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Apostolos Voulgarakis

Apostolos Voulgarakis

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
17330
World Ranking
4372
National Ranking
332

Apostolos Voulgarakis 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 Apostolos Voulgarakis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 148 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Apostolos Voulgarakis 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 Apostolos Voulgarakis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Apostolos Voulgarakis is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science. They have contributed extensively to topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their publication record includes work in several frequent venues, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Apostolos Voulgarakis include:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017 (2020) published in NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (2020) published in Geoscientific model development
  • Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning (2020) published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Climate drivers of global wildfire burned area (2022) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Global sensitivity analysis of chemistry-climate model budgets of tropospheric ozone and OH: exploring model diversity (2020) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors with whom Apostolos Voulgarakis has collaborated include:

  • Matthew Kasoar
  • Manolis Grillakis
  • Anastasios Rovithakis
  • Gunnar Myhre
  • Jean-François Lamarque

Their work focuses broadly on understanding the interactions between atmospheric chemistry, climate processes, and ecosystem behaviors. Studies around fire effects and vegetation dynamics form significant components of their research portfolio, alongside investigations into atmospheric ozone, aerosols, and climate variability.

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Configuration and Assessment of the GISS ModelE2 Contributions to the CMIP5 Archive

    Gavin A. Schmidt;Max Kelley;Larissa Nazarenko;Reto Ruedy

  • Pre-industrial to end 21st century projections of tropospheric ozone from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    P. J. Young;P. J. Young;P. J. Young;A. T. Archibald;K. W. Bowman;J.-F. Lamarque

  • Tropospheric ozone changes, radiative forcing and attribution to emissions in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    D. S. Stevenson;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young;Vaishali Naik;Jean-Francois Lamarque

  • The Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP): overview and description of models, simulations and climate diagnostics

    J. F. Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell;B Josse;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young

  • Radiative forcing in the ACCMIP historical and future climate simulations

    D.T. Shindell;J.-F. Lamarque;M. Schulz;M. Flanner

  • The status and challenge of global fire modelling

    Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

  • Preindustrial to present-day changes in tropospheric hydroxyl radical and methane lifetime from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    Vaishali Naik;A. Voulgarakis;Arlene M. Fiore;L. W. Horowitz

  • Analysis of Present Day and Future OH and Methane Lifetime in the ACCMIP Simulations

    A. Voulgarakis;A. Voulgarakis;V. Naik;J.F. Lamarque;D.T. Shindell

  • El Nino and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia

    Miriam E. Marlier;Ruth S. DeFries;Apostolos Voulgarakis;Patrick L. Kinney

  • Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 2: The Troposphere

    F. M. O'Connor;C. E. Johnson;O. Morgenstern;O. Morgenstern;N. L. Abraham

  • Fast and slow precipitation responses to individual climate forcers: a PDRMIP multimodel study.

    B. H. Samset;G. Myhre;P. M. Forster;Ø. Hodnebrog

  • The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

    Sam S. Rabin;Sam S. Rabin;Joe R. Melton;Gitta Lasslop;Dominique Bachelet

  • Understanding Rapid Adjustments to Diverse Forcing Agents

    C. J. Smith;R. J. Kramer;G. Myhre;P. M. Forster

  • Rapid adjustments cause weak surface temperature response to increased black carbon concentrations

    Camilla Weum Stjern;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;Gunnar Myhre;Piers M. Forster

  • Interactive ozone and methane chemistry in GISS-E2 historical and future climate simulations

    D. T. Shindell;O. Pechony;A. Voulgarakis;A. Voulgarakis;G. Faluvegi

  • CMIP5 historical simulations (1850–2012) with GISS ModelE2

    Ron L. Miller;Ron L. Miller;Gavin A. Schmidt;Larissa S. Nazarenko;Nick Tausnev

  • PDRMIP: A Precipitation Driver and Response Model Intercomparison Project, Protocol and preliminary results.

    G. Myhre;P. M. Forster;B. H. Samset;Ø. Hodnebrog

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

  • Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Paul J. Durack;Andrew Slater;Philip Cameron-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Jean-Francois Lamarque
Jean-Francois Lamarque National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gregory Faluvegi
Gregory Faluvegi Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Paul Young
Paul Young Lancaster University
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Alf Kirkevåg
Alf Kirkevåg Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds

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