Raymond S. Bradley

41.0k total citations · 13 hit papers
227 papers, 26.5k citations indexed

About

Raymond S. Bradley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raymond S. Bradley has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 26.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Atmospheric Science, 83 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Raymond S. Bradley's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (122 papers), Climate variability and models (72 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (66 papers). Raymond S. Bradley is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (122 papers), Climate variability and models (72 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (66 papers). Raymond S. Bradley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Raymond S. Bradley's co-authors include Harold C. Fritts, Malcolm K. Hughes, Michael Mann, Mathias Vuille, Henry F. Díaz, Frank T. Keimig, Henry F. Díaz, Scott Rutherford, Fenbiao Ni and Zhihua Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raymond S. Bradley

223 papers receiving 24.6k citations

Hit Papers

Tree Rings and Climate 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 2009 1998 1999 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Tree Rings and Climate
    1978 4.0k citations Raymond S. Bradley et al. profile →
  2. Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly
    2009 1.8k citations Michael Mann, Zhihua Zhang et al. Science profile →
  3. Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries
    1998 1.3k citations Michael Mann, Raymond S. Bradley et al. profile →
  4. Northern hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: Inferences, uncertainties, and limitations
    1999 1.3k citations Michael Mann, Raymond S. Bradley et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  5. Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
    1997 850 citations Douglas R. Hardy, Raymond S. Bradley et al. Science profile →
  6. Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia
    2008 850 citations Michael Mann, Zhihua Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Reconstruction of solar irradiance since 1610: Implications for climate change
    1995 816 citations Raymond S. Bradley et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  8. Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature Variations: 1851–1984
    1986 590 citations Raymond S. Bradley et al. profile →
  9. 'Little Ice Age' summer temperature variations: their nature and relevance to recent global warming trends
    1993 549 citations Raymond S. Bradley et al. profile →
  10. Threats to Water Supplies in the Tropical Andes
    2006 520 citations Raymond S. Bradley, Mathias Vuille et al. Science profile →
  11. CLIMATIC CHANGE AT HIGH ELEVATION SITES: AN OVERVIEW
    1997 518 citations Raymond S. Bradley et al. profile →
  12. Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future
    2008 504 citations Mathias Vuille, Bryan G. Mark et al. profile →
  13. Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice
    2017 367 citations Matthias Huss, Bodo Bookhagen et al. Earth s Future profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raymond S. Bradley United States 73 21.2k 13.2k 3.6k 2.5k 2.1k 227 26.5k
Sandy P. Harrison United Kingdom 83 15.7k 0.7× 10.0k 0.8× 4.7k 1.3× 2.6k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 296 22.8k
Jonathan T. Overpeck United States 66 12.8k 0.6× 5.5k 0.4× 4.6k 1.3× 1.7k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 162 18.5k
Victor Brovkin Germany 68 10.0k 0.5× 13.9k 1.1× 4.8k 1.3× 2.1k 0.9× 811 0.4× 225 22.7k
I. Colin Prentice United Kingdom 82 9.8k 0.5× 12.9k 1.0× 5.8k 1.6× 5.6k 2.3× 1.0k 0.5× 263 24.6k
Patrick J. Bartlein United States 71 12.3k 0.6× 7.3k 0.6× 4.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 175 18.1k
Edward R. Cook United States 81 23.5k 1.1× 23.0k 1.7× 3.0k 0.8× 5.2k 2.1× 1.4k 0.7× 273 29.8k
Jed O. Kaplan Switzerland 56 8.3k 0.4× 7.7k 0.6× 3.6k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 149 15.3k
I. Colin Prentice Sweden 63 11.4k 0.5× 18.8k 1.4× 9.2k 2.6× 7.1k 2.9× 1.3k 0.6× 99 33.8k
Tandong Yao China 88 24.5k 1.2× 11.5k 0.9× 5.3k 1.5× 699 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 520 33.0k
Keith R. Briffa United Kingdom 73 18.9k 0.9× 17.6k 1.3× 2.0k 0.5× 3.8k 1.5× 1.3k 0.6× 145 23.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raymond S. Bradley

