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Olivier Boucher

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Environmental Sciences
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
125
Citations
66803
World Ranking
93
National Ranking
2

Olivier Boucher 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 Olivier Boucher sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 468 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Olivier Boucher 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 Olivier Boucher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Olivier Boucher is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France, where research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The scientific work encompasses diverse subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, economics and econometrics, and aerospace engineering.

The research topics covered by Olivier Boucher involve atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality and health impacts, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Olivier Boucher has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed literature, with selected recent papers including:

  • "Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model" (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6" (2021), Earth System Dynamics
  • "Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models and their comparison to CMIP5 models" (2020), Biogeosciences
  • "Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models" (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Olivier Boucher include Philippe Ciais, Katsumasa Tanaka, Nicolas Bellouin, Zhu Liu, and Piyu Ke.

The primary publication venues where Olivier Boucher's work appears frequently are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric chemistry and physics, La Météorologie, Geoscientific Model Development, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In addition to articles, Olivier Boucher has contributed to book publications including a title published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, entitled "Insular Epilepsies." This publication is listed with a lower citation count compared to the scholarly articles.

Best Publications

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system

    Yoram J. Kaufman;Didier Tanré;Olivier Boucher

  • Estimates of the direct and indirect radiative forcing due to tropospheric aerosols: A review

    James Haywood;Olivier Boucher

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

    Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

  • Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

    Josep Peñuelas;Benjamin Poulter;Jordi Sardans;Philippe Ciais

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes

    M. J. Best;M. Pryor;D. B. Clark;G. G. Rooney

  • Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink

    Lina M. Mercado;Nicolas Bellouin;Stephen Sitch;Olivier Boucher

  • The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

    P. Stier;J. Feichter;S. Kinne;S. Kloster

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

    D. B. Clark;L. M. Mercado;S. Sitch;C. D. Jones

  • Detection of a direct carbon dioxide effect in continental river runoff records

    N. Gedney;P. M. Cox;R. A. Betts;O. Boucher

  • A review of measurement-based assessments of the aerosol direct radiative effect and forcing

    H. Yu;H. Yu;Y. J. Kaufman;M. Chin;G. Feingold

  • Emissions of primary aerosol and precursor gases in the years 2000 and 1750 prescribed data-sets for AeroCom

    F. Dentener;S. Kinne;T. Bond;O. Boucher

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Creation of the WATCH Forcing Data and Its Use to Assess Global and Regional Reference Crop Evaporation over Land during the Twentieth Century

    Graham Weedon;S. Gomes;P. Viterbo;William Shuttleworth

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Ruixue Lei

  • Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

    Richard A. Betts;Olivier Boucher;Matthew Collins;Peter M. Cox;Peter M. Cox

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Bellouin
Nicolas Bellouin University of Reading
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds
Alf Kirkevåg
Alf Kirkevåg Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Johannes Quaas
Johannes Quaas Leipzig University
Jean-Francois Lamarque
Jean-Francois Lamarque National Center for Atmospheric Research

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