Benjamin I. Cook

23.0k citations

187 papers · 16.2k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Ecological Modeling top 0.2%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 145
- Climate variability and models 118
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 65
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 44
Atmospheric Science 110
- Tree-ring climate responses 70
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 24
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 22

Co-authors: Jason E. Smerdon Richard Seager Park Williams Toby R. Ault Edward R. Cook Kevin J. Anchukaitis Justin Mankin E. M. Wolkovich
Journals: Journal of Climate (22 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (19 papers)Climate Dynamics (12 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (10 papers)Environmental Research Letters (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada France

In The Last Decade

Benjamin I. Cook

179 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Global droughts connected by linkages between drought hubs 2023 · 109 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Climate Change
2021 Nature Climate Change
2020 Science
2020 Earth s Future
2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018 Climate Change and Drought: From Past to Future
2016 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2015 Science Advances
2015 Geophysical Research Letters
2014 Climate Dynamics
2012 Nature

Peers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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1	Uneven impacts of climate change around the world and across the annual cycle of winegrapes PLOS Climate ·E. M. Wolkovich, Benjamin I. Cook, Iñaki García de Cortázar Atauri, Xiang Dong Xian, Thierry Lacombe, Cécile Marchal, Ignacio Morales‐Castilla	2025	0
2	Contributions of Atmospheric Ridging and Low Soil Moisture to the Record‐Breaking June 2023 Mexico‐Texas Heatwave Geophysical Research Letters ·Jer‐Chen Liao, Deepti Singh, Mingfang Ting, Benjamin I. Cook	2025	1
3	The Influence of Land‐Surface Conditions on the 2020–2021 Western US Drought Water Resources Research ·Yelin Jiang, Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Guiling Wang, Benjamin I. Cook, Cheng Zheng, Justin Mankin, Park Williams	2025	0
4	Enhancing spatiotemporal paleoclimate reconstructions of hydroclimate across the Mediterranean over the last millennium Climate Dynamics ·Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Ramzi Touchan, David M. Meko, Jorge Alberto Vega-Gomez, Sai͏̈d Slimani, Fatih Sivrikaya, D. Martinez Santos, 李有观, Jean Stephan, Jihad Attieh, E G Baker Alexander, J. Julio Camarero, Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero, Frédéric Guibal, Alma Piermattei, Alyssa Weyer, Karoly Gerstner, Benjamin I. Cook	2024	2
5	Preseason maize and wheat yield forecasts for early warning of crop failure Nature Communications ·Weston Anderson, Shraddhanand Shukla, A. S. Barbosa, Andrew Hoell, Christina Justice, B. Barker, Delores M. Ivery, Nathan Lenssen, 實福井, Benjamin I. Cook, Amy McNally	2024	9
6	The Impact of Drought on Terrestrial Carbon in the West African Sahel: Implications for Natural Climate Solutions Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Helena Góralska, Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe	2024	2
7	The Changing Influence of Precipitation on Soil Moisture Drought With Warming in the Mediterranean and Western North America Earth s Future ·Miriam Nielsen, Benjamin I. Cook, Kate Marvel, Mingfang Ting, Jason E. Smerdon	2024	8
8	Climate variability and simultaneous breadbasket yield shocks as observed in long-term yield records Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Weston Anderson, Walter Baethgen, Fabian Capitanio, Philippe Ciais, Benjamin I. Cook, 代造森田紀, Lisa Goddard, Bernhard Schauberger, Kai Sonder, Guillermo Podestá, Marijn van der Velde, Liangzhi You	2023	30
9	Anthropogenic Aerosols Delay the Emergence of GHGs‐Forced Wetting of South Asian Rainy Seasons Under a Fossil‐Fuel Intensive Pathway Geophysical Research Letters ·M. Ari Munfaqih, Benjamin I. Cook, Kate Marvel, Sonali McDermid, Geeta Persad, Bala Rajaratnam, Deepti Singh	2023	1
10	Soil Carbon Losses Reduce Soil Moisture in Global Climate Model Simulations Earth Interactions ·Sonali McDermid, Ensheng Weng, Michael J. Puma, Benjamin I. Cook, Tomislav Hengl, Jonathan Sanderman, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Igor Aleinov	2022	2
11	Modeling demographic-driven vegetation dynamics and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling in NASA GISS's Earth system model (ModelE-BiomeE v.1.0) Geoscientific model development ·Ensheng Weng, Igor Aleinov, Anna M. Morenz, Michael J. Puma, Sonali McDermid, Nancy Y. Kiang, Maxwell Kelley, Kevin R. Wilcox, Ray Dybzinski, Caroline E. Farrior, Stephen W. Pacala, Benjamin I. Cook	2022	5
12	Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe, Justin Mankin, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Michael J. Puma, Igor Aleinov, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko	2021	19
13	Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know? Earth s Future ·John W. Nielsen‐Gammon, Jay L. Banner, Benjamin I. Cook, Darrel M. Tremaine, C. I. Wong, Robert E. Mace, Huilin Gao, Zong‐Liang Yang, Zoltán Havelda, Panagiota Soupidou, Z. Lisowski, Kevin A. Kloesel	2020	66
14	Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought Science ·Park Williams, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Benjamin I. Cook, John T. Abatzoglou, Kasey Bolles, Seung H. Baek, Andrew M. Badger, Ben Livneh Hit paper breakdown →	2020	632
15	Seasonality of biological and physical systems as indicators of climatic variation and change Climatic Change ·Jake F. Weltzin, Julio L. Betancourt, Benjamin I. Cook, Theresa M. Crimmins, Carolyn A. F. Enquist, Michael D. Gerst, John Gross, Geoffrey M. Henebry, D. V. Lachugin, Melissa A. Kenney, John S. Kimball, Bradley C. Reed, Steven W. Running	2020	13
16	Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Benjamin I. Cook, Sonali McDermid, Michael J. Puma, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko, Igor Aleinov	2020	22
17	Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth‐Century North American Megadrought Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Benjamin I. Cook, Park Williams, Jason E. Smerdon, Jonathan Palmer, Edward R. Cook, David W. Stahle, Sloan Coats	2018	16
18	Distinct Influences of Land Cover and Land Management on Seasonal Climate Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Deepti Singh, Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, Michael J. Puma, Larissa Nazarenko, Maxwell Kelley	2018	35
19	Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan‐Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming Geophysical Research Letters ·Dimitris A. Herrera, Toby R. Ault, John Fasullo, Sloan Coats, Carlos M. Carrillo, Benjamin I. Cook, Park Williams	2018	47
20	Using palaeo-climate comparisons to constrain future projections in CMIP5 Climate of the past ·Gavin A. Schmidt, J. D. Annan, Patrick J. Bartlein, Benjamin I. Cook, Éric Guilyardi, J. C. Hargreaves, Sandy P. Harrison, Masa Kageyama, Allegra N. LeGrande, Bronwen Konecky, S. Lovejoy, Michael Mann, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Camille Risi, D. M. Thompson, Axel Timmermann, Bruno Tremblay, Pascal Yiou	2014	168

About Benjamin I. Cook

Benjamin I. Cook is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 187 papers that have together received 16.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (118 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (70 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (44 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (24 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (22 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (10.8k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (6.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.2k citations) and Water Science and Technology (2.1k citations). Benjamin I. Cook has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Frequent co-authors include Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Park Williams, Toby R. Ault, Edward R. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Justin Mankin, E. M. Wolkovich, Michael J. Puma and Sloan Coats. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Research Letters.

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