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Belgium
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
131
Citations
105475
World Ranking
66
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Frank Dentener is affiliated with the European Commission in Belgium. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics that Dentener has worked on include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Climate change impacts on agriculture, and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dentener include Glen P. Peters, Timo Vesala, Philippe Ciais, Rona L. Thompson, and Francesco N. Tubiello, indicating a network of active research partnerships in related fields.

Dentener's publications have appeared extensively in several venues, most notably Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth system science data, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, and Nature Food.

Recent selected papers by Dentener are:

  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Narrowing uncertainties in the effects of elevated CO2 on crops, 2020, Nature Food
  • Harmful Algal Blooms in Chinese Coastal Waters Will Persist Due to Perturbed Nutrient Ratios, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • Estimating resilience of crop production systems: From theory to practice, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Spatially Explicit Inventory of Sources of Nitrogen Inputs to the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea for the Period 1970-2010, 2020, Earth s Future

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Nitrogen cycles: past, present, and future

    J. N. Galloway;F. J. Dentener;D. G. Capone;E. W. Boyer

  • Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Matt Walpole;Ben Collen;Arco Van Strien

  • Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review

    M. Kanakidou;J. H. Seinfeld;S. N. Pandis;I. Barnes

  • Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis.

    R. Bobbink;K. Hicks;J. Galloway;T. Spranger

  • Observations: Atmosphere and surface

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Albert M.G. Klein Tank;Matilde Rusticucci;Lisa V. Alexander

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century

    David Fowler;Mhairi Coyle;Ute Skiba;Mark A. Sutton

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • A global high-resolution emission inventory for ammonia

    A. F. Bouwman;D. S. Lee;W. A. H. Asman;F. J. Dentener

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Role of mineral aerosol as a reactive surface in the global troposphere

    Frank J. Dentener;Gregory R. Carmichael;Yang Zhang;Jos Lelieveld

  • Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013

    Michael Brauer;Greg Freedman;Joseph Frostad;Aaron Van Donkelaar

  • Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

    R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

  • Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales:a multimodel evaluation

    F. Dentener;J. Drevet;Jean-François Lamarque;Isabelle Bey

  • Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions

    Dave S. Reay;Eric A. Davidson;Keith A. Smith;Pete Smith

  • Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone

    D. S. Stevenson;F. J. Dentener;M. G. Schultz;K. Ellingsen

  • Atmospheric chemistry and greenhouse gases

    D. Ehhalt;M. Prather;F. Dentener;R. Derwent

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • Changing concentration, lifetime and climate forcing of atmospheric methane

    Jos Lelieveld;Paul J. Crutzen;Frank J. Dentener

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Oliver Wild
Oliver Wild Lancaster University
Rita Van Dingenen
Rita Van Dingenen Ghent University
Jos Lelieveld
Jos Lelieveld Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
David Stevenson
David Stevenson University of Edinburgh
Martin Schultz
Martin Schultz Forschungszentrum Jülich
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University

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