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Laurent Ruiz 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 Laurent Ruiz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 107 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Laurent Ruiz 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 Laurent Ruiz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Laurent Ruiz is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a substantive body of work in related subfields such as environmental engineering, soil science, water science and technology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics centered on hydrology, watershed management, groundwater analysis, water resources management, irrigation practices, and agriculture and rural development. Specific topics include groundwater and isotope geochemistry as well as soil geostatistics and mapping.

Laurent Ruiz has published papers in a range of academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Geoderma

Frequent collaborators include:

  • M. Sekhar (17 publications)
  • Jean Riotte (12 publications)
  • Jacques-Éric Bergez (5 publications)
  • Véronique Vaury (5 publications)
  • D. Cardinal (5 publications)

Representative recent publications by Laurent Ruiz include:

  • "Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Potash fertilizer promotes incipient salinization in groundwater irrigated semi-arid agriculture," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Groundwater irrigation reduces overall poverty but increases socioeconomic vulnerability in a semiarid region of southern India," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "The use of cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching: Effect on the water and nitrogen balance and other ecosystem services," 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Building Climate Change Adaptation Scenarios with Stakeholders for Water Management: A Hybrid Approach Adapted to the South Indian Water Crisis," 2021, Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Transit times – the link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

    Markus Hrachowitz;Paolo Benettin;Boris M. van Breukelen;Ophelie Fovet

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Process Consistency in Models: the Importance of System Signatures, Expert Knowledge and Process Complexity

    M. Hrachowitz;O. Fovet;O. Fovet;L. Ruiz;L. Ruiz;T. Euser

  • Modelling the effect of the spatial distribution of agricultural practices on nitrogen fluxes in rural catchments

    Véronique Beaujouan;Patrick Durand;Laurent Ruiz

  • A review of the current state and recent changes of the Andean cryosphere

    M. H. Masiokas;A. Rabatel;A. Rivera;A. Rivera;Laurent Ruiz

  • Role of water table dynamics on stream nitrate export and concentration. in agricultural headwater catchment (France)

    Jérôme Molenat;Chantal Gascuel-Odoux;Laurent Ruiz;Gérard Gruau

  • Seasonal and interannual variations of nitrate and chloride in stream waters related to spatial and temporal patterns of groundwater concentrations in agricultural catchments

    C. Martin;L. Aquilina;C. Gascuel-Odoux;J. Molénat

  • Characterization of seasonal local recharge using electrical resistivity tomography and magnetic resonance sounding

    Marc Descloitres;Marc Descloitres;Laurent Ruiz;Laurent Ruiz;M. Sekhar;Anatoly Legchenko

  • A hydrological model dedicated to topography-based simulation of nitrogen transfer and transformation: rationale and application to the geomorphology-denitrification relationship

    Véronique Beaujouan;Patrick Durand;Laurent Ruiz;Pierre Aurousseau

  • Regolith mass balance inferred from combined mineralogical, geochemical and geophysical studies: Mule Hole gneissic watershed, South India

    Jean-Jacques Braun;Marc Descloitres;Jean Riotte;Simon Fleury

  • Understanding nitrogen transfer dynamics in a small agricultural catchment: Comparison of a distributed (TNT2) and a semi distributed (SWAT) modeling approaches

    Sylvain Ferrant;Sylvain Ferrant;François Oehler;François Oehler;François Oehler;Patrick Durand;Patrick Durand;Laurent Ruiz;Laurent Ruiz

  • Transit time distributions, legacy contamination and variability in biogeochemical 1/fα scaling: how are hydrological response dynamics linked to water quality at the catchment scale?

    Markus Hrachowitz;Ophelie Fovet;Laurent Ruiz;Hubert H. G. Savenije

  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest

    Rutuja Chitra-Tarak;Rutuja Chitra-Tarak;Chonggang Xu;Salomón Aguilar;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • Solute transport dynamics in small, shallow groundwater-dominated agricultural catchments: insights from a high-frequency, multisolute 10 yr-long monitoring study

    A. H. Aubert;A. H. Aubert;C. Gascuel-Odoux;C. Gascuel-Odoux;G. Gruau;N. Akkal;N. Akkal

  • Nitrate dynamics in agricultural catchments deduced from groundwater dating and long-term nitrate monitoring in surface- and groundwaters

    L. Aquilina;V. Vergnaud-Ayraud;T. Labasque;O. Bour

  • Estimating groundwater recharge using land use and soil data: A case study in South India

    T.S. Anuraga;Laurent Ruiz;M.S. Mohan Kumar;M. Sekhar

  • Hydrological hysteresis and its value for assessing process consistency in catchment conceptual models

    O. Fovet;O. Fovet;L. Ruiz;L. Ruiz;M. Hrachowitz;M. Faucheux;M. Faucheux

  • Effect on nitrate concentration in stream water of agricultural practices in small catchments in Brittany: I. Annual nitrogen budgets

    L. Ruiz;S. Abiven;P. Durand;C. Martin

  • Water balance modelling in a tropical watershed under deciduous forest (Mule Hole, India): Regolith matric storage buffers the groundwater recharge process

    Laurent Ruiz;Laurent Ruiz;Murari R.R. Varma;M.S. Mohan Kumar;M. Sekhar

  • Groundwater resource vulnerability and spatial variability of nitrate contamination: Insights from high density tubewell monitoring in a hard rock aquifer

    Sriramulu Buvaneshwari;Jean Riotte;Jean Riotte;M Sekhar;M S Mohan Kumar

  • Transit Time Distributions, Legacy Contamination and Variability in Biogeochemical 1/f^α Scaling: How are Hydrological Response Dynamics Linked to Water Quality at the Catchment Scale?

    M Hrachowitz;O Fovet;L Ruiz;Hhg Savenije

Frequent Co-Authors

Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes
Patrick Durand
Patrick Durand Institut Agro, France
Jean-Jacques Braun
Jean-Jacques Braun Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology
Luc Aquilina
Luc Aquilina University of Rennes
Luc Delaby
Luc Delaby Institut Agro, France
Marc Descloitres
Marc Descloitres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eric Justes
Eric Justes Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Gérard Gruau
Gérard Gruau University of Rennes
Bruno Mary
Bruno Mary INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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