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D-Index
92
Citations
24932
World Ranking
547
National Ranking
246

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.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 376 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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.

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30 D-Index 125+

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 125 D-Index or more.

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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