Global Warming

An interview with: Dr. Stephen Long August 2002		Dr. Stephen Long of the University of Illinois about talks about his highly cited work in global warming research. Dr. Long is the author of the paper ranked at #4 in our analysis of global warming research over the past decade, with 279 citations: "Modification of the response of photosynthetic productivity to rising temperature by atmospheric CO2 concentrations—has its importance been underestimated?" (Plant Cell and Environment 14[8]: 729-39, October 1991). [read]

An essay by: Professor David S. Jenkinson July 2002		Professor David S. Jenkinson discusses the paper ranked at #8 in our Special Topics analysis of global warming research over the past decade. The paper, "Model estimates of CO2 emissions from soil in response to global warming," (D.S. Jenkinson, D.E. Adams and A. Wild, Nature 351[6324]: 304-6, 23 May 1991), was cited 190 times at the time of the analysis, and presently has 206 citations. [read]

An interview with: Dr. Simon Tett July 2002		Dr. Simon Tett of the UK's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research discusses his work on modelling climate change, and the impact of his highly cited papers. Dr. Tett ranks among the top 20 researchers in the field of global warming over the past decade. His most-cited paper, "Climate response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols," (J.F.B. Mitchell, T.C. Johns, J.M. Gregory, S.F.B. Tett, Nature 376 [6540]: 501-4, 10 August 1995) ranks at #2 on our list, with 305 citations. [read]

An interview with: Dr. James Hurrell June 2002		Dr. James Hurrell of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, about his highly cited work in global warming research. In our Special Topics analysis of this field over the past decade, Dr. Hurrell is among the top 5 scientists, and is co-author of the #1 paper, "Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific," (Climate Dynamics 9 [6]: 303-19, March 1994). [read]

An interview with: Dr. Benjamin D. Santer June 2002		Dr. Benjamin Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California talks about his highly cited work in global warming research. Our analysis of the field over the past decade places Dr. Santer among the top 15 scientists. Dr. Santer is also a co-author on the #3 paper in our analysis, "Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model," (Climate Dynamics 8 [2]: 55-69, December 1992). [read]

An interview with: Dr. Thomas M. Smith May 2002		Dr. Thomas M. Smith of the University of Virginia talks about his highly cited work in global warming research. His paper, "The transient response of terrestrial carbon storage to a perturbed climate," (Nature 361[6412]: 523-6, 11 February 1993), was cited 93 times, placing it among the top 25 papers in our analysis of the past decade in global warming research. [read]

An essay by: Dr. Kevin Trenberth May 2002		Dr. Kevin Trenberth talks about his highly cited work in global warming. Our Special Topics analysis of global warming research over the past decade ranks Dr. Trenberth among the top 10 most-cited scientists in this particular area. His most-cited paper is also the #1 paper in the global warming analysis: "Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific," (Climate Dynamics 9 [6]: 303-19, March 1994). This paper had 343 citations at the time of the analysis, and currently has 365 citations in the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product. [read]

Commentary from the journal: *Climate Dynamics* April 2002		Professor W. Lawrence Gates, one of the executive editors of Climate Dynamics, provides a brief commentary about the status of this journal in global warming research. In our Special Topics analysis of global warming research over the past decade, Climate Dynamics ranks at #2 by total citations among the top 25 journals in this field. Climate Dynamics is also among the top 50 journals in the Geosciences field of the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product. [read]

An essay by: Dr. Jeff Amthor April 2002		Dr. Jeff Amthor discusses his paper "Respiration in a future, higher-[CO₂] world" (Plant, Cell and Environment 14 [1]: 13-20, January 1991). In the Special Topics analysis of global warming research over the past decade, this paper ranks at #12, with 147 citations. In the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product, Dr. Amthor’s work can be found in the field of Plant & Animal Science. [read]

An interview with: Dr. James Raich April 2002		Dr. James Raich of Iowa State University discusses his highly cited work in global warming research. In our analysis of research in this specialized field over the past decade, Dr. Raich ranks at #21. His most-cited paper, "The global carbon-dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate," (Tellus Series B—Chemical and Physical Meteorology 44 [2]: 81-99, April 1992), was cited 277 times at the time of the analysis, and now has close to 300 citations. [read]

Commentary by Stephen H. Schneider, Editor of: Climatic Change March 2002		In a recent Special Topics analysis of journals publishing papers on global warming in the past decade, Climatic Change ranks among the top five by total citations. Stephen H. Schneider, editor of Climatic Change, offers here a brief commentary on this journal’s standings in global warming research, and provides a copy of the journal’s editorial policy to illustrate his points. [read]

An essay by: Dr. Keith A. Kvenvolden March 2002		Dr. Keith A. Kvenvolden provides an overview of his career and insight into his highly cited work on gas hydrates in this Special Topics essay. Dr. Kvenvolden is the author of the paper ranked at #17 in our analysis of global warming research over the past decade. His paper, "Gas hydrates—geological perspective and global change," (Reviews of Geophysics 31 [2]: 173-87; May 1993) has been cited 113 times to date. Dr. Kvenvolden is currently a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, CA, where his geochemistry research encompasses petroleum, environmental, and global change issues. [read]

An interview with Chief Editor David Randall of *Journal of Climate* February 2002		David Randall, the Chief Editor for the Journal of Climate, talks with Special Topics about the citations this journal has earned in the specialized field of global warming research. In our analysis of journals publishing papers on global warming, Journal of Climate ranks at #6, with 35 papers cited a total of 599 times. [read]