Jorge L. Sarmiento

58.1k total citations · 17 hit papers
219 papers, 31.9k citations indexed

About

Jorge L. Sarmiento is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jorge L. Sarmiento has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 31.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Oceanography, 123 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 65 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Jorge L. Sarmiento's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (135 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (93 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers). Jorge L. Sarmiento is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (135 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (93 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers). Jorge L. Sarmiento collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Jorge L. Sarmiento's co-authors include Nicolas Gruber, John P. Dunne, J. R. Toggweiler, U. Siegenthaler, L. Anderson, Anand Gnanadesikan, Robert M. Key, William W. L. Cheung, Daniel Pauly and Vicky W. Y. Lam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jorge L. Sarmiento

219 papers receiving 30.3k 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.

Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

2006 1.8k citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, Emmanuel Boss et al. profile →
Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

2009 1.1k citations William W. L. Cheung, Vicky W. Y. Lam et al. Fish and Fisheries profile →
Global patterns of marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification

1997 1.1k citations Nicolas Gruber, Jorge L. Sarmiento Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
High-latitude controls of thermocline nutrients and low latitude biological productivity

2003 1.0k citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, Nicolas Gruber et al. profile →
Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities

2013 1.0k citations Malin L. Pinsky, Boris Worm et al. Science profile →
Redfield ratios of remineralization determined by nutrient data analysis

1994 989 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

2006 888 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento profile →
Large‐scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change

2009 845 citations William W. L. Cheung, Vicky W. Y. Lam et al. profile →
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and the ocean

1993 770 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. profile →
Simulated response of the ocean carbon cycle to anthropogenic climate warming

1998 718 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, Ronald J. Stouffer et al. profile →
Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming

2004 668 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, Richard D. Slater et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
A Large Terrestrial Carbon Sink in North America Implied by Atmospheric and Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Data and Models

1998 638 citations Manuel Gloor, Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. Science profile →
A new model for the role of the oceans in determining atmospheric P CO2

1984 631 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, J. R. Toggweiler profile →
Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean

2007 569 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento, Nicolas Gruber et al. profile →
Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems

2012 519 citations William W. L. Cheung, Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. profile →
Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

2013 484 citations Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. profile →
Dominance of the Southern Ocean in Anthropogenic Carbon and Heat Uptake in CMIP5 Models

2014 451 citations Thomas L. Frölicher, Jorge L. Sarmiento et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jorge L. Sarmiento United States	87	20.5k	14.1k	9.0k	8.7k	3.9k	219	31.9k
Nicolas Gruber Switzerland	81	20.8k 1.0×	12.0k 0.8×	7.7k 0.9×	7.2k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	244	30.0k
Scott C. Doney United States	98	29.6k 1.4×	19.7k 1.4×	11.3k 1.3×	11.5k 1.3×	3.4k 0.9×	359	42.7k
Richard A. Feely United States	86	26.6k 1.3×	14.2k 1.0×	8.5k 0.9×	6.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	342	34.8k
Paul G. Falkowski United States	111	31.6k 1.5×	8.8k 0.6×	22.8k 2.5×	5.7k 0.7×	7.7k 2.0×	323	54.8k
Jack J. Middelburg Netherlands	99	21.4k 1.0×	8.7k 0.6×	20.2k 2.2×	7.0k 0.8×	9.1k 2.3×	463	40.0k
Francisco P. Chávez United States	77	13.1k 0.6×	6.5k 0.5×	8.0k 0.9×	3.5k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	265	19.6k
Philip W. Boyd Australia	86	17.5k 0.9×	5.2k 0.4×	8.0k 0.9×	5.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	296	23.5k
Laurent Bopp France	70	11.1k 0.5×	8.9k 0.6×	4.7k 0.5×	6.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	236	19.2k
David M. Karl United States	108	27.4k 1.3×	5.9k 0.4×	23.6k 2.6×	4.3k 0.5×	8.7k 2.2×	438	43.7k
Peter A. Raymond United States	71	10.9k 0.5×	6.2k 0.4×	7.6k 0.8×	6.5k 0.7×	7.3k 1.9×	183	22.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jorge L. Sarmiento

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Mazloff, Matthew R., Ariane Verdy, Sarah T. Gille, et al.. (2023). Southern Ocean Acidification Revealed by Biogeochemical‐Argo Floats. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(5). 9 indexed citations

