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D-Index
88
Citations
22684
World Ranking
658
National Ranking
291

James P. Smith 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 P. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 723 publications — 99th percentile

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

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

James P. Smith 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 P. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

James P. Smith is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics: Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

James P. Smith's recent papers demonstrate a focus on hydrology, meteorology, and climate impacts. Notable publications include:

  • Assessing Compound Flooding From Landfalling Tropical Cyclones on the North Carolina Coast, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Urban development pattern's influence on extreme rainfall occurrences, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Flood frequency estimation and uncertainty in arid/semi-arid regions, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Evaluation of a Physics-Based Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Model for Risk Assessment, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with James P. Smith include Dev Niyogi, Mary Lynn Baeck, Pratiman Patel, Sajad Jamshidi, and Long Yang.

Their publications are often featured in venues such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Hydrology, and Earth's Future.

Best Publications

  • Radar hydrology: rainfall estimation.

    W. F. Krajewski;James A. Smith

  • Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston.

    Wei Zhang;Gabriele Villarini;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;James A. Smith

  • On the stationarity of annual flood peaks in the continental United States during the 20th century

    Gabriele Villarini;Francesco Serinaldi;James A. Smith;Witold F. Krajewski

  • Flood frequency analysis for nonstationary annual peak records in an urban drainage basin

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Francesco Serinaldi;Jerad Bales

  • An Intercomparison Study of NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates

    James A. Smith;Dong Jun Seo;Mary Lynn Baeck;Michael D. Hudlow

  • Flood peak distributions for the eastern United States

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith

  • Risk assessment of hurricane storm surge for New York City

    N Lin;Kerry Andrew Emanuel;J. A. Smith;E. Vanmarcke

  • Effect of bias adjustment and rain gauge data quality control on radar rainfall estimation

    Matthias Steiner;James A. Smith;Stephen J. Burges;Carlos V. Alonso

  • Use of Three-Dimensional Reflectivity Structure for Automated Detection and Removal of Nonprecipitating Echoes in Radar Data

    Matthias Steiner;James A. Smith

  • Hydrologic analysis of the Fort Collins, Colorado, flash flood of 1997

    F. L. Ogden;H. O. Sharif;S. U.S. Senarath;James A. Smith

  • Estimation of the mean field bias of radar rainfall estimates

    James A. Smith;Witold F. Krajewski

  • On the frequency of heavy rainfall for the Midwest of the United States

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Renato Vitolo

  • Application of a macroscale hydrologic model to estimate the water balance of the Arkansas-Red River Basin

    Fayez A. Abdulla;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Eric F. Wood;James A. Smith

  • A coupled energy transport and hydrological model for urban canopies evaluated using a wireless sensor network

    Zhi-Hua Wang;Zhi-Hua Wang;Elie Bou-Zeid;James A. Smith

  • Nested Mesoscale Large-Eddy Simulations with WRF: Performance in Real Test Cases

    Charles Talbot;Elie Bou-Zeid;Jim Smith

  • Estimation of Convective Rainfall from Lightning Observations

    Alberto Tapia;James A. Smith;Michael Dixon

  • Variability of Raindrop Size Distributions in a Squall Line and Implications for Radar Rainfall Estimation

    Remko Uijlenhoet;Matthias Steiner;James A. Smith

  • Catastrophic rainfall from an upslope thunderstorm in the central Appalachians: The Rapidan Storm of June 27, 1995

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Matthias Steiner;Andrew J. Miller

  • Ice Particle Interarrival Times Measured with a Fast FSSP

    P.R. Field;R. Wood;P.R.A. Brown;Paul H. Kaye

  • The Regional Hydrology of Extreme Floods in an Urbanizing Drainage Basin

    James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Julia E. Morrison;Paula Sturdevant-Rees

  • RADAR-Rainfall Uncertainties

    Witold F. Krajewski;Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Arie Kapteyn
Arie Kapteyn University of Southern California
James Banks
James Banks University of Manchester
Arthur van Soest
Arthur van Soest Tilburg University
Michael D. Hurd
Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation
Yaohui Zhao
Yaohui Zhao Peking University
Dana P. Goldman
Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California
Guillermina Jasso
Guillermina Jasso New York University
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Finis Welch
Finis Welch Texas A&M University
Duncan Thomas
Duncan Thomas Duke University

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