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 Steven Platnick sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 322 publications — 88th percentile
88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.
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 Steven Platnick sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile
81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.
Steven Platnick is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a strong emphasis on atmospheric aerosols and clouds as well as atmospheric chemistry. The scholar contributes extensively to topics including atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, calibration and measurement techniques, and solar radiation and photovoltaics.
The major fields of study in Platnick's work include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader fields, the scientist specializes in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.
Platnick's frequent publication venues reflect this focus with multiple papers published in journals such as Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Nature Geoscience, and Science Advances. The count of publications is notably higher in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques and Remote Sensing journals.
Frequent collaborators include Kerry Meyer, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Robert Wood, Tianle Yuan, and Chenxi Wang, with co-authorship counts ranging from 6 to 20 publications each.
Some of the recent notable papers co-authored by Platnick and others are:
S. Platnick;M.D. King;S.A. Ackerman;W.P. Menzel
M.D. King;W.P. Menzel;Y.J. Kaufman;D. Tanre
Steven Platnick;Kerry G. Meyer;Michael D. King;Galina Wind
M. D. King;S. Platnick;W. P. Menzel;S. A. Ackerman
C. J. Stubenrauch;W. B. Rossow;S. Kinne;S. Ackerman
S. Platnick;S. Twomey
Duane E. Waliser;Jui-Lin F. Li;Christopher P. Woods;Richard T. Austin
S. Platnick
Bryan A. Baum;Ping Yang;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Steven Platnick
Ismail Gultepe;G. Pearson;J. A. Milbrandt;B. Hansen
Robert Pincus;Steven Platnick;Steven A. Ackerman;Richard S. Hemler
E.G. Moody;M.D. King;S. Platnick;C.B. Schaaf
Robert J. Swap;Robert J. Swap;Harold J. Annegarn;J. Timothy Suttles;Michael D. King
Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman
Zhibo Zhang;Steven Platnick
Alexander Marshak;Steven Platnick;Tamás Várnai;Guoyong Wen
Michael D. King;W. Paul Menzel;Patrick S. Grant;Jeffrey S. Myers
A. Lyapustin;Yujie Wang;X. Xiong;G. Meister
Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty
Michael D. King;Steven Platnick;Ping Yang;G. Thomas Arnold
Zhibo Zhang;Zhibo Zhang;Andrew S. Ackerman;Graham Feingold;Steven Platnick
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