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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 32 8579 7971 690 662 127 5178

Pierre Sepulchre publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Pierre Sepulchre between 2003 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Pierre Sepulchre published across 23 years, from 2003 to 2025, averaging 6.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 22 publications in 2020. 8 of the 158 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2003 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 22. Peak 22 publications in 2020. 2003: 1 publication 2004: 1 publication 2005: 1 publication 2006: 2 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 11 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 22 publications 2021: 21 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 7 publications
2003 2025

158 publications in total across all disciplines

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Pierre Sepulchre: publications per year, 2003 to 2025
Year Publications
2003 1
2004 1
2005 1
2006 2
2007 4
2008 2
2009 5
2010 3
2011 1
2012 11
2013 7
2014 6
2015 3
2016 7
2017 13
2018 7
2019 16
2020 22
2021 21
2022 10
2023 7
2024 1
2025 7
Total 158
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Pierre Sepulchre 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 Pierre Sepulchre 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, 118–127 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: 127 publications — 26th percentile

26% 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
118–127 540 127
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
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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Pierre Sepulchre 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 Pierre Sepulchre 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, 32 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: 32 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% 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 32
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
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

Pierre Sepulchre is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Sepulchre has published research in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Sepulchre include:

  • "Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna", 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data", 2021, Climate of the past
  • "IPSL-CM5A2 - an Earth system model designed for multi-millennial climate simulations", 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • "The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective", 2020, Climate of the past

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Frédéric Fluteau
  • Delphine Tardif
  • Yannick Donnadieu
  • Thomas W. Wong Hearing
  • Alexandre Pohl

Best Publications

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

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

  • Tectonic Uplift and Eastern Africa Aridification

    Pierre Sepulchre;Gilles Ramstein;Frédéric Fluteau;Mathieu Schuster

  • Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

    Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Vincent Deblauwe

  • Revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene

    Svetlana Botsyun;Svetlana Botsyun;Pierre Sepulchre;Yannick Donnadieu;Yannick Donnadieu;Camille Risi

  • Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

    William E. Banks;Francesco d'Errico;A. Townsend Peterson;Marian Vanhaeren

  • The role of eastern Tethys seaway closure in the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition (ca. 14 Ma)

    Noémie Hamon;Noémie Hamon;P. Sépulchre;V. Lefebvre;V. Lefebvre;G. Ramstein

  • Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms

    Anne-Claire Chaboureau;Pierre Sepulchre;Yannick Donnadieu;Alain Franc

  • H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia

    Pierre Sepulchre;Gilles Ramstein;Masa Kageyama;Marian Vanhaeren

  • Consequences of shoaling of the Central American Seaway determined from modeling Nd isotopes

    P Sepulchre;Thomas Arsouze;Thomas Arsouze;Y Donnadieu;J.-C Dutay

  • IPSL-CM5A2 – an Earth system model designed for multi-millennial climate simulations

    Pierre Sepulchre;Arnaud Caubel;Jean-Baptiste Ladant;Laurent Bopp

  • A reassessment of lake and wetland feedbacks on the North African Holocene climate

    Gerhard Krinner;Anne-Marie Lézine;Pascale Braconnot;Pierre Sepulchre

  • Evidence of Sundaland’s subsidence requires revisiting its biogeography

    Laurent Husson;Florian C. Boucher;Anta‐Clarisse Sarr;Pierre Sepulchre

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  • The Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Event 1 in terms of climate and vegetation around the Alboran Sea: a preliminary model-data comparison

    Masa Kageyama;Nathalie Combourieu Nebout;Pierre Sepulchre;Odile Peyron

  • The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective

    Delphine Tardif;Frédéric Fluteau;Yannick Donnadieu;Guillaume Le Hir

  • Deciphering the role of southern gateways and carbon dioxide on the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Vincent Lefebvre;Yannick Donnadieu;Pierre Sepulchre;Didier Swingedouw

  • Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

    Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Claude Roquin

  • Modeling a modern-like p CO 2 warm period (Marine Isotope Stage KM5c) with two versions of an Institut Pierre Simon Laplace atmosphere–ocean coupled general circulation model

    Ning Tan;Ning Tan;Camille Contoux;Gilles Ramstein;Yong Sun

  • Exploring the MIS M2 glaciation occurring during a warm and high atmospheric CO 2 Pliocene background climate

    Ning Tan;Gilles Ramstein;Christophe Dumas;Camille Contoux

  • Impacts of Tibetan Plateau uplift on atmospheric dynamics and associated precipitation δ 18 O

    Svetlana Botsyun;Pierre Sepulchre;Camille Risi;Yannick Donnadieu

  • Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment) Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

    Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Claude Roquin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yannick Donnadieu
Yannick Donnadieu Aix-Marseille University
Frédéric Fluteau
Frédéric Fluteau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Gilles Ramstein
Gilles Ramstein University of Paris-Saclay
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Camille Risi
Camille Risi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Laurent Husson
Laurent Husson Grenoble Alpes University
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dabang Jiang
Dabang Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Thomas L. P. Couvreur
Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier

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