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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 49 5136 4919 1886 1743 96 14345

Nicholas Clinton publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nicholas Clinton between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nicholas Clinton published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 5.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 22 publications in 2023. 15 of the 140 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 22. Peak 22 publications in 2023. 2002: 1 publication 2003: 0 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 2 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 1 publication 2009: 4 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 2 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 2 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 19 publications 2023: 22 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 7 publications
2002 2025

140 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nicholas Clinton: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 1
2003 0
2004 2
2005 1
2006 2
2007 1
2008 1
2009 4
2010 2
2011 1
2012 2
2013 3
2014 3
2015 2
2016 6
2017 7
2018 11
2019 11
2020 12
2021 12
2022 19
2023 22
2024 8
2025 7
Total 140
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Nicholas Clinton publications per year - data summary

  • Nicholas Clinton, a Environmental Sciences scholar from Google (United States), has 140 publications recorded across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2002 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2023, with 22 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 1 of the 24 years in the span carries no publications at all (2003).
  • The rate of publication averages 5.8 papers per year over the whole span, or 6.1 per year counting only the 23 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 68 publications, 49% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2002-2009: 12 publications (1.5 per year); 2010-2017: 26 publications (3.3 per year); 2018-2025: 102 publications (12.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Nicholas Clinton 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 Nicholas Clinton sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 91–100 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440 96
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Nicholas Clinton publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 66 ranges running from 41–50 to 690+ publications.
  • Nicholas Clinton, a Environmental Sciences scholar from Google (United States), records 96 publications - the 11th percentile of the discipline.
  • 11% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Nicholas Clinton, and about 89% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 161–170 publications range, and Nicholas Clinton ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 121–130 publications, holding 617 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 67% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 201–210 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 690 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Nicholas Clinton 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 Nicholas Clinton sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273 49
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Nicholas Clinton D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 30 to 126+ D-Index.
  • Nicholas Clinton, a Environmental Sciences scholar from Google (United States), records 49 D-Index - the 47th percentile of the discipline.
  • 47% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Nicholas Clinton, and about 53% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 51 D-Index range, and Nicholas Clinton ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 45 D-Index, holding 348 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more, 92 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Overview

Nicholas Clinton is affiliated with Google in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research interests cover a range of topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Health disparities and outcomes, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health, Environment and Cognitive Aging, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Clinton has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Developing a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Clinton include Tobias Banaschewski, Nathalie Holz, Frauke Nees, Vince D. Calhoun, and Emin Serin. These academic partnerships have supported a variety of studies across environmental and health-related topics.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in several key publication venues, such as:

  • Nature Mental Health
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data

    Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Le Yu;Yongchao Zhao

  • Stable classification with limited sample: transferring a 30-m resolution sample set collected in 2015 to mapping 10-m resolution global land cover in 2017

    Peng Gong;Han Liu;Meinan Zhang;Congcong Li

  • Object-based Detailed Vegetation Classification with Airborne High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

    Qian Yu;Peng Gong;Nick Clinton;Greg Biging

  • The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats

    Nicholas J. Murray;Nicholas J. Murray;Stuart R. Phinn;Michael F DeWitt;Renata Ferrari

  • Mapping essential urban land use categories in China (EULUC-China): preliminary results for 2018

    Peng Gong;Bin Chen;Xuecao Li;Han Liu

  • MODIS detected surface urban heat islands and sinks: Global locations and controls

    Nicholas Clinton;Peng Gong;Peng Gong

  • Accuracy Assessment Measures for Object-based Image Segmentation Goodness

    Nicholas Clinton;Ashley Holt;James Scarborough;Li Yan

  • Mapping major land cover dynamics in Beijing using all Landsat images in Google Earth Engine

    Huabing Huang;Yanlei Chen;Nicholas Clinton;Jie Wang

  • A mangrove forest map of China in 2015: analysis of time series Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel-1A imagery in Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform.

    Bangqian Chen;Bangqian Chen;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangping Li;Lianghao Pan;Lianghao Pan

  • Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015

    Han Liu;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Nicholas Clinton

  • Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands

    Scott L. Stephens;Robert E. Martin;Nicholas E. Clinton

  • Rainforest-initiated wet season onset over the southern Amazon.

    Jonathon S. Wright;Rong Fu;John R. Worden;Sudip Chakraborty

  • A Global Geospatial Ecosystem Services Estimate of Urban Agriculture

    Nicholas Clinton;Nicholas Clinton;Michelle Stuhlmacher;Albie Miles;Albie Miles;Nazli Uludere Aragon

  • Using Landsat and nighttime lights for supervised pixel-based image classification of urban land cover

    Ran Goldblatt;Michelle F. Stuhlmacher;Beth Tellman;Nicholas Clinton

  • Landscape analysis of wetland plant functional types: The effects of image segmentation scale, vegetation classes and classification methods

    Iryna Dronova;Peng Gong;Peng Gong;Peng Gong;Nicholas E. Clinton;Lin Wang;Lin Wang

  • Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication.

    Elígio de Raús Maúre;Genki Terauchi;Joji Ishizaka;Nicholas Clinton

  • The first all-season sample set for mapping global land cover with Landsat-8 data

    Congcong Li;Congcong Li;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Zhiliang Zhu

  • Stacked Autoencoder-based deep learning for remote-sensing image classification: a case study of African land-cover mapping

    Weijia Li;Haohuan Fu;Le Yu;Peng Gong

  • Developing a method to estimate building height from Sentinel-1 data

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Peng Gong;Karen C. Seto

  • FROM-GC: 30 m global cropland extent derived through multisource data integration

    Le Yu;Jie Wang;Nicholas Clinton;Qinchuan Xin

  • Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015, link to GeoTIFF files

    Han Liu;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Nicholas Clinton

Frequent Co-Authors

Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Le Yu
Le Yu Tsinghua University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Tsinghua University
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Jordi Muñoz-Marí
Jordi Muñoz-Marí University of Valencia
Peter Potapov
Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park

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