Brian Cairns

183 papers and 5.3k indexed citations
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About

Brian Cairns is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Cairns has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 140 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Brian Cairns’s work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (154 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (119 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (69 papers). Brian Cairns is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (154 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (119 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (69 papers). Brian Cairns collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Brian Cairns's co-authors include Michael I. Mishchenko, Larry D. Travis, Andrew A. Lacis, Jacek Chowdhary, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Barbara E. Carlson, Igor V. Geogdzhayev, