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Laurent Ruiz publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Laurent Ruiz between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Laurent Ruiz published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 5.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2015. 14 of the 163 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2015. 1996: 1 publication 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 3 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 0 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 7 publications
1996 2025

163 publications in total across all disciplines

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Laurent Ruiz: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 1
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 1
2002 3
2003 0
2004 2
2005 3
2006 5
2007 0
2008 3
2009 5
2010 4
2011 5
2012 13
2013 10
2014 7
2015 17
2016 5
2017 9
2018 14
2019 4
2020 6
2021 11
2022 9
2023 12
2024 7
2025 7
Total 163
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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.

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, 98–107 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: 107 publications — 15th percentile

15% 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
98–107 404 107
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
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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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.

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, 39 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: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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 39
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
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

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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