2026 Shayne McGregor: 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	43	6948	6677	256	249	120	10982

Overview

Shayne McGregor is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a broad range of topics within these fields, emphasizing climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Their research contributions cover various subjects such as:

Climate variability and models
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

McGregor's work spans several related subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, oceanography, earth-surface processes, and aerospace engineering.

Their published research appears frequently in journals such as:

Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Climate
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Earth's Future
Climate Dynamics

Recent publications include:

"Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"Evaluating Climate Models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO Metrics Package," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects," 2021, Science
"Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes," 2020, Nature Geoscience
"Projected ENSO Teleconnection Changes in CMIP6," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators include Dietmar Dommenget, Michael J. McPhaden, Agus Santoso, Andréa S. Taschetto, and Yann Planton. Each has contributed extensively alongside McGregor to the study of climate variability and related phenomena.

Best Publications

Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus

Matthew Heathcote England;Shayne McGregor;J Paul Spence;Gerald A Meehl

1516
Citations
El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

1171
Citations
Pantropical Climate Interactions

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

736
Citations
Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming

Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Malte F Stuecker;Matthew Heathcote England

678
Citations
Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

591
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
Polar amplification dominated by local forcing and feedbacks

Malte F. Stuecker;Cecilia M. Bitz;Kyle C. Armour;Cristian Proistosescu

371
Citations
A combination mode of the annual cycle and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Malte F. Stuecker;Axel Timmermann;Fei-Fei Jin;Shayne McGregor

293
Citations
Wind Effects on Past and Future Regional Sea Level Trends in the Southern Indo-Pacific

Axel Timmermann;Shayne McGregor;Fei-Fei Jin

276
Citations
A unified proxy for ENSO and PDO variability since 1650

Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Oliver Elison Timm

245
Citations
Evaluating Climate Models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO Metrics Package

Yann Y. Planton;Eric Guilyardi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Jiwoo Lee

235
Citations
Combination Mode Dynamics of the Anomalous Northwest Pacific Anticyclone

Malte F. Stuecker;Fei-Fei Jin;Axel Timmermann;Shayne McGregor

228
Citations
Effects of volcanism on tropical variability

Nicola Maher;Shayne McGregor;Matthew Heathcote England;Alexander Sen Gupta

200
Citations
Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects.

Scott Power;Scott Power;Matthieu Lengaigne;Antonietta Capotondi;Antonietta Capotondi;Myriam Khodri

196
Citations
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes

Gerald A. Meehl;Aixue Hu;Frederic Castruccio;Matthew H. England

157
Citations
Late-twentieth-century emergence of the El Niño propagation asymmetry and future projections

Agus Santoso;Shayne McGregor;Fei-Fei Jin;Wenju Cai

156
Citations
The Effect of the South Pacific Convergence Zone on the Termination of El Niño Events and the Meridional Asymmetry of ENSO

Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Niklas Schneider;Malte F Stuecker

155
Citations
Regional patterns of tropical Indo-Pacific climate change: evidence of the Walker circulation weakening

Hiroki Tokinaga;Shang Ping Xie;Axel Timmermann;Shayne McGregor

155
Citations
On the long-term context of the 1997–2009 ‘Big Dry’ in South-Eastern Australia: insights from a 206-year multi-proxy rainfall reconstruction

Joëlle Gergis;Ailie Jane Eyre Gallant;Karl Braganza;David John Karoly

152
Citations
The Effect of Explosive Tropical Volcanism on ENSO

Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann

144
Citations
ENSO to multi-decadal time scale changes in East Australian Current transports and Fort Denison sea level: Oceanic Rossby waves as the connecting mechanism

Neil John Holbrook;Ian David Goodwin;Shayne McGregor;Ernesto Molina

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew H. England University of New South Wales

Axel Timmermann Pusan National University

Wenju Cai Ocean University of China

Malte F. Stuecker University of Hawaii at Manoa

Scott B. Power Bureau of Meteorology

Neil J. Holbrook University of Tasmania

Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa

Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

Dietmar Dommenget Monash University

External Links

Personal website of Shayne McGregor

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