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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 67 1924 1834 798 736 192 30184
Biology and Biochemistry 66 8445 7796 3802 3416 186 30035

Denis Loustau publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Denis Loustau between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Denis Loustau published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 5.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2017. 9 of the 216 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2017. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 1 publication 1991: 3 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 2 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 8 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 9 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 12 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 8 publications
1989 2025

216 publications in total across all disciplines

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Denis Loustau: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 1
1991 3
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 2
1996 3
1997 1
1998 4
1999 2
2000 8
2001 4
2002 9
2003 4
2004 6
2005 11
2006 4
2007 12
2008 8
2009 4
2010 9
2011 6
2012 10
2013 6
2014 5
2015 4
2016 12
2017 13
2018 9
2019 12
2020 11
2021 6
2022 3
2023 10
2024 1
2025 8
Total 216
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Denis Loustau 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 Denis Loustau sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 191–200 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 192 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377 192
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Denis Loustau 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 Denis Loustau sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 67 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118 67
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Denis Loustau is affiliated with the International Sleep Products Association in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to its subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Denis Loustau has frequently published in several scientific journals and venues. Their most common publication outlets are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Biogeosciences
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe"'", 2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe", 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems", 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018", 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They have co-authored multiple publications with several researchers, including:

  • Nina Buchmann
  • Corinna Rebmann
  • Ivan A. Janssens
  • Andreas Ibrom
  • Bart Kruijt

In addition to articles, Denis Loustau has contributed to book publications, notably:

  • "The forestry & wood sector and climate change mitigation", published by éditions Quae eBooks in 2020

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. II. A review of experimental data

    B. E. Medlyn;B. E. Medlyn;E. Dreyer;D. Ellsworth;M. Forstreuter

  • Modeling temporal and large‐scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices

    Markus Reichstein;Ana Rey;Annette Freibauer;John Tenhunen

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

    Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • The importance of phenology for the evaluation of impact of climate change on growth of boreal, temperate and Mediterranean forests ecosystems: an overview.

    K. Kramer;I. Leinonen;D. Loustau

  • A generic model of forest canopy conductance dependent on climate, soil water availability and leaf area index

    André Granier;Denis Loustau;Nathalie Bréda

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Measuring and modelling the transpiration of a maritime pine canopy from sap-flow data

    André Granier;Denis Loustau

  • Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. I. Seasonal changes in mature maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

    B. E. Medlyn;B. E. Medlyn;D. Loustau;S. Delzon

  • Transpiration of a 64-year-old maritime pine stand in Portugal : 1. Seasonal course of water flux through maritime pine.

    D Loustau;P Berbigier;P Roumagnac;C Arruda-Pacheco

  • Ground-based Network of NDVI measurements for tracking temporal dynamics of canopy structure and vegetation phenology in different biomes

    K. Soudani;G. Hmimina;N. Delpierre;J.-Y. Pontailler

  • Age-related decline in stand water use: sap flow and transpiration in a pine forest chronosequence

    Sylvain Delzon;Denis Loustau

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Paul Berbigier
Paul Berbigier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège

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