Timothy M. Shanahan

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
61 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Timothy M. Shanahan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy M. Shanahan has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Atmospheric Science, 16 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Timothy M. Shanahan's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Geological formations and processes (16 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers). Timothy M. Shanahan is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Geological formations and processes (16 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers). Timothy M. Shanahan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. Timothy M. Shanahan's co-authors include Jonathan T. Overpeck, Julia E. Cole, Christopher A. Scholz, Miriam Steinitz‐Kannan, Jessica L. Conroy, Konrad A Hughen, John A. Peck, John W. King, Bruno J. Giletti and C. W. Heil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Timothy M. Shanahan

59 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record

2008 597 citations Jessica L. Conroy, Jonathan T. Overpeck et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

2007 350 citations Christopher A. Scholz, Thomas C. Johnson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

2015 328 citations Timothy M. Shanahan, Nicholas P. McKay et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy M. Shanahan United States	27	2.2k	794	653	645	592	61	3.3k
Adrian Gilli Switzerland	31	2.2k 1.0×	748 0.9×	710 1.1×	309 0.5×	465 0.8×	66	2.9k
Christopher M. Moy New Zealand	17	2.2k 1.0×	826 1.0×	652 1.0×	472 0.7×	394 0.7×	32	2.5k
P. J. Polissar United States	32	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	523 0.8×	568 0.9×	444 0.8×	84	3.7k
Hiroyuki Kitagawa Japan	30	2.3k 1.0×	853 1.1×	521 0.8×	337 0.5×	555 0.9×	84	3.0k
David McGee United States	27	2.5k 1.1×	734 0.9×	918 1.4×	790 1.2×	360 0.6×	116	3.1k
Xulong Wang China	29	2.8k 1.3×	421 0.5×	1.5k 2.3×	750 1.2×	547 0.9×	83	3.4k
Santiago Giralt Spain	34	2.1k 0.9×	892 1.1×	607 0.9×	249 0.4×	324 0.5×	151	3.0k
Matthew S. Lachniet United States	32	2.3k 1.0×	657 0.8×	849 1.3×	421 0.7×	390 0.7×	63	2.8k
Wahyoe S. Hantoro Indonesia	25	1.9k 0.8×	842 1.1×	640 1.0×	683 1.1×	267 0.5×	53	2.7k
Donald T. Rodbell United States	31	3.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	939 1.4×	643 1.0×	949 1.6×	75	4.6k

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DiNezio, Pedro, Timothy M. Shanahan, Tianyi Sun, et al.. (2025). Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk. Nature. 644(8077). 676–683. 1 indexed citations

DiNezio, Pedro, et al.. (2025). Human emissions drive recent trends in North Pacific climate variations. Nature. 644(8077). 684–692. 1 indexed citations

Shanahan, Timothy M., Shaoneng He, Adriana Bailey, et al.. (2024). ¹⁷O‐Excess in Tropical Cyclones Reflects Local Rain Re‐Evaporation More Than Moisture Source Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(6). 5 indexed citations

Gosling, William D., Charlotte Miller, Timothy M. Shanahan, et al.. (2022). A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO ₂ in determining tropical woody vegetation change. Science. 376(6593). 653–656. 35 indexed citations

Tian, Lijun, et al.. (2022). Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 31 indexed citations

Shanahan, Timothy M., et al.. (2021). Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming. Nature Geoscience. 14(12). 912–917. 4 indexed citations

Saylor, Joel E., et al.. (2020). Orbital Forcing of Late Miocene–Early Pleistocene Environmental Change in the Zhada Basin, SW Tibetan Plateau. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(8). 5 indexed citations

Dallmeyer, Anne, Martin Claußen, Stephan Lorenz, & Timothy M. Shanahan. (2020). The end of the African humid period as seen by a transient comprehensive Earth system model simulation of the last 8000 years. Climate of the past. 16(1). 117–140. 58 indexed citations

Shanahan, Timothy M., et al.. (2019). Controls on the Isotopic Composition of Precipitation in the South‐Central United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(14). 8320–8335. 20 indexed citations

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Jardine, Phillip E., Wesley T. Fraser, Barry H. Lomax, et al.. (2016). Pollen and spores as biological recorders of past ultraviolet irradiance. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 39269–39269. 25 indexed citations

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Shanahan, Timothy M., Alberto Sáez, Armand Hernández, et al.. (2015). The evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation for the last 700 years inferred from D/H isotopes in the sedimentary record of Lake Azul (Azores archipelago, Portugal).. EGUGA. 872. 1 indexed citations

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Wolaver, Brad D., James C. Coogan, Brian K. Horton, et al.. (2015). Structural and hydrogeologic evolution of the Putumayo basin and adjacent fold-thrust belt, Colombia. AAPG Bulletin. 99(10). 1893–1927. 16 indexed citations

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Anderson, Val Jo, et al.. (2011). New Constraints on the Paleoelevation History of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia from Lipid Biomarkers. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Shanahan, Timothy M., et al.. (2011). Hydrologic and temperature variability at Lake Titicaca over the past 50,000 years. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 2 indexed citations

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Conroy, Jessica L., Jonathan T. Overpeck, Julia E. Cole, Timothy M. Shanahan, & Miriam Steinitz‐Kannan. (2008). Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(11-12). 1166–1180. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peck, J. A., Timothy M. Shanahan, Jonathan King, et al.. (2007). The 1 Ma Lake Bosumtwi (West Africa) Paleoclimate Record: Comparisons to Marine and Polar Records. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Scholz, Christopher A., Thomas C. Johnson, Andrew S. Cohen, et al.. (2007). East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(42). 16416–16421. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shanahan, Timothy M.. (2006). West African Monsoon Variability from a High-Resolution Paleolimnological Record (Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana). UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 36(10). 649–53. 4 indexed citations

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Peck, J. A., C. W. Heil, Jonathan King, et al.. (2005). The Lake Bosumtwi Drilling Project: A 1 Ma West African Paleoclimate Record. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 4 indexed citations

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Shanahan, Timothy M., Jonathan T. Overpeck, J. A. Peck, et al.. (2005). Paleoenvironmental changes in West Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum from a geochemical and modeling study of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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