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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
98
Citations
38930
World Ranking
410
National Ranking
11

Michel Legrand 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 Michel Legrand sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 345 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michel Legrand 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 Michel Legrand sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

Overview

Michel Legrand is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Michel Legrand has published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequently appearing venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Climate of the past
  • The Cryosphere

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michel Legrand illustrate the focus and range of their research:

  • "Cadmium Pollution From Zinc-Smelters up to Fourfold Higher Than Expected in Western Europe in the 1980s as Revealed by Alpine Ice," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Variability in lidar-derived particle properties over West Africa due to changes in absorption: towards an understanding," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Alpine Ice-Core Evidence of a Large Increase in Vanadium and Molybdenum Pollution in Western Europe During the 20th Century," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Regional Characteristics of Atmospheric Sulfate Formation in East Antarctica Imprinted on 17O-Excess Signature," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores," 2022, Climate of the past

Their research collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Susanne Preunkert
  • Joseph R. McConnell
  • Nathan Chellman
  • A. Stohl
  • Sabine Eckhardt

Best Publications

  • Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

    J. R. Petit;J. Jouzel;D. Raynaud;N. I. Barkov

  • Plant ‘pathogenesis-related’ proteins and their role in defense against pathogens

    A. Stintzi;T. Heitz;V. Prasad;S. Wiedemann-Merdinoglu

  • Glaciochemistry of polar ice cores: A review

    Michel Legrand;Paul Andrew Mayewski

  • Biological function of pathogenesis-related proteins: Four tobacco pathogenesis-related proteins are chitinases.

    Michel Legrand;Serge Kauffmann;Pierrette Geoffroy;Bernard Fritig

  • Biological function of `pathogenesis-related' proteins: four PR proteins of tobacco have 1,3-β-glucanase activity

    Serge Kauffmann;Michel Legrand;Pierrette Geoffroy;Bernard Fritig

  • Pathogenesis-Related PR-1 Proteins Are Antifungal (Isolation and Characterization of Three 14-Kilodalton Proteins of Tomato and of a Basic PR-1 of Tobacco with Inhibitory Activity against Phytophthora infestans)

    T Niderman;I Genetet;T Bruyère;R Gees

  • Modeling the atmospheric dust cycle: 2. Simulation of Saharan dust sources

    Beatrice Marticorena;G. Bergametti;B. Aumont;Yann Callot

  • Levoglucosan levels at background sites in Europe for assessing the impact of biomass combustion on the European aerosol background

    Hans Puxbaum;Alexandre Caseiro;Alexandre Caseiro;Asunción Sánchez-Ochoa;Anne Kasper-Giebl

  • Source apportionment of PM2.5 organic aerosol over Europe: Primary/secondary, natural/anthropogenic, and fossil/biogenic origin

    András Gelencsér;Barbara May;David Simpson;David Simpson;Asunción Sánchez-Ochoa

  • Polar ice evidence that atmospheric CO 2 20,000 yr BP was 50% of present

    Robert J. Delmas;Jean-Marc Ascencio;Michel Legrand

  • Purification, Cloning, and Properties of an Acyltransferase Controlling Shikimate and Quinate Ester Intermediates in Phenylpropanoid Metabolism

    Laurent Hoffmann;Stéphane Maury;Françoise Martz;Pierrette Geoffroy

  • Satellite climatology of African dust transport in the Mediterranean atmosphere

    C. Moulin;C. E. Lambert;U. Dayan;V. Masson

  • Sea-salt aerosol in coastal Antarctic regions

    D. Wagenbach;F. Ducroz;R. Mulvaney;L. Keck

  • Altered lignin composition in transgenic tobacco expressing O-methyltransferase sequences in sense and antisense orientation

    Rossitza Atanassova;Noelle Favet;Francoise Martz;Brigitte Chabbert

  • Thaumatin-like pathogenesis-related proteins are antifungal

    Alison J. Vigers;Sabine Wiedemann;Walden K. Roberts;Michel Legrand

  • Chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols during the 2003 summer intense forest fire period

    C.A. Pio;M. Legrand;C.A. Alves;T. Oliveira

  • Sulfur‐containing species (sulfate and methanesulfonate) in coastal Antarctic aerosol and precipitation

    Andreas Minikin;Michel Legrand;Julie Hall;Dietmar Wagenbach

  • Satellite detection of dust using the IR imagery of Meteosat: 1. Infrared difference dust index

    M. Legrand;A. Plana-Fattori;C. N'doumé

  • Climatology of aerosol composition (organic versus inorganic) at nonurban sites on a west-east transect across Europe

    Casimiro Pio;Michel Legrand;Tiago Oliveira;Joana Afonso

  • Vostok (Antarctica) ice core: Atmospheric chemistry changes over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

    M.R. Legrand;C. Lorius;N.I. Barkov;V.N. Petrov

  • Ice-core record of oceanic emissions of dimethylsulphide during the last climate cycle

    M. Legrand;C. Feniet-Saigne;E. S. Sattzman;C. Germain

  • Mineralogy of Saharan dust transported over northwestern tropical Atlantic Ocean in relation to source regions

    Sandrine Caquineau;Annie Gaudichet;Laurent Gomes;Michel Legrand

  • Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase in Tobacco (Molecular Cloning and Gene Expression during the Hypersensitive Reaction to Tobacco Mosaic Virus and the Response to a Fungal Elicitor)

    L. Pellegrini;O. Rohfritsch;B. Fritig;M. Legrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Fritig
Bernard Fritig University of Strasbourg
Susanne Preunkert
Susanne Preunkert Grenoble Alpes University
Casimiro Pio
Casimiro Pio University of Aveiro
Robert J. Delmas
Robert J. Delmas Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
András Gelencsér
András Gelencsér University of Pannonia
Dietmar Wagenbach
Dietmar Wagenbach Heidelberg University
Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis
Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis University of Western Macedonia
Christophe Genthon
Christophe Genthon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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