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2023

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D-Index
109
Citations
61783
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210
National Ranking
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Robert J. 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 Robert J. Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 629 publications — 99th percentile

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Robert J. 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 Robert J. Nicholls sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Robert J. Nicholls is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the broad fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions focused on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Climate variability and models

Robert J. Nicholls has co-authored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Jochen Hinkel
  • Sally Brown
  • Ivan D. Haigh
  • Daniël Lincke
  • Gonéri Le Cozannet

Research output includes publications in notable venues such as:

  • Earth s Future
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Among the recent papers authored by or including Robert J. Nicholls are:

  • The <i>CCP</i>4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Climate change-driven coastal erosion modelling in temperate sandy beaches: Methods and uncertainty treatment, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk, 2021, Earth s Future

Robert J. Nicholls has contributed to book publications such as Locked in Time, published in 2021 by Columbia University Press.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones

    Robert J. Nicholls;Anny Cazenave

  • Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea-level rise and coastal flooding--a global assessment.

    Barbara Neumann;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Juliane Zimmermann;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Future flood losses in major coastal cities

    Stephane Hallegatte;Colin H. Green;Robert J. Nicholls;Jan Corfee-Morlot

  • Sinking deltas due to human activities

    James P. M. Syvitski;Albert J. Kettner;Irina Overeem;Eric W. H. Hutton

  • Resilience to natural hazards: How useful is this concept?

    Richard J.T. Klein;Robert J. Nicholls;Frank Thomalla

  • A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones

    Christopher Small;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Coastal systems and low-lying areas

    R. J. Nicholls;P.P. Wong;V.R. Burket;J. Codignotto

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • Increasing flood risk and wetland losses due to global sea-level rise: regional and global analyses

    Robert J. Nicholls;Frank M.J. Hoozemans;Marcel Marchand

  • Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

    Mark Schuerch;Mark Schuerch;Thomas Spencer;Stijn Temmerman;Matthew L Kirwan

  • Coastal flooding and wetland loss in the 21st century: changes under the SRES climate and socio-economic scenarios

    Robert J Nicholls

  • A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes

    Susan Hanson;Robert Nicholls;N. Ranger;Stephane Hallegatte

  • Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4 ◦ C world' in the twenty-first century

    Robert J. Nicholls;Natasha Marinova;Jason A. Lowe;Sally Brown

  • Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change

    R.T.J. Klein;R.J. Nicholls

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

    Ebru Kirezci;Ian R. Young;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Sanne Muis

  • Physical and economic consequences of climate change in Europe

    Juan Carlos Ciscar;Ana Iglesias;Luc Feyen;László Szabó

  • Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: a review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates

    Martin L. Parry;Nigel William Arnell;Pam Berry;David Dodman

  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

    Robert J. Nicholls;Daniel Lincke;Jochen Hinkel;Sally Brown

  • Impacts and responses to sea-level rise: a global analysis of the SRES scenarios over the twenty-first century

    Robert J. Nicholls;Richard S. J. Tol

  • Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes

    R. J. Nicholls;S. Hanson;Celine Herweijer;Nicola Patmore

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan D. Haigh
Ivan D. Haigh University of Southampton
Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
Jochen Hinkel
Jochen Hinkel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Athanasios T. Vafeidis
Athanasios T. Vafeidis Kiel University
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Marcel J. F. Stive
Marcel J. F. Stive Delft University of Technology

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