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Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick

Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
39
Citations
10618
World Ranking
680
National Ranking
40

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
13874
World Ranking
6244
National Ranking
220

Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick 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 Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 94 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick 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 Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, oceanography, and economics and econometrics.

The work of Perkins-Kirkpatrick spans several main topics, including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

The scientist has published extensively in several recurring venues. The most frequent publication venues include Environmental Research Letters, Earth's Future, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Weather and Climate Extremes, and Environmental Research Climate.

Recent significant papers include the following:

  • Increasing trends in regional heatwaves, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change, 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Perkins-Kirkpatrick collaborates recurrently with several co-authors, including Andrew D. King, Jason J. Sharples, Lisa V. Alexander, A. J. Pitman, and P. Jyoteeshkumar Reddy.

Best Publications

  • Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

    Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Markus G. Donat;Michael T. Burrows;Pippa J. Moore

  • Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

    S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick;S. C. Lewis

  • Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services

    Dan A. Smale;Dan A. Smale;Thomas Wernberg;Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Mads Thomsen

  • A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

    Neil J. Holbrook;Neil J. Holbrook;Hillary A. Scannell;Alexander Sen Gupta;Jessica A. Benthuysen

  • The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave.

    Eric C. J. Oliver;Eric C. J. Oliver;Jessica A. Benthuysen;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Alistair J. Hobday

  • Projected Marine Heatwaves in the 21st Century and the Potential for Ecological Impact

    Eric C. J. Oliver;Michael T. Burrows;Markus G. Donat;Alex Sen Gupta;Alex Sen Gupta

  • Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

    R.M.B. Harris;R.M.B. Harris;L.J. Beaumont;T.R. Vance;C.R. Tozer;C.R. Tozer

  • Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions

    Christopher J. White;Christopher J. White;Henrik Carlsen;Andrew W. Robertson;Richard J.T. Klein

  • Changes in regional heatwave characteristics as a function of increasing global temperature

    S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick;P. B. Gibson

  • Prediction and projection of heatwaves

    Unknown

  • Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwaves events

    Alexander Sen Gupta;Mads Thomsen;Jessica A. Benthuysen;Alistair J. Hobday

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change

    Unknown

  • Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

    Tanya Fiedler;Andy J. Pitman;Kate Mackenzie;Nick Wood

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Natural hazards in Australia: heatwaves

    S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick;C. J. White;L. V. Alexander;D. Argueso

  • On the use of self-organizing maps for studying climate extremes

    Peter B. Gibson;Sarah E. Perkins‐Kirkpatrick;Petteri Uotila;Acacia S. Pepler

  • Climate research must sharpen its view

    Jochem Marotzke;Christian Jakob;Sandrine Bony;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change

    Unknown

  • Impact of the representation of stomatal conductance on model projections of heatwave intensity

    Jatin Kala;Jatin Kala;Martin G De Kauwe;Andrew J Pitman;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Emergence of heat extremes attributable to anthropogenic influences

    Andrew D. King;Mitchell T. Black;Seung‐Ki Min;Erich M. Fischer

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric C. J. Oliver
Eric C. J. Oliver Dalhousie University
Neil J. Holbrook
Neil J. Holbrook University of Tasmania
Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Markus G. Donat
Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Andrew D. King
Andrew D. King University of Melbourne
Dan A. Smale
Dan A. Smale Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia
Andrew J. Pitman
Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales
Alex Sen Gupta
Alex Sen Gupta University of New South Wales
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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