Justin Sheffield

45.1k total citations · 20 hit papers
225 papers, 27.4k citations indexed

About

Justin Sheffield is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin Sheffield has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 27.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 97 papers in Water Science and Technology and 60 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Justin Sheffield's work include Climate variability and models (101 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (91 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (69 papers). Justin Sheffield is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (101 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (91 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (69 papers). Justin Sheffield collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Justin Sheffield's co-authors include Eric F. Wood, Gopi Goteti, Michael L. Roderick, Ming Pan, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Gerard van der Schrier, P. D. Jones, Aiguo Dai, Kevin E. Trenberth and Keith R. Briffa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Justin Sheffield

221 papers receiving 26.8k citations

Hit Papers

Global warming and changes in drought 2003 2026 2010 2018 2013 2012 2006 2011 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Global warming and changes in drought
    2013 2.5k citations Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  2. Little change in global drought over the past 60 years
    2012 1.5k citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. Nature profile →
  3. Development of a 50-Year High-Resolution Global Dataset of Meteorological Forcings for Land Surface Modeling
    2006 1.5k citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  4. Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products
    2011 1.0k citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. profile →
  5. Projected changes in drought occurrence under future global warming from multi-model, multi-scenario, IPCC AR4 simulations
    2007 935 citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood profile →
  6. Bias correction of monthly precipitation and temperature fields from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 models using equidistant quantile matching
    2010 743 citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. profile →
  7. Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast
    2006 719 citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. profile →
  8. Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land
    2014 655 citations Brigitte Mueller, Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  9. Drought in the Anthropocene
    2016 599 citations Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  10. Real‐time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project
    2003 537 citations Eric F. Wood, Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  11. Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts
    2018 526 citations Ming Pan, Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  12. Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world
    2021 482 citations Justin Sheffield, Tim R. McVicar et al. profile →
  13. A global transition to flash droughts under climate change
    2023 469 citations Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  14. Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006
    2011 437 citations Justin Sheffield et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  15. Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 2. Validation of model‐simulated streamflow
    2011 374 citations Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  16. Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China
    2019 350 citations Justin Sheffield et al. profile →
  17. Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions,understanding, and analysis approaches
    2016 336 citations Justin Sheffield et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  18. Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Resources Management: Potential for Supporting Sustainable Development in Data‐Poor Regions
    2018 320 citations Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood et al. Water Resources Research profile →
  19. Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors
    2021 235 citations Hylke E. Beck, Ming Pan et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  20. Warming accelerates global drought severity
    2025 41 citations Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Justin Sheffield
Comparison fields: 5 of 166
  • Global and Planetary Change 20.0k
  • Water Science and Technology 9.6k
  • Atmospheric Science 8.5k
  • Environmental Engineering 4.3k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.9k
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Sonia I. Seneviratne Switzerland
Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano Spain
Robert L. Wilby United Kingdom
Amir AghaKouchak United States
Tim R. McVicar Australia
Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno Spain
Yaning Chen China
Deliang Chen Sweden
Allison M. Thomson United States
Aiguo Dai United States
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Warming accelerates global drought severity breakdown →
