Ciais, Philippe PhD
Leading researcher
with 2307 publications
in the last 34 years
ORCID:
0000-0001-8560-4943
Philippe Ciais studied Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure and received a PhD in 1991 entitled “Holocene climate record of Antarctic ice cores”. In 1992 he was a post-doctoral fellow at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, and investigated how 13C and 18O isotopes in atmospheric CO2 can be used to constrain terrestrial carbon fluxes. He also designed the first three-dimensional simulation model of 18O in CO2, an isotopic tracer of the water cycle coupled with CO2 uptake by plant photosynthesis. After 1994, Philippe Ciais returned to France and carried out research into the inverse modeling of CO2 and CH4 fluxes at the surface of the Earth, based on transport models and a global network of surface in-situ stations. The most important finding was that tropical land fluxes have a dominating control on the global variability of the CO2 growth rate, while wetland emissions control the variability control the CH4 growth rates. Under the leadership of Philippe Ciais, this activity has been developed at LSCE into a research team of 30 scientists. In parallel, Philippe Ciais led the building of the French greenhouse gas atmospheric monitoring network, going from two stations in 1992 to 25 stations today, and became a key component of the ICOS European Infrastructure (http://www.icos-infrastructure.eu/). This line of research was accompanied by the coordination of national and European projects: AEROCARB and TACOS in FP-5, and the CARBOEUROPE atmospheric component in FP-6. From 2005 to 2013, Philippe Ciais devoted his time to the coordination of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) large European research infrastructure. Going from national and European auditions, to technical preparation work, and the negotiation of the governance and funding leverage involving stakeholders and ministry representatives in 17 countries, ICOS successfully became a flagship research structure in the area of climate change, with a pre-operational network of 60 stations and a turnover of 20 M€ per year. At that time, Philippe Ciais also acted as co-chair of the GEO task force on integrated carbon observations. Successively head of department, and associate director of the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat - LSCE between 2002 and 2017 he has been in charge of the management and the development of the research strategy for about 100 people for an annual budget of 10 M€ across three tutelary institutions, the CEA French Atomic Energy Commission, the CNRS National Research Council and the UVSQ Universiy of Versailles St Quentin. Philippe Ciais became co-chair of the Global Carbon Project (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/) international organization in 2009. He had the opportunity to contribute to several synthesis of recent trends in the carbon cycle, characterized by the recent fast growth of emissions and by a slowing trend of natural sinks, a finding that had a large impact in the media. He also acted as Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group 1, for the Carbon Cycle chapter of the 5th IPCC Assessment Report. Philippe Ciais continued to have a research activity during the last twenty years, mainly on the relationships between ecosystem CO2 fluxes and climate, combining terrestrial biosphere models with satellite and eddy-covariance observations. He took part in the set up and interpretation of one of the first coupled carbon-climate simulation with the IPSL climate model, and pioneered the incorporation of cultivated ecosystems into a terrestrial biosphere model. By combining eddy-flux and remote sensing data, with models, Philippe Ciais analyzed the responses of temperate forests to drought during the summer 2003 heat wave (Ciais et al. 2005; Nature) and of boreal ecosystems during warmer autumns (Piao et al. 2008; Nature). These two publications received a lot of citations. A striving collaboration with Beijing University has been maintained with the SINO-FRENCH SOFIE research institute led by Shilong Piao and Philippe Ciais (https:/
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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity
Aggregated career metrics
2307
Total documents
6.06
Normalized Impact
877
Highly Cited Papers (10%)
64.41
International Collab. (%)
Most cited publications
Main coauthors
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Activity
1000
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.
