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Researcher · Sorbonne Université · France

Gilles Billen

Gilles Billen publishes mostly in Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Water Science and Technology, on topics such as Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4413-4169 OpenAlex
World rank
#86,483
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#7,384
of 324,115
Works
598
Citations
30k
Citations per work
50.2
h-index
91
i10-index 252Top 0.2% in Environmental Chemistry
Gilles Billen

What does Gilles Billen research?

Gilles Billen's work is mostly in Environmental Science (44%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Social Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 321 works · 53.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 264 works · 44.2% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 105 works · 17.5% of their workEcology: 70 works · 11.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 57 works · 9.6% of their workPollution: 32 works · 5.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 57 works · 9.5% of their workOceanography: 57 works · 9.5% of their workEverything else: 242 works · 40.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 5.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 35 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKGilles Billen598works
Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences6%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science26444.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences579.5%
  2. Everything else24240.4%
    1. Social Sciences355.9%
  1. 1Environmental Chemistry18% of their works
  2. 2Ecology12% of their works
  3. 3Water Science and Technology10% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Pollution5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gilles Billen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Eutrophication, Climate Change, Water Quality, Hyporheic Zone, Nutrient Cycling, Harmful Algal Blooms, Dissolved Organic Matter and Oceanic Carbon Cycle.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Eutrophication3253 topics
  2. Climate Change2584 topics
  3. Water Quality2282 topics
  4. Hyporheic Zone1771 topic
  5. Nutrient Cycling1771 topic
  6. Harmful Algal Blooms1482 topics
  7. Dissolved Organic Matter971 topic
  8. Oceanic Carbon Cycle971 topic
  9. Hydrological Modeling681 topic
  10. Water Resources681 topic
  11. Anammox Bacteria561 topic
  12. Nitrogen-Cycling Network561 topic
  13. Cyanobacteria511 topic
  14. Nutrient Control511 topic
  15. Environmental Participation491 topic
  16. Territorial Governance491 topic
  17. Livestock Farming421 topic
  18. Marine Microbes421 topic
  19. Microbial Biogeography421 topic
  20. Sustainability421 topic

Where does Gilles Billen work?

Gilles Billen's main affiliation in the publication record is Sorbonne Université, France.

How many publications and citations does Gilles Billen have?

OpenAlex counts 598 works and 30,030 citations for Gilles Billen, an h-index of 91, ranking #86,483 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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