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Neville Nicholls

Neville Nicholls

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
33704
World Ranking
774
National Ranking
36

Neville Nicholls 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 Neville Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 211 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Neville Nicholls 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 Neville Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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 Australia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Neville Nicholls is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Engineering. Their work intersects multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research topics cover several interconnected areas such as fire effects on ecosystems, fire dynamics and safety research, disaster management and resilience, climate change and health impacts, climate change adaptation and migration, and global energy and sustainability research.

Among their recent scholarly contributions is the paper titled The sensitivity of fire activity to interannual climate variability in Victoria, Australia, published in 2020 in the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science. This publication has been cited 14 times.

  • Sarah Harris
  • Nigel Tapper
  • Graham Mills

Nicholls collaborates primarily with researchers such as Sarah Harris, Nigel Tapper, and Graham Mills. Their publication record includes work mostly appearing in the Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science.

  • Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science

The scientist has received recognition including the Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) award in 2014 and the title of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report

    Lenny Bernstein;Peter Bosch;Osvaldo Canziani;Zhenlin Chen

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

    Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

  • Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

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

  • Homogeneity adjustments of in situ atmospheric climate data: a review

    Thomas C. Peterson;David R. Easterling;Thomas R. Karl;Pavel Groisman

  • Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific: 1961–1998

    M.J. Manton;P.M. Della-Marta;M.R. Haylock;K.J. Hennessy

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment: An overview of the IPCC SREX report

    S. I. Seneviratne;N. Nicholls;D. Easterling;C. M. Goodess

  • Seasonal Relationships between Australian Rainfall and the Southern Oscillation

    J. L. McBride;N. Nicholls

  • CLIVAR/GCOS/WMO Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes Workshop Summary

    Thomas R. Karl;Neville Nicholls;Anver Ghazi

  • Global temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861

    C K Folland;N A Rayner;S J Brown;T M Smith

  • Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies

    M Glantz;R Katz;Neville Nicholls

  • The Changing Nature of Australian Droughts

    Neville Nicholls

  • Changes in Climate Extremes Over the Australian Region and New Zealand During the Twentieth Century

    Neil Plummer;M. James Salinger;Neville Nicholls;Ramasamy Suppiah

  • Sea Surface Temperatures and Australian Winter Rainfall

    Neville Nicholls

  • Increased Australian wheat yield due to recent climate trends

    Neville Nicholls

  • Climate change: an Australian guide to the science and potential impacts

    Barrie Pittock;Angela Arthington;Trevor Booth;Peter Cowell

  • TRENDS IN EXTREME RAINFALL INDICES FOR AN UPDATED HIGH QUALITY DATA SET FOR AUSTRALIA, 1910-1998

    Malcolm Haylock;Neville Nicholls

  • Climate change impacts on fire-weather in south-east Australia

    K. Hennessy;C. Lucas;N. Nicholls;J. Bathols

  • Quantifying the influence of local meteorology on air quality using generalized additive models

    John L. Pearce;Jason Beringer;Neville Nicholls;Rob J. Hyndman

  • Applications of seasonal climate forecasting in agricultural and natural ecosystems : the Australian experience

    G L Hammer;Neville Nicholls;C Mitchell

  • Climate Change 2007 : Synthesis Report : An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    L. Bernstein;P. Bosch;O. Canziani;Z. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel J. Tapper
Nigel J. Tapper Monash University
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
John S. Mackenzie
John S. Mackenzie Curtin University
Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Anthony J. McMichael
Anthony J. McMichael Australian National University
Christian Jakob
Christian Jakob Monash University
Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Julie M. Arblaster
Julie M. Arblaster National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mark Howden
Mark Howden Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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