Tim Boyer

10.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Tim Boyer is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Boyer has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Oceanography, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Tim Boyer's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (40 papers), Climate variability and models (28 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers). Tim Boyer is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (40 papers), Climate variability and models (28 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (19 papers). Tim Boyer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Tim Boyer's co-authors include Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov, Huai‐Min Zhang, Boyin Huang, Gennady A. Chepurin, Matthew J. Menne, Russell S. Vose, J. H. Lawrimore, Thomas M. Smith and Peter Thorne and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Tim Boyer

56 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

2017 2.3k citations Boyin Huang, Peter Thorne et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Warming of the world ocean, 1955–2003

2005 814 citations Sydney Levitus, John I. Antonov et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015

2017 523 citations Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Boyer United States	25	4.2k	3.2k	3.1k	378	127	59	5.4k
Viva F. Banzon United States	21	4.8k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	4.0k 1.3×	585 1.5×	129 1.0×	28	5.9k
Masayoshi Ishii Japan	33	4.5k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	230 0.6×	105 0.8×	78	5.4k
Boyin Huang United States	30	6.1k 1.5×	3.5k 1.1×	5.0k 1.6×	461 1.2×	113 0.9×	78	7.1k
Malte F. Stuecker United States	38	4.3k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	3.7k 1.2×	176 0.5×	87 0.7×	108	4.9k
M. Ravichandran India	37	3.3k 0.8×	4.2k 1.3×	2.8k 0.9×	336 0.9×	103 0.8×	152	5.1k
Shoshiro Minobe Japan	35	5.7k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	4.5k 1.4×	671 1.8×	120 0.9×	88	6.9k
Boris Dewitte France	38	5.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.5×	4.1k 1.3×	736 1.9×	183 1.4×	142	7.5k
Ivan D. Haigh United Kingdom	45	3.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	804 2.1×	79 0.6×	159	5.8k
Gary T. Mitchum United States	32	2.8k 0.7×	4.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.6×	702 1.9×	133 1.0×	65	5.6k
J. K. Willis United States	31	2.6k 0.6×	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	213 0.6×	128 1.0×	83	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Boyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Boyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Boyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Boyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Boyer 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 Tim Boyer. Tim Boyer 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

Mishonov, Alexey, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, et al.. (2025). Monitoring Ocean Climate with World Ocean Database. 1–10. 2 indexed citations

Jiang, Li‐Qing, Tim Boyer, Christopher R. Paver, et al.. (2024). Climatological distribution of ocean acidification variables along the North American ocean margins. Earth system science data. 16(7). 3383–3390. 1 indexed citations

Ito, Takamitsu, Hernan E. Garcia, Zhankun Wang, et al.. (2024). Underestimation of multi-decadal global O ₂ loss due to an optimal interpolation method. Biogeosciences. 21(3). 747–759. 1 indexed citations

Good, Simon, Tim Boyer, Francis Bringas, et al.. (2023). Benchmarking of automatic quality control checks for ocean temperature profiles and recommendations for optimal sets. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 10 indexed citations

Jiang, Li‐Qing, Alex Kozyr, Eugene Burger, et al.. (2023). The Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System. Scientific Data. 10(1). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

Blunden, Jessica & Tim Boyer. (2021). State of the Climate in 2020. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(8). S1–S475. 56 indexed citations

Nyadjro, Ebenezer S., et al.. (2020). NOAA NCEI Global Marine Microplastics Database Initiative. 4 indexed citations

Zweng, M., Tim Boyer, O Baranova, et al.. (2018). An inventory of Arctic Ocean data in the World Ocean Database. Earth system science data. 10(1). 677–687. 11 indexed citations

Reagan, James, Dan Seidov, & Tim Boyer. (2018). Water Vapor Transfer and Near-Surface Salinity Contrasts in the North Atlantic Ocean. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8830–8830. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Boyin, Peter Thorne, Viva F. Banzon, et al.. (2017). Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons. Journal of Climate. 30(20). 8179–8205. 2343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Lijing, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, et al.. (2017). Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015. Science Advances. 3(3). e1601545–e1601545. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tyler, Robert H., Tim Boyer, Takuto Minami, M. Zweng, & James Reagan. (2017). Electrical conductivity of the global ocean. Earth Planets and Space. 69(1). 156–156. 107 indexed citations

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Boyer, Tim, et al.. (2016). NCEI-TSG: A Global in situ Sea-surface Salinity and Temperature Database of Thermosalinograph (TSG) Observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Yan, Xiao‐Hai, Tim Boyer, Kevin E. Trenberth, et al.. (2016). The global warming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution?. Earth s Future. 4(11). 472–482. 140 indexed citations

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Locarnini, Ricardo, Sydney Levitus, Tim Boyer, et al.. (2012). World Ocean Atlas 2013: Improved vertical and horizontal resolution. AGUFM. 2012. 2 indexed citations

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Xue, Yan, Magdalena Balmaseda, Tim Boyer, et al.. (2012). Comparative Analysis of Upper Ocean Heat Content Variability from Ensemble Operational Ocean Analyses. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 9(1). 3 indexed citations

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Barron, Charlie N., et al.. (2009). Evaluations of SST climatologies in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(C2). 5 indexed citations

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Levitus, Sydney, John I. Antonov, & Tim Boyer. (2005). Warming of the world ocean, 1955–2003. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(2). 814 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levitus, Sydney, John I. Antonov, Tim Boyer, Hernan E. Garcia, & Ricardo Locarnini. (2005). Linear trends of zonally averaged thermosteric, halosteric, and total steric sea level for individual ocean basins and the world ocean, (1955–1959)–(1994–1998). Geophysical Research Letters. 32(16). 55 indexed citations

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Garcia, Hernan E., Tim Boyer, Sydney Levitus, Ricardo Locarnini, & John I. Antonov. (2005). Climatological annual cycle of upper ocean oxygen content anomaly. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(5). 8 indexed citations

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