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Drew T. Shindell

Drew T. Shindell

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Environmental Sciences
USA
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
130
Citations
80096
World Ranking
78
National Ranking
32

Drew T. Shindell 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 Drew T. Shindell sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 436 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Drew T. Shindell 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 Drew T. Shindell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 130 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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 United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Drew T. Shindell is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work published in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Economics and Econometrics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their body of work spans several main topics, such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Several frequent co-authors have contributed notably alongside Shindell, including G. Faluvegi, Yuqiang Zhang, Luke Parsons, Jean-François Lamarque, and Kostas Tsigaridis.

Shindell has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • UNC Libraries
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • GeoHealth

Recent publications include:

  • "GISS-E2.1: Configurations and Climatology", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters", 2022, Science
  • "Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming", 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO 2 reduction beyond the Paris Commitment", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "CMIP6 Historical Simulations (1850-2014) With GISS-E2.1", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Drew T. Shindell has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), both awarded in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

    Tami C. Bond;Sarah J. Doherty;D. W. Fahey;Piers Forster

  • Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing

    Gunnar Myhre;Drew Shindell;Julia Pongratz

  • Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Michael E. Mann;Zhihua Zhang;Scott Rutherford;Raymond S. Bradley

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application

    J.-F. Lamarque;T. C. Bond;V. Eyring;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier

  • SOLAR INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE

    L. J. Gray;L. J. Gray;J. Beer;M. Geller;J.D. Haigh

  • Efficacy of climate forcings

    J. Hansen;J. Hansen;M. Sato;R. Ruedy;L. Nazarenko

  • Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

    Drew Shindell;Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna;Elisabetta Vignati;Rita van Dingenen

  • Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales:a multimodel evaluation

    F. Dentener;J. Drevet;Jean-François Lamarque;Isabelle Bey

  • Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

    Bruce M. Campbell;Douglas J. Beare;Elena M. Bennett;Jason M. Hall-Spencer

  • Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone

    D. S. Stevenson;F. J. Dentener;M. G. Schultz;K. Ellingsen

  • Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions

    Drew T. Shindell;Greg Faluvegi;Dorothy M. Koch;Gavin A. Schmidt

  • Present-Day Atmospheric Simulations Using GISS ModelE: Comparison to In Situ, Satellite, and Reanalysis Data

    Gavin A. Schmidt;Reto Ruedy;James E. Hansen;Igor Aleinov

  • Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

    Drew T. Shindell;Gavin A. Schmidt;Michael E. Mann;David Rind

  • Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year

    Eric J. Steig;David P. Schneider;Scott D. Rutherford;Michael E. Mann

  • Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century

    O. Pechony;D. T. Shindell

  • Mitigation Pathways Compatible with 1.5°C in the Context of Sustainable Development

    Joeri Rogelj;Drew Shindell;Kejun Jiang;Solomone Fifita

  • Increased polar stratospheric ozone losses and delayed eventual recovery owing to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations

    Drew T. Shindell;David Rind;Patrick Lonergan

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

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

  • Solar cycle variability, ozone, and climate

    Drew Shindell;David Rind;Nambeth Balachandran;Judith Lean

  • Global Distribution and Trends of Tropospheric Ozone: An Observation-Based Review

    O. R. Cooper;D. D. Parrish;J. Ziemke;M. Cupeiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Francois Lamarque
Jean-Francois Lamarque National Center for Atmospheric Research
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Apostolos Voulgarakis Imperial College London
Gavin A. Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Gregory Faluvegi
Gregory Faluvegi Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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