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67
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30098
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1922
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64

Michel Meybeck 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 Meybeck sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 226 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michel Meybeck 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 Meybeck sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michel Meybeck is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Water Science and Technology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Michel Meybeck has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Recent papers authored or coauthored by them include:

  • "Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes," 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • "Stream Solutes and Particulates Export Regimes: A New Framework to Optimize Their Monitoring," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Rivers help us to quantify the socio-ecological functioning of their basin at the Anthropocene: the Seine example (1850-2020)," 2022, Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • "Les effets de la crue de juin 2016 sur la qualité de l'eau du bassin de la Seine," 2025, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

The most frequent publication venues for Meybeck's work include:

  • Dynamiques environnementales
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience

Meybeck's frequent collaborators include Laurence Lestel, Johnny Gaspéri, Catherine Carré, Jean-Marie Mouchel, and Nicolas Flipo.

Best Publications

  • Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus transport by world rivers

    Michel Meybeck

  • Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

    Peter A. Raymond;Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Sebastian Sobek

  • Global chemical weathering of surficial rocks estimated from river dissolved loads

    Michel Meybeck

  • Elemental mass-balance of material carried by major world rivers

    Jean-Marie Martin;Michel Meybeck

  • Anthropogenic sediment retention: major global impact from registered river impoundments

    Charles J Vörösmarty;Michel Meybeck;Balázs Fekete;Keshav Sharma

  • Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance

    Daniel Viviroli;Hans H. Dürr;Bruno Messerli;Michel Meybeck

  • Geochronology of lake sediments

    S. Krishnaswamy;D. Lal;J.M. Martin;M. Meybeck

  • Effective sea-level rise and deltas: Causes of change and human dimension implications

    Jason P. Ericson;Charles J. Vörösmarty;S. Lawrence Dingman;Larry G. Ward

  • Global analysis of river systems: from Earth system controls to Anthropocene syndromes

    Michel Meybeck

  • River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea: Major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades?

    Wolfgang Ludwig;Egon Dumont;Michel Meybeck;Serge Heussner

  • The quality of rivers: From pristine stage to global pollution

    Michel Meybeck;Richard Helmer

  • A New Typology for Mountains and Other Relief Classes: An Application to Global Continental Water Resources and Population Distribution

    Michel Meybeck;Pamela Green;Charles Vörösmarty

  • Riverine Transport of Atmospheric Carbon: Sources, Global Typology and Budget

    Michel Meybeck

  • Global freshwater quality : a first assessment

    Michel Meybeck;Deborah V. Chapman;Richard Helmer

  • Global variability of daily total suspended solids and their fluxes in rivers

    M Meybeck;L Laroche;H.H Dürr;J.P.M Syvitski

  • Pre-industrial and contemporary fluxes of nitrogen through rivers: a global assessment based on typology

    Pamela A. Green;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Michel Meybeck;James N. Galloway

  • Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land-to-ocean linkages

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Balazs M. Fekete;M. Meybeck;Richard B. Lammers

  • Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources

    Daniel Viviroli;Matti Kummu;Michel Meybeck;Marko Kallio

  • Riverine transport of atmospheric carbon: Sources, global typology and budget

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  • 5.08 – Global Occurrence of Major Elements in Rivers

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  • Lithologic composition of the Earth's continental surfaces derived from a new digital map emphasizing riverine material transfer

    Hans H. Dürr;Michel Meybeck;Stefan H. Dürr

  • Vegetation, water, humans and the climate; a new perspective on an interactive system

    P. Kabat;M. Claussen;P.A. Dirmeyer;J.H.C. Gash

  • C, N, P and S in Rivers: From Sources to Global Inputs

    M. Meybeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans H. Dürr
Hans H. Dürr Ruhr University Bochum
Charles J. Vörösmarty
Charles J. Vörösmarty City College of New York
Gilles Billen
Gilles Billen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann Universität Hamburg
Goulven Gildas Laruelle
Goulven Gildas Laruelle Université Libre de Bruxelles
James P. M. Syvitski
James P. M. Syvitski University of Colorado Boulder
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
Florentina Moatar
Florentina Moatar François Rabelais University
Henri Etcheber
Henri Etcheber University of Bordeaux
Balázs M. Fekete
Balázs M. Fekete City College of New York

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