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Damien Cardinal

Damien Cardinal

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
5373
World Ranking
4580
National Ranking
337

Damien Cardinal publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Damien Cardinal sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 164 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Damien Cardinal D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Damien Cardinal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Damien Cardinal is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed in their work cover Marine and coastal ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Silicon Effects in Agriculture, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Cardinal's frequent publication venues include The Science of The Total Environment, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Marine Chemistry, and Chemical Geology.

Their recent papers include:

  • Assessment of C, N, and Si Isotopes as Tracers of Past Ocean Nutrient and Carbon Cycling (2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  • A silicon isotopic perspective on the contribution of diagenesis to the sedimentary silicon budget in the Southern Ocean (2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Tracing terrestrial versus marine sources of dissolved organic carbon in the largest monsoonal Godavari estuary in India using stable carbon isotopes (2022, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)
  • Impacts of Zn and Cu enrichment under ocean acidification scenario on a phytoplankton community from tropical upwelling system (2020, Marine Environmental Research)
  • Contrasting phytoplankton and biogeochemical functioning in the eastern Arabian Sea shelf waters recorded by carbon isotopes (SW monsoon) (2021, Marine Chemistry)

Frequent coauthors with whom Damien Cardinal has collaborated extensively include V. V. S. S. Sarma, Arnaud Dapoigny, Jean Riotte, B. S. K. Kumar, and Véronique Vaury.

Best Publications

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • An inter-laboratory comparison of Si isotope reference materials

    Ben C. Reynolds;Jugdeep Aggarwal;Luc André;Douglas Baxter

  • Isotopic composition of silicon measured by multicollector plasma source mass spectrometry in dry plasma mode

    Damien Cardinal;Laurent Y. Alleman;Jeroen de Jong;Karen Ziegler

  • Silicon isotopic fractionation during adsorption of aqueous monosilicic acid onto iron oxide

    Séverine Delstanche;Sophie Opfergelt;Damien Cardinal;Françoise Elsass

  • Relevance of silicon isotopes to Si-nutrient utilization and Si-source assessment in Antarctic waters

    D. Cardinal;Laurent Alleman;Frank Dehairs;N. Savoye

  • Silicon isotopes in ∼3.8 Ga West Greenland rocks as clues to the Eoarchaean supracrustal Si cycle

    Luc André;Damien Cardinal;Laurent Y. Alleman;Stephen Moorbath

  • Variations of δ30Si and Ge/Si with weathering and biogenic input in tropical basaltic ash soils under monoculture

    Sophie Opfergelt;Damien Cardinal;Luc André;Colette Delvigne

  • δ30Si and δ29Si Determinations on USGS BHVO‐1 and BHVO‐2 Reference Materials with a New Configuration on a Nu Plasma Multi‐Collector ICP‐MS

    Kathrin Abraham;Sophie Opfergelt;François Fripiat;A.-J. Cavagna

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Silicon Isotopic Fractionation in Lake Tanganyika and Its Main Tributaries

    Laurent Y. Alleman;Damien Cardinal;Christine Cocquyt;Pierre-Denis Plisnier;Pierre-Denis Plisnier

  • Silicon isotopic fractionation by banana (Musa spp.) grown in a continuous nutrient flow device

    Sophie Opfergelt;Damien Cardinal;Céline Henriet;Xavier Draye

  • Impact of soil weathering degree on silicon isotopic fractionation during adsorption onto iron oxides in basaltic ash soils, Cameroon

    S. Opfergelt;G. de Bournonville;D. Cardinal;L. André

  • Sr/Ca, U/Ca and δ18O records in recent massive corals from Bermuda: relationships with sea surface temperature

    Damien Cardinal;Bruno Hamelin;Edouard Bard;Jürgen Pätzold

  • Tracing mechanisms controlling the release of dissolved silicon in forest soil solutions using Si isotopes and Ge/Si ratios

    Jean-Thomas Cornélis;Bruno Delvaux;D. Cardinal;Luc André

  • Silicon isotopes in spring Southern Ocean diatoms: Large zonal changes despite homogeneity among size fractions ☆

    Damien Cardinal;Nicolas Savoye;Thomas W. Trull;Frank Dehairs

  • A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements

    Jill N. Sutton;Luc André;Damien Cardinal;Daniel J. Conley;Daniel J. Conley

  • Stratigraphic changes of Ge/Si, REE+Y and silicon isotopes as insights into the deposition of a Mesoarchaean banded iron formation

    Colette Delvigne;Damien Cardinal;Axel Hofmann;Luc André

  • Isotopic constraints on the Si-biogeochemical cycle of the Antarctic Zone in the Kerguelen area (KEOPS)

    François Fripiat;François Fripiat;Anne-Julie Cavagna;Nicolas Savoye;Nicolas Savoye;Frank Dehairs

  • The riverine silicon isotope composition of the Amazon Basin

    Harold J. Hughes;F. Sondag;Roberto Ventura Santos;Luc André

  • Controlling the mass bias introduced by anionic and organic matrices in silicon isotopic measurements by MC-ICP-MS

    Harold J. Hughes;Harold J. Hughes;Camille Delvigne;Camille Delvigne;Michael Korntheuer;Jeroen de Jong

  • Variations of delta30Si and Ge/Si with weathering and biogenic input in tropical basaltic ash soils under monoculture

    Sophie Opfergelt;Damien Cardinal;Luc André;C. Delvigne

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc André
Luc André Royal Museum for Central Africa
Frank Dehairs
Frank Dehairs Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sophie Opfergelt
Sophie Opfergelt Université Catholique de Louvain
Bruno Delvaux
Bruno Delvaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Nicolas Savoye
Nicolas Savoye University of Bordeaux
Marc Elskens
Marc Elskens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Thomas W. Trull
Thomas W. Trull Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sabrina Speich
Sabrina Speich École Normale Supérieure
Karine Leblanc
Karine Leblanc Aix-Marseille University
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University

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