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Douglas R. Worsnop

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Environmental Sciences
Finland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
169
Citations
116544
World Ranking
14
National Ranking
2

Douglas R. Worsnop 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 Douglas R. Worsnop sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 781 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Douglas R. Worsnop 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 Douglas R. Worsnop sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 169 D-Index — 100th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Finland Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Douglas R. Worsnop is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Spectroscopy. This multifaceted expertise is evident through numerous publications across these domains.

Their research covers key topics such as Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies.

Douglas R. Worsnop's recent notable publications include:

  • Rapid growth of new atmospheric particles by nitric acid and ammonia condensation, 2020, Nature
  • Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • A chemical cocktail during the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, China: Insights from six-year aerosol particle composition measurements during the Chinese New Year holiday, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Seasonal Characteristics of New Particle Formation and Growth in Urban Beijing, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Is reducing new particle formation a plausible solution to mitigate particulate air pollution in Beijing and other Chinese megacities?, 2020, Faraday Discussions

Their work frequently appears in publication venues such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Science & Technology, Atmospheric measurement techniques, and Nature Geoscience.

Douglas R. Worsnop collaborates extensively with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Lubna Dada, Xu-Cheng He, and Federico Bianchi.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2007 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2005.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere

    J. L. Jimenez;M. R. Canagaratna;N. M. Donahue;A. S. H. Prevot

  • Field-Deployable, High-Resolution, Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    Peter F. DeCarlo;Joel R. Kimmel;Achim Trimborn;Megan J. Northway

  • A large source of low-volatility secondary organic aerosol

    Mikael Ehn;Joel A. Thornton;Einhard Kleist;Mikko Sipila

  • Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer

    M. R. Canagaratna;J. T. Jayne;J. L. Jimenez;J. D. Allan

  • Development of an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Size and Composition Analysis of Submicron Particles

    John T. Jayne;Danna C. Leard;Xuefeng Zhang;Paul Davidovits

  • O/C and OM/OC Ratios of Primary, Secondary, and Ambient Organic Aerosols with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    Allison C. Aiken;Peter F. DeCarlo;Jesse H. Kroll;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • Interpretation of organic components from Positive Matrix Factorization of aerosol mass spectrometric data

    I. M. Ulbrich;M. R. Canagaratna;Q. Zhang;D. R. Worsnop

  • Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation

    Jasper Kirkby;Joachim Curtius;João Almeida;João Almeida;Eimear Dunne

  • Direct observations of atmospheric aerosol nucleation.

    Markku Kulmala;Jenni Kontkanen;Heikki Junninen;Katrianne Lehtipalo

  • Carbon oxidation state as a metric for describing the chemistry of atmospheric organic aerosol

    Jesse H. Kroll;Neil M. Donahue;Jose L. Jimenez;Sean H. Kessler

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation from anthropogenic air pollution: Rapid and higher than expected

    Rainer Volkamer;Rainer Volkamer;Jose L. Jimenez;Federico San Martini;Federico San Martini;Katja Dzepina

  • Particle Morphology and Density Characterization by Combined Mobility and Aerodynamic Diameter Measurements. Part 1: Theory

    Peter F. DeCarlo;Jay G. Slowik;Douglas R. Worsnop;Paul Davidovits

  • Ambient aerosol sampling using the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    Jose L. Jimenez;Jose L. Jimenez;John T. Jayne;Quan Shi;Charles E. Kolb

  • Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid-amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere

    Joao Almeida;Joao Almeida;Siegfried Schobesberger;Andreas Kürten;Ismael K. Ortega

  • Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    N.L. Ng;M.R. Canagaratna;Q. Zhang;Q. Zhang;J.L. Jimenez

  • Elemental ratio measurements of organic compounds using aerosol mass spectrometry: characterization, improved calibration, and implications

    M. R. Canagaratna;J. L. Jimenez;J. H. Kroll;Q. Chen

  • Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOM) from Gas-Phase Autoxidation Involving Peroxy Radicals: A Key Contributor to Atmospheric Aerosol

    Federico Bianchi;Theo Kurtén;Matthieu Riva;Claudia Mohr

  • Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

    Manish Shrivastava;Christopher D. Cappa;Jiwen Fan;Allen H. Goldstein

  • An Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) for Routine Monitoring of the Composition and Mass Concentrations of Ambient Aerosol

    N. L. Ng;S. C. Herndon;A. Trimborn;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Understanding atmospheric organic aerosols via factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometry: a review

    Qi Zhang;Jose L. Jimenez;Jose L. Jimenez;Manjula R. Canagaratna;Ingrid M. Ulbrich

  • An amorphous solid state of biogenic secondary organic aerosol particles

    Annele Virtanen;Jorma Joutsensaari;Thomas Koop;Jonna Kannosto

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Heikki Junninen
Heikki Junninen University of Tartu
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan Duplissy
Jonathan Duplissy University of Helsinki
Mikael Ehn
Mikael Ehn University of Helsinki
Siegfried Schobesberger
Siegfried Schobesberger University of Eastern Finland
Katrianne Lehtipalo
Katrianne Lehtipalo University of Helsinki

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