2026 Dominique Arrouays: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	78	1070	1016	33	32	299	22625

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Dominique Arrouays is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as environmental engineering, soil science, ecology, artificial intelligence, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include soil geostatistics and mapping, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, geochemistry and geologic mapping, soil and unsaturated flow, soil erosion and sediment transport, remote sensing in agriculture, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Dominique Arrouays has published extensively in several scientific venues. Among the frequent publication venues are:

Geoderma
Geoderma Regional
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Remote Sensing
CATENA

Their recent papers include:

Impressions of digital soil maps: The good, the not so good, and making them ever better, 2020, Geoderma Regional
Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review, 2021, Geoderma
Can N₂O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?, 2020, Global Change Biology
Pesticide Residues in French Soils: Occurrence, Risks, and Persistence, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology
Temporal mosaicking approaches of Sentinel-2 images for extending topsoil organic carbon content mapping in croplands, 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Dominique Arrouays frequently collaborates with several co-authors. Among the most frequent are:

Anne C Richer-De-Forges
Songchao Chen
Budiman Minasny
Nicolas Saby
Vera Leatitia Mulder

Best Publications

Soil carbon 4 per mille

Budiman Minasny;Brendan P. Malone;Alex B. McBratney;Denis A. Angers

2173
Citations
Organic Matter Influence on Clay Wettability and Soil Aggregate Stability

C. Chenu;Y. Le Bissonnais;D. Arrouays

1072
Citations
Carbon cycling and sequestration opportunities in temperate grasslands

J.-F. Soussana;P. Loiseau;N. Vuichard;E. Ceschia

705
Citations
Increasing organic stocks in agricultural soils: Knowledge gaps and potential innovations

Claire Chenu;Denis A. Angers;Pierre Barré;Delphine Derrien

682
Citations
Complexed organic matter controls soil physical properties

A.R. Dexter;G. Richard;D. Arrouays;E.A. Czyż

509
Citations
Aggregate stability and assessment of soil crustability and erodibility: II. Application to humic loamy soils with various organic carbon contents

Y. Le Bissonnais;D. Arrouays

493
Citations
Determinants of the distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities at the landscape scale

D Bru;Alban Nicolas Ramette;N P A Saby;S Dequiedt;S Dequiedt

484
Citations
World's soils are under threat

Luca Montanarella;Daniel Jon Pennock;Neil McKenzie;Mohamed Badraoui

451
Citations
Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

Songchao Chen;Dominique Arrouays;Vera Leatitia Mulder;Laura Poggio

440
Citations
GlobalSoilMap: Toward a Fine-Resolution Global Grid of Soil Properties

Dominique Arrouays;Michael G. Grundy;Alfred E. Hartemink;Jonathan W. Hempel

427
Citations
Fate of particulate organic matter in soil aggregates during cultivation

E. Besnard;C. Chenu;J. Balesdent;P. Puget

380
Citations
The dynamics of carbon in particle-size fractions of soil in a forest-cultivation sequence

J. Balesdent;E. Besnard;D. Arrouays;C. Chenu

375
Citations
Spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in France

M. P. Martin;M. Wattenbach;P. Smith;Jeroen Meersmans

372
Citations
Mapping field-scale spatial patterns of size and activity of the denitrifier community.

Laurent Philippot;Laurent Philippot;Jiri Čuhel;Nicolas P.A. Saby;Dominique Chèneby;Dominique Chèneby

360
Citations
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage

Bertrand Guenet;Benoit Gabrielle;Claire Chenu;Dominique Arrouays

350
Citations
The carbon content of topsoil and its geographical distribution in France

D. Arrouays;W. Deslais;V. Badeau

347
Citations
Biogeographical patterns of soil molecular microbial biomass as influenced by soil characteristics and management

S. Dequiedt;N. P. A. Saby;M. Lelievre;C. Jolivet

309
Citations
Validation and Application of a PCR Primer Set to Quantify Fungal Communities in the Soil Environment by Real-Time Quantitative PCR

Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré;Richard Christen;Samuel Dequiedt;Christophe Mougel

308
Citations
Soil monitoring in Europe: a review of existing systems and requirements for harmonisation.

X. Morvan;N.P.A. Saby;D. Arrouays;C. Le Bas

298
Citations
Bulk Densities of Brazilian Amazon Soils Related to Other Soil Properties

Martial Bernoux;Dominique Arrouays;Carlos Clemente Cerri;Boris Volkoff

278
Citations
Status of the World’s Soil Resources Main report

Luca Montanarella;Mohamed Badraoui;Victor Chude;Isaurinda Dos Santos Baptista Costa

212
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas P.A. Saby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Christian Walter Institut Agro, France

Lionel Ranjard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Alex B. McBratney University of Sydney

Jean Thioulouse Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Philippe Lagacherie University of Montpellier

Budiman Minasny University of Sydney

Philippe Lemanceau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Jeroen Meersmans Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

Pierre-Alain Maron INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

External Links

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