Sophie Cornu

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Sophie Cornu is a scholar working on Pollution, Soil Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophie Cornu has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Pollution, 26 papers in Soil Science and 24 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Sophie Cornu's work include Heavy metals in environment (28 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (22 papers). Sophie Cornu is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (28 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (22 papers). Sophie Cornu collaborates with scholars based in France, Morocco and Brazil. Sophie Cornu's co-authors include Cédric Laveuf, Zuzana Fekiacova, David Montagne, Jérôme Balesdent, Christine Hatté, Anatja Samouëlian, Yves Lucas, Isabelle Basile‐Doelsch, Joël Chadœuf and Delphine Derrien and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Sophie Cornu

97 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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.

  1. Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth
    2018 356 citations Sophie Cornu, Zuzana Fekiacova et al. profile →

Peers

Sophie Cornu
Yves Lucas France
Laurence Maurice France
Ward Chesworth Canada
Pinchas Fine Israel
Lixin Jin United States
Anne Probst France
A. R. Mermut Canada
Aaron Thompson United States
B. Guillet France
Craig Rasmussen United States
Yves Lucas France
Sophie Cornu
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Countries citing papers authored by Sophie Cornu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sophie Cornu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophie Cornu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sammartino, Stéphane, et al.. (2024). Enchytraeids: Small but important ecosystem engineers. Geoderma. 453. 117150–117150. 1 indexed citations
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Lim, Artem G., Oleg S. Pokrovsky, Sophie Cornu, & Jean‐Dominique Meunier. (2023). Release of labile Si from forest and agricultural soils. CATENA. 229. 107211–107211. 8 indexed citations
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Keesstra, Saskia, Claire Chenu, Lars Juhl Munkholm, et al.. (2023). European agricultural soil management: Towards climate‐smart and sustainability, knowledge needs and research approaches. European Journal of Soil Science. 75(1). 14 indexed citations
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Cornu, Sophie, et al.. (2020). Agriculture increases the bioavailability of silicon, a beneficial element for crop, in temperate soils. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19999–19999. 31 indexed citations
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Tifafi, Marwa, Marta Camino‐Serrano, Christine Hatté, et al.. (2018). The use of radiocarbon 14 C to constrain carbon dynamics in the soil module of the land surface model ORCHIDEE (SVN r5165). Geoscientific model development. 11(12). 4711–4726. 9 indexed citations
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Fekiacova, Zuzana, Sophie Cornu, & Sylvain Pichat. (2015). Tracing contamination sources in soils with Cu and Zn isotopic ratios. The Science of The Total Environment. 517. 96–105. 102 indexed citations
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Sammartino, Stéphane, et al.. (2015). Identifying the Functional Macropore Network Related to Preferential Flow in Structured Soils. Vadose Zone Journal. 14(10). vzj2015.05.0070–vzj2015.05.0070. 60 indexed citations
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Finke, Peter, et al.. (2014). Assessing the usage potential of SoilGen2 to predict clay translocation under forest and agricultural land uses. European Journal of Soil Science. 66(1). 194–205. 12 indexed citations
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Samouëlian, Anatja, et al.. (2009). Lessivage as a major pedogenetic process: an experimental approach. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6743. 2 indexed citations
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Laveuf, Cédric & Sophie Cornu. (2009). A review on the potentiality of Rare Earth Elements to trace pedogenetic processes. Geoderma. 154(1-2). 1–12. 400 indexed citations
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Albéric, Patrick, et al.. (2009). A snapshot of soil water composition as an indicator of contrasted redox environments in a hedged farmland plot. The Science of The Total Environment. 407(21). 5719–5725. 2 indexed citations
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Cornu, Sophie, Mathieu F. Chevalier, Hocine Bourennane, et al.. (2009). X‐ray Diffraction Determination of Minerals Carrying Trace Elements in Soil: Application to the French Soil Quality Monitoring Network. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 40(7-8). 1138–1147. 2 indexed citations
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Laveuf, Cédric, Sophie Cornu, & Farid Juillot. (2008). Rare earth elements as tracers of pedogenetic processes. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 340(8). 523–532. 81 indexed citations
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Lamy, Isabelle, et al.. (2006). Long-term fate of exogenous metals in a sandy Luvisol subjected to intensive irrigation with raw wastewater. Environmental Pollution. 145(1). 31–40. 24 indexed citations
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Bourennane, Hocine, Isabelle Lamy, Sophie Cornu, et al.. (2005). Enhancing spatial estimates of metal pollutants in raw wastewater irrigated fields using a topsoil organic carbon map predicted from aerial photography. The Science of The Total Environment. 361(1-3). 229–248. 33 indexed citations
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Cornu, Sophie, David Montagne, & Pierre Conil. (2004). Comparaison d'extractions séquentielles et cinétiques pour la spéciation de As dans des sols sableux contaminés. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 336(11). 1007–1015. 11 indexed citations
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Saada, Alain, et al.. (2003). Adsorption of arsenic (V) on kaolinite and on kaolinite–humic acid complexes. Chemosphere. 51(8). 757–763. 140 indexed citations
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Cornu, Sophie, Colin Neal, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, et al.. (2001). The environmental impact of heavy metals from sewage sludge in ferralsols (São Paulo, Brazil). The Science of The Total Environment. 271(1-3). 27–48. 39 indexed citations
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Lucas, Yves, D. Nahon, Sophie Cornu, & Frédérique Eyrolle. (1996). Genèse et fonctionnement des sols en milieu équatorial. Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science. 322(1). 1–16. 45 indexed citations

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