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2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 101 357 334 8 8 575 41089

Yann Kerr publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yann Kerr between 1985 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yann Kerr published across 41 years, from 1985 to 2025, averaging 15.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 49 publications in 2014. 31 of the 629 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1985 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 49. Peak 49 publications in 2014. 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 6 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 4 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 3 publications 1994: 7 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 13 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 17 publications 2001: 17 publications 2002: 16 publications 2003: 15 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 16 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 16 publications 2012: 34 publications 2013: 24 publications 2014: 49 publications 2015: 34 publications 2016: 44 publications 2017: 38 publications 2018: 34 publications 2019: 33 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 26 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 11 publications
1985 2025

629 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yann Kerr: publications per year, 1985 to 2025
Year Publications
1985 1
1986 1
1987 6
1988 0
1989 2
1990 2
1991 4
1992 1
1993 3
1994 7
1995 8
1996 4
1997 13
1998 7
1999 4
2000 17
2001 17
2002 16
2003 15
2004 16
2005 4
2006 9
2007 12
2008 16
2009 10
2010 20
2011 16
2012 34
2013 24
2014 49
2015 34
2016 44
2017 38
2018 34
2019 33
2020 21
2021 26
2022 14
2023 16
2024 20
2025 11
Total 629
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Yann Kerr 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 Yann Kerr sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 571–580 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 575 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19 575
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Yann Kerr 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 Yann Kerr sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 101 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 198 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: 20 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: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21 101
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to two-dimensional L-band microwave interferometer design

Overview

Yann Kerr is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing notably to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on topics related to Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, with additional work on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Yann Kerr has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors (2022, Earth System Science Data)

The research has often appeared in established publication venues including:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Yann Kerr frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among them:

  • Arnaud Mialon
  • Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández
  • Philippe Richaume
  • Jeffrey P. Walker
  • Thierry Pellarin

The scientist has received recognition through awards including the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017 and becoming an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to two-dimensional L-band microwave interferometer design.

Best Publications

  • A Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

    J. Qi;A. Chehbouni;A.R. Huete;Y.H. Kerr

  • The SMOS Mission: New Tool for Monitoring Key Elements ofthe Global Water Cycle

    Yann H Kerr;Philippe Waldteufel;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Steven Delwart

  • Soil moisture retrieval from space: the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission

    Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;J.-P. Wigneron;J. Martinuzzi

  • The SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm

    Y. H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;P. Richaume;J. P. Wigneron

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

    Wolfgang Wagner;Günter Blöschl;Paolo Pampaloni;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    Clement Albergel;Patricia de Rosnay;Claire Gruhier;Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

    T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

  • Downscaling SMOS-Derived Soil Moisture Using MODIS Visible/Infrared Data

    M. Piles;A. Camps;M. Vall-llossera;I. Corbella

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • SMOS: The Challenging Sea Surface Salinity Measurement From Space

    Jordi Font;Adriano Camps;Andrés Borges;Manuel Martín-Neira

  • Accurate land surface temperature retrieval from AVHRR data with use of an improved split window algorithm

    Yann H. Kerr;Jean Pierre Lagouarde;Jacques Imbernon

  • HAPEX-Sahel: A large-scale study of land-atmosphere interactions in the semi-arid tropics

    J.P. Goutorbe;Thierry Lebel;A. Tinga;P. Bessemoulin

  • A simple parameterization of the L-band microwave emission from rough agricultural soils

    J.-P. Wigneron;L. Laguerre;Y.H. Kerr

  • A semiempirical model for interpreting microwave emission from semiarid land surfaces as seen from space

    Y.H. Kerr;E.G. Njoku

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Soil moisture from space: Where are we?

    Yann H. Kerr

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;J. Munoz-Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ahmad Al Bitar
Ahmad Al Bitar Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amen Al-Yaari
Amen Al-Yaari Sorbonne University
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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