Ian Joughin

28.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
210 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

Ian Joughin is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Joughin has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 204 papers in Atmospheric Science, 107 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 59 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ian Joughin's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (201 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (107 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (96 papers). Ian Joughin is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (201 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (107 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (96 papers). Ian Joughin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Ian Joughin's co-authors include Ian M. Howat, B. E. Smith, M. A. Fahnestock, Sławek Tulaczyk, Ben Smith, Twila Moon, Richard B. Alley, T. A. Scambos, P. A. Rosen and F.K. Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ian Joughin

205 papers receiving 17.8k 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.

Synthetic aperture radar interferometry

2000 1.9k citations P. A. Rosen, Ian Joughin et al. profile →
Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Under Way for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica

2014 626 citations Ian Joughin, B. E. Smith et al. profile →
Greenland flow variability from ice-sheet-wide velocity mapping

2010 489 citations Ian Joughin, Ben Smith et al. Journal of Glaciology profile →
An automated, open-source pipeline for mass production of digital elevation models (DEMs) from very-high-resolution commercial stereo satellite imagery

2016 485 citations David Shean, B. E. Smith et al. profile →
Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage

2008 475 citations Sarah B. Das, Ian Joughin et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Joughin

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: A summary 2025 ·IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine ·P. A. Rosen, G. W. Bawden, (unknown), Bruce Chapman, Heresh Fattahi, Cathleen E. Jones, Ian Joughin, Marco Lavalle, R. B. Lohman, M. Simons, Paul Siqueira, Anup Das, (unknown), Raj Kumar, (unknown), Rashmi Sharma, (unknown)	1
2	Ice-shelf retreat drives recent Pine Island Glacier speedup 2021 ·Science Advances ·Ian Joughin, Daniel Shapero, Ben Smith, Pierre Dutrieux, (unknown)	68
3	Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica 2019 ·The cryosphere ·David Shean, Ian Joughin, Pierre Dutrieux, B. E. Smith, Étienne Berthier	61
4	Regularized Coulomb Friction Laws for Ice Sheet Sliding: Application to Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica 2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Ian Joughin, B. E. Smith, Christian Schoof	113
5	Intercomparison and Validation of SAR-Based Ice Velocity Measurement Techniques within the Greenland Ice Sheet CCI Project 2018 ·Remote Sensing ·John Peter Merryman Boncori, M. L. Andersen, Jørgen Dall, Anders Kusk, (unknown), S. B. Andersen, N. Bechor, Suzanne Bevan, Christian Bignami, Noël Gourmelen, Ian Joughin, Hyung-Sup Jung, Adrian Luckman, J. Mouginot, Julia Neelmeijer, Eric Rignot, Kilian Scharrer, Thomas Nägler, B. Scheuchl, Tazio Strozzi	19
6	Ice shelf basal melt rates from a high-resolution DEM record for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·David Shean, Ian Joughin, Pierre Dutrieux, B. E. Smith, Étienne Berthier	7
7	Increased ice flow in Western Palmer Land linked to ocean melting 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Anna E. Hogg, Andrew Shepherd, Stephen Cornford, Kate Briggs, Noël Gourmelen, Jennifer Graham, Ian Joughin, J. Mouginot, Thomas Nägler, A. J. Payne, Eric Rignot, Jan Wuite	58
8	A complete map of Greenland ice velocity derived from satellite data collected over 20 years 2017 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Ian Joughin, Ben Smith, Ian M. Howat	123
9	Greenland Ice Sheet flow response to runoff variability 2016 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Laura A. Stevens, M. D. Behn, Sarah B. Das, Ian Joughin, Brice Noël, M. R. van den Broeke, T. A. Herring	36
10	Behavior of supraglacial lakes and their role in outlet glacier dynamics and mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet 2015 ·AGUFM ·Ian Joughin, Sarah B. Das, (unknown)	1
11	Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica, with airborne observations of snow accumulation 2014 ·The cryosphere ·Brooke Medley, Ian Joughin, B. E. Smith, Sarah B. Das, Eric J. Steig, H. Conway, Prasad Gogineni, Cameron Lewis, Alison S. Criscitiello, Joseph R. McConnell, M. R. van den Broeke, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, David H. Bromwich, Julien P. Nicolas, C. Leuschen	101
12	Pine Island Glacier ice shelf melt distributed at kilometre scales 2013 ·Pierre Dutrieux, David G. Vaughan, Hugh F. J. Corr, Adrian Jenkins, Paul R. Holland, Ian Joughin, Andrew Fleming	4
13	Pine Island glacier ice shelf melt distributed at kilometre scales 2013 ·The cryosphere ·Pierre Dutrieux, David G. Vaughan, Hugh F. J. Corr, Adrian Jenkins, Paul R. Holland, Ian Joughin, Andrew Fleming	117
14	Warm Atlantic water drives Greenland Ice Sheet discharge dynamics 2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Poul Christoffersen, Karen J. Heywood, Julian A. Dowdeswell, James P. M. Syvitski, Toby Benham, R. I. Mugford, Ian Joughin, Adrian Luckman	3
15	Direct Observations of Melt-Water Lake Drainage and the Establishment of an Efficient Surface to Basal Water Connection on the Greenland Ice Sheet 2007 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Sarah B. Das, Ian Joughin, M. D. Behn, Ian M. Howat, Matt A. King, Daniel Lizarralde, Maya P. Bhatia	1
16	Constraints on melt-water flux through the West Greenland ice-sheet: modeling of hydro- fracture drainage of supraglacial lakes 2007 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·M. J. Krawczynski, M. D. Behn, Sarah B. Das, Ian Joughin	1
17	Seasonal behavior of lakes on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet 2006 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Ian Joughin, Sarah B. Das, Ian M. Howat, Twila Moon	2
18	Grounding line position of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica . 2005 ·AGUSM ·S. Anandakrishnan, Huw Horgan, G. A. Catania, D. Voigt, Ian Joughin	1
19	Measurement of ice-sheet topography using satellite-radar interferometry 1996 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Ian Joughin, Dale P. Winebrenner, M. A. Fahnestock, R. Kwok, William Krabill	25
20	Measurement of ice-sheet topography using satellite-radar interferometry 1996 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Ian Joughin, Dale P. Winebrenner, M. A. Fahnestock, R. Kwok, William Krabill	104

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