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99
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390
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Joyce E. Penner 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 Joyce E. Penner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 356 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joyce E. Penner 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 Joyce E. Penner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 99 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Joyce E. Penner is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

The scientist's work covers several specialized subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, aerospace engineering, and plant science. Research topics prominently feature atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, advanced aircraft design and technologies, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and plant responses to elevated CO2.

Joyce E. Penner has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • One Earth

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018 (2020) in Atmospheric Environment
  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system (2022) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Brown carbon from biomass burning imposes strong circum-Arctic warming (2022) in One Earth
  • Radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on cirrus clouds using a hybrid ice nucleation scheme (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Jialei Zhu, Junjun Deng, Cong-Qiang Liu, Pingqing Fu, and Marianne T. Lund.

Joyce E. Penner's contributions to science have been recognized through fellowships from major scientific organizations, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

    D.S. Lee;D.W. Fahey;A. Skowron;M.R. Allen

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

    Gabriele Hegerl;Francis Zwiers;Pascale Braconnot;N.P. Gillett

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • Large contribution of organic aerosols to cloud-condensation-nuclei concentrations

    T. Novakov;J. E. Penner

  • A global three‐dimensional model study of carbonaceous aerosols

    C. Liousse;C. Liousse;J. E. Penner;C. Chuang;J. J. Walton

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • Emissions of primary aerosol and precursor gases in the years 2000 and 1750 prescribed data-sets for AeroCom

    F. Dentener;S. Kinne;T. Bond;O. Boucher

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Aviation

    D.S. Lee;G. Pitari;Volker Grewe;Klaus Martin Gierens

  • Aviation and the Global Atmosphere

    J E Penner;D H Lister;E J Griggs;D J Dokken

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results

    Ina Tegen;Peter Hollrig;Mian Chin;Mian Chin;Inez Fung;Inez Fung

  • Effects of aerosol from biomass burning on the global radiation budget

    Joyce E. Penner;Robert Earl Dickinson;Christine A. O'Neill

  • Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect Effects

    J. E. Penner;M. O. Andreae;H. Annegarn;L. Barrie

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

  • A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;T. M. L. Wigley;T. C. Johns

  • NOx from lightning 1. Global distribution based on lightning physics

    Colin Price;Colin Price;Joyce Penner;Michael Prather

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

  • Technical summary of working group 1.

    J. T. Houghton;D. L. Albritton;L. G. Meira Filho;U. Cubasch

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
Sanford Sillman
Sanford Sillman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael J. Prather
Michael J. Prather University of California, Irvine
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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