Richard G. Williams

10.6k total citations
176 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Richard G. Williams is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard G. Williams has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Oceanography, 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 53 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Richard G. Williams's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (81 papers), Climate variability and models (61 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (56 papers). Richard G. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (81 papers), Climate variability and models (61 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (56 papers). Richard G. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Richard G. Williams's co-authors include Michael J. Follows, G.J. Dockray, Vassil Roussenov, Keith A. Sharkey, Graham J. Dockray, John Marshall, A. J. George Nurser, Philip Goodwin, Christopher W. Hughes and M. Susan Lozier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard G. Williams

165 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard G. Williams United Kingdom 47 3.8k 2.4k 1.8k 1.5k 847 176 6.8k
John Church Australia 62 9.4k 2.5× 7.8k 3.3× 5.9k 3.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.9k 2.2× 239 16.6k
Robert G. Campbell United States 42 1.2k 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 631 0.4× 111 0.1× 881 1.0× 130 5.5k
Thomas R. Anderson United Kingdom 44 3.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 741 0.4× 147 0.1× 2.1k 2.5× 134 7.1k
Patrick J. Mulholland United States 66 1.9k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 885 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 6.1k 7.2× 222 15.4k
John J. McCarthy United States 57 1.1k 0.3× 695 0.3× 482 0.3× 481 0.3× 574 0.7× 185 11.6k
Paul R. Wade United States 41 955 0.3× 1.2k 0.5× 707 0.4× 325 0.2× 3.3k 3.9× 105 5.1k
Anthony P. Farrell Canada 83 3.5k 0.9× 5.1k 2.2× 190 0.1× 1.0k 0.7× 18.1k 21.4× 463 26.0k
P Thor Poland 35 1.3k 0.3× 747 0.3× 95 0.1× 303 0.2× 761 0.9× 135 3.4k
Hans-Jürgen Hirche Germany 41 3.3k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 637 0.4× 140 0.1× 1.9k 2.2× 116 4.8k
Katsumi Matsumoto Japan 34 1.9k 0.5× 894 0.4× 1.9k 1.1× 176 0.1× 951 1.1× 176 4.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard G. Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard G. Williams

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Goodwin, Philip, Richard G. Williams, Paulo Ceppi, & B. B. Cael. (2025). Climate Feedbacks Derived From Spatial Gradients in Recent Climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(12).
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Williams, Richard G., Philip Goodwin, Paulo Ceppi, Chris Jones, & Andrew H. MacDougall. (2025). A normalised framework for the Zero Emissions Commitment. Biogeosciences. 22(22). 7167–7186.
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Hawkins, Ed, Richard G. Williams, Paul J. Young, et al.. (2025). Warming Stripes Spark Climate Conversations: From the Ocean to the Stratosphere. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(5). E964–E970.
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Castro, Bieito Fernández, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Matthew R. Mazloff, & Richard G. Williams. (2025). Sources, Pathways, and Drivers of Sub‐Antarctic Mode Water Formation. AGU Advances. 6(2).
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (2024). Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake. Nature Climate Change. 14(8). 823–831. 4 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (2024). Surface Heat Fluxes Drive a Two‐Phase Response in Southern Ocean Mode Water Stratification. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(3).
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (2024). An Ocean Memory Perspective: Disentangling Atmospheric Control of Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(20). 1 indexed citations
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Cael, B. B., Jonah Bloch‐Johnson, Paulo Ceppi, et al.. (2023). Energy budget diagnosis of changing climate feedback. Science Advances. 9(16). eadf9302–eadf9302. 3 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., Paulo Ceppi, Vassil Roussenov, Anna Katavouta, & Andrew Meijers. (2023). The role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate response to carbon emissions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2249). 20220062–20220062. 22 indexed citations
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Vakilifard, Negar, Richard G. Williams, Philip B. Holden, et al.. (2022). Impact of negative and positive CO 2 emissions on global warming metrics using an ensemble of Earth system model simulations. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4249–4265. 7 indexed citations
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Roussenov, Vassil, Richard G. Williams, M. Susan Lozier, N. Penny Holliday, & Doug Smith. (2022). Historical Reconstruction of Subpolar North Atlantic Overturning and Its Relationship to Density. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(6). 8 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (2022). Fast and Slow Subpolar Ocean Responses to the North Atlantic Oscillation: Thermal and Dynamical Changes. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(24). 15 indexed citations
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Castro, Bieito Fernández, Matthew R. Mazloff, Richard G. Williams, & Alberto C. Naveira Garabato. (2022). Subtropical Contribution to Sub‐Antarctic Mode Waters. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(11). 9 indexed citations
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Katavouta, Anna & Richard G. Williams. (2021). Ocean carbon cycle feedbacks in CMIP6 models: contributions from different basins. Biogeosciences. 18(10). 3189–3218. 15 indexed citations
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Spingys, Carl, Richard G. Williams, Robyn E. Tuerena, et al.. (2021). Observations of Nutrient Supply by Mesoscale Eddy Stirring and Small‐Scale Turbulence in the Oligotrophic North Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(12). 9 indexed citations
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Tuerena, Robyn E., Richard G. Williams, Claire Mahaffey, et al.. (2019). Internal Tides Drive Nutrient Fluxes Into the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum Over Mid‐ocean Ridges. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33(8). 995–1009. 40 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., Anna Katavouta, & Philip Goodwin. (2019). The role of ocean physics in controlling the climate response and carbon cycle feedback to carbon emissions. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2203. 1 indexed citations
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Lauderdale, Jonathan Maitland, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, K. I. C. Oliver, Michael J. Follows, & Richard G. Williams. (2013). Wind-driven changes in Southern Ocean residual circulation, ocean carbon reservoirs and atmospheric CO[subscript 2]. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (2000). Sea level changes along the Saudi coast of the Arabian Gulf. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences. 29(3). 191–200. 9 indexed citations
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Williams, Richard G., et al.. (1988). Catecholaminergic parasympathetic efferents within the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in the rat: a quantitative analysis. Neuroscience Letters. 90(1-2). 1–5. 24 indexed citations

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