Daniel J. Jacob

89.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
442 papers, 50.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Jacob is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Jacob has authored 442 papers receiving a total of 50.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 389 papers in Atmospheric Science, 332 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 114 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Jacob's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (363 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (282 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (258 papers). Daniel J. Jacob is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (363 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (282 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (258 papers). Daniel J. Jacob collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Daniel J. Jacob's co-authors include Robert M. Yantosca, Jennifer A. Logan, Loretta J. Mickley, Rokjin J. Park, Darrell A. Winner, Mian Chin, Randall V. Martin, Brendan D. Field, I. Bey and Arlene M. Fiore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Jacob

436 papers receiving 48.5k citations

Hit Papers

Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sour... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2013 2001 2008 2018 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects
    2013 1.9k citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  2. Global modeling of tropospheric chemistry with assimilated meteorology: Model description and evaluation
    2001 1.8k citations I. Bey, Daniel J. Jacob et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
  3. Effect of climate change on air quality
    2008 1.4k citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. Atmospheric Environment profile →
  4. Anthropogenic drivers of 2013–2017 trends in summer surface ozone in China
    2018 1.2k citations Ke Li, Daniel J. Jacob et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Correlations between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and meteorological variables in the United States: Implications for the sensitivity of PM2.5 to climate change
    2010 836 citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. Atmospheric Environment profile →
  6. Natural and transboundary pollution influences on sulfate‐nitrate‐ammonium aerosols in the United States: Implications for policy
    2004 768 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Robert M. Yantosca et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
  7. A two-pollutant strategy for improving ozone and particulate air quality in China
    2019 614 citations Ke Li, Daniel J. Jacob et al. profile →
  8. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
    2000 592 citations Daniel J. Jacob profile →
  9. Global budgets of atmospheric glyoxal and methylglyoxal, and implications for formation of secondary organic aerosols
    2008 563 citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
  10. Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results
    1997 521 citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
  11. High concentrations and photochemical fate of oxygenated hydrocarbons in the global troposphere
    1995 506 citations Daniel J. Jacob et al. profile →
  12. Increases in surface ozone pollution in China from 2013 to 2019: anthropogenic and meteorological influences
    2020 417 citations Ke Li, Daniel J. Jacob et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
  13. Ozone pollution in the North China Plain spreading into the late-winter haze season
    2021 258 citations Ke Li, Daniel J. Jacob et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space
    2020 225 citations Yuzhong Zhang, Sudhanshu Pandey et al. profile →
  15. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel J. Jacob United States 131 39.7k 29.8k 19.6k 6.3k 2.1k 442 50.7k
Jos Lelieveld Germany 96 25.6k 0.6× 20.6k 0.7× 14.0k 0.7× 5.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.0× 648 39.5k
D. R. Blake United States 110 29.6k 0.7× 19.0k 0.6× 12.9k 0.7× 5.6k 0.9× 3.1k 1.5× 600 36.7k
Meinrat O. Andreae Germany 119 45.8k 1.2× 34.3k 1.2× 19.8k 1.0× 4.8k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 619 62.9k
Ulrich Pöschl Germany 97 22.4k 0.6× 12.2k 0.4× 16.7k 0.9× 4.2k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 400 37.6k
Markku Kulmala Finland 121 53.1k 1.3× 32.8k 1.1× 29.6k 1.5× 9.1k 1.5× 3.9k 1.9× 1.3k 62.9k
Kimitaka Kawamura Japan 89 23.8k 0.6× 9.7k 0.3× 13.6k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.8× 529 27.4k
David G. Streets United States 101 25.3k 0.6× 15.9k 0.5× 21.2k 1.1× 5.4k 0.9× 4.8k 2.3× 328 37.6k
Paulo Artaxo Brazil 90 19.8k 0.5× 16.5k 0.6× 9.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 413 27.8k
Junji Cao China 100 26.9k 0.7× 11.1k 0.4× 26.2k 1.3× 8.0k 1.3× 5.3k 2.5× 925 46.0k
Bernd R.T. Simoneit United States 98 21.6k 0.5× 8.4k 0.3× 20.3k 1.0× 3.3k 0.5× 5.2k 2.5× 477 42.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhu, Qing, Daniel J. Jacob, Kunxiaojia Yuan, et al.. (2025). Advancements and opportunities to improve bottom–up estimates of global wetland methane emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 23001–23001. 2 indexed citations
