Jennifer MacKinnon

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Jennifer MacKinnon is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer MacKinnon has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Oceanography, 51 papers in Atmospheric Science and 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jennifer MacKinnon's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (84 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (40 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (31 papers). Jennifer MacKinnon is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (84 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (40 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (31 papers). Jennifer MacKinnon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jennifer MacKinnon's co-authors include Matthew H. Alford, Michael C. Gregg, Caitlin B. Whalen, Jonathan D. Nash, Lynne D. Talley, Harper L. Simmons, Jody Klymak, Kraig B. Winters, R. Pinkel and Zhongxiang Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer MacKinnon

91 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Global Patterns of Diapycnal Mixing from Measurements of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate

2014 403 citations Amy F. Waterhouse, Jennifer MacKinnon et al. Journal of Physical Oceanography profile →
Near-Inertial Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

2015 310 citations Matthew H. Alford, Jennifer MacKinnon et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer MacKinnon United States	32	3.7k	2.0k	1.3k	352	215	95	4.1k
Brian K. Arbic United States	40	3.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.6×	294 0.8×	162 0.8×	127	4.2k
Ren‐Chieh Lien United States	38	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	472 1.3×	168 0.8×	100	4.0k
Robert Pinkel United States	36	4.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	471 1.3×	286 1.3×	101	5.2k
Kurt L. Polzin United States	37	5.2k 1.4×	3.0k 1.5×	2.4k 1.9×	563 1.6×	338 1.6×	74	5.6k
Zhongxiang Zhao United States	31	2.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	669 0.5×	208 0.6×	160 0.7×	71	2.8k
Harper L. Simmons United States	28	3.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	263 0.7×	437 2.0×	57	4.2k
J. H. LaCasce Norway	33	2.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	251 0.7×	141 0.7×	99	3.2k
James N. Moum United States	31	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	697 0.5×	625 1.8×	132 0.6×	36	2.9k
Sonya Legg United States	28	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	985 0.8×	330 0.9×	149 0.7×	61	2.6k
Nelson G. Hogg United States	33	2.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	500 1.4×	180 0.8×	76	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer MacKinnon

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Tandon, Amit, Jennifer MacKinnon, Leah R. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 56(1). 245–266.

Lucas, Andrew J., et al.. (2024). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Inversions and Instabilities. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(3). 3 indexed citations

MacKinnon, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). A juvenile journey: Using a highly resolved 3D mooring array to investigate the roles of wind and internal tide forcing in across‐shore larval transport. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(10). 2364–2376. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Xiaolong, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Clément Vic, et al.. (2022). Observed Equatorward Propagation and Chimney Effect of Near‐Inertial Waves in the Midlatitude Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(13). 16 indexed citations

Thomas, Leif N., Robert D. Hetland, Daijiro Kobashi, et al.. (2022). Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5624–5624. 20 indexed citations

Waterhouse, Amy F., Eric Kunze, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2022). Global Observations of Rotary-With-Depth Shear Spectra. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 7 indexed citations

Fine, Elizabeth C., Ruth Musgrave, John B. Mickett, et al.. (2022). Observations of Double Diffusive Staircase Edges in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 3 indexed citations

Thomson, Jim, Björn Lund, John Hargrove, et al.. (2021). Wave‐Driven Flow Along a Compact Marginal Ice Zone. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). 4 indexed citations

Alford, Matthew H., et al.. (2021). Data‐Driven Identification of Turbulent Oceanic Mixing From Observational Microstructure Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(23). 9 indexed citations

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Whalen, Caitlin B., Casimir de Lavergne, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, et al.. (2020). Internal wave-driven mixing: governing processes and consequences for climate. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 1(11). 606–621. 131 indexed citations

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Rudnick, Daniel L., et al.. (2019). Understanding Vorticity Caused by Flow Passing an Island. Oceanography. 32(4). 66–73. 15 indexed citations

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Andres, Magdalena, Verena Hormann, Ruth Musgrave, et al.. (2019). Eddies, Topography, and the Abyssal Flow by the Kyushu-Palau Ridge Near Velasco Reef. Oceanography. 32(4). 46–55. 10 indexed citations

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MacKinnon, Jennifer, Matthew H. Alford, Gunnar Voet, et al.. (2019). Eddy Wake Generation From Broadband Currents Near Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(7). 4891–4903. 40 indexed citations

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Merrifield, M. A., Eric Firing, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2019). Observations of Near-Inertial Surface Currents at Palau. Oceanography. 32(4). 74–83. 5 indexed citations

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Colin, Patrick L., T. M. Shaun Johnston, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2019). Ngaraard Pinnacle, Palau: An Undersea “Island” in the Flow. Oceanography. 32(4). 164–173. 4 indexed citations

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Whalen, Caitlin B., Jennifer MacKinnon, & Lynne D. Talley. (2018). Large-scale impacts of the mesoscale environment on mixing from wind-driven internal waves. Nature Geoscience. 11(11). 842–847. 96 indexed citations

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Waterhouse, Amy F., Eric Kunze, Jennifer MacKinnon, et al.. (2016). Global patterns of internal wave variability from observations of full-depth rotary shear spectra. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1(1). 1 indexed citations

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Musgrave, Ruth, R. Pinkel, Jennifer MacKinnon, Matthew R. Mazloff, & W. R. Young. (2016). Stratified tidal flow over a tall ridge above and below the turning latitude. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 793. 933–957. 14 indexed citations

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Nash, Jonathan D., et al.. (2016). Global Patterns of Turbulence and Diapycnal Mixing from CTD-Chipods on the Global Repeat Hydrography Program. 2016.

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Klymak, Jody, William R. Crawford, Matthew H. Alford, Jennifer MacKinnon, & Robert Pinkel. (2015). Along‐isopycnal variability of spice in the North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 120(3). 2287–2307. 35 indexed citations

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