James Scourse

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

James Scourse is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Scourse has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Atmospheric Science, 49 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 47 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in James Scourse's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (124 papers), Geological formations and processes (48 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (34 papers). James Scourse is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (124 papers), Geological formations and processes (48 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (34 papers). James Scourse collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. James Scourse's co-authors include Paul Butler, Valérie Trouet, Alan D. Wanamaker, Andy Baker, David Frank, Nicholas E. Graham, Jan Esper, Christopher A. Richardson, I.R. Hall and David J. Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James Scourse

145 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Scourse United Kingdom	43	4.6k	1.8k	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	151	5.9k
Jessica E. Tierney United States	42	5.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	115	7.2k
Darrell S. Kaufman United States	46	6.3k 1.4×	2.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	993 0.8×	237	7.9k
H. Renssen Netherlands	55	7.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	188	8.4k
Frank Lamy Germany	45	5.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	561 0.4×	1.9k 1.4×	145	6.6k
Ashish Sinha United States	34	5.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	544 0.4×	74	5.7k
Anders E. Carlson United States	36	6.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	770 0.6×	809 0.6×	88	7.9k
Frank Sirocko Germany	32	4.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	523 0.4×	937 0.7×	87	5.1k
Scott J. Lehman United States	47	6.6k 1.4×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	917 0.7×	97	8.1k
Stefan Mulitza Germany	44	5.6k 1.2×	2.6k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	865 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	140	6.5k
Élisabeth Michel France	36	5.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	800 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	103	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Scourse

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Yamoah, Kweku Afrifa, et al.. (2025). Stable isotopic composition of Antarctic and Patagonian marine mammals collected before and during industrial-scale whaling: assessing the baseline for long-term changes in the marine ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240227–20240227. 1 indexed citations

Barnes, David K. A., et al.. (2025). Quantifying microplastics concentration of invertebrates from three Antarctic fjords. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 212. 117503–117503.

Holman, Luke E., Richard Gyllencreutz, James Scourse, et al.. (2025). Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing Metabarcoding and Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment Environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(6). e14086–e14086. 2 indexed citations

Holman, Luke E., Wesley R. Farnsworth, Philippa Ascough, et al.. (2025). Ancient environmental DNA indicates limited human impact on marine biodiversity in pre-industrial Iceland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240031–20240031. 1 indexed citations

Holman, Luke E., Kristine Bohmann, Oliver E. Craig, et al.. (2025). Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240026–20240026. 1 indexed citations

Boulton, Chris A., David J. Reynolds, Paul Butler, et al.. (2025). From historians to forecasters: The potential of bivalve records to assess resilience and provide early warnings for marine tipping points. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 10(2). 200–211. 2 indexed citations

Kender, Sev, Claire S. Allen, Victoria L. Peck, et al.. (2024). South Georgia marine productivity over the past 15 ka and implications for glacial evolution. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 43(1). 165–186.

Scourse, James. (2024). The timing and magnitude of the British–Irish Ice Sheet between Marine Isotope Stages 5d and 2: implications for glacio‐isostatic adjustment, high relative sea levels and ‘giant erratic’ emplacement. Journal of Quaternary Science. 39(4). 505–514. 3 indexed citations

Crane, Richard A., Chris Laing, Kate Littler, et al.. (2024). Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk. Nature Sustainability. 7(7). 836–838. 8 indexed citations

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Barnes, David K. A., et al.. (2023). Quantifying microplastics in fjords along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 193. 115144–115144. 11 indexed citations

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Meredith, Michael P., Mark Inall, J. Alexander Brearley, et al.. (2022). Internal tsunamigenesis and ocean mixing driven by glacier calving in Antarctica. Science Advances. 8(47). eadd0720–eadd0720. 11 indexed citations

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Benetti, Sara, John E. Clark, Ruth Plets, et al.. (2021). A Late Pleistocene channelized subglacial meltwater system on the Atlantic continental shelf south of Ireland. Boreas. 51(1). 118–135. 6 indexed citations

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Halloran, Paul R., I.R. Hall, Matthew Menary, et al.. (2020). Natural drivers of multidecadal Arctic sea ice variability over the last millennium. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 688–688. 21 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Ramírez, Carlos P., David K. A. Barnes, Leyla Cárdenas, et al.. (2020). Gene flow in the Antarctic bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii (Jay, 1839) suggests a role for the Antarctic Peninsula Coastal Current in larval dispersal. Royal Society Open Science. 7(9). 200603–200603. 15 indexed citations

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Black, Bryan A., Carin Andersson, Paul Butler, et al.. (2019). The revolution of crossdating in marine palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology. Biology Letters. 15(1). 20180665–20180665. 43 indexed citations

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Scourse, James, et al.. (2018). Reconstruction of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) recruitment in the North Sea for the past 455 years based on the δ 13 C from annual shell increments of Arctica islandica. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Scourse, James, Alan D. Wanamaker, Jan Heinemeier, et al.. (2012). The Marine Radiocarbon Bomb Pulse Across the Temperate North Atlantic: A Compilation of Δ¹⁴C Time Histories from Arctica Islandica Growth Increments. Radiocarbon. 54(2). 165–186. 51 indexed citations

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Scourse, James, Valérie Trouet, & Christoph C. Raible. (2010). The Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age: testing the NAO hypothesis. EGUGA. 72. 9179–76. 1 indexed citations

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Scourse, James, H.A. Kennedy, George A. Scott, & William E. N. Austin. (2004). Stable isotopic analyses of modern \nbenthic foraminifera from seasonally \nstratified shelf seas:d isequilibria and the 'seasonal effect'. Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University). 19 indexed citations

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Scourse, James, Ian Harris, C. A. Richardson, et al.. (2003). Towards an absolute chronology for the marine environment: the development of a 1000-year record from Arctica islandica. EAEJA. 6044. 4 indexed citations

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