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 James C. McWilliams sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 612 publications — 99th percentile
99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.
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 James C. McWilliams sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 131 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.
James C. McWilliams is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Key subfields include Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.
The research topics covered by McWilliams encompass Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.
Frequent collaborative coauthors in McWilliams's publications include Fayçal Kessouri, Lionel Renault, Daniele Bianchi, Pierre Damien, and Roy Barkan.
Publications by McWilliams have appeared in several venues, with notable frequency in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), and Ocean Modelling.
Some of the recent papers associated with McWilliams's research are:
McWilliams has contributed to book publications as well, including the work titled Quasi-linear Theory for Surface Wave-Current Interactions published by Springer International Publishing in 2022.
Awards received by McWilliams include membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2002 and fellowship at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2001.
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