Gregory C. Johnson

19.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
163 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Gregory C. Johnson is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory C. Johnson has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Oceanography, 90 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 71 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gregory C. Johnson's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (125 papers), Climate variability and models (79 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (57 papers). Gregory C. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (125 papers), Climate variability and models (79 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (57 papers). Gregory C. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Gregory C. Johnson's co-authors include John M. Lyman, Sarah G. Purkey, Lothar Stramma, John L. Bullister, Alejandro H. Orsi, Volker Mohrholz, Janet Sprintall, Sunke Schmidtko, Michael J. McPhaden and K. E. McTaggart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gregory C. Johnson

159 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans

2008 1.1k citations Gregory C. Johnson et al. profile →
Circulation, mixing, and production of Antarctic Bottom Water

1999 822 citations Gregory C. Johnson, John L. Bullister et al. profile →
The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats

2009 460 citations Dean Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson et al. Oceanography profile →
Ocean oxygen minima expansions and their biological impacts

2010 454 citations Sunke Schmidtko, Gregory C. Johnson et al. profile →
Warming of Global Abyssal and Deep Southern Ocean Waters between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to Global Heat and Sea Level Rise Budgets*

2010 450 citations Sarah G. Purkey, Gregory C. Johnson profile →
Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate

2021 141 citations Norman G. Loeb, Gregory C. Johnson et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Deep Argo Observations of Buoyancy Redistribution in the Atlantic Overturning 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Damien Desbruyères, Herlé Mercier, Gregory C. Johnson, Virginie Thierry, Kjell Arne Mork	0
2	Refined Estimates of Global Ocean Deep and Abyssal Decadal Warming Trends 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gregory C. Johnson, Sarah G. Purkey	8
3	Closure of Earth’s Global Seasonal Cycle of Energy Storage 2023 ·Surveys in Geophysics ·Gregory C. Johnson, Felix W. Landerer, Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Michael Mayer, Abigail L. S. Swann, Jinlun Zhang	3
4	After Two Decades, Argo at PMEL, Looks to the Future 2023 ·Oceanography ·(unknown), Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown)	4
5	Universal location of Yang-Lee edge singularity in classic O(N) universality classes 2023 ·Physical review. D ·Gregory C. Johnson, Fabian Rennecke, Vladimir V. Skokov	11
6	Serendipitous Internal Wave Signals in Deep Argo Data 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gregory C. Johnson, Caitlin B. Whalen, Sarah G. Purkey, Nathalie Zilberman	4
7	GOSML: A Global Ocean Surface Mixed Layer Statistical Monthly Climatology: Means, Percentiles, Skewness, and Kurtosis 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Gregory C. Johnson, John M. Lyman	22
8	Evaluating Twenty‐Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows From Observations and Reanalyses 2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Norman G. Loeb, Michael Mayer, Seiji Kato, John Fasullo, Hao Zuo, Retish Senan, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Magdalena Balmaseda	34
9	Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate breakdown → 2021 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Norman G. Loeb, Gregory C. Johnson, Tyler J. Thorsen, John M. Lyman, Fred G. Rose, Seiji Kato	141
10	Subsurface Evolution and Persistence of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Hillary A. Scannell, Gregory C. Johnson, LuAnne Thompson, John M. Lyman, Stephen C. Riser	107
11	Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Between 1991 and 2017 2019 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Rik Wanninkhof, Shinya Kouketsu, Rolf E. Sonnerup, Paula C. Pardo, Christopher L. Sabine, Gregory C. Johnson, Bernadette M. Sloyan, Akihiko Murata, Sabine Mecking, Bronte Tilbrook, K. G. Speer, Lynne D. Talley, Frank J. Millero, Susan Wijffels, Alison M. Macdonald, Nicolas Gruber, John L. Bullister	52
12	Unabated Bottom Water Warming and Freshening in the South Pacific Ocean 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Sarah G. Purkey, Gregory C. Johnson, Lynne D. Talley, Bernadette M. Sloyan, Susan Wijffels, William M. Smethie, Sabine Mecking, Katsuro Katsumata	49
13	Warming From Recent Marine Heatwave Lingers in Deep British Columbia Fjord 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Jennifer M. Jackson, Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown), Tetjana Ross	66
14	Equatorial Pacific Thermostad response to El Niño 2016 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown)	3
15	As El Niño builds, Pacific Warm Pool expands, ocean gains more heat 2016 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown)	31
16	Monthly Isopycnal/Mixed-layer Ocean Climatology (MIMOC) 2013 ·EGUGA ·Sunke Schmidtko, Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown)	1
17	Climate Change Adaptation in Michigan: Preparations, Strategies, and Examples 2012 ·TR news ·Gregory C. Johnson, (unknown), (unknown)	1
18	The Argo Program: Observing the Global Ocean with Profiling Floats 2009 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Dean Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson, Stephen C. Riser, Russ E. Davis, John Gilson, W. Brechner Owens, Silvia L. Garzoli, Claudia Schmid, Mark Ignaszewski	13
19	Hydrography, nutrients, and carbon pools in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean: Implications for carbon flux 2001 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Kendra L. Daly, Walker O Smith, Gregory C. Johnson, Giacomo R. DiTullio, David R. Jones, Calvin W. Mordy, Richard A. Feely, Dennis A. Hansell, Jia‐Zhong Zhang	28
20	A seepage investigation of an area at and near Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, March through August 1993 1996 ·Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World ·Gregory C. Johnson	1

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