	545 1.9×	225 1.0×	98	2.5k
Mingkui Cao China	24	1.8k 1.4×	594 0.8×	992 2.9×	428 1.5×	243 1.1×	31	2.5k
Yit Arn Teh United Kingdom	25	781 0.6×	229 0.3×	717 2.1×	366 1.3×	248 1.1×	66	1.7k
Hao Shi China	24	1.1k 0.8×	304 0.4×	513 1.5×	226 0.8×	194 0.9×	79	1.9k
G. Esser Germany	18	1.3k 1.0×	512 0.7×	366 1.1×	242 0.8×	121 0.6×	29	1.7k
Yoshinobu Harazono Japan	28	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	567 1.7×	286 1.0×	82 0.4×	101	2.4k
C. P. Meyer Australia	30	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	335 1.0×	209 0.7×	88 0.4×	61	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by P. Ciais

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Fields of papers citing papers by P. Ciais

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. Ciais

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of P. Ciais. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of P. Ciais 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 P. Ciais. P. Ciais 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

Dang, Pengfei, P. Ciais, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2025). Mitigating the detrimental effects of climate warming on major staple crop production through adaptive nitrogen management: A meta-analysis. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 367. 110524–110524. 1 indexed citations

Dang, Pengfei, P. Ciais, Jiadong Gao, et al.. (2025). Long-term climate warming weakens positive plant biomass responses globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(34). e2420379122–e2420379122. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Haohao, Congsheng Fu, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2025). Drought‐Induced Weakening of Temperature Control on Ecosystem Carbon Uptake Across Northern Lands. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70032–e70032.

Davis, Steven J., Fengna Xi, P. Ciais, et al.. (2016). Global carbon uptake by cement carbonation. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Dan, Shushi Peng, P. Ciais, et al.. (2015). Improving the dynamics of Northern Hemisphere high-latitude vegetation in the ORCHIDEE ecosystem model. Geoscientific model development. 8(7). 2263–2283. 37 indexed citations

Kwok, Camille Yver, D. Müller, Christopher Caldow, et al.. (2015). Methane emission estimates using chamber and tracer release experiments for a municipal waste water treatment plant. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(7). 2853–2867. 41 indexed citations

Kadygrov, Nikolay, Grégoire Broquet, Frédéric Chevallier, et al.. (2015). On the potential of the ICOS atmospheric CO ₂ measurement network for estimating the biogenic CO ₂ budget of Europe. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(22). 12765–12787. 15 indexed citations

Stegehuis, Annemiek I., Robert Vautard, P. Ciais, et al.. (2015). An observation-constrained multi-physics WRF ensemble for simulating European mega heat waves. Geoscientific model development. 8(7). 2285–2298. 29 indexed citations

Szczypta, Camille, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Fabienne Maignan, et al.. (2014). Suitability of modelled and remotely sensed essential climate variables for monitoring Euro-Mediterranean droughts. Geoscientific model development. 7(3). 931–946. 40 indexed citations

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Babst, Flurin, Olivier Bouriaud, Dario Papale, et al.. (2013). Coherence between woody carbon uptake and net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Sultan, Benjamin, Philippe Roudier, Philippe Quirion, et al.. (2013). Assessing climate change impacts on sorghum and millet yields in the Sudanian and Sahelian savannas of West Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 8(1). 14040–14040. 235 indexed citations

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Kirschke, S., Philippe Bousquet, P. Ciais, et al.. (2012). Three decades of methane sources and sinks: budgets and variations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14. 2378. 10 indexed citations

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Vicca, Sara, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2012). Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently. Ecology Letters. 15(6). 520–526. 259 indexed citations

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Delaveaud, Christophe, et al.. (2012). Compact Multiantenna. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. 2012. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Peylin, Philippe, Sander Houweling, Maarten Krol, et al.. (2011). Importance of fossil fuel emission uncertainties over Europe for CO ₂ modeling: model intercomparison. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(13). 6607–6622. 72 indexed citations

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Imbach, Pablo, et al.. (2010). Climatology-based regional modelling of potential vegetation and average annual long-term runoff for Mesoamerica. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(10). 1801–1817. 21 indexed citations

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Geels, Camilla, Manuel Gloor, P. Ciais, et al.. (2007). Comparing atmospheric transport models for future regional inversions over Europe – Part 1: mapping the atmospheric CO ₂ signals. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 7(13). 3461–3479. 106 indexed citations

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Bousquet, Philippe, P. Ciais, J. B. Miller, et al.. (2006). Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability. Nature. 443(7110). 439–443. 724 indexed citations breakdown →

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Janssens, Ivan A., Annette Freibauer, Bernhard Schlamadinger, et al.. (2005). The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems at country-scale – a European case study. Biogeosciences. 2(1). 15–26. 171 indexed citations

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Carouge, C., Philippe Bousquet, Philippe Peylin, P. Ciais, & F. Hourdin. (2003). Daily european co2 sources and sinks inferred by inversion of atmospheric transport. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 8833. 1 indexed citations

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