O. Pechony

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 967 citations indexed

About

O. Pechony is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, O. Pechony has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 967 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 4 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in O. Pechony's work include Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (5 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (4 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (4 papers). O. Pechony is often cited by papers focused on Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (5 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (4 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (4 papers). O. Pechony collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Ukraine. O. Pechony's co-authors include Drew Shindell, Colin Price, G. Faluvegi, A. P. Nickolaenko, Gavin A. Schmidt, Reto Rüedy, Larissa Nazarenko, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Jean‐François Lamarque and K. W. Bowman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

O. Pechony

11 papers receiving 949 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.

  1. Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century
    2010 563 citations O. Pechony, Drew Shindell Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
O. Pechony United States 10 775 411 152 111 93 11 967
Salvatore Pascale United States 21 955 1.2× 728 1.8× 80 0.5× 68 0.6× 119 1.3× 39 1.3k
Graham Mills Australia 21 1.0k 1.3× 799 1.9× 64 0.4× 108 1.0× 90 1.0× 65 1.2k
Todd Lange United States 18 152 0.2× 570 1.4× 210 1.4× 62 0.6× 9 0.1× 35 1.0k
Scott M. Ritter United States 12 214 0.3× 118 0.3× 118 0.8× 21 0.2× 30 0.3× 41 575
Vittorio A. Gensini United States 21 1.2k 1.5× 1.2k 2.8× 30 0.2× 40 0.4× 26 0.3× 57 1.4k
Randi Jandt United States 14 1.1k 1.4× 1.2k 2.9× 469 3.1× 28 0.3× 166 1.8× 32 1.8k
А. V. Chernokulsky Russia 22 1.1k 1.4× 946 2.3× 98 0.6× 30 0.3× 51 0.5× 73 1.3k
D. Larko United States 17 978 1.3× 1.1k 2.6× 73 0.5× 95 0.9× 10 0.1× 32 1.5k
Eungul Lee United States 16 506 0.7× 286 0.7× 167 1.1× 28 0.3× 14 0.2× 37 716
L. Riddle United States 7 720 0.9× 562 1.4× 105 0.7× 6 0.1× 30 0.3× 11 935

Countries citing papers authored by O. Pechony

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Fields of papers citing papers by O. Pechony

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by O. Pechony. 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 O. Pechony. The network helps show where O. Pechony may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of O. Pechony

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of O. Pechony. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of O. Pechony 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 O. Pechony. O. Pechony is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Shindell, Drew, O. Pechony, Apostolos Voulgarakis, et al.. (2013). Interactive ozone and methane chemistry in GISS-E2 historical and future climate simulations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(5). 2653–2689. 120 indexed citations
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Pechony, O., Drew Shindell, & G. Faluvegi. (2013). Direct top‐down estimates of biomass burning CO emissions using TES and MOPITT versus bottom‐up GFED inventory. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118(14). 8054–8066. 33 indexed citations
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Shindell, Drew, G. Faluvegi, Larissa Nazarenko, et al.. (2013). Attribution of historical ozone forcing to anthropogenic emissions. Nature Climate Change. 3(6). 567–570. 35 indexed citations
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Nickolaenko, A. P., et al.. (2012). The effect of a gamma ray flare on Schumann resonances. Annales Geophysicae. 30(9). 1321–1329. 11 indexed citations
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Pechony, O. & Drew Shindell. (2010). Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(45). 19167–19170. 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pechony, O. & A. P. Nickolaenko. (2010). The South American lightning puzzle and the South Atlantic Anomaly. Journal of Atmospheric Electricity. 30(2). 75–82. 1 indexed citations
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Pechony, O. & Drew Shindell. (2009). Fire parameterization on a global scale. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D16). 98 indexed citations
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Pechony, O., Colin Price, & A. P. Nickolaenko. (2007). Relative importance of the day‐night asymmetry in Schumann resonance amplitude records. Radio Science. 42(2). 29 indexed citations
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Pechony, O. & Colin Price. (2006). Schumann resonances: Interpretation of local diurnal intensity modulations. Radio Science. 41(2). 9 indexed citations
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Nickolaenko, A. P., O. Pechony, & Colin Price. (2006). Model variations of Schumann resonance based on Optical Transient Detector maps of global lightning activity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(D23). 11 indexed citations
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Pechony, O. & Colin Price. (2004). Schumann resonance parameters calculated with a partially uniform knee model on Earth, Venus, Mars, and Titan. Radio Science. 39(5). 57 indexed citations

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