2026 Louis Legendre: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	77	1104	1047	34	33	318	38377
Biology and Biochemistry	77	4674	4310	125	116	312	38291

Louis Legendre 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 Louis Legendre sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 318 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Louis Legendre 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 Louis Legendre sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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
2016 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Louis Legendre is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research is focused primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Within these, their subfields of study include Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics covered in their work encompass:

Marine and coastal ecosystems
Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Planetary Science and Exploration
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Louis Legendre has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications including several notable papers:

<scp>The Underwater Vision Profiler 6: an imaging sensor of particle size spectra and plankton, for autonomous and cabled platforms</scp> (2021), published in Limnology and Oceanography Methods
Correcting a major error in assessing organic carbon pollution in natural waters (2021), published in Science Advances
The Oceans' Biological Carbon Pumps: Framework for a Research Observational Community Approach (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
Century-scale carbon sequestration flux throughout the ocean by the biological pump (2023), published in Nature Geoscience
Operational Monitoring of Open-Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployments: Detection, Attribution, and Determination of Side Effects (2023), published in Oceanography

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including:

Philìppe Bertrand
Hervé Claustre
Philip W. Boyd
Lionel Guidi
Jihua Liu

Publications by Louis Legendre appear in journals such as:

Frontiers in Marine Science
Limnology and Oceanography Methods
Science Advances
Nature Geoscience
Oceanography

In addition to articles, Louis Legendre has authored books published by Springer Nature, including Earth, Our Living Planet (2021).

Among their recognitions, Louis Legendre was named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Best Publications

Complex ecological data sets

Pierre Legendre;Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre;Louis Legendre

17292
Citations
Numerical Ecology: Second English Edition

Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre

1712
Citations
Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models

Corinne Le Quéré;Sandy P Harrison;Sandy P Harrison;I Colin Prentice;I Colin Prentice;Erik Theodoor Buitenhuis

985
Citations
Ecology of sea ice biota 2. Global significance.

Louis Legendre;Stephen F. Ackley;Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Bjørn Gulliksen

658
Citations
Plankton and nutrient dynamics in marine waters

Louis Legendre;Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan

653
Citations
Parameters of photosynthesis: Definitions, theory and interpretation of results

E. Sakshaug;A. Bricaud;Y. Dandonneau;Paul Falkowski

522
Citations
Biogenic carbon cycling in the upper ocean: effects of microbial respiration.

Richard B. Rivkin;Louis Legendre

513
Citations
Towards Dynamic Biological Oceanography and Limnology

L. Legendre;S. Demers

388
Citations
Ecology of sea ice biota - 1. Habitat, terminology, and methodology

Rita Horner;Stephen F. Ackley;Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Bjorn Gulliksen

362
Citations
Marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and carbon cycles

Grégory Beaugrand;Martin Edwards;Louis Legendre

334
Citations
The significance of microalgal blooms for fisheries and for the export of particulate organic carbon in oceans

L. Legendre

323
Citations
Effects of phytoplankton community on production, size, and export of large aggregates: A world-ocean analysis

Lionel Guidi;Lars Stemmann;Lars Stemmann;George A. Jackson;George A. Jackson;Frédéric Ibanez

310
Citations
MICROBIAL FOOD WEBS AND THE EXPORT OF BIOGENIC CARBON IN OCEANS

L Legendre;J Lefevre

306
Citations
Food-web mediated export of biogenic carbon in oceans: hydrodynamic control

Legendre L;Rassoulzadegan F

301
Citations
Mechanisms of Microbial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean - Future Research Directions

N Jiao;C Robinson;F Azam;Hassan Thomas

273
Citations
Export of biogenic carbon to fish and to the deep ocean: the role of large planktonic microphages

Louis Fortier;Jacques Le Fèvre;Louis Legendre

268
Citations
Climatic and biological forcing of the vertical flux of biogenic particles under seasonal Arctic sea ice

Martin Fortier;Louis Fortier;Christine Michel;Louis Legendre

251
Citations
Transparent exopolymer particles: Effects on carbon cycling in the ocean

Xavier Mari;Xavier Mari;Uta Passow;Christophe Migon;Adrian B. Burd

239
Citations
Physical control of the horizontal patchiness of sea-ice microalgae

M. Gosselin;L. Legendre;J. C. Therriault;S. Demers

217
Citations
Flow cytometry and cell sorting: A technique for analysis and sorting of aquatic particles1

Clarice M. Yentsch;Paul K. Horan;Katharine Muirhead;Quay Dortch

215
Citations
Developments in Numerical Ecology

Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre

174
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Demers Université du Québec à Rimouski

Michel Gosselin Université du Québec à Rimouski

Richard B. Rivkin Memorial University of Newfoundland

Suzanne Roy Université du Québec à Rimouski

Jean-Éric Tremblay Université Laval

Louis Fortier Université Laval

Jean-Claude Therriault Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Connie Lovejoy Université Laval

Christine Michel Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Stephane Pesant University of Bremen

External Links

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