Britton B. Stephens

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Britton B. Stephens is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Britton B. Stephens has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 58 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Britton B. Stephens's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (63 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (37 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (26 papers). Britton B. Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (63 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (37 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (26 papers). Britton B. Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Britton B. Stephens's co-authors include Ralph F. Keeling, David Schimel, Joshua B. Fisher, Steven C. Wofsy, Bruce C. Daube, John C. Lin, A. E. Andrews, Christoph Gerbig, Peter S. Bakwin and Colm Sweeney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Britton B. Stephens

78 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effect of increasing CO ₂ on the terrestrial carbon cycle

2014 472 citations David Schimel, Britton B. Stephens et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Britton B. Stephens United States	34	3.3k	2.9k	705	471	441	80	4.4k
Michel Ramonet France	41	4.8k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	706 1.0×	949 2.0×	360 0.8×	176	6.0k
Grégoire Broquet France	33	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	603 0.9×	448 1.0×	471 1.1×	105	4.0k
Martina Schmidt Germany	34	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	336 0.5×	301 0.6×	336 0.8×	92	3.8k
Toshinobu Machida Japan	38	3.8k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	223 0.3×	286 0.6×	316 0.7×	174	4.6k
T. D. Davies United Kingdom	37	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	489 0.7×	572 1.2×	428 1.0×	116	4.7k
K. A. Masarie United States	24	4.1k 1.3×	3.4k 1.1×	253 0.4×	140 0.3×	328 0.7×	38	4.7k
Kostas Tsigaridis United States	38	2.9k 0.9×	3.8k 1.3×	346 0.5×	1.5k 3.1×	273 0.6×	118	4.9k
P. C. Novelli United States	39	4.6k 1.4×	4.5k 1.5×	255 0.4×	627 1.3×	373 0.8×	77	5.5k
Lori Bruhwiler United States	25	3.0k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	135 0.2×	288 0.6×	474 1.1×	41	4.0k
R. M. Law Australia	28	3.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	589 0.8×	91 0.2×	328 0.7×	64	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Britton B. Stephens

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20 of 20 papers shown

Laughner, Joshua L., C. O’Dell, Steven T. Massie, et al.. (2025). Uncertainty‐Aware Machine Learning Bias Correction and Filtering for OCO‐2: 1. Earth and Space Science. 12(7).

Hallar, A. Gannet, Ian B. McCubbin, Randolph Borys, et al.. (2025). Storm Peak Laboratory: A Research and Training Facility for the Atmospheric Sciences. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(6). E1130–E1148.

Laughner, Joshua L., Sébastien Roche, Matthäus Kiel, et al.. (2023). A new algorithm to generate a priori trace gas profiles for the GGG2020 retrieval algorithm. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(5). 1121–1146. 20 indexed citations

Stephens, Britton B., R. Commane, Frédéric Chevallier, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(2). 1 indexed citations

Stephens, Britton B., Eric J. Morgan, J. D. Bent, et al.. (2021). Airborne measurements of oxygen concentration from the surface to the lower stratosphere and pole to pole. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(3). 2543–2574. 10 indexed citations

Jin, Yuming, Ralph F. Keeling, Eric J. Morgan, et al.. (2020). A mass-weighted atmospheric isentropic coordinate for mapping chemical tracers and computing inventories. 2 indexed citations

Asher, Elizabeth, Rebecca S. Hornbrook, Britton B. Stephens, et al.. (2019). Using airborne observations to improve estimates of short-lived halocarbon emissions during summer from Southern Ocean. 2 indexed citations

Gaubert, Benjamin, Britton B. Stephens, Sourish Basu, et al.. (2019). Global atmospheric CO ₂ inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange, but disagreeing on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate. Biogeosciences. 16(1). 117–134. 69 indexed citations

Mitchell, L., John C. Lin, D. R. Bowling, et al.. (2018). Long-term urban carbon dioxide observations reveal spatial and temporal dynamics related to urban characteristics and growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(12). 2912–2917. 137 indexed citations

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Bares, Ryan, John C. Lin, Sebastian W. Hoch, et al.. (2018). The Wintertime Covariation of CO₂ and Criteria Pollutants in an Urban Valley of the Western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(5). 2684–2703. 46 indexed citations

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Asher, Elizabeth, Alan J. Hills, Rebecca S. Hornbrook, et al.. (2018). Quality Assessment and airborne measurements in the Colorado Front Range using the Unmanned Whole Air Sampling System (UWASS). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Kulawik, S. S., Chris O’Dell, Vivienne H. Payne, et al.. (2017). Lower-tropospheric CO ₂ from near-infrared ACOS-GOSAT observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(8). 5407–5438. 15 indexed citations

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Lin, John C., Derek V. Mallia, Dien Wu, & Britton B. Stephens. (2017). How can mountaintop CO ₂ observations be used to constrain regional carbon fluxes?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(9). 5561–5581. 32 indexed citations

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Schimel, David, Britton B. Stephens, & Joshua B. Fisher. (2014). Effect of increasing CO ₂ on the terrestrial carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(2). 436–441. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Graven, Heather, Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen C. Piper, et al.. (2013). Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO ₂ by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960. Science. 341(6150). 1085–1089. 292 indexed citations

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Basu, Sourish, Sandrine Guerlet, A. Butz, et al.. (2013). Global CO ₂ fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO ₂. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(17). 8695–8717. 195 indexed citations

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Brailsford, Gordon, Britton B. Stephens, Antony Gomez, et al.. (2012). Long-term continuous atmospheric CO ₂ measurements at Baring Head, New Zealand. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(12). 3109–3117. 23 indexed citations

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Keppel‐Aleks, G., P. O. Wennberg, R. A. Washenfelder, et al.. (2012). The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide. Biogeosciences. 9(3). 875–891. 77 indexed citations

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Ehleringer, J. R., Andrew J. Schauer, Chun‐Ze Lai, et al.. (2008). Long-Term Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Salt Lake City. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Jielun, Sean P. Burns, A. C. Delany, et al.. (2004). Carbon dioxide transport over complex terrain. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29–32. 1 indexed citations

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