Philippe Ciais

929 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 686 citations indexed

About

Philippe Ciais is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Ciais has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 686 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Philippe Ciais's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (2 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (2 papers). Philippe Ciais is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (2 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (2 papers). Philippe Ciais collaborates with scholars based in France, China and Australia. Philippe Ciais's co-authors include Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, Yi Yin, Liming Zhou, Zhenzhong Zeng, Shushi Peng, Ranga B. Myneni, Hui Zeng, P. J. Rayner and Fabienne Maignan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Geoscientific model development.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Ciais

5 papers receiving 674 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.

Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

2014 603 citations Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippe Ciais France	3	568	250	210	180	75	6	686
Shilong Piao China	5	697 1.2×	254 1.0×	273 1.3×	230 1.3×	94 1.3×	7	839
Kristina Trusilova Germany	12	643 1.1×	246 1.0×	296 1.4×	145 0.8×	63 0.8×	23	791
Kai Jin China	11	442 0.8×	202 0.8×	134 0.6×	245 1.4×	62 0.8×	24	620
Xiuliang Yuan China	14	408 0.7×	174 0.7×	157 0.7×	145 0.8×	28 0.4×	31	546
Deqing Yu China	8	421 0.7×	272 1.1×	150 0.7×	197 1.1×	70 0.9×	10	636
Munkhnasan Lamchin South Korea	8	404 0.7×	94 0.4×	131 0.6×	344 1.9×	50 0.7×	15	590
Shoaib Ahmad Anees China	20	413 0.7×	248 1.0×	179 0.9×	425 2.4×	171 2.3×	33	772
Rebecca Hiller Switzerland	8	501 0.9×	146 0.6×	186 0.9×	85 0.5×	46 0.6×	9	585
Panxing He China	13	402 0.7×	97 0.4×	128 0.6×	119 0.7×	38 0.5×	42	552
S. Asefi‐Najafabady United States	7	523 0.9×	92 0.4×	222 1.1×	151 0.8×	95 1.3×	9	655

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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6 of 6 papers shown

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Tang, Lei, Shuqi Xiao, Ruoya Ma, et al.. (2025). Historical Changes in Fertilizer-Induced Soil Nitrogen Losses from Upland Grain Crops and Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(50). 27291–27304. 1 indexed citations

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Shi, Qinren, Philippe Ciais, Hugo Denier van der Gon, et al.. (2025). Comparison of High-Resolution Gridded Emission Maps of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide in Europe: GRACED & CAMS-REG. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(10). 4926–4937.

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Li, Dongfeng, Desmond E. Walling, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2025). Intensified rainfall overrides vegetation greening in driving erosion and carbon loss on the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 70(22). 3698–3702. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Min, Yilong Wang, Xuhui Wang, et al.. (2024). Slowdown in China's methane emission growth. National Science Review. 11(8). nwae223–nwae223. 8 indexed citations

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Peylin, Philippe, Cédric Bacour, Natasha MacBean, et al.. (2016). A new stepwise carbon cycle data assimilation system using multiple data streams to constrain the simulated land surface carbon cycle. Geoscientific model development. 9(9). 3321–3346. 73 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Shilong Piao, Zhenzhong Zeng, et al.. (2014). Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(8). 2915–2919. 603 indexed citations breakdown →

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