James D. Scott

9.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

James D. Scott is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James D. Scott has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Oceanography and 32 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in James D. Scott's work include Climate variability and models (35 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (26 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (23 papers). James D. Scott is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (35 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (26 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (23 papers). James D. Scott collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. James D. Scott's co-authors include Michael A. Alexander, Matthew Newman, Ileana Bladé, John R. Lanzante, Ngar‐Cheung Lau, Clara Deser, Andrew J. Pershing, Katherine E. Mills, Daniel J. Vimont and Adam S. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James D. Scott

64 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

The Atmospheric Bridge: The Influence of ENSO Teleconnections on Air–Sea Interaction over the Global Oceans

2002 1.6k citations Michael A. Alexander, Ileana Bladé et al. Journal of Climate profile →
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

2016 955 citations Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery

2015 691 citations Andrew J. Pershing, Michael A. Alexander et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James D. Scott United States	35	5.7k	3.8k	3.7k	1.2k	426	67	7.0k
Emanuele Di Lorenzo United States	49	7.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.3×	7.3k 2.0×	2.2k 1.8×	798 1.9×	141	10.8k
Julia E. Cole United States	41	4.5k 0.8×	5.1k 1.4×	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	236 0.6×	97	7.6k
Nathaniel L. Bindoff Australia	43	3.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	420 1.0×	154	6.2k
Boris Dewitte France	38	5.6k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	4.8k 1.3×	736 0.6×	133 0.3×	142	7.5k
Shoshiro Minobe Japan	35	5.7k 1.0×	4.5k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	671 0.6×	177 0.4×	88	6.9k
Paul R. Halloran United Kingdom	24	3.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	111 0.3×	56	5.4k
David B. Enfield United States	41	7.0k 1.2×	6.1k 1.6×	4.1k 1.1×	1000 0.8×	166 0.4×	87	9.0k
David P. Stevens United Kingdom	44	2.8k 0.5×	3.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	903 0.7×	493 1.2×	137	5.7k
Enrique Curchitser United States	35	3.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	3.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	496 1.2×	99	5.4k
John I. Antonov United States	31	5.2k 0.9×	4.2k 1.1×	6.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	194 0.5×	45	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by James D. Scott

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Fields of papers citing papers by James D. Scott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James D. Scott

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James D. Scott. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James D. Scott 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 James D. Scott. James D. Scott 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

Barry, Jon, et al.. (2025). Avoiding confusion: Modelling image identification surveys with classification errors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(3). 625–639. 3 indexed citations

Pitois, Sophie G., et al.. (2025). RAPID: real-time automated plankton identification dashboard using Edge AI at sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Alexander, Michael A., et al.. (2025). Processes That Influence Bottom Temperatures in the California Current System. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(3).

Artigas, Luis Felipe, Angus Atkinson, Mike Best, et al.. (2025). Mind the gap - The need to integrate novel plankton methods alongside ongoing long-term monitoring. Ocean & Coastal Management. 262. 107542–107542. 2 indexed citations

Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Michael A. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Future Changes in the Intensity and Duration of Marine Heat and Cold Waves: Insights from Coupled Model Initial-Condition Large Ensembles. Journal of Climate. 37(6). 1877–1902. 17 indexed citations

Alexander, Michael A., James D. Scott, Michael G. Jacox, et al.. (2023). A survey of coastal conditions around the continental US using a high-resolution ocean reanalysis. Progress In Oceanography. 216. 103055–103055. 4 indexed citations

Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Juliana Dias, et al.. (2022). Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal Forecast Skill in the California Current System and Its Connection to Coastal Kelvin Waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(1). 21 indexed citations

Mahoney, Kelly, James D. Scott, Michael A. Alexander, et al.. (2021). Cool season precipitation projections for California and the Western United States in NA-CORDEX models. Climate Dynamics. 56(9-10). 3081–3102. 18 indexed citations

Alexander, Michael A., Sang‐Ik Shin, James D. Scott, Enrique Curchitser, & Charles A. Stock. (2019). The Response of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean to Climate Change. Journal of Climate. 33(2). 405–428. 57 indexed citations

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Alexander, Michael A., Nicole S. Lovenduski, Antonietta Capotondi, et al.. (2018). Response of O ₂ and pH to ENSO in the California Current System in a high-resolution global climate model. Ocean science. 14(1). 69–86. 21 indexed citations

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Pershing, Andrew J., Michael A. Alexander, Christina M. Hernández, et al.. (2016). Slow Adaptation in the Face of Rapid Warming Leads to the Collapse of Atlantic Cod in the Gulf of Maine. 2016. 4 indexed citations

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Alexander, Michael A., et al.. (2014). Moisture Pathways into the US Intermountain West Associated with Heavy Winter Precipitation Events. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014.

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Hare, Jonathan A., Michael A. Alexander, Michael J. Fogarty, Erik H. Williams, & James D. Scott. (2010). Forecasting the dynamics of a coastal fishery species using a coupled climate–population model. Ecological Applications. 20(2). 452–464. 152 indexed citations

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Alexander, Michael A., Ludmila Matrosova, Cécile Penland, James D. Scott, & Ping Chang. (2008). Forecasting Pacific SSTs: Linear Inverse Model Predictions of the PDO. Journal of Climate. 21(2). 385–402. 127 indexed citations

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Bladé, Ileana, Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander, & James D. Scott. (2008). The Late Fall Extratropical Response to ENSO: Sensitivity to Coupling and Convection in the Tropical West Pacific. Journal of Climate. 21(23). 6101–6118. 49 indexed citations

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Chalker‐Scott, Linda & James D. Scott. (2004). Elevated Ultraviolet-B Radiation Induces Cross-protection to Cold in Leaves of Rhododendron Under Field Conditions¶. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 79(2). 199–199. 41 indexed citations

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Scott, James D., et al.. (2001). Factors Associated With Postoperative Infection. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 22(6). 347–351. 64 indexed citations

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Alexander, Michael A., James D. Scott, & Clara Deser. (2000). Processes that influence sea surface temperature and ocean mixed layer depth variability in a coupled model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(C7). 16823–16842. 105 indexed citations

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Newman, Matthew, Michael A. Alexander, Christopher Winkler, James D. Scott, & J. J. Barsugli. (2000). A linear diagnosis of the coupled extratropical ocean–atmosphere system in the GFDL GCM. Atmospheric Science Letters. 1(1). 14–25. 8 indexed citations

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-, Alexander & James D. Scott. (1995). Atlas of climatology and variability in the GFDL R30S14 GCM. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 10(6). 1107–10. 16 indexed citations

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