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Christopher J. Zappa

Christopher J. Zappa

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 32 8593 7984 2811 2489 140 4813

Christopher J. Zappa publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Christopher J. Zappa between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Christopher J. Zappa published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 7.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2014. 26 of the 223 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2014. 1997: 2 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 9 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 12 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 12 publications
1997 2025

223 publications in total across all disciplines

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Christopher J. Zappa: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 2
1998 1
1999 1
2000 0
2001 1
2002 2
2003 3
2004 7
2005 1
2006 9
2007 6
2008 8
2009 5
2010 11
2011 12
2012 14
2013 11
2014 16
2015 5
2016 12
2017 12
2018 8
2019 8
2020 15
2021 11
2022 8
2023 8
2024 14
2025 12
Total 223
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Christopher J. Zappa publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher J. Zappa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 138–147 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 140 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491 140
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Christopher J. Zappa D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher J. Zappa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 32 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278 32
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Christopher J. Zappa is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers several subfields within Earth and Planetary Sciences, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

They address a range of scientific topics, with significant attention to:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Christopher J. Zappa's recent publications include:

  • Using Ship-Deployed High-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Study of Ocean Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Guide to best practices to study the ocean's surface., 2021, IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)
  • Observations of submesoscale eddy-driven heat transport at an ice shelf calving front, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Air-Sea Trace Gas Fluxes: Direct and Indirect Measurements, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nathan J. M. Laxague
  • James B. Edson
  • Carson R. Witte
  • Una Kim Miller
  • Ajit Subramaniam

Christopher J. Zappa has published multiple articles in various well-known scientific journals. Key publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Scaling the gas transfer velocity and hydraulic geometry in streams and small rivers

    Peter A. Raymond;Christopher J. Zappa;David Butman;Thomas L. Bott

  • Environmental turbulent mixing controls on air-water gas exchange in marine and aquatic systems

    Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Peter A. Raymond;James B. Edson

  • The Coupled Boundary Layers and Air–Sea Transfer Experiment in Low Winds

    James Edson;Timothy Crawford;Jerry Crescenti;Tom Farrar

  • Air‐sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific

    Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

  • Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river

    Robin E. Bell;Winnie Chu;Winnie Chu;Jonathan Kingslake;Jonathan Kingslake;Indrani Das

  • Variation in Surface Turbulence and the Gas Transfer Velocity over a Tidal Cycle in a Macro-tidal Estuary

    Christopher J. Zappa;Peter A. Raymond;Eugene A. Terray;Wade R. McGillis

  • Defining and quantifying microscale wave breaking with infrared imagery

    A. T. Jessup;Christopher J. Zappa;Harry Yeh

  • Air–Sea Interactions from Westerly Wind Bursts During the November 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean

    James N. Moum;Simon P. de Szoeke;William D. Smyth;James B. Edson

  • Retrieval of short ocean wave slope using polarimetric imaging

    Christopher J Zappa;Michael L Banner;Michael L Banner;Howard Schultz;Andres Corrada-Emmanuel

  • Sea surface microlayer in a changing ocean – A perspective

    Oliver Wurl;Werner Ekau;William M. Landing;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Transfer Across the Air-Sea Interface

    Christoph S. Garbe;Anna Rutgersson;Jacqueline Boutin;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw

  • Direct covariance measurement of CO2 gas transfer velocity during the 2008 Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment: Wind speed dependency

    J. B. Edson;C. W. Fairall;L. Bariteau;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Scalar flux profile relationships over the open ocean

    James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Christopher J. Zappa;J. A. Ware;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis

  • A Parameter Model of Gas Exchange for the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone

    B. Loose;Wade R. McGillis;D. Perovich;Christopher J. Zappa

  • Influence of rain on air-sea gas exchange: Lessons from a model ocean

    David T. Ho;David T. Ho;Christopher J. Zappa;Christopher J. Zappa;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Larry F. Bliven

  • Basal channels drive active surface hydrology and transverse ice shelf fracture

    Christine F. Dow;Won Sang Lee;Jamin S. Greenbaum;Chad A. Greene

  • Rain‐induced turbulence and air‐sea gas transfer

    Christopher J. Zappa;David T. Ho;Wade R. McGillis;Wade R. McGillis;Michael L. Banner

  • Constraining Southern Ocean Air-Sea-Ice Fluxes Through Enhanced Observations

    Sebastiaan Swart;Sebastiaan Swart;Sarah T. Gille;Bruno Delille;Simon Josey

  • An overview of sea state conditions and air-sea fluxes during RaDyO

    Christopher J. Zappa;Michael L. Banner;Howard Schultz;Johannes R. Gemmrich

  • Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change

    Donna D W Hauser;Alex V Whiting;Andrew R Mahoney;John Goodwin

  • Air-sea CO2 exchange in the equatorial Pacific : Air-Sea Exchange

    Wade R. Mcgillis;James B. Edson;Christopher J. Zappa;Jonathan D. Ware

Frequent Co-Authors

Wade R. McGillis
Wade R. McGillis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
James B. Edson
James B. Edson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael L. Banner
Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University
David T. Ho
David T. Ho University of Hawaii System
J. E. Hare
J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Byron Blomquist
Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder

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