2026 Peter John Huybers: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	48	3766	3451	1485	1318	243	9781

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2009 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter John Huybers is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily covers Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Oceanography.

The scholar's work addresses core topics including:

Climate variability and models
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Cryospheric studies and observations
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Peter John Huybers has published extensively in well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Climate (10 publications)
Geophysical Research Letters (6 publications)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
Harvard Dataverse (5 publications)

Recent papers illustrate a range of interdisciplinary concerns and include:

Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields (2020, Nature Food)
The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions (2021, Nature Communications)
Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: a report from the 22nd annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium (2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production (2022, Nature Food)

Huybers frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

Duo Chan (18 joint publications)
Jonathan Proctor (17 joint publications)
A. J. Rigden (11 joint publications)
Parker Liautaud (8 joint publications)
Tamma Carleton (7 joint publications)

Their recognition includes several awards from the American Geophysical Union and the MacArthur Foundation, received in 2009, among them the James B. Macelwane Medal and fellowships from both the AGU and the MacArthur Foundation.

Best Publications

Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

828
Citations
Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence

Michael McCormick;Ulf Büntgen;Mark A. Cane;Edward R. Cook

600
Citations
Early Pleistocene Glacial Cycles and the Integrated Summer Insolation Forcing

Peter John Huybers

549
Citations
Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations

Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

419
Citations
Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability

Peter John Huybers;William Thomas Curry

398
Citations
Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

377
Citations
Feedback between deglaciation, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2

Peter John Huybers;Charles H. Langmuir

365
Citations
Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

258
Citations
Glacial variability over the last two million years: an extended depth-derived agemodel, continuous obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression

Peter Huybers

257
Citations
Antarctic temperature at orbital timescales controlled by local summer duration

Peter John Huybers;George Denton

234
Citations
A Depth-Derived Pleistocene Age-Model: Uncertainty Estimates, Sedimentation Variability, and Nonlinear Climate Change

Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

229
Citations
Recent temperature extremes at high northern latitudes unprecedented in the past 600 years

Martin Tingley;Peter John Huybers

226
Citations
Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields

A. J. Rigden;N. D. Mueller;N. M. Holbrook;N. Pillai

220
Citations
Combined obliquity and precession pacing of late Pleistocene deglaciations

Peter Huybers

210
Citations
Ocean surface temperature variability: Large model–data differences at decadal and longer periods

Thomas R. Laepple;Peter John Huybers

183
Citations
Sea level as a stabilizing factor for marine-ice-sheet grounding lines

Natalya Alissa Gomez;Jerry Mitrovica;Peter John Huybers;Peter U. Clark

181
Citations
Consequences of pacing the Pleistocene 100 kyr ice ages by nonlinear phase locking to Milankovitch forcing

Eli Tziperman;Maureen E. Raymo;Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

179
Citations
Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages

Maureen E. Raymo;Peter John Huybers

178
Citations
A detection of Milankovitch frequencies in global volcanic activity

Steffen Kutterolf;Marion Jegen;Jerry Mitrovica;Tom Kwasnitschka

165
Citations
Reckoning wheat yield trends

Marena Lin;Peter John Huybers

160
Citations
The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

155
Citations
The Mean Age of Ocean Waters Inferred from Radiocarbon Observations: Sensitivity to Surface Sources and Accounting for Mixing Histories

Geoffrey Gebbie;Peter John Huybers

140
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Langmuir Harvard University

Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University

Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Suzanne M. Carbotte Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Peter U. Clark Oregon State University

N. Michele Holbrook Harvard University

Sujoy Mukhopadhyay University of California, Davis

Carl Wunsch Harvard University

Thomas Laepple Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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