Alan Robock

38.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
298 papers, 22.1k citations indexed

About

Alan Robock is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Robock has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 22.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 185 papers in Atmospheric Science and 41 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Alan Robock's work include Climate variability and models (102 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (82 papers) and Climate Change and Geoengineering (63 papers). Alan Robock is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (102 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (82 papers) and Climate Change and Geoengineering (63 papers). Alan Robock collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Alan Robock's co-authors include Georgiy Stenchikov, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Luke D. Oman, Ben Kravitz, Jianping Mao, Chaochao Gao, Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho, N. A. Speranskaya, Jared Entin and Caspar Ammann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan Robock

284 papers receiving 20.9k citations

Hit Papers

Volcanic eruptions and climate 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2011 2000 2008 2003 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Volcanic eruptions and climate
    2000 1.9k citations Alan Robock Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  2. The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements
    2011 878 citations Alan Robock et al. profile →
  3. The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank
    2000 682 citations Alan Robock, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →
  4. Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core‐based index for climate models
    2008 562 citations Chaochao Gao, Alan Robock et al. profile →
  5. Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project
    2003 537 citations Alan Robock, Qingyun Duan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Robock United States 81 15.6k 15.3k 3.6k 2.3k 1.8k 298 22.1k
Jean‐François Lamarque United States 75 22.7k 1.5× 21.1k 1.4× 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 927 0.5× 287 32.9k
J. S. Famiglietti United States 79 8.9k 0.6× 4.2k 0.3× 6.3k 1.7× 8.2k 3.5× 3.4k 1.9× 224 23.1k
Matthew Rodell United States 67 9.2k 0.6× 5.3k 0.3× 6.1k 1.7× 7.2k 3.1× 3.5k 2.0× 179 23.5k
P. C. D. Milly United States 47 10.9k 0.7× 4.3k 0.3× 2.7k 0.7× 7.3k 3.1× 315 0.2× 101 16.4k
Robert E. Dickinson United States 90 18.7k 1.2× 13.7k 0.9× 5.7k 1.6× 3.8k 1.6× 4.3k 2.4× 325 28.7k
Oliviér Boucher France 78 21.7k 1.4× 19.5k 1.3× 1.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 609 0.3× 287 27.2k
Aiguo Dai United States 78 29.7k 1.9× 20.2k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 5.1k 2.2× 873 0.5× 232 36.9k
Sean Swenson United States 48 6.3k 0.4× 4.4k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 3.3k 1.4× 2.8k 1.6× 86 15.8k
David M. Lawrence United States 80 15.6k 1.0× 16.0k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.9k 1.2× 257 0.1× 253 26.7k
Karl E. Taylor United States 54 33.4k 2.1× 27.1k 1.8× 2.4k 0.7× 3.9k 1.7× 763 0.4× 122 41.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Robock, Alan, Lili Xia, Sam S. Rabin, et al.. (2025). Maize Yield Changes Under Sulfate Aerosol Climate Intervention Using Three Global Gridded Crop Models. Earth s Future. 13(2). 1 indexed citations
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Grant, N.J., et al.. (2025). Impacts on Indian Agriculture Due To Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention Using Agroclimatic Indices. Earth s Future. 13(1). 4 indexed citations
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Harrison, Cheryl S., William Faulkner, Joshua Coupe, et al.. (2025). Accessible Climate and Impact Model Output for Studying the Human and Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Conflict. California Digital Library.
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Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, et al.. (2024). G6-1.5K-SAI: a new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment integrating recent advances in solar radiation modification studies. Geoscientific model development. 17(7). 2583–2596. 18 indexed citations
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Visioni, Daniele, et al.. (2023). Process-Level Experiments and Policy-Relevant Scenarios in Future GeoMIP Iterations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(2). E501–E503. 4 indexed citations
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Florindo, Fabio, Valerio Acocella, Annmarie G. Carlton, et al.. (2023). 60 Years and Beyond of Reviews of Geophysics. Reviews of Geophysics. 61(2). 2 indexed citations
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Visioni, Daniele, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, et al.. (2023). Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) – past, present, and future. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(9). 5149–5176. 31 indexed citations
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Coupe, Joshua, Cheryl S. Harrison, Alan Robock, et al.. (2023). Sudden Reduction of Antarctic Sea Ice Despite Cooling After Nuclear War. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(1). 3 indexed citations
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Marshall, Lauren, Elena Maters, Anja Schmidt, et al.. (2022). Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues. Bulletin of Volcanology. 84(5). 73 indexed citations
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Liu, Fei, Chaochao Gao, Alan Robock, et al.. (2022). Tropical volcanism enhanced the East Asian summer monsoon during the last millennium. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3429–3429. 51 indexed citations
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Gao, Chaochao, Francis Ludlow, John A. Matthews, et al.. (2021). Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 23 indexed citations
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Bardeen, Charles, Douglas E. Kinnison, O. B. Toon, et al.. (2021). Extreme Ozone Loss Following Nuclear War Results in Enhanced Surface Ultraviolet Radiation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(18). 14 indexed citations
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Tilmes, Simone, Douglas G. MacMartin, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, et al.. (2020). Reaching 1.5 and 2.0 °C global surface temperature targets using stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. Earth System Dynamics. 11(3). 579–601. 76 indexed citations
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Lovenduski, Nicole S., Cheryl S. Harrison, Charles Bardeen, et al.. (2020). The Potential Impact of Nuclear Conflict on Ocean Acidification. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(3). 8 indexed citations
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Toon, O. B., Charles Bardeen, Alan Robock, et al.. (2019). Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe. Science Advances. 5(10). eaay5478–eaay5478. 49 indexed citations
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Kravitz, Ben, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, et al.. (2018). The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: an idealized representation of solar geoengineering. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(17). 13097–13113. 22 indexed citations
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Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, et al.. (2015). The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): simulation design and preliminary results. Geoscientific model development. 8(10). 3379–3392. 181 indexed citations
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Stenchikov, Georgiy, Alan Robock, V. Ramaswamy, et al.. (2002). Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode Response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations
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Schlosser, C. Adam, A. G. Slater, Alan Robock, et al.. (2000). Simulations of a Boreal Grassland Hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS Phase 2(d). Monthly Weather Review. 128(2). 301–321. 147 indexed citations

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