2026 Sergey Sokolovskiy: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	40	7934	7624	2826	2631	129	9228

Overview

Sergey Sokolovskiy is affiliated with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple scientific disciplines with a focus on atmospheric and space sciences as well as interdisciplinary studies bridging anthropology. The scientist's work involves exploration of ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, as well as human-animal interaction geographies.

The research contributions by Sokolovskiy include studies published across diverse subject areas such as astronomy, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and geography. These subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach, covering:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Sociology and Political Science
Geography, Planning and Development

Sokolovskiy has contributed to understanding various specific topics, which include:

Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
Geographies of human-animal interactions
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

The publication record features multiple peer-reviewed papers with a range of collaborative authorships. Notable papers by or including Sokolovskiy as an author are:

"COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Constellation: First Results" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
"Consistency and structural uncertainty of multi-mission GPS radio occultation records" (2020), Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
"Stratospheric Water Vapor from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption Deduced from COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation" (2023), Remote Sensing
"Cyborgs in Cyberspace: Contemporary Research in Cyber- and Digital Anthropology" (2020), Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
"The First Atmospheric Radio Occultation Profiles From a GPS Receiver in Geostationary Orbit" (2022), IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Frequent publication venues include journals specialized in anthropological and regional historical studies alongside atmospheric and geoscience publications. These include:

Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
Sibirskie istoricheskie issledovaniya
Anthropologica
Antropologicheskij forum
Geophysical Research Letters

Collaborations with other researchers occur regularly, with frequent co-authors being:

William Schreiner
John Braun
Doug Hunt
Dahyana Arroyo
Jan-Peter Weiss

Sergey Sokolovskiy's work thus bridges atmospheric and space science disciplines with elements of social science, reflecting a broad and interdisciplinary research portfolio.

Best Publications

The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results

R. A Anthes;P. A Bernhardt;Y. Chen;L. Cucurull

1040
Citations
Analysis and validation of GPS/MET data in the neutral atmosphere

C. Rocken;R. Anthes;M. Exner;D. Hunt

827
Citations
GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results

R. Ware;C. Rocken;F. Solheim;M. Exner

826
Citations
Inversion and error estimation of GPS radio occultation Data

Y.-H Kuo;T.-K Wee;S Sokolovskiy;C Rocken

512
Citations
Analysis and validation of GPS/MET radio occultation data in the ionosphere

William S. Schreiner;Sergey V. Sokolovskiy;Christian Rocken;Douglas C. Hunt

493
Citations
COSMIC System Description

Christian Rocken;Ying-Hwa Kuo;Willam S. Scheriner;Doug Hunt

480
Citations
Estimates of the precision of GPS radio occultations from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT‐3 mission

W. Schreiner;C. Rocken;S. Sokolovskiy;S. Syndergaard

451
Citations
COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Constellation: First Results

W.S. Schreiner;J.P. Weiss;R.A. Anthes;J. Braun

284
Citations
Error analysis of Abel retrieved electron density profiles from radio occultation measurements

X. Yue;X. Yue;W. S. Schreiner;J. Lei;S. V. Sokolovskiy

251
Citations
Assimilation of GPS radio occultation data for numerical weather prediction

Ying-Hwa Kuo;Sergey V. Sokolovskiy;Richard A. Anthes;Francois Vandenberghe

245
Citations
COSMIC System Description

Christian Rocken;Ying-Hwa Kuo;William Schreiner;Doug Hunt

245
Citations
Effect of superrefraction on inversions of radio occultation signals in the lower troposphere

Sergey Sokolovskiy

220
Citations
Tracking tropospheric radio occultation signals from low Earth orbit

Sergey V. Sokolovskiy

220
Citations
Modeling and inverting radio occultation signals in the moist troposphere

Sergey V. Sokolovskiy

182
Citations
Estimating the uncertainty of using GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Intercomparison of CHAMP refractivity climate records from 2002 to 2006 from different data centers

Shu-peng Ho;Gottfried Kirchengast;Stephen Leroy;Jens Wickert

169
Citations
A ray-tracing operator and its adjoint for the use of GPS/MET refraction angle measurements

X. Zou;F. Vandenberghe;B. Wang;M. E. Gorbunov

163
Citations
Reproducibility of GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Profile-to-profile inter-comparison of CHAMP climate records 2002 to 2008 from six data centers

Shu-peng Ho;Doug Hunt;Andrea K. Steiner;Anthony J. Mannucci

146
Citations
Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer by GPS radio occultation signals recorded in the open-loop mode

S. Sokolovskiy;Y.-H. Kuo;C. Rocken;W. S. Schreiner

146
Citations
Estimating Atmospheric Boundary Layer Depth Using COSMIC Radio Occultation Data

P. Guo;Y. H. Kuo;S. V. Sokolovskiy;D. H. Lenschow

133
Citations
Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS radio occultation

A. K. Steiner;A. K. Steiner;D. Hunt;S.-P. Ho;G. Kirchengast

127
Citations
Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data for Numerical Weather Prediction

S. Sokolovskiy;R. A. Anthes;F. Vandenberghe;A. M. Obukhov

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William Schreiner University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ying-Hwa Kuo University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Christian Rocken University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Richard A. Anthes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Xinan Yue Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jens Wickert Technical University of Berlin

Donald H. Lenschow National Center for Atmospheric Research

Torsten Schmidt Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Xiaolei Zou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Anthony J. Mannucci California Institute of Technology

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