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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Kerry Emanuel

Kerry Emanuel publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography, on topics such as Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate variability and models and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

ORCID 0000-0002-2066-2082 OpenAlex
World rank
#23,364
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,649
of 1,627,098
Works
668
Citations
62k
Citations per work
92.8
h-index
117
i10-index 316Top 0.1% in Atmospheric Science
Kerry Emanuel

What does Kerry Emanuel research?

Kerry Emanuel's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (53%), Environmental Science (27%), Physics and Astronomy (2%).

Physical Sciences: 564 works · 84.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 355 works · 53.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 291 works · 43.5% of their workOceanography: 65 works · 9.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 180 works · 26.9% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 180 works · 26.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 works · 2.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 16 works · 2.4% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 2.0% of their workComputational Mechanics: 13 works · 2.0% of their workEverything else: 90 works · 13.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 2.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 14 works · 2.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKKerry Emanuel668works
Physical Sciences84%Social Sciences2%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences35553.2%
    2. Environmental Science18026.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy162.4%
    4. Engineering132.0%
  2. Everything else9013.4%
    1. Social Sciences142.1%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science44% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change27% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography10% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics2% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science2% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kerry Emanuel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Global Warming, Tropical Cyclones, Sea Level Rise, Hurricanes, Storm Surge, Hydrological Cycle and Climate Modeling.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change8014 topics
  2. Global Warming7302 topics
  3. Tropical Cyclones5212 topics
  4. Sea Level Rise4332 topics
  5. Hurricanes4091 topic
  6. Storm Surge4091 topic
  7. Hydrological Cycle3462 topics
  8. Climate Modeling3211 topic
  9. Extreme Events3211 topic
  10. Data Assimilation2421 topic
  11. Ensemble Kalman Filter2421 topic
  12. Ocean Waves1121 topic
  13. Wind Stress1121 topic
  14. Remote Sensing722 topics
  15. Hydrological Modeling712 topics
  16. Flood Risk471 topic
  17. Surface Water Mapping471 topic
  18. Aerosols251 topic
  19. Climate251 topic
  20. Coronal Mass Ejections251 topic
  21. Solar Dynamics Observatory251 topic
  22. GRACE241 topic
  23. groundwater depletion241 topic

Where does Kerry Emanuel work?

Kerry Emanuel's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kerry Emanuel have?

OpenAlex counts 668 works and 61,960 citations for Kerry Emanuel, an h-index of 117, ranking #23,364 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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