Sylvia Michel

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Michel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Michel has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Michel's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (17 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (13 papers). Sylvia Michel is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (17 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (13 papers). Sylvia Michel collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Sylvia Michel's co-authors include Edward J. Dlugokencky, J. B. Miller, Bruce H. Vaughn, James W. C. White, Pieter P. Tans, Stefan Schwietzke, Giuseppe Etiope, Owen A. Sherwood, L. M. Bruhwiler and Tony Bromley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Michel

43 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database

2016 365 citations Stefan Schwietzke, Owen A. Sherwood et al. Nature profile →
A 21st-century shift from fossil-fuel to biogenic methane emissions indicated by ¹³ CH ₄

2016 311 citations Hinrich Schaefer, Gordon Brailsford et al. profile →

Peers

Sylvia Michel

GPC

Yeqiang Shu China

Sachio Yamamoto Japan

Qisheng Ma United States

Ryan Hossaini United Kingdom

Manfred Ehrhardt Germany

P. Burba Germany

Toshikazu Tarutani Japan

Jingong Cai China

Minhee Lee South Korea

Yeqiang Shu China

Sylvia Michel

671 ×0.7

GPC

583 ×1.0

116 ×0.3

70 ×0.2

186 ×0.9

Citations per year, relative to Sylvia Michel Sylvia Michel (= 1×) peers Yeqiang Shu

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Michel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Michel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Michel

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fujita, Ryo, Heather Graven, Giulia Zazzeri, et al.. (2025). Global Fossil Methane Emissions Constrained by Multi‐Isotopic Atmospheric Methane Histories. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(5). 3 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, Pieter P. Tans, et al.. (2025). Microbial driver of 2006–2023 CH ₄ growth indicated by trends in atmospheric δD–CH ₄ and δ ¹³ C–CH ₄. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(50). e2516543122–e2516543122. 1 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, J. B. Miller, et al.. (2024). Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2411212121–e2411212121. 11 indexed citations

Kim, Jinsol, J. B. Miller, Charles E. Miller, et al.. (2023). Quantification of fossil fuel CO ₂ from combined CO, δ ¹³ CO ₂ and Δ ¹⁴ CO ₂ observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(22). 14425–14436. 1 indexed citations

Fisher, Rebecca, James L. France, David Lowry, et al.. (2023). Methane Source Attribution in the UK Using Multi‐Year Records of CH₄ and δ¹³C. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(21). 1 indexed citations

Nisbet, Euan G., Martin Manning, E. J. Dlugokencky, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane's Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(8). 47 indexed citations

Tsuruta, Aki, Leif Backman, Sander Houweling, et al.. (2023). Global Atmospheric δ13CH4 and CH4 Trends for 2000–2020 from the Atmospheric Transport Model TM5 Using CH4 from Carbon Tracker Europe–CH4 Inversions. Atmosphere. 14(7). 1121–1121. 3 indexed citations

Park, Hyeri, Haklim Choi, Haeyoung Lee, et al.. (2023). Identifying emission sources of CH4 in East Asia based on in-situ observations of atmospheric δ13C-CH4 and C2H6. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168433–168433. 3 indexed citations

Saunois, Marielle, Antoine Berchet, Isabelle Pison, et al.. (2022). Variational inverse modeling within the Community Inversion Framework v1.1 to assimilate δ ¹³ C(CH ₄ ) and CH ₄ : a case study with model LMDz-SACS. Geoscientific model development. 15(12). 4831–4851. 10 indexed citations

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Basu, Sourish, Xin Lan, Edward J. Dlugokencky, et al.. (2022). Estimating emissions of methane consistent with atmospheric measurements of methane and δ ¹³ C of methane. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(23). 15351–15377. 46 indexed citations

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Nisbet, Euan G., Edward J. Dlugokencky, Rebecca Fisher, et al.. (2021). Atmospheric methane and nitrous oxide: challenges alongthe path to Net Zero. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 379(2210). 20200457–20200457. 26 indexed citations

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Lan, Xin, Sourish Basu, Stefan Schwietzke, et al.. (2021). Improved Constraints on Global Methane Emissions and Sinks Using δ¹³C‐CH₄. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(6). e2021GB007000–e2021GB007000. 73 indexed citations

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Lan, Xin, Euan G. Nisbet, Edward J. Dlugokencky, & Sylvia Michel. (2021). What do we know about the global methane budget? Results from four decades of atmospheric CH₄observations and the way forward. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 379(2210). 20200440–20200440. 29 indexed citations

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Saunois, Marielle, Antoine Berchet, Isabelle Pison, et al.. (2021). Variational inverse modelling within the Community Inversion Framework to assimilate δ ¹³ C(CH ₄ ) and CH ₄ : a case study with model LMDz-SACS.

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Paul, Dipayan, Bert Scheeren, Henk Jansen, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of a field-deployable Nafion™-based air-drying system for collecting whole air samples and its application to stable isotope measurements of CO ₂. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(7). 4051–4064. 6 indexed citations

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Hmiel, Benjamin, V. V. Petrenko, Michael Dyonisius, et al.. (2020). Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions. Nature. 578(7795). 409–412. 180 indexed citations

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Lan, Xin, Sourish Basu, Stefan Schwietzke, et al.. (2019). Improved constraints on global methane emissions and sinks using δ 13 C-CH 4. PubMed Central. 2019.

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Dlugokencky, E. J., et al.. (2019). NOAA's Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network: Constraining LLGHG Budgets for More Than 50 Years. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Warwick, N. J., Michelle Cain, Rebecca Fisher, et al.. (2016). Using δ ¹³ C-CH ₄ and δ D-CH ₄ to constrain Arctic methane emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(23). 14891–14908. 33 indexed citations

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Dlugokencky, E. J., Andrew M. Crotwell, Lori Bruhwiler, et al.. (2015). The Dominant Role of Tropical Wetlands in Dedacal-Scale Changes in the Global Methane Budget. AGUFM. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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