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97
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432
National Ranking
197

John Walsh 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 Walsh sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 545 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Walsh 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 Walsh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

John Walsh is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing numerous contributions in Environmental Science. Within these domains, their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Sociology and Political Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Climate variability and models, Cryospheric studies and observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Recent publications by John Walsh include these notable papers:

  • Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • The Record Low Bering Sea Ice Extent in 2018: Context, Impacts, and an Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change (2020) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Arctic Report Card 2020: Surface Air Temperature (2020) published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • The Arctic (2020) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Arctic (2021) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John Walsh include Uma S. Bhatt, Richard Thoman, Peter A. Bieniek, Thomas J. Ballinger, and Rick Lader.

The scientist's work is commonly published in several key venues, including:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Climate
  • Atmosphere
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

In addition to journal articles, John Walsh has a book publication titled Emily Dickinson in Love released by Rutgers University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE OF RECENT CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN HIGH-LATITUDE ENVIRONMENT

    M. C. Serreze;J. E. Walsh;F. S. Chapin;T. Osterkamp

  • Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate

    P C D Milly;R T Wetherald;K A Dunne;T L Delworth

  • Recent Variations of Sea Ice and Air Temperature in High Latitudes

    William L. Chapman;John E. Walsh

  • Arctic Sea Ice Variability in the Context of Recent Atmospheric Circulation Trends

    Clara Deser;John E. Walsh;Michael S. Timlin

  • Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)

    O. Anisimov;David G. Vaughan;T.V. Callaghan;C. Fural

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Global Warming and Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent

    Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Alan Robock;Ronald J. Stouffer;John E. Walsh

  • Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial ecosystem response

    Peter T. Doran;John C. Priscu;W. Berry Lyons;John E. Walsh

  • Climatology and Interannual Variability of Arctic Cyclone Activity: 1948–2002

    Xiangdong Zhang;John E. Walsh;Jing Zhang;Uma S. Bhatt

  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

    Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

  • Assessing the response of area burned to changing climate in western boreal North America using a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) approach

    Michael S. Balshi;Michael S. Balshi;A. David McGUIRE;Paul Duffy;Mike Flannigan

  • Is the Dipole Anomaly a major driver to record lows in Arctic summer sea ice extent

    Jia Wang;Jinlun Zhang;Eiji Watanabe;Moto Ikeda

  • The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies in an AGCM during Winter.

    Michael A. Alexander;Uma S. Bhatt;John E. Walsh;Michael S. Timlin

  • One More Step Toward a Warmer Arctic

    Igor V. Polyakov;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Eddy C. Carmack;Igor A. Dmitrenko

  • Recent decrease of sea level pressure in the central Arctic

    John E. Walsh;William L. Chapman;Timothy L. Shy

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • Trajectory shifts in the Arctic and subarctic freshwater cycle.

    Bruce J. Peterson;James W. McClelland;Ruth G. Curry;Robert M. Holmes

  • A tropospheric assessment of the ERA-40, NCEP, and JRA-25 global reanalyses in the polar regions

    David H. Bromwich;Ryan L. Fogt;Kevin I. Hodges;John E. Walsh

  • Intensified warming of the Arctic: Causes and impacts on middle latitudes

    John E. Walsh

  • An Analysis of Arctic Sea Ice Fluctuations, 1953–77

    John E. Walsh;Claudia M. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Yoh
J. Yoh Fermilab
T. Devlin
T. Devlin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kiminori Kondo
Kiminori Kondo Japan Atomic Energy Agency
A. Menzione
A. Menzione Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Fumio Abe
Fumio Abe Nagoya University
E. Kearns
E. Kearns Boston University
Yasuo Fukui
Yasuo Fukui Nagoya University
A. Roodman
A. Roodman Stanford University
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles

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