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Marie-José Gaillard

Marie-José Gaillard

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
11471
World Ranking
3463
National Ranking
63

Marie-José Gaillard 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 Marie-José Gaillard sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 222 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Marie-José Gaillard 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 Marie-José Gaillard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Marie-José Gaillard is affiliated with Linnaeus University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Plant Science, and Anthropology.

Their research topics cover a wide range, with key focuses on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Historical and Archaeological Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Lichen and fungal ecology

Gaillard's publication record includes papers in journals that frequently feature their work, such as Quaternary Science Reviews and The Holocene, as well as contributions in Earth-Science Reviews, PLoS ONE, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Gaillard are:

  • Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation (2023, Land)
  • Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges (2022, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory)
  • Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene (2023, Quaternary Science Reviews)

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Florence Mazier, Qiaoyu Cui, Laurent Marquer, S. Sugita, and Ralph Fyfe.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Landscape Openness and Pollen Records: A Simulation Approach

    Shinya Sugita;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Anna Broström

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review

    Anna Broström;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Marie-José Gaillard;Kari Hjelle

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • Vegetation structure and pollen source area

    M J Bunting;M J Gaillard;S Sugita;R Middleton

  • Pollen productivity estimates for the reconstruction of past vegetation cover in the cultural landscape of southern Sweden

    Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

    C Carcaillet;H Almquist;H Asnong;R H W Bradshaw

  • The REVEALS model, a new tool to estimate past regional plant abundance from pollen data in large lakes: validation in southern Sweden

    Sofie Hellman;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita

  • Europe's lost forests : a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

    Neil Roberts;Ralph M. Fyfe;Jessie Woodbridge;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling.

    Anna-Kari Trondman;M.J. Gaillard;Florence Mazier;S. Sugita

  • The plant-macrofossil record of past lake-level changes

    Gina E. Hannon;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Modern pollen/vegetation relationships from small lakes in ancient cultural landscapes of south Sweden- a first step towards quantification of landscape openness in the past

    Anna Broström;Marie-José Gaillard;Margaretha Ihse;Bent Odgaard

  • Application of modern pollen/land-use relationships to the interpretation of pollen diagrams—reconstructions of land-use history in south Sweden, 3000-0 BP

    Marie-Jose Gaillard;H J B Birks;H J B Birks;U Emanuelsson;S Karlsson

  • Testing the effect of site selection and parameter setting on REVEALS-model estimates of plant abundance using the Czech Quaternary Palynological Database

    F. Mazier;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;Marie-José Gaillard;P. Kunes;P. Kunes;S. Sugita

  • Modern pollen/land-use relationships as an aid in the reconstruction of past land-uses and cultural landscapes: an example from South Sweden

    Marie-Jose Gaillard;H J B Birks;U Emanuelsson;B E Berglund

  • Linking palaeoenvironmental data and models to understand the past and to predict the future.

    N. John Anderson;Harald Bugmann;John A. Dearing;Marie-José Gaillard

  • The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network.

    Marie-José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;M. Jane Bunting;Richard Middleton

  • Estimating the spatial scale of pollen dispersal in the cultural landscape of southern Sweden

    Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard;Petter Pilesjö

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anna Kari Trondman

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinya Sugita
Shinya Sugita Tallinn University
Florence Mazier
Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Anneli Poska
Anneli Poska Tallinn University of Technology
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Xianyong Cao
Xianyong Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Erik Kjellström
Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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