Daniel Cusworth

4.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
52 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Daniel Cusworth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Cusworth has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Daniel Cusworth's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (46 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (22 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (19 papers). Daniel Cusworth is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (46 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (22 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (19 papers). Daniel Cusworth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Spain. Daniel Cusworth's co-authors include Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, Charles E. Miller, Loretta J. Mickley, Miriam E. Marlier, Tianjia Liu, Ruth DeFries, Daniel J. Varon, Luis Guanter and Philip E. Dennison and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Cusworth

46 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters

2022 191 citations Riley Duren, Daniel Cusworth et al. profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

2022 186 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Daniel J. Varon et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements

2024 65 citations Yuanlei Chen, Daniel Cusworth et al. profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills

2024 50 citations Daniel Cusworth, Riley Duren et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Cusworth United States	24	1.5k	917	366	331	282	52	1.9k
Stephen Conley United States	25	2.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	365 1.0×	560 1.7×	312 1.1×	52	2.5k
Ramón A. Alvarez United States	15	1.3k 0.9×	619 0.7×	340 0.9×	548 1.7×	323 1.1×	24	1.8k
Alba Lorente Netherlands	23	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	284 0.8×	294 0.9×	336 1.2×	43	1.8k
David Lyon United States	25	2.1k 1.4×	934 1.0×	561 1.5×	655 2.0×	168 0.6×	43	2.4k
Joannes D. Maasakkers United States	33	2.8k 1.8×	2.0k 2.1×	661 1.8×	356 1.1×	286 1.0×	74	3.1k
Daniel J. Varon United States	21	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	452 1.2×	258 0.8×	59 0.2×	54	1.9k
Daniel Zavala‐Araiza United States	30	2.1k 1.4×	967 1.1×	562 1.5×	473 1.4×	107 0.4×	50	2.5k
Brian H. Stirm United States	23	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	166 0.5×	382 1.2×	379 1.3×	41	1.7k
Scot M. Miller United States	21	1.1k 0.7×	851 0.9×	159 0.4×	200 0.6×	124 0.4×	56	1.5k
Maria Obiminda Cambaliza United States	21	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	155 0.4×	468 1.4×	506 1.8×	47	1.7k

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Pandey, Sudhanshu, John R. Worden, Daniel Cusworth, et al.. (2025). Relating Multi-Scale Plume Detection and Area Estimates of Methane Emissions: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(16). 7931–7947. 1 indexed citations

Heath, Nicholas, C. Efstathiou, Jeremy K. Domen, et al.. (2025). Not just a climate problem: the safety and health risks of methane super-emitter events. Environmental Research Letters. 20(9). 94025–94025.

Jacob, Daniel J., Hannah Nesser, Joannes D. Maasakkers, et al.. (2025). Satellite monitoring of annual US landfill methane emissions and trends. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24007–24007. 5 indexed citations

Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Joseph Heckler, et al.. (2024). Investigating Major Sources of Methane Emissions at US Landfills. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(49). 21545–21556. 12 indexed citations

Nelson, Robert, Daniel Cusworth, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2024). Comparing Point Source CO ₂ Emission Rate Estimates From Near‐Simultaneous OCO‐3 and EMIT Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 3 indexed citations

Ayasse, Alana, et al.. (2023). Performance and sensitivity of column-wise and pixel-wise methane retrievals for imaging spectrometers. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(24). 6065–6074. 6 indexed citations

Maasakkers, Joannes D., Pieter van der Bijl, Sudhanshu Pandey, et al.. (2023). Automated detection and monitoring of methane super-emitters using satellite data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(16). 9071–9098. 52 indexed citations

Worden, John R., Sudhanshu Pandey, Yuzhong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Verifying Methane Inventories and Trends With Atmospheric Methane Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 9 indexed citations

Cusworth, Daniel, Andrew K. Thorpe, Charles E. Miller, et al.. (2023). Two years of satellite-based carbon dioxide emission quantification at the world's largest coal-fired power plants. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(22). 14577–14591. 15 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., E. A. Kort, Daniel Cusworth, et al.. (2023). Methane emissions decline from reduced oil, natural gas, and refinery production during COVID-19. Environmental Research Communications. 5(2). 21006–21006. 7 indexed citations

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Hmiel, Benjamin, David Lyon, Daniel Cusworth, et al.. (2022). Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines in the Permian Basin. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 9(11). 969–974. 22 indexed citations

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Ayasse, Alana, Andrew K. Thorpe, Daniel Cusworth, et al.. (2022). Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84039–84039. 30 indexed citations

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Ma, Shuang, John R. Worden, A. Anthony Bloom, et al.. (2021). Satellite Constraints on the Latitudinal Distribution and Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 36 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2021). Quantifying Global Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions With Imaging Spectroscopy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 43 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Riley Duren, Brian Bue, et al.. (2020). Visualizing anthropogenic methane plumes from the California Methane Survey.

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Vineet Yadav, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Methane Observations Across Scales: Strategies for Deploying a Multitiered Observing Network. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(7). 26 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Multisatellite Imaging of a Gas Well Blowout Enables Quantification of Total Methane Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(2). 53 indexed citations

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Duren, Riley, Andrew K. Thorpe, Daniel Cusworth, et al.. (2020). Methane point-source emissions from oil, gas, and coal operations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 1 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). A multi-tiered methane analytic framework for constraining budgets, point source attribution, and anomalous event detection. 1 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Loretta J. Mickley, Melissa P. Sulprizio, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the influence of agricultural fires in northwest India on urban air pollution in Delhi, India. Environmental Research Letters. 13(4). 44018–44018. 165 indexed citations

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