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Serge Janicot

Serge Janicot

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
11221
World Ranking
3649
National Ranking
138

Serge Janicot 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 Serge Janicot sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Serge Janicot 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 Serge Janicot sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Serge Janicot is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has an extensive publication record in environmental and earth sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability, climate change impacts, and related health effects within Africa and surrounding regions.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Malaria research and control
  • Species distribution and climate change

Janicot's research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields centered on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology and Evolutionary Behavior, and Public Health.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmosphere
  • Scientific Reports
  • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Theoretical and Applied Climatology

The scientist has coauthored multiple works with several peers, notably:

  • Adjoua Moïse Famien
  • Benjamin Sultan
  • P.A. Fall
  • Abdoulaye Dème
  • Sémou Diouf

Recent papers by Serge Janicot include:

  • Robust assessment of the time of emergence of precipitation change in West Africa, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Heat waves and health risks in the northern part of Senegal: analysing the distribution of temperature-related diseases and associated risk factors, 2022, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Heat waves in spring from Senegal to Sahel: Evolution under climate change, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • Bias-Corrected CMIP5 Projections for Climate Change and Assessments of Impact on Malaria in Senegal under the VECTRI Model, 2023, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • Indoor temperature variability in the Sahel: a pilot study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Best Publications

  • The West African Monsoon Dynamics. Part II: The “Preonset” and “Onset” of the Summer Monsoon

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot

  • Seasonality and atmospheric dynamics of the teleconnection between African rainfall and tropical sea‐surface temperature: Atlantic vs. ENSO

    P. Camberlin;S. Janicot;I. Poccard

  • Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations

    Christopher M. Taylor;Danijel Belušić;Françoise Guichard;Douglas J. Parker

  • Abrupt shift of the ITCZ over West Africa and intra‐seasonal variability

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot

  • Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective

    Christophe Lavaysse;Cyrille Flamant;Serge Janicot;Douglas J. Parker

  • Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa

    Benjamin Sultan;Karima Labadi;Jean-François Guégan;Serge Janicot

  • Sahel rainfall and decadal to multi-decadal sea surface temperature variability

    Elsa Mohino;Elsa Mohino;Serge Janicot;Juergen Bader;Juergen Bader

  • Easterly wave regimes and associated convection over West Africa and tropical Atlantic: results from the NCEP/NCAR and ECMWF reanalyses

    A. Diedhiou;S. Janicot;A. Viltard;P. de Felice

  • The West African monsoon dynamics. Part I: Documentation of intraseasonal variability

    Benjamin Sultan;Serge Janicot;Arona Diedhiou

  • Sahel droughts and Enso dynamics

    Serge Janicot;Vincent Moron;Bernard Fontaine

  • Summer Sahel-ENSO teleconnection and decadal time scale SST variations

    S. Janicot;S. Trzaska;I. Poccard

  • Agricultural impacts of large-scale variability of the West African monsoon

    Benjamin Sultan;Christian Baron;Michael Dingkuhn;Benoît Sarr

  • From GCM grid cell to agricultural plot: scale issues affecting modelling of climate impact

    Christian Baron;Benjamin Sultan;Maud Balme;Benoit Sarr

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Tropical explosive volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño by cooling tropical Africa.

    Myriam Khodri;Takeshi Izumo;Takeshi Izumo;Jérôme Vialard;Serge Janicot

  • Regional climate modelling of the 2006 West African monsoon : sensitivity to convection and planetary boundary layer parameterisation using WRF

    Emmanouil Flaounas;Sophie Bastin;Serge Janicot

  • Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies.

    Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca;Elsa Mohino;Carlos R. Mechoso;Cyril Caminade

  • West African Monsoon Dynamics and Eastern Equatorial Atlantic and Pacific SST Anomalies (1970-88)

    Serge Janicot;Ali Harzallah;Bernard Fontaine;Vincent Moron

  • Sea Surface Temperature Fields Associated with West African Rainfall Anomaly Types

    Bernard Fontaine;Serge Janicot

  • Interannual and decadal SST-forced responses of the West African monsoon

    Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca;Serge Janicot;Elsa Mohino;Elsa Mohino;Teresa Losada

  • Comparison of rainfall structures between NCEP/NCAR reanalyses and observed data over tropical Africa

    I. Poccard;S. Janicot;P. Camberlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Sophie Bastin
Sophie Bastin French National Centre for Scientific Research
George N. Kiladis
George N. Kiladis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Paolo Ruti
Paolo Ruti World Meteorological Organization
Jean-Luc Redelsperger
Jean-Luc Redelsperger University of Western Brittany
Guy Caniaux
Guy Caniaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Philippe Lafore
Jean-Philippe Lafore Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Bock
Olivier Bock Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Juliette Mignot
Juliette Mignot Université Paris Cité

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