James McDuffie

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

James McDuffie is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, James McDuffie has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in James McDuffie's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (7 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers). James McDuffie is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (7 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (6 papers). James McDuffie collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. James McDuffie's co-authors include Christian Frankenberg, C. O’Dell, Thomas E. Taylor, M. R. Gunson, Fabiano Oyafuso, Luis Guanter, B. J. Connor, Hartmut Bösch, Mike Smyth and Geoffrey C. Toon and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

James McDuffie

15 papers receiving 716 citations

Hit Papers

The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description a... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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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. The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description and validation against synthetic observations
    2012 414 citations C. O’Dell, B. J. Connor et al. Atmospheric measurement techniques profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James McDuffie United States 8 702 557 104 87 72 16 736
Brad Weir United States 12 557 0.8× 441 0.8× 32 0.3× 30 0.3× 37 0.5× 33 641
Mikhail Arshinov Russia 17 709 1.0× 675 1.2× 49 0.5× 35 0.4× 12 0.2× 79 794
N. Eguchi Japan 6 857 1.2× 782 1.4× 18 0.2× 141 1.6× 45 0.6× 9 894
Pauli Heikkinen Finland 13 344 0.5× 307 0.6× 39 0.4× 67 0.8× 34 0.5× 28 388
S. R. Kawa United States 16 801 1.1× 693 1.2× 28 0.3× 143 1.6× 12 0.2× 35 882
Duane Kitzis United States 6 655 0.9× 502 0.9× 40 0.4× 41 0.5× 11 0.2× 7 735
Christof Petri Germany 14 576 0.8× 536 1.0× 11 0.1× 117 1.3× 40 0.6× 29 611
Lianghai Wu Netherlands 10 460 0.7× 396 0.7× 34 0.3× 16 0.2× 13 0.2× 13 512
J. R. Acarreta Netherlands 10 356 0.5× 417 0.7× 51 0.5× 16 0.2× 17 0.2× 22 519
Mike Smyth United States 5 614 0.9× 555 1.0× 12 0.1× 67 0.8× 62 0.9× 8 630

Countries citing papers authored by James McDuffie

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Fields of papers citing papers by James McDuffie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James McDuffie

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Susiluoto, Jouni, et al.. (2025). Forward model emulator for atmospheric radiative transfer using Gaussian processes and cross validation. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(3). 673–694.
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Nelson, Robert, S. S. Kulawik, C. O’Dell, James McDuffie, & A. Eldering. (2025). Improving OCO‐2 XCO2 ${X}_{{\mathbf{C}\mathbf{O}}_{\mathbf{2}}}$ Retrievals Through the Scaling of Singular Value Decomposition‐Based Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles. Earth and Space Science. 12(5). 1 indexed citations
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Richardson, Mark, Matthew Lebsock, James McDuffie, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2020). A new OCO-2 cloud flagging and rapid retrieval of marine boundary layer cloud properties. 1 indexed citations
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Richardson, Mark, Matthew Lebsock, James McDuffie, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2020). A new Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 cloud flagging method and rapid retrieval of marine boundary layer cloud properties. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(9). 4947–4961. 2 indexed citations
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Hobbs, Jonathan, Brian J. Drouin, Fabiano Oyafuso, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopic uncertainty impacts on OCO-2/3 retrievals of XCO2. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 257. 107360–107360. 16 indexed citations
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Richardson, Mark, et al.. (2019). Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(3). 1717–1737. 17 indexed citations
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Bruegge, Carol J., David Crisp, Mark Helmlinger, et al.. (2019). Vicarious Calibration of Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(7). 5135–5145. 7 indexed citations
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Kulawik, S. S., J. Worden, James McDuffie, et al.. (2019). Reducing Regional Biases from OCO-2 Observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Frankenberg, Christian, Philipp Köhler, Troy S. Magney, et al.. (2018). The Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometer (CFIS), mapping far red fluorescence from aircraft. Remote Sensing of Environment. 217. 523–536. 56 indexed citations
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Richardson, Mark, et al.. (2017). The OCO‐2 oxygen A‐band response to liquid marine cloud properties from CALIPSO and MODIS. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(15). 8255–8275. 16 indexed citations
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Connor, B. J., Hartmut Bösch, James McDuffie, et al.. (2016). Quantification of uncertainties in OCO-2 measurements of XCO 2 :simulations and linear error analysis. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(10). 5227–5238. 88 indexed citations
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O’Dell, C., B. J. Connor, Hartmut Bösch, et al.. (2012). The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part 1: Description and validation against synthetic observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(1). 99–121. 414 indexed citations breakdown →
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Frankenberg, Christian, C. O’Dell, Luis Guanter, & James McDuffie. (2012). Remote sensing of near-infrared chlorophyll fluorescence from space in scattering atmospheres: implications for its retrieval and interferences with atmospheric CO 2 retrievals. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(8). 2081–2094. 112 indexed citations
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Paradise, S., Samuel Gluck, David T. Ho, et al.. (2006). TES ground data system software. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(5). 1343–1351. 2 indexed citations
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Worden, H. M., E. Sarkissian, K. W. Bowman, et al.. (2005). TES radiometric assessment. AGUFM. 2005. 2 indexed citations

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