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ning, Liang, Zhengyu Liu, Jian Liu, et al.. (2025). Mega‐Tripolar Precipitation Change Accompanying Water Isotopes in Holocene Asian Summer Monsoon Reanalysis. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(17).
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Bradley, Raymond S.. (2025). Sub-divisions of the Holocene. Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi). 134(4). 351–359. 1 indexed citations
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Lapointe, François, Michael J. Retelle, Raymond S. Bradley, et al.. (2023). Multi-proxy evidence of unprecedented hydroclimatic change in a high Arctic proglacial lake: Linnévatnet, Svalbard. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 55(1). 5 indexed citations
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Zhao, Boyang, Isla S. Castañeda, Jeffrey M. Salacup, et al.. (2022). Prolonged drying trend coincident with the demise of Norse settlement in southern Greenland. Science Advances. 8(12). eabm4346–eabm4346. 28 indexed citations
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Fleitmann, Dominik, John Haldon, Raymond S. Bradley, et al.. (2022). Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia. Science. 376(6599). 1317–1321. 31 indexed citations
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Lapointe, François, Raymond S. Bradley, Pierre Francus, et al.. (2020). Annually resolved Atlantic sea surface temperature variability over the past 2,900 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27171–27178. 50 indexed citations
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Ning, Liang, Jian Liu, Raymond S. Bradley, & Mi Yan. (2019). Comparing the spatial patterns of climate change in the 9th and 5th millennia BP from TRACE-21 model simulations. Climate of the past. 15(1). 41–52. 21 indexed citations
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Bradley, Raymond S. & Jostein Bakke. (2019). Is there evidence for a 4.2 ka BP event in the northern North Atlantic region?. Climate of the past. 15(5). 1665–1676. 52 indexed citations
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Huss, Matthias, Bodo Bookhagen, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2017). Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice. Earth s Future. 5(5). 418–435. 367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lapointe, François, Pierre Francus, Scott F. Lamoureux, et al.. (2017). Influence of North Pacific decadal variability on the western Canadian Arctic over the past 700 years. Climate of the past. 13(4). 411–420. 12 indexed citations
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Serreze, Mark C., Bruce Raup, Carsten Braun, Douglas R. Hardy, & Raymond S. Bradley. (2017). Rapid wastage of the Hazen Plateau ice caps, northeastern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. ˜The œcryosphere. 11(1). 169–177. 8 indexed citations
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Bilt, Willem G. M. van der, W. J. D'Andrea, Jostein Bakke, et al.. (2016). Alkenone-based reconstructions reveal four-phase Holocene temperature evolution for High Arctic Svalbard. Quaternary Science Reviews. 183. 204–213. 41 indexed citations
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Balascio, Nicholas L., W. J. D'Andrea, & Raymond S. Bradley. (2015). Glacier response to North Atlantic climate variability during the Holocene. Climate of the past. 11(12). 1587–1598. 51 indexed citations
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Mann, Michael, Zhihua Zhang, Malcolm K. Hughes, et al.. (2008). Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(36). 13252–13257. 850 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fleitmann, Dominik, Stephen Burns, Manfred Mudelsee, et al.. (2006). A Widespread Climatic Anomaly at Around 9.200 Years Before Present. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Braun, Carsten, Douglas R. Hardy, Raymond S. Bradley, & Michael J. Retelle. (2000). Hydrological and meteorological observations at Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Geography. 24(2). 83–97. 10 indexed citations
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Braun, Carsten, Douglas R. Hardy, Raymond S. Bradley, & Michael J. Retelle. (2000). Streamflow and Suspended Sediment Transfer to Lake Sophia, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 32(4). 456–465. 19 indexed citations
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Maher, Barbara A., Barbara A. Maher, Raymond S. Bradley, et al.. (1999). Quaternary Climates, Environments and Magnetism. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 445 indexed citations
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Bradley, Raymond S., et al.. (1991). Sub-acute spongiform encephalopathies : proceedings of a seminar in the CEC Agricultural Research Programme, held in Brussels, 12-14 November 1990. 1 indexed citations
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Bradley, Raymond S. & John England. (1979). Synoptic Climatology of the Canadian High Arctic. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 61(3-4). 187–201. 31 indexed citations

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