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D-Index
64
Citations
16341
World Ranking
2304
National Ranking
90

John C. Fyfe 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 John C. Fyfe sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 163 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John C. Fyfe 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 John C. Fyfe sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John C. Fyfe is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics John C. Fyfe has worked on include Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, COVID-19 Impact on Air Quality, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Fyfe's recent papers demonstrate a range of climate and earth system science subjects. Notable publications include:

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Arctic Sea Ice in CMIP6, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

John C. Fyfe frequently collaborates with the following researchers:

  • Neil C. Swart
  • Nathan P. Gillett
  • Michael Sigmond
  • Nicole S. Lovenduski
  • Benjamin D. Santer

Their contributions have been published in various venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Recent climate change in the Arctic and its impact on contaminant pathways and interpretation of temporal trend data.

    R.W. Macdonald;T. Harner;J. Fyfe

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject

    J. M. Slingo;K. R. Sperber;J. S. Boyle;J.-P. Ceron

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

    Claudia Tebaldi;Kevin Debeire;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Erich Fischer

  • The Arctic and Antarctic oscillations and their projected changes under global warming

    J. C. Fyfe;G. J. Boer;G. M. Flato

  • Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability

    Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;John C. Fyfe;Shang-Ping Xie;Xingang Dai

  • Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

    Benjamin D. Santer;Céline Bonfils;Jeffrey F. Painter;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Observed and simulated changes in the Southern Hemisphere surface westerly wind-stress

    N. C. Swart;J. C. Fyfe

  • Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

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

  • Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years

    John C. Fyfe;Nathan P. Gillett;Francis W. Zwiers

  • Empirical Orthogonal Functions: The Medium is the Message

    Adam H. Monahan;John C. Fyfe;Maarten H. P. Ambaum;David B. Stephenson

  • Influence of internal variability on Arctic sea-ice trends

    Neil C. Swart;John C. Fyfe;Ed Hawkins;Jennifer E. Kay

  • The Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System. Part I: Models and Initialization

    William J. Merryfield;Woo Sung Lee;George J. Boer;Viatcheslav V. Kharin

  • Impact of Polar Ozone Depletion on Subtropical Precipitation

    Sarah M. Kang;L. M. Polvani;J. C. Fyfe;M. Sigmond

  • The Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project (PAMIP) contribution to CMIP6: investigating the causes and consequences of polar amplification

    Doug M. Smith;James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Judah Cohen

  • Changes in winter cyclone frequencies and strengths simulated in enhanced greenhouse warming experiments: results from the models participating in the IPCC diagnostic exercise

    Steven J. Lambert;John C. Fyfe

  • Twenty-five winters of unexpected Eurasian cooling unlikely due to Arctic sea-ice loss

    Kelly E. McCusker;John C. Fyfe;Michael Sigmond

  • Simulated changes in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere winds and currents

    John C. Fyfe;Oleg A. Saenko

  • Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States

    John C. Fyfe;Chris Derksen;Lawrence Mudryk;Gregory M. Flato

  • Annular mode changes in the CMIP5 simulations

    N. P. Gillett;J. C. Fyfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nicole S. Lovenduski
Nicole S. Lovenduski University of Colorado Boulder
Gregory M. Flato
Gregory M. Flato University of Victoria
Michael Sigmond
Michael Sigmond Environment and Climate Change Canada
Céline Bonfils
Céline Bonfils Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Carl A. Mears
Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Matthew H. England
Matthew H. England University of New South Wales
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research

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