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D-Index
41
Citations
7749
World Ranking
7631
National Ranking
343

Pierre Payment 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 Pierre Payment sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pierre Payment 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 Pierre Payment sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 199 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 19 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pierre Payment is affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada.

There is no available information regarding Pierre Payment's recent papers, co-authors, main fields or subfields of study, main research topics, book publications, publication venues, or awards.

The absence of listed publications or research topics suggests that publicly accessible data on this scientist's work is currently limited or not recorded in the source dataset.

Best Publications

  • A randomized trial to evaluate the risk of gastrointestinal disease due to consumption of drinking water meeting current microbiological standards.

    P Payment;L Richardson;J Siemiatycki;R Dewar

  • Clostridium perfringens and somatic coliphages as indicators of the efficiency of drinking water treatment for viruses and protozoan cysts.

    P Payment;E Franco

  • Real-time PCR for quantification of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in environmental water samples and sewage.

    Rebecca A. Guy;Pierre Payment;Ulrich J. Krull;Paul A. Horgen

  • A fatal waterborne disease epidemic in Walkerton, Ontario: comparison with other waterborne outbreaks in the developed world.

    S.E. Hrudey;P. Payment;P.M. Huck;R.W. Gillham

  • A prospective epidemiological study of gastrointestinal health effects due to the consumption of drinking water

    Pierre Payment;Jack Siemiatycki;Lesley Richardson;Gilles Renaud

  • Disinfection efficiency of peracetic acid, UV and ozone after enhanced primary treatment of municipal wastewater.

    Ronald Gehr;Monika Wagner;Priya Veerasubramanian;Pierre Payment

  • Pathogens in water: value and limits of correlation with microbial indicators.

    Pierre Payment;Annie Locas

  • Use of eukaryotic mitochondrial DNA to differentiate human, bovine, porcine and ovine sources in fecally contaminated surface water.

    Anouk Martellini;Pierre Payment;Richard Villemur

  • Removal of indicator bacteria, human enteric viruses, Giardia cysts, and Cryptosporidium oocysts at a large wastewater primary treatment facility.

    Pierre Payment;Robert Plante;Patrick Cejka

  • Occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms in the Saint Lawrence River (Canada) and comparison of health risks for populations using it as their source of drinking water.

    Pierre Payment;Aminata Berte;Michèle Prévost;Bruno Ménard

  • Fecal coliforms, caffeine and carbamazepine in stormwater collection systems in a large urban area.

    Sébastien Sauvé;Khadija Aboulfadl;Sarah Dorner;Pierre Payment

  • Elimination of viruses and indicator bacteria at each step of treatment during preparation of drinking water at seven water treatment plants.

    P Payment;M Trudel;R Plante

  • Waterborne Pathogen Detection by Use of Oligonucleotide-Based Microarrays

    Christine Maynard;Frédéric Berthiaume;Karine Lemarchand;Karine Lemarchand;Josée Harel

  • Optimization of microbial DNA extraction and purification from raw wastewater samples for downstream pathogen detection by microarrays

    K. Lemarchand;F. Berthiaume;C. Maynard;J. Harel

  • Biofilms, infectious agents, and dental unit waterlines: a review

    Jean Barbeau;Carl Gauthier;Pierre Payment

  • Poor efficacy of residual chlorine disinfectant in drinking water to inactivate waterborne pathogens in distribution systems

    Pierre Payment

  • Pathogen and indicator variability in a heavily impacted watershed.

    Sarah M. Dorner;William B. Anderson;Terri Gaulin;Heather L. Candon

  • Protection of waterborne pathogens by higher organisms in drinking water: a review.

    Françoise BichaiF. Bichai;Françoise BichaiF. Bichai;Pierre PaymentP. Payment;Pierre PaymentP. Payment;Benoit BarbeauB. Barbeau;Benoit BarbeauB. Barbeau

  • Gastrointestinal health effects associated with the consumption of drinking water produced by point-of-use domestic reverse-osmosis filtration units.

    P Payment;E Franco;L Richardson;J Siemiatycki

  • A modified m-CP medium for enumerating Clostridium perfringens from water samples

    Robert Armon;Pierre Payment

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoit Barbeau
Benoit Barbeau Polytechnique Montréal
Michèle Prévost
Michèle Prévost Polytechnique Montréal
Eduardo L. Franco
Eduardo L. Franco McGill University
Jack Siemiatycki
Jack Siemiatycki University of Montreal
Luke Masson
Luke Masson National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Roland Brousseau
Roland Brousseau National Research Council Canada
Peter M. Huck
Peter M. Huck University of Waterloo
Robert W. Gillham
Robert W. Gillham University of Waterloo
Steve E. Hrudey
Steve E. Hrudey University of Alberta
Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph McGill University

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