Gordon Brailsford

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Gordon Brailsford is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon Brailsford has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gordon Brailsford's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (18 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Gordon Brailsford is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (36 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (18 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). Gordon Brailsford collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Australia. Gordon Brailsford's co-authors include Keith R. Lassey, Stanley C. Tyler, Dave Lowe, Antony Gomez, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, Patrick Crill, David C. Lowe, Tony Bromley, Hinrich Schaefer and Ross J. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gordon Brailsford

38 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

A 21st-century shift from fossil-fuel to biogenic methane emissions indicated by ¹³ CH ₄

2016 311 citations Hinrich Schaefer, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gordon Brailsford New Zealand	19	1.0k	754	331	213	201	41	1.3k
Rona L. Thompson Norway	22	1.1k 1.0×	948 1.3×	193 0.6×	175 0.8×	97 0.5×	59	1.6k
Juliette Lathière France	19	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 2.1×	186 0.6×	231 1.1×	113 0.6×	29	2.1k
C. Carouge United States	23	2.2k 2.1×	2.1k 2.7×	262 0.8×	270 1.3×	145 0.7×	33	2.8k
J. Lerner United States	20	1.8k 1.7×	1.7k 2.2×	283 0.9×	329 1.5×	115 0.6×	27	2.3k
P. M. Lang United States	12	2.4k 2.3×	2.1k 2.8×	467 1.4×	287 1.3×	167 0.8×	22	2.8k
Douglas E. J. Worthy Canada	24	1.9k 1.9×	1.7k 2.3×	131 0.4×	172 0.8×	107 0.5×	42	2.3k
D. Scharffe Germany	24	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	229 0.7×	319 1.5×	82 0.4×	32	2.2k
R. Commane United States	25	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	165 0.5×	344 1.6×	37 0.2×	78	2.0k
Torsten Sachs Germany	26	1.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	552 1.7×	868 4.1×	62 0.3×	85	2.3k
J. Bruno Risatti United States	6	464 0.4×	227 0.3×	648 2.0×	367 1.7×	399 2.0×	12	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gordon Brailsford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gordon Brailsford

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gordon Brailsford. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gordon Brailsford 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 Gordon Brailsford. Gordon Brailsford is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Morgenstern, Olaf, Rowena Moss, Martin Manning, et al.. (2025). Radiocarbon monoxide indicates increasing atmospheric oxidizing capacity. Nature Communications. 16(1). 249–249. 7 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, J. B. Miller, et al.. (2024). Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2411212121–e2411212121. 11 indexed citations

Turnbull, Jocelyn, Elizabeth D. Keller, Lucas G. Domingues, et al.. (2023). Urban flask measurements of CO₂ff and CO to identify emission sources at different site types in Auckland, New Zealand. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2261). 20220204–20220204. 3 indexed citations

Nisbet, Euan G., Martin Manning, E. J. Dlugokencky, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane's Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(8). 47 indexed citations

Sperlich, Peter, Gordon Brailsford, Rowena Moss, et al.. (2022). IRIS analyser assessment reveals sub-hourly variability of isotope ratios in carbon dioxide at Baring Head, New Zealand's atmospheric observatory in the Southern Ocean. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(6). 1631–1656. 1 indexed citations

Sperlich, Peter, Gordon Brailsford, Rowena Moss, et al.. (2021). IRIS analyser assessment reveals sub-hourly variability of isotope ratios in carbon dioxide at Baring Head, New Zealand's atmospheric observatory in the Southern Ocean. 2 indexed citations

Fletcher, S. E. Mikaloff, et al.. (2020). CarbonWatch-NZ: A bird's eye view of New Zealand's CO 2 and CH 4 exchange in forests, grasslands, and urban environments.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020.

Smale, Dan, V. Sherlock, David Griffith, et al.. (2019). A decade of CH ₄ , CO and N ₂ O in situ measurements at Lauder, New Zealand: assessing the long-term performance of a Fourier transform infrared trace gas and isotope analyser. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(1). 637–673. 5 indexed citations

Schaefer, Hinrich, Dan Smale, Tony Bromley, et al.. (2018). Limited impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on variability and growth rate of atmospheric methane. Biogeosciences. 15(21). 6371–6386. 9 indexed citations

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Turnbull, Jocelyn, et al.. (2017). Sixty years of radiocarbon dioxide measurements at Wellington, New Zealand: 1954–2014. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(23). 14771–14784. 63 indexed citations

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Fletcher, S. E. Mikaloff, Gordon Brailsford, Dan Smale, et al.. (2017). Atmospheric CO ₂ observations and models suggest strong carbon uptake by forests in New Zealand. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(1). 47–76. 13 indexed citations

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Turnbull, Jocelyn, Elizabeth D. Keller, W. T. Baisden, et al.. (2014). Atmospheric measurement of point source fossil CO ₂ emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(10). 5001–5014. 31 indexed citations

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Stephens, Britton B., Gordon Brailsford, Antony Gomez, et al.. (2013). Analysis of a 39-year continuous atmospheric CO ₂ record from Baring Head, New Zealand. Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2683–2697. 25 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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Petrenko, V. V., Andrew Smith, Edward J. Brook, et al.. (2009). ¹⁴ CH ₄ Measurements in Greenland Ice: Investigating Last Glacial Termination CH ₄ Sources. Science. 324(5926). 506–508. 68 indexed citations

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Lowe, David C., В.А. Левченко, Rowena Moss, et al.. (2002). Assessment of “storage correction” required for in situ ¹⁴CO production in air sample cylinders. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(7). 7 indexed citations

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Harvey, Mike, Gordon Brailsford, A. M. Bromley, et al.. (2002). Boundary-layer isotope dilution/mass balance methods for measurement of nocturnal methane emissions from grazing sheep. Atmospheric Environment. 36(29). 4663–4678. 2 indexed citations

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Lowe, David C., Martin Manning, Gordon Brailsford, & A. M. Bromley. (1997). The 1991–1992 atmospheric methane anomaly: Southern hemisphere ¹³C decrease and growth rate fluctuations. Geophysical Research Letters. 24(8). 857–860. 51 indexed citations

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Lassey, Keith R., David C. Lowe, Gordon Brailsford, et al.. (1994). Atmospheric methane in the southern hemisphere: The recent decline in source strengths inferred from concentration and isotope data. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3 indexed citations

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Taylor, C.B., et al.. (1989). Sources and flow of north Canterbury plains groundwater, New Zealand. Journal of Hydrology. 106(3-4). 311–340. 48 indexed citations

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