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97
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Justin Sheffield 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 Justin Sheffield sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 417 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Justin Sheffield 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 Justin Sheffield 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.

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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Justin Sheffield is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record in environmental science and related disciplines. Their research primarily explores hydrological processes, climate variability, and the impacts of climate change on water resources and agricultural systems.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics in drought and soil moisture studies, including:

  • A global transition to flash droughts under climate change (2023) published in Science
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors (2021) published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Lagged Compound Occurrence of Droughts and Pluvials Globally Over the Past Seven Decades (2020) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 (2020) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Their collaboration network frequently includes the following co-authors:

  • Ming Pan (19 joint publications)
  • Eric F. Wood (17 joint publications)
  • Hylke E. Beck (12 joint publications)
  • Noemi Vergopolan (10 joint publications)
  • Solomon H. Gebrechorkos (9 joint publications)

Justin Sheffield often publishes in these scientific venues:

  • Water Resources Research (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (4 publications)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (3 publications)
  • Agricultural Water Management (3 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (2 publications)

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with a total of 119 publications, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 36 publications.

Within these fields, the following subfields are notably represented in their work:

  • Global and Planetary Change (64 publications)
  • Water Science and Technology (29 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (23 publications)
  • Environmental Engineering (18 publications)
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (13 publications)

Justin Sheffield's research covers a variety of topics, highlighting their focus on hydrology and climate interactions:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (50 publications)
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis (36 publications)
  • Climate variability and models (32 publications)
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management (32 publications)
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture (26 publications)
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 publications)
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (22 publications)

Best Publications

  • Global warming and changes in drought

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Gerard van der Schrier;Gerard van der Schrier;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood;Michael L. Roderick

  • Development of a 50-Year High-Resolution Global Dataset of Meteorological Forcings for Land Surface Modeling

    Justin Sheffield;Gopi Goteti;Eric F. Wood

  • The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system

    Kenneth E. Mitchell;Dag Lohmann;Paul R. Houser;Eric F. Wood

  • Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Justin Sheffield

  • Projected changes in drought occurrence under future global warming from multi-model, multi-scenario, IPCC AR4 simulations

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood

  • Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast

    Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Thomas G Huntington;Lifeng Luo

  • Bias correction of monthly precipitation and temperature fields from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 models using equidistant quantile matching

    Haibin Li;Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

    Peter Greve;Boris Orlowsky;Brigitte Mueller;Brigitte Mueller;Justin Sheffield

  • Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling

    S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;Y. Tian;P. R. Houser

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • A global transition to flash droughts under climate change

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  • Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

    Brian A. Cosgrove;Brian A. Cosgrove;Dag Lohmann;Kenneth E. Mitchell;Paul R. Houser

  • Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

    L. Samaniego;S. Thober;R. Kumar;N. Wanders

  • Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

    Camilo Mora;Daniele Spirandelli;Erik C. Franklin;John Lynham

  • Global Trends and Variability in Soil Moisture and Drought Characteristics, 1950–2000, from Observation-Driven Simulations of the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006

    Aihui Wang;Dennis P. Lettenmaier;Justin Sheffield

  • Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow

    Youlong Xia;Kenneth Mitchell;Michael Ek;Brian Cosgrove

  • A simulated soil moisture based drought analysis for the United States

    Justin Sheffield;Gopi Goteti;Fenghua Wen;Eric F. Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Lifeng Luo
Lifeng Luo Michigan State University
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Kenneth E. Mitchell
Kenneth E. Mitchell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Luis Samaniego
Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Rachel T. Pinker
Rachel T. Pinker University of Maryland, College Park
Qingyun Duan
Qingyun Duan Hohai University

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