Philippe Ciais

223.6k citations

1.1k papers · 94.7k indexed · 80 hit papers · h-index 146

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Atmospheric Science top 0.01%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 830
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 464
- Climate variability and models 291
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 290
- Fire effects on ecosystems 79
Atmospheric Science 402
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 172
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 83

Co-authors: Shilong Piao Pierre Friedlingstein Shushi Peng Xuhui Wang Ranga B. Myneni Ivan A. Janssens Josep Peñuelas Nicolas Viovy
Journals: Global Change Biology (71 papers)Nature Communications (49 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (46 papers)Geoscientific model development (44 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (43 papers)
Partner nations: France China United States

In The Last Decade

Philippe Ciais

1.1k papers receiving 92.3k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Global carbon emissions in 2023 2024 · 221 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2023 Nature Food
2023 Nature
2023 Nature Climate Change
2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2023 Nature Climate Change
2023 Science
2023 Global Change Biology
2023 Nature Geoscience
2022 Nature
2022 Science
2022 Nature Climate Change
2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2022 Nature Communications
2022 Nature
2022 Global Food Security
2022 Nature Climate Change
2022 Nature Climate Change
2022 Nature Sustainability
2022 Nature Communications
2021 Nature Communications
2021 Nature Food
2021 Nature Climate Change
2021 Nature
2020 Global Change Biology
2020 Nature Communications
2020 Science
2020 Nature Sustainability
2020 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2020 Science Advances
2020 Nature Sustainability
2019 Nature Climate Change
2019 Nature Sustainability
2019 Nature Communications
2019 Global Change Biology
2019 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2018 Nature Communications
2018 Science Advances
2018 Nature
2017 Scientific Reports
2017 Global Change Biology
2017 Nature Climate Change
2017 Nature Communications
2016 Nature Climate Change
2016 Nature Geoscience
2016 New Phytologist
2015 Nature Communications
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Nature
2015 Nature Geoscience
2015 Nature Communications
2015 Reviews of Geophysics
2014 Nature
2014 Nature Climate Change
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 Nature Climate Change
2013 Nature
2013 Nature
2013 Nature
2012 Nature Climate Change
2011 Global Change Biology
2011 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Environmental Science & Technology
2010 Nature Geoscience
2010 Nature
2010 Nature Geoscience
2010 Nature Geoscience
2010 Nature Geoscience
2009 Nature
2008 Nature
2008 Nature
2008 Global Change Biology
2007 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 Global Change Biology
2005 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2000 Science
1995 Science

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Philippe Ciais

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Philippe Ciais's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Philippe Ciais with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Philippe Ciais more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Philippe Ciais