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Frankenberg, Christian, Yinon M. Bar‐On, Yi Yin, et al.. (2024). Data Drought in the Humid Tropics: How to Overcome the Cloud Barrier in Greenhouse Gas Remote Sensing. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(8). 7 indexed citations
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Dang, Ruijun, Daniel J. Jacob, Shixian Zhai, et al.. (2024). A Satellite-Based Indicator for Diagnosing Particulate Nitrate Sensitivity to Precursor Emissions: Application to East Asia, Europe, and North America. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(45). 20101–20113. 5 indexed citations
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Kim, Eunhye, Byeong-Uk Kim, Hyun Cheol Kim, et al.. (2024). North Korean CO emissions reconstruction using DMZ ground observations, TROPOMI space-borne data, and the CMAQ air quality model. The Science of The Total Environment. 921. 171059–171059. 4 indexed citations
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Varon, Daniel J., et al.. (2023). Geostationary satellite observations of extreme and transient methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). e2310797120–e2310797120. 14 indexed citations
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Jacob, Daniel J., Alba Lorente, Joannes D. Maasakkers, et al.. (2023). A blended TROPOMI+GOSAT satellite data product for atmospheric methane using machine learning to correct retrieval biases. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(16). 3787–3807. 27 indexed citations
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Qu, Zhen, Daniel J. Jacob, Lu Shen, et al.. (2021). Global distribution of methane emissions: a comparative inverse analysis of observations from the TROPOMI and GOSAT satellite instruments. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(18). 14159–14175. 88 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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Shah, Viral, Daniel J. Jacob, Ke Li, et al.. (2020). Effect of changing NO x lifetime on the seasonality and long-term trends of satellite-observed tropospheric NO 2 columns over China. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(3). 1483–1495. 168 indexed citations
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Zhuang, Jiawei, Daniel J. Jacob, Haipeng Lin, et al.. (2020). Enabling High‐Performance Cloud Computing for Earth Science Modeling on Over a Thousand Cores: Application to the GEOS‐Chem Atmospheric Chemistry Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(5). 28 indexed citations
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Cusworth, Daniel, Daniel J. Jacob, Jian‐Xiong Sheng, et al.. (2018). Detecting high-emitting methane sources in oil/gas fields using satellite observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 16885–16896. 38 indexed citations
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Hu, Lu, Daniel J. Jacob, Xiong Liu, et al.. (2017). Global budget of tropospheric ozone: Evaluating recent model advances with satellite (OMI), aircraft (IAGOS), and ozonesonde observations. Atmospheric Environment. 167. 323–334. 75 indexed citations
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Moch, Jonathan M., et al.. (2017). Hydroxymethane sulfonate as a possible explanation for observed high levels of particulate sulfur during severe winter haze episodes in Beijing, China.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017.
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Schmidt, Johan A., Daniel J. Jacob, Hannah M. Horowitz, et al.. (2016). Modeling the observed tropospheric BrO background: Importance of multiphase chemistry and implications for ozone, OH, and mercury. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 121(19). 108 indexed citations
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Jacob, Daniel J., Xiong Liu, J. X. Warner, et al.. (2013). Global ozone–CO correlations from OMI and AIRS: constraints on tropospheric ozone sources. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(18). 9321–9335. 43 indexed citations
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Jacob, Daniel J., J. R. Spackman, A. E. Perring, et al.. (2013). Global budget and radiative forcing of black carbon aerosol: constraints from pole-to-pole (HIPPO) observations across the Pacific. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 2013. 4 indexed citations
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Thornton, Joel A., Glenn M. Wolfe, D. R. Reidmiller, et al.. (2007). Can we Detect an Influence over North America From Increasing Asian NOx Emissions. AGUFM. 2007. 4 indexed citations
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Martin, Randall V., K. Chance, Daniel J. Jacob, et al.. (2002). An improved retrieval of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from GOME. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 107(D20). 314 indexed citations

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