Four Exeter climate researchers in Carbon Brief top 100
Four University of Exeter researchers have been named in the top 100 in a new Carbon Brief ranking of the world’s most highly cited climate scientists.
Professors Pierre Friedlingstein (ranked 9th), Neil Adger (24th), Stephen Sitch (31st), Peter Cox (71st) make the list – giving Exeter more top-100 researchers than any other university.
Exeter has a total of 10 researchers in the top 500, including three who hold joint appointments at University of Exeter and the UK Met Office.
The new Carbon Brief rankings also include an “IPCC-only” list, which analyses publications directly referenced in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
On that list, Exeter has two researchers in the top 10, and six in the top 50 (including two joint Exeter-Met Office staff).
The rankings are published as part of Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos – the world’s largest database of climate change research.
“We are delighted to see so many of our world-leading climate researchers in these new rankings,” said Stuart Brocklehurst, Exeter’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation.
“As we saw at last week’s Exeter Climate Forum, Exeter is a globally recognised hub of climate research and leadership on tackling the climate emergency.
“The researchers listed in the top 500 can be rightly proud of their decades of dedication, and their work will continue to have a major impact in this critical decade for climate action.”
Full list of University of Exeter staff in the Carbon Brief top 500 (IPCC-only ranking in brackets):
- Pierre Friedlingstein: 9 (8)
- Neil Adger: 24 (10)
- Stephen Sitch: 31 (30)
- Peter Cox: 71 (47)
- Richard Betts*: 158 (29)
- Kevin Gaston: 207
- Peter Stott*: 268 (17)
- Matthew Collins: 341 (102)
- Tim Lenton: 357 (180)
- Adam Scaife*: 492 (444)
Professors Andy Wiltshire* and Jim Haywood do not feature on the main top 500, but are listed at 207th and 353rd respectively in the IPCC-only list.
Project Cosmos is Carbon Brief’s “universe” of climate science, containing more than 1.8 million unique publications linked by 40 million citation relationships.
A computational science team from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Climate Change Communications and Data Science (C3DS), led by Dr Tristan Cann with the support of Professor Travis Coan, produced the final database.
* Denotes joint Exeter-Met Office staff.
