Philippe Ciais

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Philippe Ciais is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Ciais has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Philippe Ciais's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (3 papers). Philippe Ciais is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (3 papers). Philippe Ciais collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Philippe Ciais's co-authors include Michael Raupach, Christopher B. Field, Josep G. Canadell, Gregg Marland, Gernot Klepper, Corinne Le Quéré, Philippe Peylin, Nicolas Viovy, Philippe Bousquet and C. Carouge and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Ciais

18 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO ₂ emissions

2007 1.3k citations Michael Raupach, Gregg Marland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Aligning agriculture and climate policy

2017 234 citations Abad Chabbi, Johannes Lehmann et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers

Philippe Ciais

GPC

ECOLO

Thomas Gasser Austria

Zeke Hausfather United States

N. Harris

Hester Biemans Netherlands

W Ogana

L. G. Meira Filho Germany

B. S. Felzer United States

Bart J. Strengers Netherlands

C. Covey United States

Wilfran Moufouma‐Okia United Kingdom

Thomas Gasser Austria

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1.3k ×1.4

GPC

535 ×1.1

517 ×1.3

577 ×1.5

254 ×0.7

ECOLO

Citations per year, relative to Philippe Ciais Philippe Ciais (= 1×) peers Thomas Gasser

Countries citing papers authored by Philippe Ciais

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philippe Ciais

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philippe Ciais

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Philippe Ciais. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Philippe 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 Philippe Ciais. Philippe Ciais is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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19 of 19 papers shown

Yan, Zhifeng, Jinshi Jian, Shushi Peng, et al.. (2025). Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70194–e70194. 1 indexed citations

Frappart, Frédéric, et al.. (2025). Forest Cover in the Congo Basin: Consistency Evaluation of Seven Datasets. Forests. 16(10). 1609–1609.

Saleska, S. R., Steven Allison, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2025). Microbiome Adaptation Could Amplify Modeled Projections of Global Soil Carbon Loss With Climate Warming. Global Change Biology. 31(6). e70301–e70301. 1 indexed citations

Normandin, Cassandra, Frédéric Frappart, Luc Bourrel, et al.. (2024). Sharp decline in surface water resources for agriculture and fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin over 2000-2020. The Science of The Total Environment. 950. 175259–175259. 4 indexed citations

Hu, Qiyuan, Xiang Gao, Sijia Wang, et al.. (2023). Future hotter summer greatly increases residential electricity consumption in Beijing: A study based on different house layouts and shared socioeconomic pathways. Sustainable Cities and Society. 91. 104453–104453. 10 indexed citations

Tanaka, Katsumasa, et al.. (2022). Warming-induced increase in power demand and CO2 emissions in Qatar and the Middle East. Journal of Cleaner Production. 382. 135359–135359. 17 indexed citations

Hu, Zhongmin, Shilong Piao, Alan K. Knapp, et al.. (2022). Decoupling of greenness and gross primary productivity as aridity decreases. Remote Sensing of Environment. 279. 113120–113120. 78 indexed citations

Vogel, Felix, et al.. (2018). Can we separate industrial CH4 emission sources from atmospheric observations? - A test case for carbon isotopes, PMF and enhanced APCA. Atmospheric Environment. 187. 317–327. 13 indexed citations

Chabbi, Abad, Johannes Lehmann, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2017). Aligning agriculture and climate policy. Nature Climate Change. 7(5). 307–309. 234 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ringeval, Bruno, Peter O. Hopcroft, Paul J. Valdes, et al.. (2013). Response of methane emissions from wetlands to the Last Glacial Maximum and an idealized Dansgaard–Oeschger climate event: insights from two models of different complexity. Climate of the past. 9(1). 149–171. 14 indexed citations

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Ciais, Philippe, Alessandro Tagliabue, Matthias Cuntz, et al.. (2011). Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience. 5(1). 74–79. 127 indexed citations

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Delbart, Nicolas, Philippe Ciais, Jérôme Chave, et al.. (2010). Mortality as a key driver of the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forest: results from a dynamic vegetation model. Biogeosciences. 7(10). 3027–3039. 56 indexed citations

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Carouge, C., Philippe Bousquet, Philippe Peylin, P. J. Rayner, & Philippe Ciais. (2010). What can we learn from European continuous atmospheric CO ₂ measurements to quantify regional fluxes – Part 1: Potential of the 2001 network. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(6). 3107–3117. 36 indexed citations

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Bellassen, Valentin, Guerric Le Maire, Jean‐François Dhôte, Philippe Ciais, & Nicolas Viovy. (2010). Modelling forest management within a global vegetation model—Part 1: Model structure and general behaviour. Ecological Modelling. 221(20). 2458–2474. 66 indexed citations

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Chédin, A., N. A. Scott, R. Armante, et al.. (2008). A quantitative link between CO₂ emissions from tropical vegetation fires and the daily tropospheric excess (DTE) of CO₂ seen by NOAA‐10 (1987–1991). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(D5). 10 indexed citations

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Jung, Martin, Guerric Le Maire, Sönke Zaehle, et al.. (2007). Assessing the ability of three land ecosystem models to simulate gross carbon uptake of forests from boreal to Mediterranean climate in Europe. Biogeosciences. 4(4). 647–656. 65 indexed citations

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Raupach, Michael, Gregg Marland, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2007). Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO ₂ emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(24). 10288–10293. 1307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bousquet, Philippe, Didier Hauglustaine, Philippe Peylin, C. Carouge, & Philippe Ciais. (2005). Two decades of OH variability as inferred by an inversion of atmospheric transport and chemistry of methyl chloroform. 83 indexed citations

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Ogée, Jérôme, Philippe Peylin, Matthias Cuntz, et al.. (2004). Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange into net assimilation and respiration with canopy‐scale isotopic measurements: An error propagation analysis with ¹³CO₂ and CO¹⁸O data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 18(2). 76 indexed citations

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