John M. Toole

14.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

John M. Toole is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Toole has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Oceanography, 96 papers in Atmospheric Science and 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in John M. Toole's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (111 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (51 papers) and Climate variability and models (48 papers). John M. Toole is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (111 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (51 papers) and Climate variability and models (48 papers). John M. Toole collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. John M. Toole's co-authors include Raymond W. Schmitt, Kurt L. Polzin, James R. Ledwell, Richard Krishfield, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, Andrey Proshutinsky, Eric Kunze, Ellyn T. Montgomery, Michael C. Gregg and Bruce A. Warren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

John M. Toole

156 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean

1997 855 citations Kurt L. Polzin, John M. Toole et al. Science profile →
Evidence for enhanced mixing over rough topography in the abyssal ocean

2000 542 citations James R. Ledwell, Kurt L. Polzin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John M. Toole United States	59	8.3k	6.8k	4.6k	1.7k	689	165	10.7k
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato United Kingdom	52	6.3k 0.8×	5.0k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	865 0.5×	516 0.7×	209	8.1k
Gregory C. Johnson United States	56	8.9k 1.1×	5.6k 0.8×	6.0k 1.3×	728 0.4×	460 0.7×	163	11.6k
Gurvan Madec France	69	12.3k 1.5×	9.0k 1.3×	10.1k 2.2×	1.2k 0.7×	327 0.5×	211	15.9k
Raymond W. Schmitt United States	42	5.8k 0.7×	3.3k 0.5×	3.0k 0.7×	575 0.3×	608 0.9×	100	7.0k
Friedrich Schott Germany	51	9.0k 1.1×	5.1k 0.7×	6.5k 1.4×	449 0.3×	605 0.9×	124	10.7k
Claus W. Böning Germany	47	6.3k 0.8×	4.2k 0.6×	5.5k 1.2×	656 0.4×	339 0.5×	126	7.8k
Michael C. Gregg United States	53	8.2k 1.0×	4.6k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	480 0.3×	1.0k 1.5×	125	9.0k
Dimitris Menemenlis United States	51	5.3k 0.6×	5.2k 0.8×	4.0k 0.9×	732 0.4×	256 0.4×	183	8.9k
Eric A. D’Asaro United States	51	8.4k 1.0×	5.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	487 0.3×	865 1.3×	175	9.6k
Matthew H. Alford United States	44	6.6k 0.8×	3.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.4×	406 0.2×	685 1.0×	162	7.1k

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Zimmerman, M. I., Steven R. Jayne, Luc Rainville, et al.. (2024). Observations of the Upper Ocean from Autonomous Platforms During the Passage of Extratropical Cyclone Epsilon (2020). Oceanography.

Kawaguchi, Yusuke, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Turbulent Mixing Associated With Eddy‐Wave Coupling Based on Autonomous Observations From the Arctic Canada Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(9). 3 indexed citations

Proshutinsky, Andrey, Richard Krishfield, John M. Toole, et al.. (2019). Analysis of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Content in 2003–2018. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(12). 9658–9689. 144 indexed citations

Cole, Sylvia T., John M. Toole, Luc Rainville, & Craig M. Lee. (2018). Internal Waves in the Arctic: Influence of Ice Concentration, Ice Roughness, and Surface Layer Stratification. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(8). 5571–5586. 18 indexed citations

Greatbatch, Richard J., Martin Claus, Peter Brandt, et al.. (2018). Evidence for the Maintenance of Slowly Varying Equatorial Currents by Intraseasonal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(4). 1923–1929. 15 indexed citations

Cole, Sylvia T., John M. Toole, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, et al.. (2017). Ice and ocean velocity in the Arctic marginal ice zone: Ice roughness and momentum transfer. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 5. 51 indexed citations

Nguyen, An T., Patrick Heimbach, John M. Toole, et al.. (2017). On the Benefit of Current and Future ALPS Data for Improving Arctic Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice State Estimation. Oceanography. 30(2). 69–73. 17 indexed citations

Toole, John M., et al.. (2016). Ice Tethered Profiler observations: Vertical profiles of temperature, salinity, oxygen, and ocean velocity from an Ice Tethered Profiler buoy system. 13 indexed citations

Rabe, Benjamin, Michael Kärcher, Frank Kauker, et al.. (2013). Arctic Ocean liquid freshwater storage trend 1992 - 2012. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Rabe, Benjamin, Michael Kärcher, Ursula Schauer, et al.. (2011). An assessment of Arctic Ocean freshwater content changes from the 1990s to the 2006-2008 period and beyond. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 13(2). 177–8. 1 indexed citations

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Proshutinsky, Andrey, M-L. Timmermans, Richard Krishfield, & John M. Toole. (2011). The role of the Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic climate system changes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011.

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Brandt, Peter, Andreas Funk, Verena Hormann, et al.. (2011). Interannual atmospheric variability forced by the deep equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Nature. 473(7348). 497–500. 62 indexed citations

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Proshutinsky, Andrey, Richard Krishfield, Mary‐Louise Timmermans, et al.. (2008). The Beaufort Gyre Fresh Water Reservoir: State and Variability From Observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 11 indexed citations

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Toole, John M.. (2007). Temporal Characteristics of Abyssal Finescale Motions above Rough Bathymetry. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(3). 409–427. 25 indexed citations

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Doherty, Kenneth W., Daniel E. Frye, T.R. Hammar, et al.. (2006). Design and operation of automated ice-tethered profilers for real-time seawater observations in the polar oceans. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Thurnherr, Andreas M., Louis C. St. Laurent, K. G. Speer, John M. Toole, & James R. Ledwell. (2004). Mixing Associated with Sills in a Canyon on the Mid-Ocean Ridge Flank. AGUFM. 2004. 9 indexed citations

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Toole, John M., et al.. (1998). Physical oceanographic time-series sensors. 39(2).

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Chiswell, Stephen M., John M. Toole, & John Church. (1997). Transports across the Tasman Sea from WOCE repeat sections: The East Australian Current 1990–94. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 31(4). 469–475. 21 indexed citations

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Polzin, Kurt L., John M. Toole, James R. Ledwell, & Raymond W. Schmitt. (1997). Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean. Science. 276(5309). 93–96. 855 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hayes, S. P., John M. Toole, & L. J. Mangum. (1983). Water-Mass and Transport Variability at 110°W in the Equatorial Pacific. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 13(2). 153–168. 24 indexed citations

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