Sylvain Pellerin

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Pellerin is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Pellerin has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Plant Science, 29 papers in Soil Science and 24 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Pellerin's work include Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (28 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (15 papers). Sylvain Pellerin is often cited by papers focused on Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (28 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (15 papers). Sylvain Pellerin collaborates with scholars based in France, Morocco and Canada. Sylvain Pellerin's co-authors include Alain Mollier, Thomas Nesme, Daniel Plénet, Pietro Barbieri, Christian Morel, Lionel Jordan‐Meille, Isabelle Basile‐Doelsch, Jérôme Balesdent, Loïc Pagès and François Tardieu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Pellerin

88 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation—Definitions and pitfalls

2023 91 citations Axel Don, Jens Leifeld et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvain Pellerin France	35	1.8k	1.0k	776	629	491	90	3.5k
Dirk Reheul Belgium	37	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	745 1.0×	764 1.2×	569 1.2×	203	4.1k
Sharon A. Clay United States	35	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	969 1.2×	667 1.1×	501 1.0×	208	4.4k
H.F.M. ten Berge Netherlands	26	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	546 0.7×	484 0.8×	558 1.1×	83	2.8k
Generose Nziguheba Kenya	21	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	768 1.0×	357 0.6×	598 1.2×	47	3.7k
B.H. Janssen Netherlands	29	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	793 1.0×	364 0.6×	596 1.2×	93	3.2k
Mingsheng Fan China	32	2.0k 1.1×	2.5k 2.4×	875 1.1×	761 1.2×	705 1.4×	61	4.3k
Francesco Montemurro Italy	29	2.0k 1.1×	2.1k 2.0×	923 1.2×	589 0.9×	432 0.9×	117	4.0k
Wei Qin China	31	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	370 0.5×	564 0.9×	740 1.5×	75	3.4k
A. K. Nayak India	41	2.6k 1.4×	2.2k 2.2×	559 0.7×	825 1.3×	536 1.1×	268	6.0k
A. K. Patra India	36	2.0k 1.1×	2.7k 2.6×	664 0.9×	691 1.1×	546 1.1×	188	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvain Pellerin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvain Pellerin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Pellerin

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ringeval, Bruno, Julian Helfenstein, Marko Kvakić, et al.. (2025). Limitation of Maize Potential Yield by Phosphorus at the Global Scale. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70485–e70485.

Debaeke, Philippe, et al.. (2025). Agriculture et changement climatique. Impacts, adaptation et atténuation. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.

Ringeval, Bruno, Daniel S. Goll, Xianjin He, et al.. (2024). A global dataset on phosphorus in agricultural soils. Scientific Data. 11(1). 17–17. 14 indexed citations

Pellerin, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Agricultural biomethane production in France: A spatially-explicit estimate. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 185. 113603–113603. 4 indexed citations

Kuhnert, Matthias, Pete Smith, Manuel Martín, et al.. (2023). Soil organic carbon stocks potentially at risk of decline with organic farming expansion. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 719–725. 41 indexed citations

Don, Axel, Jens Leifeld, Thomas Kätterer, et al.. (2023). Carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation—Definitions and pitfalls. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e16983–e16983. 91 indexed citations breakdown →

Ringeval, Bruno, Marko Kvakić, Laurent Augusto, et al.. (2021). Insights on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Co‐Limitation in Global Croplands From Theoretical and Modeling Fertilization Experiments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(6). 9 indexed citations

Martín, Manuel, Bassem Dimassi, Mercedes Román Dobarco, et al.. (2021). Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France. Global Change Biology. 27(11). 2458–2477. 54 indexed citations

Pellerin, Sylvain, et al.. (2021). Stocker du carbone dans les sols français. Agritrop (Cirad). 8 indexed citations

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Barbieri, Pietro, Sylvain Pellerin, Verena Seufert, et al.. (2021). Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability. Nature Food. 2(5). 363–372. 87 indexed citations

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Ringeval, Bruno, Christoph Müller, Thomas A. M. Pugh, et al.. (2021). Potential yield simulated by global gridded crop models: using a process-based emulator to explain their differences. Geoscientific model development. 14(3). 1639–1656. 10 indexed citations

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Guyomard, Hervé, Cécile Detang‐Dessendre, Pierre Dupraz, et al.. (2020). La PAC de l’après 2020 : éclairages de la recherche. Économie rurale. 372. 11–30. 2 indexed citations

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Basile‐Doelsch, Isabelle, Jérôme Balesdent, & Sylvain Pellerin. (2020). Reviews and syntheses: The mechanisms underlying carbon storage in soil. Biogeosciences. 17(21). 5223–5242. 180 indexed citations

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Bertrand, Isabelle, Valérie Viaud, Tanguy Daufresne, Sylvain Pellerin, & Sylvie Recous. (2019). Stoichiometry constraints challenge the potential of agroecological practices for the soil C storage. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 39(6). 50 indexed citations

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Kvakić, Marko, Sylvain Pellerin, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the Limitation to World Cereal Production Due To Soil Phosphorus Status. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 32(1). 143–157. 37 indexed citations

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Pellerin, Sylvain. (2017). How can French agriculture contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations

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Barbieri, Pietro, Sylvain Pellerin, & Thomas Nesme. (2017). Comparing crop rotations between organic and conventional farming. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13761–13761. 110 indexed citations

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Delerue, Florian, Maya González, Richard Michalet, Sylvain Pellerin, & Laurent Augusto. (2015). Weak Evidence of Regeneration Habitat but Strong Evidence of Regeneration Niche for a Leguminous Shrub. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0130886–e0130886. 13 indexed citations

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Plénet, Daniel, Alain Mollier, & Sylvain Pellerin. (2000). Growth analysis of maize field crops under phosphorus deficiency. II. Radiation-use efficiency, biomass accumulation and yield components. Plant and Soil. 224(2). 259–272. 171 indexed citations

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Mollier, Alain & Sylvain Pellerin. (1999). Maize root system growth and development as influenced by phosphorus deficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany. 50(333). 487–497. 237 indexed citations

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