Simon Bélanger

5.8k citations
103 papers · 4.6k · 1 hit paper · h-index 40

Impact in

  • Oceanography top 0.2%
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems
    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
    • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Atmospheric Science top 2%
    • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Papers in

  • Oceanography 78
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems 69
    • Marine and coastal plant biology 8
    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes 7
  • Atmospheric Science 19
    • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 18
Co-authors
Marcel Babin (25 shared papers)Jean‐Éric Tremblay (14 shared papers)Atsushi Matsuoka (7 shared papers)Huixiang Xie (6 shared papers)Michel Gosselin (7 shared papers)Ronald Benner (5 shared papers)Stanford B. Hooker (5 shared papers)Jens Kristian Ehn (6 shared papers)
Journals
Biogeosciences (12 papers)Earth system science data (8 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (8 papers)Elementa Science of the Anthropocene (7 papers)Progress In Oceanography (4 papers)
Partner nations
CanadaFranceUnited States

In The Last Decade

Simon Bélanger

99 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Simon Bélanger's Hit Papers

ACIX-Aqua: A global assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 over lakes, rivers, and coastal waters 2021 · 274 citations
2740+1+3Years since publication50100150200250
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2021 Remote Sensing of Environment

Peers

Simon Bélanger
Comparison fields: 5 of 76
  • Oceanography 3.2k
  • Atmospheric Science 779
  • Earth-Surface Processes 273
  • Environmental Chemistry 286
  • Ecology 640
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Simon Bélanger, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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ACIX-Aqua: A global assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 over lakes, rivers, and coastal waters
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nima Pahlevan, Antoine Mangin, Sundarabalan V. Balasubramanian, Brandon Smith, Krista Alikas, Kohei Arai, Cláudio Clemente Faria Barbosa, Simon Bélanger
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2
Global and regional drivers of nutrient supply, primary production and CO2 drawdown in the changing Arctic Ocean
Progress In Oceanography ·Jean‐Éric Tremblay, Leif G. Anderson, Patricia A. Matrai, Pierre Coupel, Simon Bélanger, Christine Michel, Marit Reigstad
2015254
3
Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean
Scientific Reports ·Cédric G. Fichot, Karl Kaiser, Stanford B. Hooker, Rainer M. W. Amon, Marcel Babin, Simon Bélanger, Sally A. Walker, Ronald Benner
2013216
4
Parameterization of vertical chlorophyll a in the Arctic Ocean: impact of the subsurface chlorophyll maximum on regional, seasonal, and annual primary production estimates
Biogeosciences ·Mathieu Ardyna, Marcel Babin, Michel Gosselin, Emmanuel Devred, Simon Bélanger, Atsushi Matsuoka, Jean‐Éric Tremblay
2013177
5
Increasing cloudiness in Arctic damps the increase in phytoplankton primary production due to sea ice receding
Biogeosciences ·Simon Bélanger, Marcel Babin, Jean‐Éric Tremblay
2013160
6
Climate forcing multiplies biological productivity in the coastal Arctic Ocean
Geophysical Research Letters ·Jean‐Éric Tremblay, Simon Bélanger, David G. Barber, M. G. Asplin, Gérald Darnis, Louis Fortier, Yves Gratton, Heike Link
2011159
7
Dynamics of Chaetoceros socialis blooms in the North Water
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography ·B. C. Booth, Simon Bélanger, Bert Klein, David Amiel, Zhi-Ping Mei +1 other
2002137
8
Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals
Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Alexander Smirnov, Brent Holben, D. M. Giles, I. Slutsker, Norman T. O’Neill, T. F. Eck, Andreas Macke, Peter Leslie Croot
2011133
9
Tracing the transport of colored dissolved organic matter in water masses of the Southern Beaufort Sea: relationship with hydrographic characteristics
Biogeosciences ·Atsushi Matsuoka, Annick Bricaud, Ronald Benner, Julien Para, Richard Sempéré, Louis Marie Prieur, Simon Bélanger, Marcel Babin
2012133
10
Photomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in Arctic coastal waters from 1979 to 2003: Interannual variability and implications of climate change
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Simon Bélanger, Huixiang Xie, N. A. Krotkov, Warwick F. Vincent, Marcel Babin +1 other
2006126
11
An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll‐a based models
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Younjoo Lee, Patricia A. Matrai, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Vincent S. Saba, David Antoine, Mathieu Ardyna, Ichio Asanuma, Marcel Babin
2015119
12
Phytoplankton biomass, production and potential export in the North Water
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography ·Bert Klein, Bernard Leblanc, Zhi-Ping Mei, Rachel Beret, Christopher John Mundy, Cecilie H. von Quillfeldt, Marie‐Ève Garneau, Suzanne Roy
2002113
13
Role of environmental factors on phytoplankton bloom initiation under landfast sea ice in Resolute Passage, Canada
Marine Ecology Progress Series ·Christopher John Mundy, Michel Gosselin, Yves Gratton, Virginie Galindo, Karley Campbell, Maurice Levasseur, David G. Barber, Tim Papakyriakou
2013106
14
Improved detection of turbid waters from ocean color sensors information
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Alexandra Morel, Simon Bélanger
200692
15
Advanced recruitment and accelerated population development in Arctic calanoid copepods of the North Water
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography ·Marc Ringuette, Louis Fortier, Martin Fortier, Jeffrey A. Runge, Simon Bélanger, Jan Marcin Węsławski, Sławomir Kwaśniewski +1 other
200291
16
Impact of sea ice on the retrieval of water-leaving reflectance, chlorophyll a concentration and inherent optical properties from satellite ocean color data
Remote Sensing of Environment ·Simon Bélanger, Jens Kristian Ehn, Marcel Babin
200791
17
The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate
The Science of The Total Environment ·Yannick Huot, Geneviève Potvin, Dermot Antoniades, Helen Margaret Baulch, Beatrix E. Beisner, Simon Bélanger, Stéphanie Brazeau, Hubert Cabana
201989
18
Optical characterisation of suspended particles in the Mackenzie River plume (Canadian Arctic Ocean) and implications for ocean colour remote sensing
Biogeosciences ·David Doxaran, Jens Kristian Ehn, Simon Bélanger, Atsushi Matsuoka, Stanford B. Hooker, Marcel Babin
201284
19
An empirical ocean color algorithm for estimating the contribution of chromophoric dissolved organic matter to total light absorption in optically complex waters
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Simon Bélanger, Marcel Babin +1 other
200882
20
Climate change enhances primary production in the western Antarctic Peninsula
Global Change Biology ·Sébastien Moreau, Behzad Mostajir, Simon Bélanger, Irene Ruth Schloss, Martin Vancoppenolle, Serge Demers, Gustavo Adolfo Ferreyra
201574

About Simon Bélanger

Simon Bélanger is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes, having authored 103 papers that have together received 4.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (69 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (18 papers), Calibration and Measurement Techniques (8 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (8 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (7 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (7 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (5 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (3.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (779 citations), Earth-Surface Processes (273 citations), Environmental Chemistry (286 citations) and Ecology (640 citations). Simon Bélanger has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Frequent co-authors include Marcel Babin, Jean‐Éric Tremblay, Atsushi Matsuoka, Huixiang Xie, Michel Gosselin, Ronald Benner, Stanford B. Hooker, Jens Kristian Ehn, Louis Fortier and Christine Michel. Their work appears in journals such as Biogeosciences, Earth system science data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene and Progress In Oceanography.

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