Cathy Stephens

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Cathy Stephens is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Cathy Stephens has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Oceanography, 2 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Cathy Stephens's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (3 papers) and Climate variability and models (2 papers). Cathy Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (3 papers) and Climate variability and models (2 papers). Cathy Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ghana. Cathy Stephens's co-authors include Sydney Levitus, Timothy P. Boyer, John I. Antonov, Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan E. Garcia, Margarita E. Conkright, Todd O’Brien, Huimin Zhao, Le Yuan and Christopher D. Pond and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Cathy Stephens

8 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Warming of the World Ocean

2000 1.2k citations Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov et al. Science profile →
World ocean atlas 2001 : objective analyses, data statistics, and figures : CD-ROM documentation

2002 550 citations Margarita E. Conkright, Ricardo Locarnini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cathy Stephens United States	5	1.5k	1.3k	1.0k	458	174	10	2.2k
Wei Cheng United States	26	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	407 0.9×	198 1.1×	72	2.4k
Daphne R. Johnson United States	9	1.3k 0.9×	660 0.5×	933 0.9×	531 1.2×	258 1.5×	12	1.9k
Bernard Bourlès France	28	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	982 1.0×	267 0.6×	51 0.3×	76	2.5k
Jeff R. Dunn Australia	10	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	662 0.6×	398 0.9×	50 0.3×	12	2.0k
Hjálmar Hátún Norway	23	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	485 1.1×	252 1.4×	56	2.1k
Curtis A. Collins United States	25	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	694 0.7×	422 0.9×	120 0.7×	91	2.1k
Vincent Échevin France	31	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	806 0.8×	455 1.0×	104 0.6×	77	2.5k
Ilana Wainer Brazil	24	951 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	397 0.9×	87 0.5×	109	2.1k
Héðinn Valdimarsson Iceland	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	2.0k 2.0×	467 1.0×	456 2.6×	61	3.0k
Yafang Zhong United States	17	481 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	218 0.5×	145 0.8×	36	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Cathy Stephens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cathy Stephens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cathy Stephens. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cathy Stephens. The network helps show where Cathy Stephens may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cathy Stephens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cathy Stephens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cathy Stephens based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cathy Stephens. Cathy Stephens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

1.

Yuan, Le, et al.. (2025). Open Enzyme Database: a community-wide repository for sharing enzyme data. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D643–D651. 2 indexed citations

2.

Stephens, Cathy. (2015). The Job Hunt. Educational Horizons. 93(4). 5–5.

3.

Stephens, Cathy. (2014). The Job Hunt. Educational Horizons. 93(1). 5–5. 2 indexed citations

4.

Boyer, Timothy P., Sydney Levitus, Hernan E. Garcia, et al.. (2005). Objective analyses of annual, seasonal, and monthly temperature and salinity for the World Ocean on a 0.25° grid. International Journal of Climatology. 25(7). 931–945. 216 indexed citations

5.

Conkright, Margarita E., Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan E. Garcia, et al.. (2002). World ocean atlas 2001 : objective analyses, data statistics, and figures : CD-ROM documentation. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

6.

Stephens, Cathy & Sydney Levitus. (2002). World ocean atlas 2001. Volume 1, Temperature. 231 indexed citations

7.

Stephens, Cathy, Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, & Timothy P. Boyer. (2001). On the Pacific Ocean regime shift. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(19). 3721–3724. 55 indexed citations

8.

Stephens, Cathy. (2001). On the Pacific Ocean regime shift. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(19). 3721–3724. 3 indexed citations

9.

Levitus, Sydney, John I. Antonov, Timothy P. Boyer, & Cathy Stephens. (2000). Warming of the World Ocean. Science. 287(5461). 2225–2229. 1174 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Stephens, Cathy. (1995). Some Indications of Global Warming in Ghana. Environmental Conservation. 22(2). 174–175.

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