2026 Boris Dewitte: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	48	5412	5187	5	5	200	14222

Boris Dewitte 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 Boris Dewitte sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 200 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Boris Dewitte 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 Boris Dewitte sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Boris Dewitte is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA) in Chile. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The core subfields of their work include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology.

Boris Dewitte has authored numerous papers, including recent publications such as:

Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America (2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion (2021, Progress In Oceanography)
A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies (2021, Science)

Frequent co-authors with whom Boris Dewitte has collaborated include Véronique Garçon, Ivonne Montès, Aurélien Paulmier, Carolina Parada, and Marcel Ramos.

The scientist's work is frequently published in several venues, notably:

Frontiers in Marine Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
International Journal of Climatology
Scientific Reports

Best Publications

El Niño in a changing climate

Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

1883
Citations
El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

1171
Citations
Understanding ENSO Diversity

Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

1157
Citations
ENSO regimes: Reinterpreting the canonical and Modoki El Niño

Ken Takahashi;A. Montecinos;Katerina Goubanova;Boris Dewitte

725
Citations
Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

705
Citations
Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Boris Dewitte;Lixin Wu

618
Citations
Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

591
Citations
Natural and human-induced hypoxia and consequences for coastal areas: synthesis and future development

J. Zhang;D. Gilbert;A. Gooday;L. Levin

532
Citations
ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

Sang Wook Yeh;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Seung Ki Min;Michael J. McPhaden

508
Citations
Eddy activity in the four major upwelling systems from satellite altimetry (1992-2007)

Alexis Chaigneau;Gérard Eldin;Boris Dewitte

383
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

344
Citations
Coastal cooling and increased productivity in the main upwelling zone off Peru since the mid-twentieth century

Dimitri Gutiérrez;Ioanna Bouloubassi;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Sara Purca

232
Citations
Strong and moderate nonlinear El Niño regimes

Ken Takahashi;Boris Dewitte

183
Citations
System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

Grant C. Pitcher;Arturo Aguirre-Velarde;Denise Breitburg;Jorge Cardich

157
Citations
A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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152
Citations
Statistical downscaling of sea-surface wind over the Peru–Chile upwelling region: diagnosing the impact of climate change from the IPSL-CM4 model

Katerina Goubanova;Vincent Echevin;Boris Dewitte;Francis Codron

150
Citations
Dynamics of seasonal and interannual variability of the Peru‐Chile Undercurrent

Oscar Pizarro;Gary Shaffer;Boris Dewitte;Marcel Ramos

146
Citations
Regionalization of rainfall over the Peruvian Pacific slope and coast

Pedro Rau;Luc Bourrel;David Labat;Pablo Melo

140
Citations
On the Relationship between the North Pacific Climate Variability and the Central Pacific El Niño

Sang-Wook Yeh;Xin Wang;Chunzai Wang;Boris Dewitte

125
Citations
Is Precipitation a Good Metric for Model Performance

Francisco J. Tapiador;Rémy Roca;Anthony Del Genio;Boris Dewitte

124
Citations
Change in El Niño flavours over 1958–2008: Implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Peru

Boris Dewitte;J. Vazquez-Cuervo;Katerina Goubanova;Séréna Illig

122
Citations
Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

22
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University

Véronique Garçon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Ken Takahashi University of Sydney

Wenju Cai Ocean University of China

Soon-Il An Yonsei University

Dimitri Gutiérrez Cayetano Heredia University

Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa

Frédéric Frappart Bordeaux Sciences Agro

Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

External Links

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