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115
Citations
43279
World Ranking
160
National Ranking
74

Alan Robock publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Robock sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 1,164 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Alan Robock D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Robock sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alan Robock is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Political Science and International Relations, Oceanography, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in Robock's work include Nuclear Issues and Defense, Climate Change and Geoengineering, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Radioactive contamination and transfer, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Robock has published extensively in various venues with multiple papers in Harvard Dataverse, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Reviews of Geophysics, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their recent papers include:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021) published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection (2022) published in Nature Food
  • A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reaching 1.5 and 2.0 °C global surface temperature targets using stratospheric aerosol geoengineering (2020) published in Earth System Dynamics
  • Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues (2022) published in Bulletin of Volcanology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robock on research projects include Michael Mills, Anja Schmidt, Brian Zambri, Lili Xia, and O. B. Toon.

Robock's work has been recognized by professional societies with fellowships awarded as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Volcanic eruptions and climate

    Alan Robock

  • The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system

    Kenneth E. Mitchell;Dag Lohmann;Paul R. Houser;Eric F. Wood

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

    W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

  • The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

    Alan Robock;Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Govindarajalu Srinivasan;Jared K. Entin

  • Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core-based index for climate models

    Chaochao Gao;Alan Robock;Caspar Ammann

  • Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

    Brian A. Cosgrove;Brian A. Cosgrove;Dag Lohmann;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Paul R. Houser

  • Temporal and spatial scales of observed soil moisture variations in the extratropics

    Jared K. Entin;Alan Robock;Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Steven E. Hollinger

  • Global Warming and Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent

    Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Alan Robock;Ronald J. Stouffer;John E. Walsh

  • Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor

    Brian J. Soden;Richard T. Wetherald;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Alan Robock

  • Steady decline of east Asian monsoon winds, 1969–2000: Evidence from direct ground measurements of wind speed

    Ming Xu;Ming Xu;Chih Pei Chang;Chih Pei Chang;Congbin Fu;Ye Qi

  • Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections

    Alan Robock;Luke Oman;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

  • Radiative forcing from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption

    Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Ingo Kirchner;Alan Robock;Hans-F. Graf

  • The Volcanic Signal in Surface Temperature Observations.

    Alan Robock;Jianping Mao

  • The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

    Ben Kravitz;Alan Robock;Olivier Boucher;Hauke Schmidt

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • 20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea

    Alan Robock

  • Scales of temporal and spatial variability of midlatitude soil moisture

    Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Alan Robock;Nina A. Speranskaya;C. Adam Schlosser

  • Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering.

    Alan Robock;Allison Marquardt;Ben Kravitz;Georgiy L. Stenchikov;Georgiy L. Stenchikov

  • Winter warming from large volcanic eruptions

    Alan Robock;Jianping Mao

  • An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols.

    Philip J Rasch;Simone Tilmes;Richard P Turco;Alan Robock

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgiy L. Stenchikov
Georgiy L. Stenchikov King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ben Kravitz
Ben Kravitz Indiana University
Owen B. Toon
Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder
Luke D. Oman
Luke D. Oman Goddard Space Flight Center
Lifeng Luo
Lifeng Luo Michigan State University
Simone Tilmes
Simone Tilmes National Center for Atmospheric Research
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University

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