2026 Thomas J. Crowley: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	76	662	70	199	22078

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Thomas J. Crowley was affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple disciplines within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with significant contributions to topics such as Indian history and philosophy, urban planning and governance, and environmental philosophy and ethics.

Their recent publications covered a range of themes addressing spatial dynamics, social exclusion, and urban development. These included:

"Itinerant urbanization: On circles, fractals and the critique of segmented space" (2022) published in Environment and Planning D Society and Space
"The conditionability of positive and negative self-reference emotional affect statements in a counseling type interview." (2022) published in Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
"Unfixing Space: Toward Anti-Caste Philosophies of Nature" (2022) published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
"Leisure, Festival, Revolution: Ambedkarite Productions of Space" (2020) published in CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
"Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city" (2024) published in Urban Geography

Crowley collaborated with several colleagues, with frequent coauthors including D. Asher Ghertner, Vipin Chauhan, Andrew Fisher, Helen McCabe, and Helen Williams.

Their work appeared in diverse academic venues, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach. Key publication venues included:

Environment and Planning D Society and Space
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Urban Geography
CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Thomas J. Crowley's primary fields of study were in social sciences and arts and humanities. Specific subfields covered by their research included sociology and political science, philosophy, political science and international relations, urban studies, and geography, planning and development.

The main topics addressed in Crowley's research were:

Indian History and Philosophy
Urban Planning and Governance
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Water Governance and Infrastructure
Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
Geographies of human-animal interactions
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

In recognition of their contributions, Thomas J. Crowley was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2001.

Best Publications

Causes of Climate Change Over the Past 1000 Years

Thomas J. Crowley

2845
Citations
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

Heinz Wanner;Jürg Beer;Jonathan Bütikofer;Thomas J. Crowley

2026
Citations
Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’ simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model

William T. Hyde;Thomas J. Crowley;Steven K. Baum;W. Richard Peltier

632
Citations
How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period

Thomas J. Crowley;Thomas S. Lowery

582
Citations
North Atlantic Deep Water cools the southern hemisphere

Thomas J. Crowley

523
Citations
Climate sensitivity constrained by temperature reconstructions over the past seven centuries

Gabriele C. Hegerl;Thomas J. Crowley;William T. Hyde;David J. Frame

490
Citations
Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the last millennium (v1.0)

G. A. Schmidt;Johann H. Jungclaus;C. M. Ammann;Edouard Bard

471
Citations
CO2 and Climate Change

Thomas J. Crowley;Robert A. Berner

411
Citations
Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

Johann H. Jungclaus;S. J. Lorenz;C. Timmreck;C. H. Reick

401
Citations
How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period?

Unknown

390
Citations
Modelling teleconnections between the North Atlantic and North Pacific during the Younger Dryas

Uwe Mikolajewicz;Thomas J. Crowley;Andreas Schiller;Reinhard Voss

389
Citations
Filtering of milankovitch cycles by earth's geography

David A. Short;John G. Mengel;Thomas J. Crowley;William T. Hyde

385
Citations
Technical details concerning development of a 1200 yr proxy index for global volcanism

T. J. Crowley;M. B. Unterman

364
Citations
Ocean General Circulation Model Sensitivity Experiment with an open Central American Isthmus

Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Thomas Crowley

348
Citations
Detection of Human Influence on a New, Validated 1500-Year Temperature Reconstruction

Gabriele C. Hegerl;Thomas J. Crowley;Myles Allen;William T. Hyde

347
Citations
Simulation of the influence of solar radiation variations on the global climate with an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

U. Cubasch;R. Voss;G. C. Hegerl;J. Waszkewitz

310
Citations
Glacial North Atlantic 18,000 Years Ago: A climap Reconstruction

Andrew McIntyre;Nilva G. Kipp;Allen W. H. Bé;Thomas Crowley

302
Citations
Abrupt Climate Change and Extinction Events in Earth History

Thomas J. Crowley;Gerald R. North

292
Citations
Volcanism and the Little Ice Age

Thomas J Crowley;G Zielinski;B Vinther;R Udisti

286
Citations
Ice Age terrestrial carbon changes revisited

Thomas J. Crowley

262
Citations
Effect of drake and panamanian gateways on the circulation of an Ocean model

Uwe Mikolajewicz;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Thomas J. Crowley;Kwang-Yul Kim

250
Citations
Detection of volcanic, solar and greenhouse gas signals in paleo‐reconstructions of Northern Hemispheric temperature

Gabriele C. Hegerl;Thomas J. Crowley;Steven K. Baum;Kwang-Yul Kim

225
Citations
Coastline responses to changing storm patterns

Jordan M. Slott;A. Brad Murray;Andrew D. Ashton;Thomas J. Crowley

220
Citations
A multicentury stable isotope record from a New Caledonia coral: Interannual and decadal sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific since 1657 A.D

Terrence M. Quinn;Thomas J. Crowley;Frederick W. Taylor;Christian Henin

215
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo

James E T Channell University of Florida

Paul A. Baker Duke University

Gabriele C. Hegerl University of Edinburgh

Kwang-Yul Kim Seoul National University

Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society

Frederick W. Taylor The University of Texas at Austin

Claudia Timmreck Max Planck Society

Terrence M. Quinn The University of Texas at Austin

Fortunat Joos University of Bern

External Links

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