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Jean-Pierre Wigneron

Jean-Pierre Wigneron

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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
90
Citations
30998
World Ranking
587
National Ranking
14

Jean-Pierre Wigneron 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 Jean-Pierre Wigneron sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 555 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jean-Pierre Wigneron 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 Jean-Pierre Wigneron sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Pierre Wigneron is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation as subfields of study.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Climate Change and Permafrost, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Wigneron has contributed to several research papers published in notable venues. Recent publications include:

  • Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity (2020) in Science Advances
  • Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration (2020) in Nature Communications
  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021) in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2021) in Nature Climate Change
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors in Wigneron's research include Philippe Ciais, Xiaojun Li, Lei Fan, Frédéric Frappart, and Xiangzhuo Liu.

The scientist publishes extensively in several venues, with Remote Sensing of Environment being the most prominent, hosting 42 of their publications. Other frequent venues are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements ofthe Global Water Cycle

    Yann H Kerr;Philippe Waldteufel;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Steven Delwart

  • Soil moisture retrieval from space: the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission

    Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;J.-P. Wigneron;J. Martinuzzi

  • The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

    Y. H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;P. Richaume;J. P. Wigneron

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

    Wolfgang Wagner;Günter Blöschl;Paolo Pampaloni;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

    Xiaowei Tong;Xiaowei Tong;Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Philippe Ciais

  • Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity

    Ana Bastos;P. Ciais;P. Friedlingstein;P. Friedlingstein;S. Sitch

  • An interactive vegetation SVAT model tested against data from six contrasting sites

    Jean-Christophe Calvet;Joël Noilhan;Jean-Louis Roujean;Pierre Bessemoulin

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Retrieving near-surface soil moisture from microwave radiometric observations: current status and future plans

    J.-P Wigneron;J.-C Calvet;T Pellarin;A.A Van de Griend

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • A simple parameterization of the L-band microwave emission from rough agricultural soils

    J.-P. Wigneron;L. Laguerre;Y.H. Kerr

  • A simple algorithm to retrieve soil moisture and vegetation biomass using passive microwave measurements over crop fields

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;André Chanzy;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Nadine Bruguier

  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Yuanwei Qin;Xiangming Xiao;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Ciais

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Overview of SMOS performance in terms of global soil moisture monitoring after six years in operation

    Yann H. Kerr;A. Al-Yaari;N. Rodriguez-Fernandez;M. Parrens

  • Effective soil moisture sampling depth of L-band radiometry: A case study

    M. J. Escorihuela;Andre Chanzy;J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr

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

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

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Photosynthesis by Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data into SVAT Models

    Albert Olioso;Habiba Chauki;Dominique Courault;Jean-Pierre Wigneron

  • The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps

    Ahmad Al Bitar;Arnaud Mialon;Yann H. Kerr;Yann H. Kerr;François Cabot;François Cabot

  • Estimation of Watershed Soil Moisture Index from ERS/SAR Data

    A. Quesney;S. Le Hégarat-Mascle;O. Taconet;D. Vidal-Madjar

Frequent Co-Authors

Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
André Chanzy
André Chanzy University of Avignon
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Paolo Ferrazzoli University of Rome Tor Vergata
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency

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