2025 ·Nature ·Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Chris Funk, Diego G. Miralles, Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, (unknown), Hylke E. Beck, Michael Bliss Singer, Simon Dadson
41
2
Hydrologic Sensitivity of a Critical Turkish Watershed to Inform Water Resource Management in an Altered Climate
2024 ·Hydrology ·(unknown), J. C. Adam, Mingliang Liu, Justin Sheffield
1
3
Quantifying the Impact of Human Activities on Hydrological Drought and Drought Propagation in China Using the PCR‐GLOBWB v2.0 Model
2024 ·Water Resources Research ·Xiaoli Yang, (unknown), Shanshui Yuan, Liliang Ren, Justin Sheffield, Xiuqin Fang, S. S. Jiang, Yi Liu
33
4
Machine‐Learning Based Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture Forecasts—An Application Case Study of the Montana 2017 Flash Drought
2024 ·Water Resources Research ·Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Kelsey Jencso, Zachary Hoylman, (unknown), David Ketchum, Y. Xu, Hui Lü, Justin Sheffield
6
5
How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield?
2023 ·Field Crops Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Charles Bwalya Chisanga, (unknown), Natasha Krell, Noemi Vergopolan, Kathy Baylis, K. K. Caylor, Tom Evans, Megan Konar, Justin Sheffield, Lyndon Estes
6
6
Linking household access to food and social capital typologies in Phalombe District, Malawi
2023 ·Sustainability Science ·(unknown), Craig W. Hutton, Laura A. Lewis, (unknown), Justin Sheffield
7
7
High‐Resolution Soil Moisture Data Reveal Complex Multi‐Scale Spatial Variability Across the United States
2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Noemi Vergopolan, Justin Sheffield, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Ming Pan, Hylke E. Beck, Craig R. Ferguson, (unknown), Felix Eigenbrod, Wade T. Crow, Eric F. Wood
30
8
Maize Yield Estimation in Intercropped Smallholder Fields Using Satellite Data in Southern Malawi
2022 ·Remote Sensing ·Chengxiu Li, (unknown), (unknown), Luke A. Brown, Tendai Polite Chibarabada, Yang Lu, Daniela Anghileri, Cosmo Ngongondo, Justin Sheffield, Jadunandan Dash
24
9
Synergistic Satellite Assessment of Global Vegetation Health in Relation to ENSO‐Induced Droughts and Pluvials
2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Justin Sheffield, I. Velicogna, Meng Zhao, Ming Pan, Colby K. Fisher, Hylke E. Beck, Jennifer D. Watts, (unknown), Eric F. Wood
6
10
Recent changes in cropland area and productivity indicate unsustainable cropland expansion in Malawi
2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Chengxiu Li, (unknown), Daniela Anghileri, (unknown), (unknown), Tendai Polite Chibarabada, Cosmo Ngongondo, Justin Sheffield, Jadunandan Dash
33
11
Bias correction of global high-resolution precipitation climatologies using streamflow observations from 9372 catchments
2020 ·Camila Álvarez-Garretón, Hylke E. Beck, Eric F. Wood, Tim R. McVicar, Mauricio Zambrano‐Bigiarini, Oscar M. Baez‐Villanueva, Justin Sheffield, Dirk Nikolaus Karger
1
12
Applications of the African Flood and Drought Monitor to Vector- and Water-borne Disease, and to Human Well-being
2020 ·William Logan, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood
2
13
Long-term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by three global-scale hydrological models
2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Bailing Li, Matthew Rodell, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja
75
14
A large‐area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
2017 ·Global Change Biology ·Lyndon Estes, Peng Chen, (unknown), Tom Evans, (unknown), Tobias Kuemmerle, (unknown), Justin Sheffield, Adam Wolf, Eric F. Wood, K. K. Caylor
44
15
Long term, non-anthropogenic groundwater storage changes simulated by a global land surface model
2017 ·Bailing Li, Matthew Rodell, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood
1
16
Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier
2016 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Lyndon Estes, Timothy D. Searchinger, (unknown), Di Tian, (unknown), Marizvikuru Mwale, Laura Kehoe, Tobias Kuemmerle, (unknown), Nathaniel W. Chaney, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, K. K. Caylor
29
17
Development of a High-Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Dataset over Sub-Saharan Africa: Spatial Analysis of Trends in Climate Extremes
2014 ·Journal of Climate ·Nathaniel W. Chaney, Justin Sheffield, Gabriele Villarini, Eric F. Wood
74
18
Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis
2013 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Brigitte Mueller, Martin Hirschi, Carlos Jiménez, P. Ciais, Paul A. Dirmeyer, A. J. Dolman, Joshua B. Fisher, Martin Jung, Fulco Ludwig, Fabienne Maignan, Diego G. Miralles, Matthew F. McCabe, Markus Reichstein, Justin Sheffield, Kaicun Wang, Eric F. Wood, Yongqiang Zhang, Sonia I. Seneviratne
298
19
Spatial Trends in Evapotranspiration Components over Africa between 1979 and 2012 and Their Relative Influence on Crop Water Use
2013 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Lyndon Estes, Nathaniel W. Chaney, J. E. Herrera-Estrada, K. K. Caylor, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood
1
20
Towards Estimating and Validating Evapotranspiration Estimates at Global Scale
2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Justin Sheffield, R. K. Vinukollu, C. Ferguson, Eric F. Wood
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