2026 James L. Foster: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	54	4046	3870	1542	1423	199	10582

James L. Foster 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 James L. Foster sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 199 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

James L. Foster 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 James L. Foster sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

James L. Foster is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research activity primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several interconnected subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's recent scholarly contributions include the publication titled Pediatric Oncology Knowledge Mobilization in Canada: An Environmental Scan Protocol (Preprint), published in 2025 in the journal JMIR Research Protocols.

Their body of work covers multiple main topics related to oncology and patient care, including:

Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy

James L. Foster has frequently collaborated with several coauthors throughout their research, which include:

Emily K. Drake
Catherine Foulem
Ekaterini Damoulianos
Stephanie Reid
Pamela M. Cossette

Their publications primarily appear in JMIR Research Protocols, reflecting a concentration of work published in this venue.

Best Publications

Nimbus-7 SMMR Derived Global Snow Cover Parameters

A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall

897
Citations
A prototype AMSR-E global snow area and snow depth algorithm

R.E. Kelly;A.T. Chang;Leung Tsang;J.L. Foster

696
Citations
Quantifying the uncertainty in passive microwave snow water equivalent observations

James L Foster;ChaoJiao Sun;ChaoJiao Sun;Jeffrey Walker;Richard J Kelly;Richard J Kelly

457
Citations
A review of global satellite-derived snow products

Allan Frei;Marco Tedesco;Shihyan Lee;James Foster

366
Citations
Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

Philip C. Reid;Renata E. Hari;Grégory Beaugrand;David M. Livingstone

362
Citations
Comparison of snow mass estimates from a prototype passive microwave snow algorithm, a revised algorithm and a snow depth climatology

J.L. Foster;A.T.C. Chang;D.K. Hall

330
Citations
Development and evaluation of a cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product

Dorothy K. Hall;George A. Riggs;James L. Foster;Sujay V. Kumar

320
Citations
Winter 2009–2010: A case study of an extreme Arctic Oscillation event

Judah Cohen;James Foster;Mathew Barlow;Kazuyuki Saito;Kazuyuki Saito

266
Citations
Assessment of Snow-Cover Mapping Accuracy in a Variety of Vegetation-Cover Densities in Central Alaska

D.K. Hall;J.L. Foster;D.L. Verbyla;A.G. Klein

224
Citations
Snow water equivalent estimation by microwave radiometry

A.T.C. Chang;J.L. Foster;D.K. Hall;A. Rango

223
Citations
An overview of passive microwave snow research and results

J. L. Foster;D. K. Hall;A. T. C. Chang;A. Rango

208
Citations
Accuracy and Resolution of ALOS Interferometry: Vector Deformation Maps of the Father's Day Intrusion at Kilauea

D.T. Sandwell;D. Myer;R. Mellors;M. Shimada

206
Citations
Snow Cover and Snow Mass Intercomparisons of General Circulation Models and Remotely Sensed Datasets

James Foster;Glen Liston;Randy Koster;Richard Essery

198
Citations
Mitigating atmospheric noise for InSAR using a high resolution weather model

J. Foster;B. Brooks;T. Cherubini;C. Shacat

198
Citations
The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Downdip rupture limit revealed by space geodesy

Xiaopeng Tong;David Sandwell;Karen Luttrell;Benjamin Brooks

173
Citations
A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer satellite data

James L. Foster;Dorothy K. Hall;John B. Eylander;George A. Riggs

170
Citations
The Utilization of Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers for Monitoring Snowpack Properties

A. Rango;A. T. C. Chang;J. L. Foster

159
Citations
Snow Cover and Temperature Relationships in North America and Eurasia

James Foster;Manfred Owe;Albert Rango

155
Citations
Development of a technique to assess snow-cover mapping errors from space

D.K. Hall;J.L. Foster;V.V. Salomonson;A.G. Klein

154
Citations
January 30, 1997 eruptive event on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, as monitored by continuous GPS

Susan Owen;Paul Segall;Michael Lisowski;Asta Miklius

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy K. Hall Goddard Space Flight Center

Alfred T. C. Chang Goddard Space Flight Center

Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture

Dorothy K. Hall Langley Research Center

David A. Robinson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center

Judah Cohen MIT

Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Son V. Nghiem California Institute of Technology

Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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