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Frédéric Frappart

Frédéric Frappart

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 58 2186 1984 147 135 293 10820

Frédéric Frappart publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Frédéric Frappart between 2003 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Frédéric Frappart published across 24 years, from 2003 to 2026, averaging 18.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 50 publications in 2024. 44 of the 437 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2003 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 50. Peak 50 publications in 2024. 2003: 1 publication 2004: 1 publication 2005: 6 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 19 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 28 publications 2019: 19 publications 2020: 18 publications 2021: 40 publications 2022: 37 publications 2023: 40 publications 2024: 50 publications 2025: 40 publications 2026: 4 publications
2003 2026

437 publications in total across all disciplines

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Frédéric Frappart: publications per year, 2003 to 2026
Year Publications
2003 1
2004 1
2005 6
2006 13
2007 2
2008 3
2009 9
2010 7
2011 10
2012 10
2013 13
2014 18
2015 19
2016 26
2017 23
2018 28
2019 19
2020 18
2021 40
2022 37
2023 40
2024 50
2025 40
2026 4
Total 437
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Frédéric Frappart 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 Frédéric Frappart sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 288–297 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 293 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119 293
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Frédéric Frappart 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 Frédéric Frappart sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 58 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113 58
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Frédéric Frappart is affiliated with Bordeaux Sciences Agro in France. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Frappart has contributed to various publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors with whom Frappart has collaborated extensively include Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Lei Fan, Xiaojun Li, Xiangzhuo Liu, and Philippe Ciais.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary results of ENVISAT RA-2-derived water levels validation over the Amazon basin

    Frédéric Frappart;Stéphane Calmant;Mathilde Cauhopé;Frédérique Seyler

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Large‐scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin

    Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva;Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva;Diogo Costa Buarque;Walter Collischonn;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • Monitoring Groundwater Storage Changes Using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Satellite Mission: A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Guillaume Ramillien

  • Floodplain water storage in the Negro River basin estimated from microwave remote sensing of inundation area and water levels

    Frédéric Frappart;Frédérique Seyler;Jean-Michel Martinez;Juan Gabriel Leon

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Modeling large-scale inundation of Amazonian seasonally flooded wetlands

    Matthew Wilson;Paul Bates;Doug Alsdorf;Bruce Forsberg

  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • Time variations of land water storage from an inversion of 2 years of GRACE geoids

    Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;Anny Cazenave;Andreas Güntner

  • Rating curves and estimation of average water depth at the upper Negro River based on satellite altimeter data and modeled discharges

    Juan Gabriel Leon;Stéphane Calmant;F. Seyler;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Xiangzhuo Liu

  • Time variations of the regional evapotranspiration rate from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite gravimetry

    Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;Andreas Güntner;Thanh Ngo-Duc

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • WATER VOLUME CHANGE IN THE LOWER MEKONG FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY DATA

    F. Frappart;K. Do Minh;J. L'Hermitte;A. Cazenave

  • The major floods in the Amazonas River and tributaries (Western Amazon Basin) during the 1970–2012 period: A focus on the 2012 flood

    Jhan Carlo Espinoza;Josyane Ronchail;Frédéric Frappart;Waldo Lavado

  • Surface freshwater storage and dynamics in the Amazon basin during the 2005 exceptional drought

    Frédéric Frappart;Fabrice Papa;Joecila Santos da Silva;Guillaume Ramillien

  • The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change

    Binh Pham-Duc;Binh Pham-Duc;Florence Sylvestre;Fabrice Papa;Fabrice Papa;Frédéric Frappart

  • A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

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  • Interannual variations of river water storage from a multiple satellite approach: A case study for the Rio Negro River basin

    Frédéric Frappart;Fabrice Papa;James S. Famiglietti;Catherine Prigent

  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

    Xiaojun Li;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Zanpin Xing;Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Lin Zhao;Lin Zhao;Gabrielle De Lannoy

  • Requirements for a Coastal Hazards Observing System

    Jérôme Benveniste;Anny Cazenave;Stefano Vignudelli;Luciana Fenoglio-Marc

  • Sea level monitoring and sea state estimate using a single geodetic receiver

    Nicolas Roussel;Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;José Darrozes

  • Regionalization of rainfall over the Peruvian Pacific slope and coast

    Pedro Rau;Luc Bourrel;David Labat;Pablo Melo

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Ramillien
Guillaume Ramillien Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fabrice Papa
Fabrice Papa Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Stéphane Calmant
Stéphane Calmant Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Vincent Marieu
Vincent Marieu University of Bordeaux
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Marie-Paule Bonnet
Marie-Paule Bonnet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Boris Dewitte
Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)
Catherine Prigent
Catherine Prigent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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