Topic · Science and Climate Studies
Most cited papers in Science and Climate Studies
What are the most cited papers in Science and Climate Studies?
The most cited paper in Science and Climate Studies is "Dispersion on a Sphere" (Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1953), with 5,586 citations. Next come "Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system" (4,083) and "Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences" (3,049).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 276 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dispersion on a Sphere Ronald Aylmer Fisher · Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences | 7 May 1953 | 5,586 |
| 2 | Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Feb 2008 | 4,083 |
| 3 | Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences Наоми Орескес, Kristin Shrader‐Frechette, Kenneth Belitz · Science | 4 Feb 1994 | 3,049 |
| 4 | A Simple Biosphere Model (SIB) for Use within General Circulation Models P. J. Sellers, Yale Mintz, Yogesh C. Sud et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Mar 1986 | 2,186 |
| 5 | Encyclopedia of Volcanoes Gary L. Rowe · Eos | 23 May 2000 | 2,093 |
| 6 | Wholeness and the Implicate Order David Böhm, Martin V. Curd · Physics Today | Aug 1981 | 1,821 |
| 7 | The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Наоми Орескес · Science | 2 Dec 2004 | 1,804 |
| 8 | Patterns of Discovery Norwood Russell Hanson, Paul F. Schmidt · American Journal of Physics | Apr 1959 | 1,633 |
| 9 | Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change Cynthia E. Rosenzweig, David John Karoly, Marta Vicarelli et al. · Nature | May 2008 | 1,541 |
| 10 | The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers et al. · Science | 22 May 2015 | 1,511 |
| 11 | Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming John Cook, Наоми Орескес, Peter Terence Doran et al. · Environmental Research Letters | Apr 2016 | 1,464 |
| 12 | African climate change: 1900-2100 Mike Hulme, Ruth M. Doherty, Todd Ngara et al. · Climate Research | 2001 | 1,334 |
| 13 | Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? JOHN L. WORRALL · dialectica | 1989 | 1,272 |
| 14 | In defense of external invalidity. Douglas G. Mook · American Psychologist | Apr 1983 | 1,222 |
| 15 | Physics of Climate José Pinto Peixoto, Abraham H. Oort, Curt Covey et al. · Physics Today | Aug 1992 | 1,212 |
| 16 | Explanatory Unification Philip Kitcher · Philosophy of Science | Dec 1981 | 1,133 |
| 17 | Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6 GEORGE C. HURTT et al. · Geoscientific model development | 10 Nov 2020 | 1,132 |
| 18 | Comparing global vegetation maps with the Kappa statistic Robert A. Monserud, Rik Leemans · Ecological Modelling | Aug 1992 | 1,122 |
| 19 | Atmospheric Predictability as Revealed by Naturally Occurring Analogues Edward N. Lorenz · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jul 1969 | 1,109 |
| 20 | Target Atmospheric CO: Where Should Humanity Aim? James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha et al. · The Open Atmospheric Science Journal | 31 Oct 2008 | 970 |
| 21 | A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part II: The Generation of Global Fields of Terrestrial Biophysical Parameters from Satellite Data P. J. Sellers, Compton J. Tucker, George J. Collatz et al. · Journal of Climate | Apr 1996 | 970 |
| 22 | Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic Isla H. Myers‐Smith et al. · Nature Climate Change | 31 Jan 2020 | 896 |
| 23 | Early warning of climate tipping points Timothy M. Lenton · Nature Climate Change | 17 Jun 2011 | 884 |
| 24 | Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation Stuart S. Glennan · Philosophy of Science | Sep 2002 | 867 |
| 25 | Potential Impact of Climate Change on Vegetation in the European Alps: A Review Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Antoine Guisan · Climatic Change | Jul 2001 | 867 |
| 26 | Reflections on my Critics Thomas Kühn · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 2 Sep 1970 | 848 |
| 27 | Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy Edward N. Zalta, Colin Allen, Uri Nodelman | 2001 | 838 |
| 28 | How Models Are Used to Represent Reality Ronald N. Giere · Philosophy of Science | Dec 2004 | 803 |
| 29 | Merchants of Doubt. How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming David B. Lindenmayer · Austral Ecology | 22 Mar 2012 | 790 |
| 30 | Review and assessment of methane emissions from wetlands Karen B. Bartlett, Robert C. Harriss · Chemosphere | 1993 | 770 |
| 31 | Climatic Control of the High-Latitude Vegetation Greening Trend and Pinatubo Effect Wolfgang Lucht, Iain Colin Prentice, Ranga B. Myneni et al. · Science | 31 May 2002 | 757 |
| 32 | Biogeochemistry of Methane Exchange between Natural Wetlands and the Atmosphere Stephen C. Whalen · Environmental Engineering Science | 2005 | 754 |
| 33 | Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future David J. Spiegelhalter, Mike G Pearson, Ian A. Short · Science | 8 Sep 2011 | 716 |
| 34 | Widespread Climate Change in the Himalayas and Associated Changes in Local Ecosystems Uttam Babu Shrestha, Shiva Gautam, Kamaljit S. Bawa · PLoS ONE | 15 May 2012 | 709 |
| 35 | Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits J. M. Franklin, Harold L. Gibson, Ian R. Jonasson et al. | 2005 | 681 |
| 36 | Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change Myles R. Allen, Peter A. Stott, John F. B. Mitchell et al. · Nature | Oct 2000 | 666 |
| 37 | Land cover and land use classification performance of machine learning algorithms in a boreal landscape using Sentinel-2 data Abdulhakim M. Abdi · GIScience & Remote Sensing | 22 Aug 2019 | 649 |
| 38 | A Global Terrestrial Monitoring Network Integrating Tower Fluxes, Flask Sampling, Ecosystem Modeling and EOS Satellite Data Steve W. Running, Dennis Baldocchi, David P. Turner et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | Oct 1999 | 647 |
| 39 | Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges Michael C. Dietze, Andrew M. Fox, Lindsay M. Beck‐Johnson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 30 Jan 2018 | 633 |
| 40 | The Atmospheric Environment Yusaf Samiullah | 1990 | 623 |
| 41 | Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation Victor Gijsbers · International Studies in the Philosophy of Science | Jul 2009 | 598 |
| 42 | Misuses of Statistical Analysis in Climate Research Hans V. Storch | 1995 | 577 |
| 43 | Models as mediating instruments Margaret Morrison, Mary S. Morgan · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 21 Oct 1999 | 557 |
| 44 | Species Philip Kitcher · Philosophy of Science | Jun 1984 | 548 |
| 45 | On the direct effect of clouds and atmospheric particles on the productivity and structure of vegetation Michael L. Roderick, Graham D. Farquhar, Sandra L. Berry et al. · Oecologia | Sep 2001 | 542 |
| 46 | Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference. Gareth J. Nelson, Elliot Sober · Systematic Zoology | Sep 1989 | 541 |
| 47 | Extensions of "The Tragedy of the Commons" Garrett Hardin · Science | May 1998 | 525 |
| 48 | Drier summers cancel out the CO 2 uptake enhancement induced by warmer springs Alon Angert, Sebastien Christophe Biraud, C. Bonfils et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 25 Jul 2005 | 496 |
| 49 | CLEO: Science and Innovations Philip J.W. Hands, Damian J. Gardiner, Stephen Morris et al. · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics | 6 May 2012 | 487 |
| 50 | How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene Era? Paul J. Crutzen, Will Steffen · Climatic Change | 20 Nov 2003 | 468 |
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