Congratulations to Philippe Ciais – named world's best environmental scientist 2025/26 by Research.com!
Philippe, from the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement LSCE leads the RECCAP-2 CS research project. Contributing to the ESA Climate Change Initiative, the project is investigating global greenhouse gas budgets using satellite and model data.
The 4th edition of research.com's evaluation uses bibliometric data essential for calculating the citation-based metrics to rank scientists globally, also known as the Discipline H-index.
Over 175,000 scientist profiles were analysed cross all disciplines, with 9,229 scientists identified specifically within Environmental Sciences. Prof. Ciais received well over 200,000 citations and was named on 1,399 based on data collect on November 27, 2024.
Notable papers published by the CCI's RECCAP-2 under his stewardship highlight how climate change and human activities are reshaping forests and global carbon cycles - from drought‑driven biomass losses and Amazon disruption to small clearings weakening tropical forests. They also highlight atmospheric inversion techniques can be used to track these changes worldwide and reveal shifts in methane and carbon storage that are crucial for climate action.