2026 Michael N. Evans: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	42	7265	6985	2584	2407	127	12354

Michael N. Evans 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 Michael N. Evans sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 127 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael N. Evans 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 Michael N. Evans sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael N. Evans is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular focus on atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation as subfields.

The scientist's work addresses topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, forest ecology and management, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Recent publications reflect a range of interdisciplinary interests. Selected papers include:

"Faecal egg counts and nemabiome metabarcoding highlight the genomic complexity of equine cyathostomin communities and provide insight into their dynamics in a Scottish native pony herd" (2022, International Journal for Parasitology)
"An interpreted language implementation of the Vaganov-Shashkin tree-ring proxy system model" (2020, Dendrochronologia)
"Reduction in lumen area is associated with the δ¹⁸O exchange between sugars and source water during cellulose synthesis" (2020, New Phytologist)
"Perspectives on Data Reproducibility and Replicability in Paleoclimate and Climate Science" (2020, Harvard Data Science Review)
"Using the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) records as century-long benchmarks for global land-surface models" (2021, Geoscientific Model Development)

Their frequent coauthors include Alan J. Kaufman, Rosanne D'Arrigo, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Paul Szejner, and Geoffrey J. Gilleaudeau.

Michael N. Evans has published multiple articles in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Dendrochronologia, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Past Global Change Magazine, and the International Journal for Parasitology.

Best Publications

Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene

Gerard Bond;Bernd Kromer;Juerg Beer;Raimund Muscheler

4063
Citations
The North Atlantic's 1‐2 Kyr Climate Rhythm: Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard/Oeschger Cycles and the Little Ice Age

Gerard C. Bond;William Showers;Mary Elliot;Michael Evans

607
Citations
A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

443
Citations
Consistent multi-decadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era.

Raphael Neukom;Luis A. Barboza;Michael P. Erb;Feng Shi

437
Citations
Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

Nerilie J. Abram;Helen V. McGregor;Jessica E. Tierney;Jessica E. Tierney;Michael N. Evans

399
Citations
Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology

Michael N. Evans;S. E. Tolwinski-Ward;D. M. Thompson;Kevin J. Anchukaitis

379
Citations
Evaluating climate indices and their geochemical proxies measured in corals

R. G. Fairbanks;M. N. Evans;J. L. Rubenstone;R. A. Mortlock

303
Citations
Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives

Jessica E. Tierney;Nerilie J. Abram;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Michael N. Evans

302
Citations
Eight Centuries of North Atlantic Ocean Atmosphere Variability

David E. Black;Larry C. Peterson;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Alexey Kaplan

300
Citations
The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

269
Citations
Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era

Helen V. McGregor;Michael N. Evans;Hugues Goosse;Guillaume Leduc

251
Citations
An efficient forward model of the climate controls on interannual variation in tree-ring width

Susan E. Tolwinski-Ward;Michael N. Evans;Malcolm K. Hughes;Kevin J. Anchukaitis

222
Citations
A stable isotope-based approach to tropical dendroclimatology

Michael N Evans;Daniel P Schrag

221
Citations
Reconstructing ENSO: the influence of method, proxy data, climate forcing and teleconnections

Robert Wilson;Robert Wilson;Edward Cook;Rosanne D'Arrigo;Nadja Riedwyl

207
Citations
Resolving seasonality in tropical trees: multi-decade, high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope records from Indonesia and Thailand

Pascale F. Poussart;Michael N. Evans;Daniel P. Schrag

205
Citations
PRYSM: An open-source framework for PRoxY System Modeling, with applications to oxygen-isotope systems

S. Dee;J. Emile-Geay;M. N. Evans;A. Allam

197
Citations
How Well Understood Are the Processes that Create Dendroclimatic Records? A Mechanistic Model of the Climatic Control on Conifer Tree-Ring Growth Dynamics

Eugene A. Vaganov;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Michael N. Evans;Michael N. Evans

197
Citations
Tree rings and volcanic cooling

Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Petra Breitenmoser;Keith R. Briffa;Agata Buchwal

192
Citations
A forward modeling approach to paleoclimatic interpretation of tree-ring data

M. N. Evans;M. N. Evans;Bernhard K. Reichert;Alexey Kaplan;Kanchuka J. Anchukaitis

188
Citations
Pacific sea surface temperature field reconstruction from coral δ18O data using reduced space objective analysis

Michael N. Evans;Michael N. Evans;Alexey Kaplan;Mark A. Cane;Mark A. Cane

179
Citations
Applications of proxy system modeling in high resolution paleoclimatology

Michael N. Evans

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin J. Anchukaitis University of Arizona

Julien Emile-Geay University of Southern California

Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Helen McGregor University of Wollongong

Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona

Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain

Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University

Nerilie J. Abram Australian National University

Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University

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