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Earth Science 52 2965 2708 23 23 306 17508

Thierry Fichefet publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Thierry Fichefet between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Thierry Fichefet published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 9.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 40 publications in 2013. 19 of the 365 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 40. Peak 40 publications in 2013. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 0 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 19 publications 2010: 17 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 40 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 18 publications 2021: 27 publications 2022: 24 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 7 publications
1989 2025

365 publications in total across all disciplines

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Thierry Fichefet: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 2
1991 1
1992 2
1993 0
1994 2
1995 1
1996 0
1997 3
1998 2
1999 2
2000 2
2001 4
2002 3
2003 12
2004 11
2005 11
2006 10
2007 10
2008 7
2009 19
2010 17
2011 13
2012 15
2013 40
2014 14
2015 14
2016 11
2017 6
2018 9
2019 15
2020 18
2021 27
2022 24
2023 18
2024 12
2025 7
Total 365
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Thierry Fichefet 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 Thierry Fichefet 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, 298–307 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: 306 publications — 87th percentile

87% 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
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
298–307 120 306
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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Thierry Fichefet 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 Thierry Fichefet 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, 52 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: 52 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% 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
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 52
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Thierry Fichefet is a researcher affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science as well. Within these fields, their key areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects related to climate and cryospheric studies. These include:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Fichefet has published extensively in several specialized venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Ocean Modelling
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet" (2021) in The Cryosphere
  • "The Future of Sea Ice Modeling: Where Do We Go from Here?" (2020) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Modelling landfast sea ice and its influence on ocean-ice interactions in the area of the Totten Glacier, East Antarctica" (2021) in Ocean Modelling
  • "The circum-Antarctic ice-shelves respond to a more positive Southern Annular Mode with regionally varied melting" (2022) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Should Sea-Ice Modeling Tools Designed for Climate Research Be Used for Short-Term Forecasting?" (2020) in Current Climate Change Reports

Frequently collaborating with other scientists, Fichefet has coauthored publications notably with François Massonnet, Hugues Goosse, Pierre-Vincent Huot, Guillian Van Achter, and Martin Vancoppenolle.

Their academic recognition includes becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

    Reinhard F. Stocker;D Qin;G.-K. Plattner;M Tignor

  • Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

    M. Collins;R. Knutti;J.M. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

  • Climate models and their evaluation

    D.A. Randall;Thierry Fichefet

  • Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: From CMIP3 to CMIP5

    Jean-Louis Dufresne;M. A. Foujols;S. Denvil;A. Caubel

  • Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale features

    P. Braconnot;B. Otto-Bliesner;S. Harrison;S. Joussaume

  • Sensitivity of a global sea ice model to the treatment of ice thermodynamics and dynamics

    Thierry Fichefet;Morales Maqueda

  • Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap in the spectrum of climate system models

    M. Claussen;LA Mysak;AJ Weaver;Michel Crucifix

  • A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration

    J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon;R. J. Stouffer;A. J. Weaver

  • The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum

    Hans Renssen;H. Sëppa;O. Heiri;Didier Roche

  • Importance of ice-ocean interactions for the global ocean circulation: A model study

    Hugues Goosse;Thierry Fichefet

  • Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum – Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid- and high latitudes heat budget

    P. Braconnot;B. Otto-Bliesner;S. Harrison;S. Joussaume

  • Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation

    Martin Vancoppenolle;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse;Sylvain Bouillon

  • Influence of the Southern Annular Mode on the sea ice-ocean system

    Wouter Lefebvre;Hugues Goosse;R Timmermann;Thierry Fichefet

  • Climate Change 2013. The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Abstract for decision-makers

    Thomas F. Stocker;Dahe Qin;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Melinda M.B. Tignor

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • On the representation of high latitude processes in the ORCA-LIM global coupled sea ice–ocean model

    Ralph Timmermann;Hugues Goosse;Gurvan Madec;Thierry Fichefet

  • Constraining projections of summer Arctic sea ice

    F. Massonnet;T. Fichefet;H. Goosse;C. M. Bitz

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Victor Brovkin;M. Claussen;Emmanuelle Driesschaert;Thierry Fichefet

  • Sea ice evolution over the 20th and 21st centuries as simulated by current AOGCMs

    Olivier Arzel;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse

  • Long-term climate commitments projected with climate-carbon cycle models

    G.-K. Plattner;R. Knutti;F. Joos;T.F. Stocker

  • An elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model formulated on Arakawa B and C grids

    Sylvain Bouillon;Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda;Vincent Legat;Thierry Fichefet

  • The 8.2 kyr BP event simulated by a Global Atmosphere—Sea‐Ice—Ocean Model

    H. Renssen;Hugues Goosse;Thierry Fichefet;Jm. Campin

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Modelling the influence of snow accumulation and snow-ice formation on the seasonal cycle of the Antarctic sea-ice cover

    T. Fichefet;M. A. Morales Maqueda

  • Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison

    Andrew J. Weaver;Jan Sedláček;Michael Eby;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Simulating the Holocene climate evolution at northern high latitudes using a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean-vegetation model

    Hans Renssen;Hugues Goosse;Thierry Fichefet;Victor Brovkin

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    H. Goosse;V. Brovkin;T. Fichefet;R. Haarsma

  • Importance of physics, resolution and forcing in hindcast simulations of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice variability and trends

    François Massonnet;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse;Martin Vancoppenolle

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugues Goosse
Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain
François Massonnet
François Massonnet Université Catholique de Louvain
Marie-France Loutre
Marie-France Loutre University of Bern
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hans Renssen
Hans Renssen University of South-Eastern Norway
Pierre Mathiot
Pierre Mathiot British Antarctic Survey
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Jean-Louis Dufresne
Jean-Louis Dufresne École Normale Supérieure

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