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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
109
Citations
80142
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
13

Timothy M. Lenton publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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 Timothy M. Lenton sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 435 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Timothy M. Lenton D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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 Timothy M. Lenton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Timothy M. Lenton is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change. Over the course of their career, they have contributed extensively to subfields including atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, economics and econometrics, as well as astronomy and astrophysics.

Lenton's work covers a range of main topics such as ecosystem dynamics and resilience, climate change and health impacts, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, global energy and sustainability research, and climate change policy and economics.

They have published recent papers in prominent scientific venues:

  • "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points" (2022) in Science
  • "Safe and just Earth system boundaries" (2023) in Nature
  • "Future of the human climate niche" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios" (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s" (2022) in Nature Climate Change

Lenton frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Chris A. Boulton
  • Jesse F. Abrams
  • Johan Rockström
  • Marten Scheffer
  • Chi Xu

Their publications appear most often in these scientific venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

    Timothy M. Lenton;Hermann Held;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Jim W. Hall

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

    Will Steffen;Johan Rockström;Katherine Richardson;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

    Unknown

  • Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

    Timothy M. Lenton;Johan Rockström;Owen Gaffney;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries

    Unknown

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

    William J Ripple;Christopher Wolf;Thomas M Newsome;Jillian W Gregg

  • Early warning of climate tipping points

    Timothy M. Lenton;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

    Unknown

  • Future of the human climate niche.

    Chi Xu;Timothy A. Kohler;Timothy M. Lenton;Jens Christian Svenning

  • The coral reef crisis : the critical importance of < 350 ppm CO2

    J. E. N. Veron;O. Hoegh-Guldberg;T. M. Lenton;J. M. Lough

  • COPSE: a new model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

    Noam M. Bergman;Timothy M. Lenton;Andrew J. Watson

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    John A. Dearing;Rong Wang;Ke Zhang;James G. Dyke

  • The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options

    T. M. Lenton;N. E. Vaughan

  • Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    J. Walsh;D. Wuebbles;K. Hayhoe;J. Kossin

  • The impact of temperature on marine phytoplankton resource allocation and metabolism

    Andrew Toseland;Stuart J. Daines;James R. Clark;Amy Kirkham

  • Gaia and natural selection

    Timothy M. Lenton

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Watson
Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter
Benjamin J. W. Mills
Benjamin J. W. Mills University of Leeds
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Robert Marsh
Robert Marsh University of Southampton
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
Neil R. Edwards
Neil R. Edwards The Open University
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter
Andrew Yool
Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre

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