Mark McCarthy

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Mark McCarthy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark McCarthy has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mark McCarthy's work include Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers). Mark McCarthy is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (43 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers). Mark McCarthy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Mark McCarthy's co-authors include Richard Betts, Martin Best, Mike Kendon, Peter Thorne, Tim Legg, Holly Titchner, D. E. Parker, Simon F. B. Tett, Andrew Matthews and Svetlana Jevrejeva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Mark McCarthy

55 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Climate change in cities due to global warming and urban effects

2010 625 citations Mark McCarthy, Richard Betts et al. profile →
UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections

2009 534 citations James M. Murphy, David M. H. Sexton et al. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark McCarthy United Kingdom	26	1.8k	1.1k	725	582	263	57	2.9k
Marcus Thatcher Australia	28	1.4k 0.8×	893 0.8×	783 1.1×	594 1.0×	140 0.5×	86	2.5k
Panos Hadjinicolaou Cyprus	29	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	524 0.7×	646 1.1×	313 1.2×	66	3.2k
Kirsti Jylhä Finland	28	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	471 0.6×	338 0.6×	268 1.0×	96	3.6k
Simone Russo Italy	22	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	550 0.8×	950 1.6×	167 0.6×	60	3.1k
Sophie C. Lewis Australia	27	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	348 0.5×	643 1.1×	146 0.6×	51	3.2k
Hadas Saaroni Israel	32	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	1.2k 2.1×	82 0.3×	72	3.6k
Judit Bartholy Hungary	25	1.2k 0.7×	884 0.8×	433 0.6×	298 0.5×	141 0.5×	96	2.0k
Heiko Paeth Germany	32	2.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.6×	399 0.6×	307 0.5×	340 1.3×	125	3.5k
Colin Raymond United States	17	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	334 0.5×	648 1.1×	180 0.7×	34	2.8k
Tom Matthews United Kingdom	23	1.3k 0.7×	815 0.7×	340 0.5×	496 0.9×	400 1.5×	63	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark McCarthy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark McCarthy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mark McCarthy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mark McCarthy. The network helps show where Mark McCarthy may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark McCarthy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark McCarthy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark McCarthy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mark McCarthy. Mark McCarthy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Burton, Chantelle, Andrew Ciavarella, Douglas I. Kelley, et al.. (2025). Very high fire danger in UK in 2022 at least 6 times more likely due to human-caused climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 20(4). 44003–44003.

Kendon, Mike, Dan Hollis, Emily Carlisle, et al.. (2024). State of the UK Climate 2023. International Journal of Climatology. 44(S1). 1–117. 11 indexed citations

Dunn, Robert, Holly Titchner, Mike Kendon, et al.. (2024). Global and regional climate in 2023. Weather. 79(12). 400–412. 1 indexed citations

Legg, Tim, et al.. (2024). An Update to the Central England Temperature Series—HadCET v2.1. Geoscience Data Journal. 12(1). 2 indexed citations

Kendon, Mike, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, et al.. (2023). State of the UK Climate 2022. International Journal of Climatology. 43(S1). 1–83. 35 indexed citations

Kendon, Mike, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, et al.. (2022). State of the UK Climate 2021. International Journal of Climatology. 42(S1). 1–80. 38 indexed citations

Christidis, Nikolaos, et al.. (2021). Record‐breaking daily rainfall in the United Kingdom and the role of anthropogenic forcings. Atmospheric Science Letters. 22(7). 11 indexed citations

Christidis, Nikolaos, Mark McCarthy, & Peter A. Stott. (2021). Recent decreases in domestic energy consumption in the United Kingdom attributed to human influence on the climate. Atmospheric Science Letters. 22(11). 2 indexed citations

Kendon, Mike, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, et al.. (2021). State of the UK Climate 2020. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S2). 1–76. 54 indexed citations

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Christidis, Nikolaos, Mark McCarthy, & Peter A. Stott. (2020). The increasing likelihood of temperatures above 30 to 40 °C in the United Kingdom. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3093–3093. 65 indexed citations

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Hollis, Dan, Mark McCarthy, Michael Kendon, Tim Legg, & I. Simpson. (2019). HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations. Geoscience Data Journal. 6(2). 151–159. 200 indexed citations

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Kendon, Mike, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, & Tim Legg. (2019). State of the UK climate 2018. International Journal of Climatology. 39(S1). 1–55. 73 indexed citations

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Murphy, Conor, Ciarán Broderick, Timothy P. Burt, et al.. (2018). A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016). Climate of the past. 14(3). 413–440. 46 indexed citations

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Kendon, Mike, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, & Tim Legg. (2018). State of the UK climate 2017. International Journal of Climatology. 38(S2). 1–35. 33 indexed citations

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Christidis, Nikolaos, Mark McCarthy, Andrew Ciavarella, & Peter A. Stott. (2016). Human Contribution to the Record Sunshine of Winter 2014/15 in the United Kingdom. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 97(12). S47–S50. 11 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Mark. (2014). The Walking Dead and Philosophy: Zombie Apocalypse Now. Extrapolation. 55(1). 126. 9 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Mark, J. Sanjay, Ben Booth, K K Saji Kumar, & Richard Betts. (2012). The influence of vegetation on the ITCZ and South Asian monsoon in HadCM3. Earth System Dynamics. 3(1). 87–96. 17 indexed citations

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Murphy, James M., David M. H. Sexton, Geoff Jenkins, et al.. (2009). UK Climate Projections Science Report: Climate Change Projections. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Titchner, Holly, Peter Thorne, Mark McCarthy, et al.. (2008). Critically Reassessing Tropospheric Temperature Trends from Radiosondes Using Realistic Validation Experiments. Journal of Climate. 22(3). 465–485. 60 indexed citations

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Thorne, Peter, D. E. Parker, Simon F. B. Tett, et al.. (2005). Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D18). 182 indexed citations

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