Chen, Haidi, F. Alexander Haumann, Lynne D. Talley, Kenneth S. Johnson, & Jorge L. Sarmiento. (2022). The Deep Ocean's Carbon Exhaust. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(7). e2021GB007156–e2021GB007156. 25 indexed citations

Haumann, F. Alexander, Stephen C. Riser, Lars H. Smedsrud, et al.. (2020). Supercooled Southern Ocean Waters. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(20). 24 indexed citations

Gray, Alison R., Kenneth S. Johnson, Seth M. Bushinsky, et al.. (2018). Autonomous Biogeochemical Floats Detect Significant Carbon Dioxide Outgassing in the High‐Latitude Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(17). 9049–9057. 132 indexed citations

Drake, Henri F., Adele K. Morrison, Stephen M. Griffies, et al.. (2018). Lagrangian Timescales of Southern Ocean Upwelling in a Hierarchy of Model Resolutions. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 891–898. 19 indexed citations

Johnson, Kenneth S., Joshua N. Plant, Luke J. Coletti, et al.. (2017). Biogeochemical sensor performance in the SOCCOM profiling float array. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(8). 6416–6436. 202 indexed citations

Rodgers, Keith B., Stephen M. Griffies, Richard D. Slater, et al.. (2017). Mechanistic Drivers of Reemergence of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Equatorial Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(18). 9433–9439. 9 indexed citations

Buermann, Wolfgang, Claudie Beaulieu, Bikash Ranjan Parida, et al.. (2016). Climate-driven shifts in continental net primary production implicated as a driver of a recent abrupt increase in the land carbon sink. Biogeosciences. 13(5). 1597–1607. 14 indexed citations

Dufour, Carolina O., Ivy Frenger, Thomas L. Frölicher, et al.. (2015). Anthropogenic carbon and heat uptake by the ocean: Will the Southern Ocean remain a major sink?. eScholarship@McGill (McGill). 3 indexed citations

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Frölicher, Thomas L., Jorge L. Sarmiento, David Paynter, John P. Dunne, & Michael Winton. (2014). Anthropogenic carbon and heat uptake in CMIP5 models: The dominance of the Southern Ocean. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10567. 1 indexed citations

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Österblom, Henrik, Andrew Merrie, Marc Métian, et al.. (2013). Modeling Social–Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems. BioScience. 63(9). 735–744. 42 indexed citations

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Pinsky, Malin L., Boris Worm, Michael J. Fogarty, Jorge L. Sarmiento, & Simon A. Levin. (2013). Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities. Science. 341(6151). 1239–1242. 1027 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plancherel, Yves, Keith B. Rodgers, Robert M. Key, A. R. Jacobson, & Jorge L. Sarmiento. (2013). Role of regression model selection and station distribution on the estimation of oceanic anthropogenic carbon change by eMLR. Biogeosciences. 10(7). 4801–4831. 22 indexed citations

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Duteil, Olaf, Wolfgang Koeve, Andreas Oschlies, et al.. (2012). Preformed and regenerated phosphate in ocean general circulation models: can right total concentrations be wrong?. Biogeosciences. 9(5). 1797–1807. 48 indexed citations

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Palter, Jaime B., Jorge L. Sarmiento, Anand Gnanadesikan, Jennifer Simeon, & Richard D. Slater. (2010). Fueling export production: nutrient return pathways from the deep ocean and their dependence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation. Biogeosciences. 7(11). 3549–3568. 69 indexed citations

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Gloor, Manuel, Jorge L. Sarmiento, & Nicolas Gruber. (2010). What can be learned about carbon cycle climate feedbacks from the CO ₂ airborne fraction?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(16). 7739–7751. 59 indexed citations

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Cheung, William W. L., Vicky W. Y. Lam, Jorge L. Sarmiento, et al.. (2009). Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios. Fish and Fisheries. 10(3). 235–251. 1118 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sarmiento, Jorge L., Richard D. Slater, Richard Barber, et al.. (2004). Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 18(3). 668 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sarmiento, Jorge L., J. R. Toggweiler, & Raymond G. Najjar. (1988). Ocean carbon-cycle dynamics and atmospheric Pco2. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 325(1583). 3–21. 66 indexed citations

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Key, Robert M., Robert F. Stallard, Willard S. Moore, & Jorge L. Sarmiento. (1985). Distribution and flux of ²²⁶Ra and ²²⁸Ra in the Amazon River estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 90(C4). 6995–7004. 110 indexed citations

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