W. J. Collins

28.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
128 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

W. J. Collins is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, W. J. Collins has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Atmospheric Science, 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in W. J. Collins's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (81 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (65 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (53 papers). W. J. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (81 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (65 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (53 papers). W. J. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. W. J. Collins's co-authors include David S. Stevenson, Richard G. Derwent, Stephen Sitch, Chris E. Johnson, Michael Sanderson, Chris Huntingford, Peter M. Cox, Oliviér Boucher, Drew Shindell and Lisa Emberson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

W. J. Collins

125 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2

2011 1.2k citations W. J. Collins, Nicolas Bellouin et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink

2007 722 citations Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Shipping

2009 706 citations Veronika Eyring, Terje K. Berntsen et al. profile →
The Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Net Primary Productivity and Implications for Climate Change

2012 615 citations Stephen Sitch, W. J. Collins et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. J. Collins United Kingdom	54	6.3k	5.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	128	9.6k
Didier Hauglustaine France	51	6.3k 1.0×	5.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	453 0.3×	851 0.6×	136	8.9k
Larry W. Horowitz United States	64	11.2k 1.8×	8.2k 1.5×	5.2k 3.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	209	14.2k
I. E. Galbally Australia	37	4.0k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	828 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	120	6.4k
P. S. Kasibhatla United States	52	9.4k 1.5×	11.2k 2.1×	2.6k 1.5×	567 0.4×	2.2k 1.6×	97	15.6k
Dominick V. Spracklen United Kingdom	57	7.1k 1.1×	7.2k 1.4×	3.5k 2.0×	501 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	153	11.1k
Xu Yue China	51	3.8k 0.6×	3.3k 0.6×	4.0k 2.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	229	7.9k
Viney P. Aneja United States	43	3.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.3×	2.2k 1.3×	585 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	176	6.5k
Xin Huang China	53	7.0k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	4.8k 2.7×	247 0.2×	2.2k 1.5×	209	9.4k
Steven P. Hamburg United States	47	1.7k 0.3×	4.0k 0.8×	797 0.5×	790 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	129	8.3k
G. Faluvegi United States	44	5.7k 0.9×	4.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	172 0.1×	699 0.5×	98	7.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. J. Collins

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

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Griffiths, Paul T., Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, et al.. (2025). Opinion: The role of AerChemMIP in advancing climate and air quality research. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(14). 8289–8328. 1 indexed citations

Hayman, Garry, Edward Comyn‐Platt, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2021). Regional variation in the effectiveness of methane-based and land-based climate mitigation options. Earth System Dynamics. 12(2). 513–544. 7 indexed citations

Smith, Chris, Glen Harris, Matthew D. Palmer, et al.. (2021). Energy Budget Constraints on the Time History of Aerosol Forcing and Climate Sensitivity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(13). 41 indexed citations

Allen, Robert J., Larry W. Horowitz, Vaishali Naïk, et al.. (2021). Significant climate benefits from near-term climate forcer mitigation in spite of aerosol reductions. 10 indexed citations

Smith, Chris, Ryan J. Kramer, Gunnar Myhre, et al.. (2020). Effective Radiative Forcing and Adjustments in CMIP6. 1 indexed citations

Stevenson, David S., Alcide Zhao, Vaishali Naïk, et al.. (2020). Trends in global tropospheric hydroxyl radical and methane lifetime since 1850 from AerChemMIP. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 12905–12920. 81 indexed citations

Heinze, Christoph, Veronika Eyring, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.. (2019). ESD Reviews: Climate feedbacks in the Earth system and prospects for their evaluation. Earth System Dynamics. 10(3). 379–452. 60 indexed citations

Comyn‐Platt, Edward, Garry Hayman, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2018). Author Correction: Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks. Nature Geoscience. 11(11). 882–886. 2 indexed citations

Heinze, Christoph, Veronika Eyring, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.. (2018). Climate feedbacks in the Earth system and prospects for their evaluation. CentAUR (University of Reading). 4 indexed citations

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Comyn‐Platt, Edward, Garry Hayman, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2018). Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks. Nature Geoscience. 11(8). 568–573. 86 indexed citations

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Collins, W. J., Jean‐François Lamarque, Michael Schulz, et al.. (2017). AerChemMIP: quantifying the effects of chemistry and aerosols in CMIP6. Geoscientific model development. 10(2). 585–607. 192 indexed citations

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Huntingford, Chris, Hui Yang, Anna Harper, et al.. (2017). Flexible parameter-sparse global temperature time profiles that stabilise at 1.5 and 2.0  °C. Earth System Dynamics. 8(3). 617–626. 12 indexed citations

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Huntingford, Chris, Hui Yang, Anna Harper, et al.. (2017). Flexible parameter-sparse global temperature time-profiles thatstabilise at 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C.

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Kasoar, Matthew, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Jean‐François Lamarque, et al.. (2016). Regional and global temperature response to anthropogenic SO ₂ emissionsfrom China in three climate models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(15). 9785–9804. 49 indexed citations

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Collins, W. J., Dirk Olivié, Ribu Cherian, et al.. (2015). Climate responses to anthropogenic emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(14). 8201–8216. 66 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Fiona M., C. E. Johnson, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 2: The Troposphere. Geoscientific model development. 7(1). 41–91. 190 indexed citations

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Fry, M. M., Vaishali Naïk, J. Jason West, et al.. (2012). The influence of ozone precursor emissions from four world regions on tropospheric composition and radiative climate forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D7). 90 indexed citations

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Silva, Raquel A., Susan C. Anenberg, J. Jason West, et al.. (2012). P-009. Epidemiology. 23. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Collins, W. J.. (2008). Radiative Forcing by Long-Lived Greenhouse Gases: Calculations with the AER Radiative Transfer Models. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 9 indexed citations

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Collins, W. J., et al.. (1983). Subterranean clover as a naturalized plant in Australia [history, ecology, evolution]. 12 indexed citations

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