Impact
947
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Excellence
970
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Leadership
655
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
Cooperation
957
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
Openness
983
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
Community Support
182
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
Community Recognition
0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
Transference
610
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
Fundraising
0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
All indicators
Performance
Activity
Reflects an author's research output.
| Documents | 2307 | Count of all document types. |
|---|---|---|
| Docs/Year | 67.85 | Average of documents published by author per year. |
| Citable docs | 1623 | Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews. |
| Journal Articles | 1587 | Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed. |
| Conferences | 7 | Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium. |
| Reviews | 29 | Review papers authored by the researcher. |
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
| Theses | 1 | Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings |
| Books | 1 | A whole monograph or the entire book. |
| Book Chapters | 0 | Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator. |
| Datasets | 207 | Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation. |
| Editorials | 0 | Papers where the author contributed editorial content. |
| Reports | 0 | Research reports or white papers authored. |
| Grants | 0 | Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author. |
| Pre-Prints | 496 | Number of publications freely available in pre-print format. |
| Clinical Trials | N/A | Number of clinical trials where the author has participated. |
| Other types | 0 | Other type of documents. |
Impact
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citations | 180621 | Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types). |
|---|---|---|
| Self Citations | 9998 | Citations where the author references their own previous work. |
| Self Citation Rate | 5.535 | Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count. |
| Non Self Citation Rate | 94.465 | Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations. |
| Hot Citations | 11631 | Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months. |
| Citations/Document | 78.29 | Average of citations recieved per document. |
| % Not Cited | 0.0 | Percentage of documents with no citations recieved. |
| Relative Citation Index | 6.061 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| Journal Relative Citation Index | 4.455 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| H Index | 192 | Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times. |
| G Index | 393 | Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times. |
| i10 Index | 1055 | Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved. |
Excellence
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citation Score | 0.609 | Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th. |
|---|---|---|
| Citation Normalized Percentile | 0.574 | Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex. |
| Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) | 877 | Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Higly Cited Papers | 3.801 | Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 1%) | 255 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Outstanding Papers | 11.053 | Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) | 66 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Hot Papers | 256 | Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
Interaction within community
Leadership
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
| Docs Leadership | 477 | Number of documents lead by the author. |
|---|---|---|
| % Leadership | 20.68 | Percentage of documents lead by the author. |
| Docs International Leadership | 231 | Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| % International Leadership | 10.01 | Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| Principal Investigator | 0 | Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project. |
| Associations Founded | 0 | Number of associations founded by the author. |
| Societies Founded | 0 | Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author. |
| Foundations Founded | 0 | Number of research-related foundations established by the author. |
| Councils | 0 | Number of councils founded by author. |
Cooperation
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
| Authors/Paper | 14.53 | Average number of authors per document. |
|---|---|---|
| % Highly Authored Papers | 12.92 | Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors. |
| Countries/Paper | 3.24 | Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document. |
| Docs International Collaboration | 1486 | Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line. |
| % International Collaboration | 64.41 | Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line. |
Community Support
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
| Peer Review Counts | 63 | Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications. |
|---|---|---|
| Society Membership | 0 | Number of societies of wich the author is a member. |
| Society Memberships | 0 | Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies. |
| Editorial Board Memberships | 0 | Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board. |
| Panelists | 0 | Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls. |
Community Recognition
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
| Distinctions | 0 | Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career. |
|---|---|---|
| Invitations | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations. |
| Talks | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks. |
| Professorships | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips. |
| Commissioned Reports | 0 | Commissioned reports done by the author. |
Interaction with society
Openness
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
| Open Access Documents | 1508 | Number of documents in Open Access mode. |
|---|---|---|
| % Open Access Documents | 65.37 | Percentage of documents in Open Access mode. |
| Open Access Gold | 451 | Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ. |
| Open Access Green | 690 | Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository. |
| Open Access Hybrid | 136 | Free under an open license in a toll-access journal. |
| Open Access Bronze | 223 | Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license. |
| Open Access Closed | 799 | Non Open Access documents. |
Transference
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory Boards | 0 | Number of advisory boards of which the author is member. |
| Companies | 0 | Number of companies created or founded by the author. |
Fundraising
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
| Funding Counts | 3 | Number of activities reported as funding recieved. |
|---|---|---|
| ERC Grantees | 0 | Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council. |