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Bernard Gentili

Bernard Gentili

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
13664
World Ranking
4175
National Ranking
168

Bernard Gentili publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Gentili sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 97 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Bernard Gentili D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard Gentili sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bernard Gentili is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and conducts research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work focuses extensively on oceanography, which comprises the majority of their research output. Additional subfields include atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, pollution, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's main topics of research emphasize marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine biology and ecology, marine and coastal plant biology, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, as well as methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Bernard Gentili's recent publications demonstrate a broad engagement with oceanographic and environmental data analysis and modeling. These papers include:

  • Deep Chlorophyll Maxima in the Global Ocean: Occurrences, Drivers and Characteristics (2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  • Global distribution of photosynthetically available radiation on the seafloor (2020, Earth system science data)
  • Biological production in two contrasted regions of the Mediterranean Sea during the oligotrophic period: an estimate based on the diel cycle of optical properties measured by BioGeoChemical-Argo profiling floats (2022, Biogeosciences)
  • Variations of suspended particulate matter concentrations of the Mackenzie River plume (Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean) over the last two decades (2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords (2024, Earth system science data)

Bernard Gentili collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Hervé Claustre, Alexandre Mignot, Antoine Poteau, and Fabrizio D'Ortenzio.

Publications by Bernard Gentili are often found in journals with a focus on environmental and oceanographic sciences. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Earth system science data
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Biogeosciences
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Applied Optics

Best Publications

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • Examining the consistency of products derived from various ocean color sensors in open ocean (Case 1) waters in the perspective of a multi-sensor approach

    André Morel;Yannick Huot;Bernard Gentili;P. Jeremy Werdell

  • Comparison of numerical models for computing underwater light fields

    Curtis D. Mobley;Bernard Gentili;Howard R. Gordon;Zhonghai Jin

  • Diffuse reflectance of oceanic waters. II. Bidirectional aspects

    André Morel;Bernard Gentili

  • Diffuse reflectance of oceanic shallow waters: influence of water depth and bottom albedo

    Stéphane Maritorena;André Morel;Bernard Gentili

  • Diffuse reflectance of oceanic waters. III. Implication of bidirectionality for the remote-sensing problem.

    André Morel;Bernard Gentili

  • Bidirectional reflectance of oceanic waters: accounting for Raman emission and varying particle scattering phase function

    André Morel;David Antoine;Bernard Gentili

  • Diffuse reflectance of oceanic waters: its dependence on Sun angle as influenced by the molecular scattering contribution

    André Morel;Bernard Gentili

  • Warming trend in the western Mediterranean deep water

    J. P. Bethoux;B. Gentili;J. Raunet;D. Tailliez

  • Optical properties of the “clearest” natural waters

    André Morel;Bernard Gentili;Hervé Claustre;Marcel Babin

  • Light availability in the coastal ocean: Impact on the distribution of benthic photosynthetic organisms and their contribution to primary production

    Jean-Pierre Gattuso;B. Gentili;Carlos M. Duarte;J.A. Kleypas

  • Phytoplankton class‐specific primary production in the world's oceans: Seasonal and interannual variability from satellite observations

    Julia Uitz;Hervé Claustre;Bernard Gentili;Dariusz Stramski

  • Assessment of uncertainty in the ocean reflectance determined by three satellite ocean color sensors (MERIS, SeaWiFS and MODIS-A) at an offshore site in the Mediterranean Sea (BOUSSOLE project)

    David Antoine;David Antoine;Fabrizio d'Ortenzio;Fabrizio d'Ortenzio;Stanford B. Hooker;Guislain Bécu

  • Climate-Driven Basin-Scale Decadal Oscillations of Oceanic Phytoplankton

    Elodie Martinez;David Antoine;Fabrizio D’Ortenzio;Bernard Gentili

  • The Mediterranean Sea: a miniature ocean for climatic and environmental studies and a key for the climatic functioning of the North Atlantic

    J.P Bethoux;B Gentili;P Morin;E Nicolas

  • Functioning of the Mediterranean Sea: past and present changes related to freshwater input and climate changes

    J.P. Bethoux;B. Gentili

  • Nutrients in the Mediterranean Sea, mass balance and statistical analysis of concentrations with respect to environmental change

    J.P Béthoux;P Morin;C Chaumery;O Connan

  • Assessing the uncertainties of model estimates of primary productivity in the tropical Pacific Ocean

    Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Mary-Elena Carr;Richard T. Barber;Michele Scardi

  • A simple band ratio technique to quantify the colored dissolved and detrital organic material from ocean color remotely sensed data

    André Morel;Bernard Gentili

  • Remote sensing of sea surface Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: consequences of natural variations in the optical characteristics of phytoplankton and the quantum yield of chlorophyll a fluorescence

    M. Babin;A. Morel;B. Gentili

  • Warming and freshwater budget change in the Mediterranean since the 1940s, their possible relation to the greenhouse effect

    Jean-Pierre Béthoux;Bernard Gentili;Dominique Tailliez

Frequent Co-Authors

André Morel
André Morel Sorbonne University
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
David Antoine
David Antoine Curtin University
Fabrizio D'Ortenzio
Fabrizio D'Ortenzio Université Paris Cité
Julia Uitz
Julia Uitz Université Paris Cité
Marcel Babin
Marcel Babin Université Laval
Stanford B. Hooker
Stanford B. Hooker Goddard Space Flight Center
Josephine Ras
Josephine Ras Université Paris Cité
Annick Bricaud
Annick Bricaud Sorbonne University
David Doxaran
David Doxaran Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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