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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 72 887 786 44 38 218 14865

Michel Fontugne publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Michel Fontugne between 1978 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Michel Fontugne published across 47 years, from 1978 to 2024, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 1999. 3 of the 251 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2024. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 1999. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 0 publications 1983: 1 publication 1984: 0 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 8 publications 1992: 7 publications 1993: 4 publications 1994: 5 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 10 publications 1998: 10 publications 1999: 24 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 10 publications 2002: 12 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 12 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 1 publication 2021: 3 publications 2022: 1 publication 2023: 2 publications 2024: 1 publication
1978 2024

251 publications in total across all disciplines

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Michel Fontugne: publications per year, 1978 to 2024
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 0
1980 0
1981 1
1982 0
1983 1
1984 0
1985 2
1986 2
1987 3
1988 2
1989 1
1990 2
1991 8
1992 7
1993 4
1994 5
1995 3
1996 3
1997 10
1998 10
1999 24
2000 6
2001 10
2002 12
2003 12
2004 16
2005 12
2006 7
2007 2
2008 9
2009 9
2010 6
2011 6
2012 7
2013 10
2014 8
2015 3
2016 7
2017 4
2018 6
2019 2
2020 1
2021 3
2022 1
2023 2
2024 1
Total 251
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Michel Fontugne 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 Michel Fontugne 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, 218–227 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: 218 publications — 69th percentile

69% 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
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
218–227 290 218
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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Michel Fontugne 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 Michel Fontugne 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, 72 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: 72 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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
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 72
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

Michel Fontugne is affiliated with Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University in France. Their research spans several domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. The main subfields they contribute to include Archeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

Their work often intersects topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Eurasian Exchange Networks.

Among their recent publications are:

  • U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • RADIOCARBON DATING ON ECHOMICADAS, LSCE, GIF-SUR-YVETTE, FRANCE: NEW AND UPDATED CHEMICAL PROCEDURES, 2023, Radiocarbon
  • Back to the Iron Age Chronology in Southern Central Asia, 2021, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
  • Du bon usage des données 14C, publication et archivage: règles, métadonnées et erreurs à éviter pour une publication rigoureuse [communication orale], 2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Christine Hatté
  • Edwige Pons-Branchu
  • François Thil
  • Hélène Valladas
  • Jose Luís Sanchidrián

The primary venues for their research publications are:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Radiocarbon
  • Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

The multidisciplinary nature of Michel Fontugne's work reflects an integration of archaeological methods with natural sciences, focusing particularly on chronological assessments and environmental contexts in ancient human studies and ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Marine Reservoir Corrections for the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

    John Southon;Michaele Kashgarian;Michel Fontugne;Bernard Metivier

  • Global variations of surface ocean productivity in low and mid latitudes: Influence on CO2 reservoirs of the deep ocean and atmosphere during the last 21,000 years

    Michael Sarnthein;Kyaw Winn;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Michael R. Fontugne

  • Holocene climatic changes in the Western Mediterranean, from south-east France to south-east Spain

    Guy Jalut;Augustin Esteban Amat;Louis Bonnet;Thierry Gauquelin

  • The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region: new high-resolution crater-lake sediment data from central Turkey:

    N. Roberts;J.M. Reed;M.J. Leng;C. Kuzucuoglu

  • Holocene circum-Mediterranean vegetation changes: Climate forcing and human impact

    Guy Jalut;Jean Jacques Dedoubat;Michel Fontugne;Thierry Otto

  • High-resolution record of the last Interglacial–glacial cycle in the Nussloch loess–palaeosol sequences, Upper Rhine Area, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Ludwig Zöller;Andreas Lang

  • Evidence from nitrogen isotope ratios for enhanced productivity during formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

    S. E. Calvert;B. Nielsen;M. R. Fontugne

  • Glacial-interglacial variability in denitrification in the World's Oceans: Causes and consequences

    Raja S. Ganeshram;Thomas F. Pedersen;Stephen E. Calvert;Gavin W. McNeill

  • Calcification rate influence on trace element concentrations in aragonitic bivalve shells: Evidences and mechanisms

    Matthieu Carré;Ilhem Bentaleb;Olivier Bruguier;Elmer Ordinola

  • Variations of the monsoon regime during the upper quaternary: Evidence from carbon isotopic record of organic matter in North Indian Ocean sediment cores

    Michel R. Fontugne;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • Paleointensity of the geomagnetic field during the last 80,000 years

    Emmanuel Tric;Jean-Pierre Valet;Piotr Tucholka;Martine Paterne

  • δ13C variation in scallop shells: Increasing metabolic carbon contribution with body size?

    Anne Lorrain;Yves-Marie Paulet;Laurent Chauvaud;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Enhanced rainfall in the Mediterranean region during the last sapropel event

    Nejib Kallel;Martine Paterne;J.C. Duplessy;C. Vergnaud-Grazzini

  • Abrupt millennial climatic changes from Nussloch (Germany) Upper Weichselian eolian records during the Last Glaciation.

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté;Andreas Lang

  • Glacial to interglacial vegetation changes in the northern and southern Pyrénées: Deglaciation, vegetation cover and chronology

    G. Jalut;J.Monserrat Marti;M. Fontugne;G. Delibrias

  • Dynamics of particulate organic matter d15N and d13C during spring phytoplankton blooms in a macrotidal ecosystem (Bay of Seine, France)

    N Savoye;Alain Aminot;Paul Treguer;M Fontugne

  • Late Pleistocene Variability of the Carbon Isotopic Composition of Organic Matter in the Eastern Mediterranean: Monitor of Changes in Carbon Sources and Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

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  • Climatic and cultural changes in the west Congo Basin forests over the past 5000 years

    Richard Oslisly;Lee White;Ilham Bentaleb;Charly Favier

  • Long‐range transport of continentally‐derived particulate carbon in the marine atmosphere: evidence from stable carbon isotope studies

    Héléne Cachier;Patrick Buat-Ménard;Michel Fontugne;Roger Chesselet

  • The origin of particulate organic carbon in the marine atmosphere as indicated by its stable carbon isotopic composition

    R. Chesselet;M. Fontugne;P. Buat-Ménard;U. Ezat

  • Mediterranean pluvial periods and sapropel formation over the last 200 000 years

    N. Kallel;J.-C. Duplessy;L. Labeyrie;M. Fontugne

  • Source terms and source strengths of the carbonaceous aerosol in the tropics

    Hélène Cachier;Patrick Buat-Menard;Michel Fontugne;Jacques Rancher

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Hatté
Christine Hatté University of Paris-Saclay
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier
Pierre Antoine
Pierre Antoine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Louis Reyss
Jean-Louis Reyss Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli
Paolo Antonio Pirazzoli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Martine Paterne
Martine Paterne Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hélène Valladas
Hélène Valladas Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Maurice Arnold
Maurice Arnold Collège de France
Andreas Lang
Andreas Lang University of Salzburg
Ludwig Zöller
Ludwig Zöller University of Bayreuth

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