James U.L. Baldini

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

James U.L. Baldini is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, James U.L. Baldini has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 17 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in James U.L. Baldini's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (57 papers), Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (23 papers) and Geological formations and processes (13 papers). James U.L. Baldini is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (57 papers), Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (23 papers) and Geological formations and processes (13 papers). James U.L. Baldini collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. James U.L. Baldini's co-authors include Frank McDermott, Lisa M. Baldini, Ian J. Fairchild, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Harriet E. Ridley, Keith M. Prufer, Nicholas Clipson, Douglas J. Kennett, Victor J. Polyak and Valorie V. Aquino and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James U.L. Baldini

61 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

2012 391 citations Douglas J. Kennett, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach et al. profile →

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James U.L. Baldini

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Matthew S. Lachniet United States

Chaoyong Hu China

Jens Fohlmeister Germany

Ming Tan China

Adrian Gilli Switzerland

Kathleen R. Johnson United States

Gayatri Kathayat China

Viviane Bout‐Roumazeilles France

Xiuyang Jiang China

Rik Tjallingii Germany

Matthew S. Lachniet United States

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James U.L. Baldini

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Baldini, James U.L., R. A. Jamieson, Franziska A. Lechleitner, et al.. (2025). The Gulf Stream moved northward at the end of the Little Ice Age. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2025). A possible volcanic origin for the Greenland ice core Pt anomaly near the Bølling-Allerød/Younger Dryas boundary. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0331811–e0331811.

Carolin, Stacy, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Julie A. Hoggarth, et al.. (2025). Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico. Science Advances. 11(33). eadw7661–eadw7661. 1 indexed citations

Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2025). CYCLIM: a semi-automated cycle counting tool for palaeoclimate reconstruction.

Baldini, James U.L., Fabian B. Wadsworth, Madeleine C. S. Humphreys, et al.. (2024). Abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition recorded in a speleothem from the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews. 339. 108841–108841.

Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Franziska A. Lechleitner, Lisa M. Baldini, et al.. (2023). Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 82–82. 10 indexed citations

Feulner, Georg, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism. Climate of the past. 19(11). 2203–2235. 4 indexed citations

Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2018). Evaluating the link between the sulfur-rich Laacher See volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas climate anomaly. Climate of the past. 14(7). 969–990. 29 indexed citations

Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2017). Re-evaluating the link between the Laacher See volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas. 1 indexed citations

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Lechleitner, Franziska A., Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Kira Rehfeld, et al.. (2017). Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45809–45809. 54 indexed citations

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Lechleitner, Franziska A., Susan Q. Lang, Cameron McIntyre, et al.. (2016). Source to sink characterization of dissolved organic matter in a tropical karst system. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Baldini, Lisa M., James U.L. Baldini, Amy Frappier, et al.. (2015). North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration since 1550 A.D. revealed using a Belizean stalagmite. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11828.

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Baldini, James U.L., Richard J. Brown, & Jim McElwaine. (2015). Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism?. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17442–17442. 40 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy-Record Age models (COPRA). 4 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA). Climate of the past. 8(5). 1765–1779. 192 indexed citations

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Baldini, Lisa M., Frank McDermott, Pablo Arias Cabal, et al.. (2010). Climate in northern Spain through the Younger Dryas and Holocene preserved in a precisely dated speleothem from La Garma cave, Cantabria. EGUGA. 14937. 2 indexed citations

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Rooney, Deirdre C., Elena Hutchens, Nicholas Clipson, James U.L. Baldini, & Frank McDermott. (2010). Microbial Community Diversity of Moonmilk Deposits at Ballynamintra Cave, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Microbial Ecology. 60(4). 753–761. 21 indexed citations

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Jones, Daniel M., et al.. (2009). A high-resolution spatial survey of cave air carbon dioxide concentrations in Scoska Cave (North Yorkshire, UK) :implications for calcite deposition and re-dissolution.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 53(37). 2003–4. 10 indexed citations

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Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2007). Response of the Intertropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Ordovician glaciation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Baldini, James U.L., Lisa M. Baldini, Frank McDermott, & Nicholas Clipson. (2006). Carbon dioxide sources, sinks, and spatial variability in shallow temperate zone caves : evidence from Ballynamintra Cave, Ireland.. TeesRep (Teesside University). 104 indexed citations

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