John Gilson

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

John Gilson is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Gilson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oceanography, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in John Gilson's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (12 papers). John Gilson is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (12 papers). John Gilson collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Australia. John Gilson's co-authors include Dean Roemmich, Philip Sutton, Susan Wijffels, Russ E. Davis, Gregory C. Johnson, John Church, Didier P. Monselesan, James Holte, Lynne D. Talley and Mark Ignaszewski and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

John Gilson

25 papers receiving 2.9k 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 2004–2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo Program

2009 769 citations Dean Roemmich, John Gilson Progress In Oceanography profile →
The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats

2009 460 citations Dean Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson et al. Oceanography profile →
Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006

2015 348 citations Dean Roemmich, John Church et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Gilson United States	19	2.6k	2.0k	1.2k	193	125	25	3.0k
Ole Martin Smedstad United States	23	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	263 1.4×	129 1.0×	46	2.5k
J. Thomas Farrar United States	31	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	256 1.3×	77 0.6×	108	2.8k
Jean‐Marc Molines France	33	3.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	78 0.4×	41 0.3×	80	3.4k
Changming Dong China	23	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	191 1.0×	37 0.3×	69	2.4k
Gary B. Brassington Australia	24	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	278 1.4×	78 0.6×	64	2.1k
Julien Le Sommer France	29	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	78 0.4×	37 0.3×	87	2.7k
Armin Köhl Germany	32	2.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.7×	170 0.9×	47 0.4×	102	3.7k
John M. Lyman United States	23	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	139 0.7×	25 0.2×	43	2.4k
Claudia Schmid United States	23	1.4k 0.5×	916 0.5×	748 0.6×	148 0.8×	100 0.8×	55	1.8k
Kuh Kim South Korea	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	355 1.8×	127 1.0×	75	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by John Gilson

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Gilson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wong, Annie P. S., John Gilson, & C. Cabanes. (2023). Argo salinity: bias and uncertainty evaluation. Earth system science data. 15(1). 383–393. 16 indexed citations

Scanderbeg, Megan, et al.. (2022). Argo DAC trajectory cookbook. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 2 indexed citations

Zilberman, Nathalie, Dean Roemmich, & John Gilson. (2020). Deep‐Ocean Circulation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean Interior: Estimates of the Mean Flow and Variability Using Deep Argo Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(13). 12 indexed citations

Roemmich, Dean, Jeffrey T. Sherman, Russ E. Davis, et al.. (2019). Deep SOLO: A Full-Depth Profiling Float for the Argo Program. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 36(10). 1967–1981. 29 indexed citations

Zilberman, Nathalie, Dean Roemmich, Sarah T. Gille, & John Gilson. (2018). Estimating the Velocity and Transport of Western Boundary Current Systems: A Case Study of the East Australian Current near Brisbane. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 35(6). 1313–1329. 18 indexed citations

Holte, James, Lynne D. Talley, John Gilson, & Dean Roemmich. (2017). An Argo mixed layer climatology and database. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(11). 5618–5626. 236 indexed citations

Wijffels, Susan, Dean Roemmich, Didier P. Monselesan, John Church, & John Gilson. (2016). Ocean temperatures chronicle the ongoing warming of Earth. Nature Climate Change. 6(2). 116–118. 109 indexed citations

Roemmich, Dean, John Gilson, Philip Sutton, & Nathalie Zilberman. (2016). Multidecadal Change of the South Pacific Gyre Circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 46(6). 1871–1883. 57 indexed citations

Roemmich, Dean, John Church, John Gilson, et al.. (2015). Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006. Nature Climate Change. 5(3). 240–245. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roemmich, Dean, W.J. Gould, & John Gilson. (2012). 135 years of global ocean warming between the Challenger expedition and the Argo Programme. Nature Climate Change. 2(6). 425–428. 84 indexed citations

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Auad, Guillermo, Dean Roemmich, & John Gilson. (2011). The California Current System in relation to the Northeast Pacific Ocean circulation. Progress In Oceanography. 91(4). 576–592. 30 indexed citations

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Roemmich, Dean, Gregory C. Johnson, Stephen C. Riser, et al.. (2009). The Argo Program: Observing the Global Ocean with Profiling Floats. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations

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Roemmich, Dean, Gregory C. Johnson, Stephen C. Riser, et al.. (2009). The Argo Program: Observing the Global Oceans with Profiling Floats. Oceanography. 22(2). 34–43. 460 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roemmich, Dean & John Gilson. (2009). The 2004–2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo Program. Progress In Oceanography. 82(2). 81–100. 769 indexed citations breakdown →

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Willis, J. K., John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, & John Gilson. (2008). In Situ Data Biases and Recent Ocean Heat Content Variability*. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 26(4). 846–852. 59 indexed citations

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Willis, J. K., John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, & John Gilson. (2007). Correction to “Recent cooling of the upper ocean”. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(16). 59 indexed citations

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Roemmich, Dean, John Gilson, J. K. Willis, Philip Sutton, & Keith Ridgway. (2005). Closing the Time-Varying Mass and Heat Budgets for Large Ocean Areas: The Tasman Box. Journal of Climate. 18(13). 2330–2343. 36 indexed citations

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Roemmich, Dean, John Gilson, Bruce D. Cornuelle, & Robert A. Weller. (2001). Mean and time‐varying meridional transport of heat at the tropical/subtropical boundary of the North Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(C5). 8957–8970. 45 indexed citations

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Gilson, John, Dean Roemmich, Bruce D. Cornuelle, & Lee‐Lueng Fu. (1998). Relationship of TOPEX/Poseidon altimetric height to steric height and circulation in the North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C12). 27947–27965. 84 indexed citations

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Gilson, John. (1951). A new approach to engineering tolerances : a critical presentation of the considerations necessary for the allocation and maintenance of realistic tolerances in modern economic production. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

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