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Philippe Ciais. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Philippe Ciais. The network helps show where Philippe Ciais may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Philippe Ciais, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Philippe Ciais Line = papers co-authored together Philippe Ciais links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal Nature Climate Change ·Nathaniel Robinson, C. Ronnie Drever, David A. Gibbs, Maheshkumar Prakash Patil, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Viola Heinrich, Philippe Ciais, Celso H. L. Silva, Zhihua Liu, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Sassan Saatchi, Yidi Xu, Susan C. Cook‐Patton	2025	4
2	A near-real time daily European Power Consumption and Carbon Intensity Dataset (ECON-PowerCI) Scientific Data ·Shujie Zhang, Wenli Zhao, Biqing Zhu, Chunhua Yan, Alfredo Suárez, Hou Jiang, Samuel Eric Chokote, Philippe Ciais, Xuan Ning, Pierre Gentine, Steven J. Davis, Zhu Liu, Guo Yu Qiu	2025	0
3	Short-to-medium range forecast of natural gas use in the United States residential buildings Journal of Cleaner Production ·SU Yun-sh, Philippe Ciais, Chuanlong Zhou	2024	7
4	High-resolution canopy height map in the Landes forest (France) based on GEDI, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data with a deep learning approach International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Martin A. Schwartz, Philippe Ciais, Catherine Ottlé, Airton de [UNESP] Carvalho Júnior, Cédric Vega, Ibrahim Fayad, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Nicolas Baghdadi, François Morneau, David Morin, Dominique Guyon, Sylvia Dayau, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron	2024	31
5	Carbon Monitor Power-Simulators (CMP-SIM v1.0) across countries: a data-driven approach to simulate daily power generation Geoscientific model development ·S Reyes-Lorente, Yannig Goude, Katsumasa Tanaka, Biqing Zhu, Zhu Deng, Alfredo Suárez, Philippe Ciais	2024	1
6	Road fragment edges enhance wildfire incidence and intensity, while suppressing global burned area Nature Communications ·Simon Bowring, Wei Li, Florent Mouillot, Thais M. Rosan, Philippe Ciais	2024	4
7	Future land carbon removals in China consistent with national inventory Nature Communications ·Yue He, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Hao Xu, Thomas Gasser	2024	3
8	Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation Nature Geoscience ·Lei Zhu, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Jiaying He, Alessandro Cescatti, Maurizio Santoro, Katsumasa Tanaka, Oliver Cartus, Zhe Zhao, Yidi Xu, Husserl OSSIBA, Jingmeng Wang	2023	38
9	Biogeographic pattern of living vegetation carbon turnover time in mature forests across continents Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Kailiang Yu, Philippe Ciais, A. Anthony Bloom, Jinsong Wang, Zhihua Liu, Han Y. H. Chen, Yilong Wang, Yizhao Chen, Ashley P. Ballantyne	2023	1
10	Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks Nature Communications ·S. Walsh, Philippe Ciais, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Keywan Riahi, 森淳, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Michael Obersteiner	2017	134
11	Decrease in winter respiration explains 25% of the annual northern forest carbon sink enhancement over the last 30 years Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Zhen Yu, Jingxin Wang, Shirong Liu, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Steven W. Running, Benjamin Poulter, James S. Rentch, Pengsen Sun	2016	15
12	Spatial patterns in CO ₂ evasion from the global river network Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Ronny Lauerwald, Goulven G. Laruelle, Jens Hartmann, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Regnier	2015	252
13	A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests Science ·Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, R. A. Houghton, Pekka E. Kauppi, Werner A. Kurz, Oliver L. Phillips, А. Shvidenko, Simon L. Lewis, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen W. Pacala, A. David McGuire, Shilong Piao, Aapo Rautiainen, Stephen Sitch, Daniel J. Hayes	2011	8
14	Carbon sequestration due to the abandonment of agriculture in the former USSR since 1990 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Nicolas Vuichard, Philippe Ciais, Luca Belelli Marchesini, 柳澤明宏, Riccardo Valentini	2008	94
15	Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO ₂ growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Josep G. Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Michael Raupach, Christopher B. Field, Erik T. Buitenhuis, Philippe Ciais, T. J. Conway, Nathan P. Gillett, R. A. Houghton, Gregg Marland Hit paper breakdown →	2007	1490
16	Changes in climate and land use have a larger direct impact than rising CO ₂ on global river runoff trends Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, David Labat, Sönke Zaehle	2007	480
17	Inferring CO ₂ sources and sinks from satellite observations: Method and application to TOVS data Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Frédéric Chevallier, Michael Fisher, Philippe Peylin, Soumia Serrar, Philippe Bousquet, François‐Marie Bréon, A. Chédin, Philippe Ciais	2005	231
18	A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Jérôme Ogée, Jan Polcher‬, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, I. Colin Prentice Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1603
19	Holocene temperature variations inferred from Antarctic ice cores Annals of Glaciology ·Philippe Ciais, J. Jouzel, J. R. Petit, V. Lipenkov, James W. C. White	1994	23
20	Holocene temperature variations inferred from Antarctic ice cores Annals of Glaciology ·Philippe Ciais, J. Jouzel, J. R. Petit, V. Lipenkov, James W. C. White	1994	11

About Philippe Ciais

Philippe Ciais is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Environmental Engineering and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 1.1k papers that have together received 94.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (464 papers), Climate variability and models (291 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (290 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (172 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (99 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (93 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (83 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (79 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (60.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (28.4k citations), Soil Science (11.8k citations), Ecological Modeling (4.2k citations) and Ecology (24.5k citations). Philippe Ciais has collaborated with scholars based in France, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein, Shushi Peng, Xuhui Wang, Ranga B. Myneni, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Nicolas Viovy, Stephen Sitch and Philippe Peylin. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geoscientific model development and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact