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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 74 1317 1250 106 102 221 31169

Ed Hawkins publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ed Hawkins between 2001 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ed Hawkins published across 25 years, from 2001 to 2025, averaging 12.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 39 publications in 2023. 41 of the 317 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 39. Peak 39 publications in 2023. 2001: 6 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 0 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 2 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 21 publications 2014: 20 publications 2015: 16 publications 2016: 23 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 22 publications 2020: 23 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 39 publications 2024: 24 publications 2025: 17 publications
2001 2025

317 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ed Hawkins: publications per year, 2001 to 2025
Year Publications
2001 6
2002 6
2003 4
2004 6
2005 1
2006 0
2007 1
2008 2
2009 7
2010 3
2011 12
2012 6
2013 21
2014 20
2015 16
2016 23
2017 23
2018 7
2019 22
2020 23
2021 10
2022 18
2023 39
2024 24
2025 17
Total 317
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Ed Hawkins 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 Ed Hawkins sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 221–230 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 221 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263 221
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Ed Hawkins 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 Ed Hawkins sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 74 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70 74
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Ed Hawkins is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans broadly across environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

Their publication record includes significant contributions in the areas of climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and climate change policy and economics. Their work also addresses climate change and health impacts as well as oceanographic and atmospheric processes and species distribution relative to climate change.

Ed Hawkins has published extensively, with papers in several recognized venues. Among recent papers are:

  • Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: The environmental dependence of galaxy star formation rates near clusters, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Accelerated increases in global and Asian summer monsoon precipitation from future aerosol reductions, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ed Hawkins include Rowan Sutton, Rob Allan, Gilbert P. Compo, Clive Wilkinson, and Manoj Joshi. These collaborations reflect an ongoing engagement with key researchers in atmospheric and climate sciences.

Publication venues for their work are varied, with a concentration in several journals and platforms:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscience Data Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters

The scope of Ed Hawkins' research highlights a strong emphasis on analyzing and modeling climate systems and their variability, with particular attention paid to understanding the dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic processes, and their implications for climate change and its socioeconomic impacts.

Best Publications

  • The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions

    Edward Hawkins;Rowan Timothy Sutton

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Global risk of deadly heat

    Camilo Mora;Bénédicte Dousset;Iain R. Caldwell;Farrah E. Powell

  • The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change

    Ed Hawkins;Rowan T. Sutton

  • The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: correlation functions, peculiar velocities and the matter density of the Universe

    Edward Hawkins;Stephen J. Maddox;Shaun Cole;Ofer Lahav

  • Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

    Laura C. Slivinski;Laura C. Slivinski;Gilbert P. Compo;Gilbert P. Compo;Jeffrey S. Whitaker;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models.

    Thomas R. Anderson;Ed Hawkins;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The environmental dependence of galaxy star formation rates near clusters

    Ian Lewis;Michael L. Balogh;Roberto De Propris;Warrick J. Couch

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

    Camilo Mora;Daniele Spirandelli;Erik C. Franklin;John Lynham

  • The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the dependence of galaxy clustering on luminosity and spectral type

    Peder Norberg;Carlton Baugh;Edward Hawkins;Stephen J. Maddox

  • Time of emergence of climate signals

    Ed Hawkins;Rowan Sutton

  • Galaxy ecology: groups and low-density environments in the SDSS and 2dFGRS

    Michael L. Balogh;Vince Eke;Christopher J. Miller;Ian Lewis

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: luminosity dependence of galaxy clustering

    Peder Norberg;Carlton Baugh;Edward Hawkins;Stephen J. Maddox

  • Partitioning climate projection uncertainty with multiple large ensembles and CMIP5/6

    Flavio Lehner;Flavio Lehner;Clara Deser;Nicola Maher;Jochem Marotzke

  • Sea ice decline and 21st century trans‐Arctic shipping routes

    Nat Melia;Keith Haines;Ed Hawkins

  • Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

    John C. Fyfe;Gerald A. Meehl;Matthew H. England;Michael E. Mann

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change

    Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Matthew Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
John A. Peacock
John A. Peacock University of Edinburgh
Bruce A. Peterson
Bruce A. Peterson Australian National University
George Efstathiou
George Efstathiou University of Cambridge
Karl Glazebrook
Karl Glazebrook Swinburne University of Technology
Chris A. Collins
Chris A. Collins Liverpool John Moores University
Shaun Cole
Shaun Cole Durham University
Peder Norberg
Peder Norberg Durham University
Matthew Colless
Matthew Colless Australian National University

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