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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 92 550 517 246 224 376 24932

Paul B. Shepson publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Paul B. Shepson between 1981 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Paul B. Shepson published across 46 years, from 1981 to 2026, averaging 8.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2017. 9 of the 411 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2017. 1981: 2 publications 1982: 2 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 6 publications 1986: 5 publications 1987: 4 publications 1988: 4 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 3 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 8 publications 1997: 8 publications 1998: 12 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 11 publications 2002: 17 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 14 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 16 publications 2012: 20 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 20 publications 2015: 20 publications 2016: 23 publications 2017: 24 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 18 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 16 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 8 publications 2026: 1 publication
1981 2026

411 publications in total across all disciplines

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Paul B. Shepson: publications per year, 1981 to 2026
Year Publications
1981 2
1982 2
1983 0
1984 1
1985 6
1986 5
1987 4
1988 4
1989 1
1990 3
1991 2
1992 4
1993 5
1994 6
1995 3
1996 8
1997 8
1998 12
1999 5
2000 3
2001 11
2002 17
2003 3
2004 9
2005 7
2006 7
2007 12
2008 14
2009 11
2010 11
2011 16
2012 20
2013 11
2014 20
2015 20
2016 23
2017 24
2018 12
2019 18
2020 10
2021 16
2022 11
2023 9
2024 6
2025 8
2026 1
Total 411
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Paul B. Shepson 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 Paul B. Shepson 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, 371–380 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: 376 publications — 92nd percentile

92% 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
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 52 376
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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Paul B. Shepson 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 Paul B. Shepson 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, 92 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: 92 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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
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 92
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul B. Shepson is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science and its related subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Their publication record includes numerous papers in well-recognized venues such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Selected recent papers in their portfolio are:

  • "Nontargeted Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis Reveals Diversity and Variability in Aerosol Functional Groups across Multiple Sites, Seasons, and Times of Day," published in 2020 in Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Wintertime CO2, CH4, and CO Emissions Estimation for the Washington, DC-Baltimore Metropolitan Area Using an Inverse Modeling Technique," published in 2020 in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Assessing urban methane emissions using column-observing portable Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers and a novel Bayesian inversion framework," published in 2021 in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "New York City greenhouse gas emissions estimated with inverse modeling of aircraft measurements," published in 2022 in Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Chemical Imaging of Fine Mode Atmospheric Particles Collected from a Research Aircraft over Agricultural Fields," published in 2020 in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

They have also contributed to book publications, including "Chemistry in the Cryosphere" published by World Scientific in 2020.

Frequent co-authors collaborating on their research include Kristian D. Hajny, Brian H. Stirm, Israel Lopez-Coto, William R. Simpson, and Robert Kaeser, reflecting sustained partnerships in their field.

Their contributions have been recognized through distinctions including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Ramón A. Alvarez;Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;David T. Allen

  • Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

    W. R. Simpson;R. von Glasow;K. Riedel;P. Anderson

  • An overview of snow photochemistry: evidence, mechanisms and impacts

    A. M. Grannas;A. E. Jones;J. Dibb;M. Ammann

  • Air-Snow Interactions and Atmospheric Chemistry

    Florent Dominé;Paul B. Shepson

  • Missing OH reactivity in a forest: evidence for unknown reactive biogenic VOCs.

    Piero Di Carlo;Piero Di Carlo;William H. Brune;Monica Martinez;Hartwig Harder

  • The role of Br2 and BrCl in surface ozone destruction at polar sunrise.

    Krishna L. Foster;Robert A. Plastridge;Jan W. Bottenheim;Paul B. Shepson

  • Evidence of NOx production within or upon ice particles in the Greenland snowpack

    R E Honrath;Matthew C Peterson;S Guo;Jack E. Dibb

  • Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development

    Dana R. Caulton;Paul B. Shepson;Renee L. Santoro;Jed P. Sparks

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions

    Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;Ramón A. Alvarez;Kenneth J. Davis

  • Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the Arctic troposphere

    Ann Louise Sumner;Paul B. Shepson

  • High Resolution Atmospheric Inversion of Urban CO2 Emissions During the Dormant Season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

    Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Natasha Miles;Aijun Deng;Scott Richardson

  • Snowpack photochemical production of HONO: A major source of OH in the Arctic boundary layer in springtime

    Xianliang Zhou;Harald J. Beine;Richard E. Honrath;Jose D. Fuentes

  • Depletion of lower tropospheric ozone during arctic spring : the Polar Sunrise Experiment 1988

    Jan W. Bottenheim;Leonard A. Barrie;Elliot Atlas;Leroy E. Heidt

  • Halogen activation via interactions with environmental ice and snow in the polar lower troposphere and other regions

    J. P. D. Abbatt;J. L. Thomas;J. L. Thomas;Katarina Abrahamsson;C. Boxe

  • Nitric acid photolysis on forest canopy surface as a source for tropospheric nitrous acid

    Xianliang Zhou;Ning Zhang;Michaela TerAvest;David Tang

  • Aircraft-Based Estimate of Total Methane Emissions from the Barnett Shale Region

    Anna Karion;Colm Sweeney;Colm Sweeney;Eric A. Kort;Paul B. Shepson

  • Photochemical production of molecular bromine in Arctic surface snowpacks

    Kerri A. Pratt;Kyle D. Custard;Paul B. Shepson;Thomas A. Douglas

  • HO x budgets in a deciduous forest: Results from the PROPHET summer 1998 campaign

    D. Tan;D. Tan;I. Faloona;I. Faloona;J. B. Simpas;W. Brune

  • Organic nitrate chemistry and its implications for nitrogen budgets in an isoprene- and monoterpene-rich atmosphere: constraints from aircraft (SEAC 4 RS) and ground-based (SOAS) observations in the Southeast US

    Jenny A. Fisher;Daniel J. Jacob;Katherine R. Travis;Patrick S. Kim

  • Modeling the Current and Future Roles of Particulate Organic Nitrates in the Southeastern United States

    Havala O. T. Pye;Deborah J. Luecken;Lu Xu;Christopher M. Boyd

  • NMR Investigation of the Quasi-Brine Layer in Ice/Brine Mixtures

    H. Cho;P. B. Shepson;L. A. Barrie;and J. P. Cowin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jan W. Bottenheim
Jan W. Bottenheim Environment and Climate Change Canada
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Mary Anne Carroll
Mary Anne Carroll University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anna Karion
Anna Karion National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tadeusz E. Kleindienst
Tadeusz E. Kleindienst Environmental Protection Agency
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Lauvaux
Thomas Lauvaux Pennsylvania State University
Ulrich Platt
Ulrich Platt Heidelberg University
Xinrong Ren
Xinrong Ren University of Maryland, College Park

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