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Frédéric Achard

Frédéric Achard

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
22365
World Ranking
2702
National Ranking
35

Frédéric Achard 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 Frédéric Achard sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 143 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Frédéric Achard 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 Frédéric Achard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Frédéric Achard is affiliated with the Joint Research Centre in Italy and is active in the field of environmental science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change.

The scientist's research contributions cover several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Demography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics

The main topics of Achard's work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Agricultural and Environmental Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest Management and Policy

Frequent coauthors of Achard include:

  • Christelle Vancutsem
  • Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
  • Celso H. L. Silva
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Ghislain Vieilledent

Achard has published in various scientific venues, with the most frequent publication sources being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Nature
  • Scientific Data

Recent papers include:

  • Long-term (1990-2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics, 2021, Science Advances
  • Persistent collapse of biomass in Amazonian forest edges following deforestation leads to unaccounted carbon losses, 2020, Science Advances
  • The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests, 2023, Nature
  • A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated, 2024, Nature

Best Publications

  • Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests

    Frédéric Achard;Hugh D. Eva;Hans-Jürgen Stibig;Philippe Mayaux

  • Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

    Holly Gibbs;A. S. Ruesch;F. Achard;M. K. Clayton

  • Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

    Rodney J. Keenan;Gregory A. Reams;Frédéric Achard;Joberto V. de Freitas

  • Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

    Thomas K. Rudel;Oliver T. Coomes;Emilio Moran;Frederic Achard

  • A Synthesis of Information on Rapid Land-cover Change for the Period 1981–2000

    Erika Lepers;Eric F. Lambin;Anthony C. Janetos;Ruth DeFRIES

  • Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from 1990 to 2010

    Frédéric Achard;René Beuchle;Philippe Mayaux;Hans-Jürgen Stibig

  • Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation

    Navin Ramankutty;Navin Ramankutty;Holly K. Gibbs;Frédéric Achard;Ruth Defries

  • Land cover changes in the Brazilian Cerrado and Caatinga biomes from 1990 to 2010 based on a systematic remote sensing sampling approach

    René Beuchle;Rosana Cristina Grecchi;Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro;Roman Seliger

  • Improved estimates of net carbon emissions from land cover change in the tropics for the 1990s

    Frédéric Achard;Hugh D. Eva;Philippe Mayaux;Hans-Jürgen Stibig

  • Tropical Forest Cover Change in the 1990s and Options for Future Monitoring

    Philippe Mayaux;Peter Holmgren;Frédéric Achard;Hugh Eva

  • Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

    Christelle Vancutsem;Frédéric Achard;J.F. Pekel;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Earth observations for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries

    Ruth DeFries;Frédéric Achard;Sandra Brown;Martin Herold

  • Combining global tree cover loss data with historical national forest cover maps to look at six decades of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Clovis Grinand;Fety A. Rakotomalala;Rija Ranaivosoa

  • Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • GlobCover: ESA service for global land cover from MERIS

    O. Arino;D. Gross;F. Ranera;L. Bourg

  • State and evolution of the African rainforests between 1990 and 2010

    Philippe Mayaux;Jean-François Pekel;Baudouin Desclée;François Donnay

  • Change in tropical forest cover of Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010

    H.-J. Stibig;F. Achard;S. Carboni;R. Raši

  • Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America

    V. de Sy;M. Herold;F. Achard;R. Beuchle

  • GLOBCOVER : The most detailed portrait of Earth

    Olivier Arino;Patrice Bicheron;Frederic Achard;John Latham

  • Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges

    Navin Ramankutty;Lisa Graumlich;Frédéric Achard;Diogenes Alves

  • A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.: GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1

    Frederic Achard;Sandra Brown;Michael Brady;Ruth DeFries

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Mayaux
Philippe Mayaux European Commission
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro National Institute for Space Research
Steffen Fritz
Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Pierre Defourny
Pierre Defourny Université Catholique de Louvain
A. S. Belward
A. S. Belward Joint Research Center
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Giacomo Grassi
Giacomo Grassi Joint Research Centre
Florian Kraxner
Florian Kraxner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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