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47
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6493
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5911
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253

Simon Bélanger 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 Simon Bélanger sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Bélanger 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 Simon Bélanger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Bélanger is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on subfields such as Oceanography, Immunology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's publication record includes work across a range of topics, notably Marine and coastal ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and coastal plant biology, and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

Frequently publishing in specialized venues, Simon Bélanger has contributed to:

  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Earth system science data
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Shane Crotty, Philippe Archambault, Matthew E. Pipkin, Rakesh Kumar Singh, and Jean-Éric Tremblay, each featuring multiple joint publications.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Antigen-Specific Adaptive Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Acute COVID-19 and Associations with Age and Disease Severity, 2020, Cell
  • ACIX-Aqua: A global assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 over lakes, rivers, and coastal waters, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Bcl-6 is the nexus transcription factor of T follicular helper cells via repressor-of-repressor circuits, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Springtime Export of Arctic Sea Ice Influences Phytoplankton Production in the Greenland Sea, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications - version three, 2022, Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Global and regional drivers of nutrient supply, primary production and CO2 drawdown in the changing Arctic Ocean

    Jean-Éric Tremblay;Leif G. Anderson;Patricia Matrai;Pierre Coupel

  • Rapid Detection of Clostridium difficile in Feces by Real-Time PCR

    Simon D. Bélanger;Maurice Boissinot;Natalie Clairoux;François. J. Picard

  • ACIX-Aqua: A global assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 over lakes, rivers, and coastal waters

    Nima Pahlevan;Antoine Mangin;Sundarabalan V. Balasubramanian;Brandon Smith

  • Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean

    Cédric G. Fichot;Karl Kaiser;Stanford B. Hooker;Rainer M. W. Amon

  • Parameterization of vertical chlorophyll a in the Arctic Ocean: impact of the subsurface chlorophyll maximum on regional, seasonal, and annual primary production estimates

    M. Ardyna;M. Babin;M. Gosselin;E. Devred

  • Climate forcing multiplies biological productivity in the coastal Arctic Ocean

    J.-É. Tremblay;S. Bélanger;D. G. Barber;M. Asplin

  • Increasing cloudiness in Arctic damps the increase in phytoplankton primary production due to sea ice receding

    S. Bélanger;M. Babin;J.-É. Tremblay

  • Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET - first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals

    A. Smirnov;B. N. Holben;D. M. Giles;I. Slutsker

  • Dynamics of Chaetoceros socialis blooms in the North Water

    B.C Booth;P Larouche;S Bélanger;B Klein

  • Photomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in Arctic coastal waters from 1979 to 2003: Interannual variability and implications of climate change

    Simon Bélanger;Simon Bélanger;Huixiang Xie;Nickolay Krotkov;Pierre Larouche

  • An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll‐a based models

    Younjoo J. Lee;Patricia A. Matrai;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Vincent S. Saba

  • Phylogeny of the Enterobacteriaceae based on genes encoding elongation factor Tu and F-ATPase β-subunit

    Sonia Paradis;Maurice Boissinot;Nancy Paquette;Simon D. Bélanger

  • Improved detection of turbid waters from ocean color sensors information

    Andre Morel;Simon Bélanger

  • Phytoplankton biomass, production and potential export in the North Water

    Bert Klein;Bernard LeBlanc;Zhi-Ping Mei;Rachel Beret

  • Role of environmental factors on phytoplankton bloom initiation under landfast sea ice in Resolute Passage, Canada

    Christopher John Mundy;Michel Gosselin;Yves Gratton;Kristina Brown

  • Rapid detection of Shiga toxin-producing bacteria in feces by multiplex PCR with molecular beacons on the smart cycler.

    Simon D. Bélanger;Maurice Boissinot;Christian Ménard;François J. Picard

  • Advanced recruitment and accelerated population development in Arctic calanoid copepods of the North Water

    Marc Ringuette;Louis Fortier;Martin Fortier;Jeffrey A Runge

  • Impact of sea ice on the retrieval of water-leaving reflectance, chlorophyll a concentration and inherent optical properties from satellite ocean color data

    Simon Bélanger;Jens K. Ehn;Marcel Babin

  • Tracing the transport of colored dissolved organic matter in water masses of the Southern Beaufort Sea: relationship with hydrographic characteristics

    A. Matsuoka;A. Matsuoka;A. Bricaud;R. Benner;J. Para;J. Para

  • An empirical ocean color algorithm for estimating the contribution of chromophoric dissolved organic matter to total light absorption in optically complex waters

    Simon Bélanger;Simon Bélanger;Marcel Babin;Pierre Larouche

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Babin
Marcel Babin Université Laval
David Antoine
David Antoine Curtin University
Stanford B. Hooker
Stanford B. Hooker Goddard Space Flight Center
Timothy J Smyth
Timothy J Smyth Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Giuseppe Zibordi
Giuseppe Zibordi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Michel Gosselin
Michel Gosselin Université du Québec à Rimouski
Steve Groom
Steve Groom Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Robert Frouin
Robert Frouin University of California, San Diego
Kenneth J. Voss
Kenneth J. Voss University of Miami

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