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D-Index
97
Citations
54007
World Ranking
425
National Ranking
29

Mike Hulme 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 Mike Hulme sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 361 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mike Hulme 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 Mike Hulme 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.

Overview

Mike Hulme is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on environmental science and social sciences. Their work is particularly concentrated in areas such as global and planetary change, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, as well as environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research topics include climate change and geoengineering, climate change communication and perception, sustainability and climate change governance, climate change policy and economics, science and climate studies, climate change adaptation and migration, and climate change health impacts.

Recent publications by Mike Hulme include:

  • "Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES" (2021) published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)" (2020) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "One Earth, Many Futures, No Destination" (2020) published in One Earth
  • "Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC" (2023) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Bring digital twins back to Earth" (2024) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change

Their frequent co-authors include Martin Mahony, Noam Obermeister, Rolf Lidskog, Adam Standring, and Shinichiro Asayama. They have published multiple works in venues such as Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, One Earth, Nature Climate Change, npj Climate Action, and Nature.

Mike Hulme also has contributions to academic books, notably with Cambridge University Press, where they authored A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022).

Best Publications

  • Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity

    Michael Hulme

  • Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change

    W. Neil Adger;Suraje Dessai;Marisa Goulden;Michael Hulme

  • A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas

    Mark New;David Lister;Mike Hulme;Ian Makin

  • Adaptation to climate change in the developing world

    W. Neil Adger;Saleemul Huq;Declan Conway;Mike Hulme

  • Representing Twentieth-Century Space-Time Climate Variability. Part II: Development of 1901-96 Monthly Grids of Terrestrial Surface Climate

    Mark New;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • Representing Twentieth-Century Space–Time Climate Variability. Part I: Development of a 1961–90 Mean Monthly Terrestrial Climatology

    Mark New;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • African climate change: 1900-2100

    Mike Hulme;Ruth M. Doherty;Todd Ngara;Mark G. New

  • A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for Europe and the globe: the observed record (1901-2000) and 16 scenarios (2001-2100).

    Timothy D. Mitchell;Timothy R. Carter;Philip D. Jones;Mike Hulme

  • REPRESENTING TWENTIETH CENTURY SPACE-TIME CLIMATE VARIABILITY.

    Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • Evaporation and potential evapotranspiration in India under conditions of recent and future climate change

    N. Chattopadhyay;M. Hulme

  • Precipitation measurements and trends in the twentieth century

    Mark New;Martin Todd;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • Calculating regional climatic time series for temperature and precipitation: Methods and illustrations

    P. D. Jones;M. Hulme

  • Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities

    Suraje Dessai;Mike Hulme

  • Who speaks for the future of Earth?: how critical social science can extend the conversation on the Anthropocene

    Eva Lövbrand;Silke Beck;Jason Chilvers;Tim Forsyth

  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Mike Hulme

  • Precipitation sensitivity to global warming: Comparison of observations with HadCM2 simulations

    Mike Hulme;Timothy J. Osborn;Timothy C. Johns

  • Observed trends in the daily intensity of United Kingdom precipitation.

    Timothy J. Osborn;Mike Hulme;Philip D. Jones;Tracy A. Basnett

  • The recent Sahel drought is real

    Aiguo Dai;Peter J. Lamb;Kevin E. Trenberth;Mike Hulme

  • A COMPARISON OF LAMB CIRCULATION TYPES WITH AN OBJECTIVE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME

    P. D. Jones;M. Hulme;K. R. Briffa

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Suraje Dessai
Suraje Dessai University of Leeds
Timothy J. Osborn
Timothy J. Osborn University of East Anglia
Irene Lorenzoni
Irene Lorenzoni University of East Anglia
Mark New
Mark New University of Cape Town
Declan Conway
Declan Conway London School of Economics and Political Science
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Martin L. Parry
Martin L. Parry University of East Anglia
Keith R. Briffa
Keith R. Briffa University of East Anglia

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