World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Geoscience Data Journal
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Geoscience Data Journal

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 369 33 39 9
Environmental Sciences 423 44 42 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 94
Documents by Best Scientists*: 87
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 22
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.829
Impact Factor: 2.4

Top Publications

  • ERA5-HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis

    Claudia Di Napoli;Christopher Barnard;Christel Prudhomme;Christel Prudhomme;Hannah L. Cloke

    (2021)
    224 Citations
  • GESLA Version 3: A major update to the global higher‐frequency sea‐level dataset

    Unknown

    (2021)
    182 Citations
  • An updated global atmospheric paleo-reanalysis covering the last 400 years

    Veronika Valler;Veronika Valler;Jörg Franke;Jörg Franke;Yuri Brugnara;Yuri Brugnara;Stefan Brönnimann;Stefan Brönnimann

    (2021)
    98 Citations
  • Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900–1910 using citizen scientist volunteers

    Philip M. Craig;Ed Hawkins

    (2020)
    71 Citations
  • Global wave hindcast with Australian and Pacific Island Focus: From past to present

    Grant A. Smith;Mark Hemer;Diana Greenslade;Claire Trenham

    (2021)
    61 Citations
  • Historical tide gauge sea-level observations in Alicante and Santander (Spain) since the 19th century

    Marta Marcos;Marta Marcos;Bernat Puyol;Angel Amores;Begoña Pérez Gómez

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • A global drought monitoring system and dataset based on ERA5 reanalysis: A focus on crop‐growing regions

    (2022)
    41 Citations
  • An ensemble of daily simulated runoff data (1981–2099) under climate change conditions for 93 catchments in Switzerland (Hydro‐CH2018‐Runoff ensemble)

    Regula Isabelle Muelchi;Ole Rössler;Jan Schwanbeck;Rolf Weingartner

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • An updated long‐term homogenized daily temperature data set for Australia

    (2020)
    34 Citations

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