2026 Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	39	680	680	40	40	94	10618
Environmental Sciences	45	6242	5992	220	214	94	13874

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

1970
Citations
Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

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

1616
Citations
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

1606
Citations
A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

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

697
Citations
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

604
Citations
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

601
Citations
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

559
Citations
Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions

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

452
Citations
Changes in regional heatwave characteristics as a function of increasing global temperature

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

426
Citations
Prediction and projection of heatwaves

Unknown

408
Citations
Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwaves events

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

397
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

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

344
Citations
State of the Climate in 2014

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

332
Citations
Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change

Unknown

310
Citations
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

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

190
Citations
State of the Climate in 2016

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

161
Citations
Natural hazards in Australia: heatwaves

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

140
Citations
On the use of self-organizing maps for studying climate extremes

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

137
Citations
Climate research must sharpen its view

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

128
Citations
On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change

Unknown

127
Citations
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

109
Citations
Emergence of heat extremes attributable to anthropogenic influences

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

88
Citations
[Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric C. J. Oliver Dalhousie University

Neil J. Holbrook University of Tasmania

Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales

Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Andrew D. King University of Melbourne

Dan A. Smale Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia

Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales

Alex Sen Gupta University of New South Wales

Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

External Links

Personal website of Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick

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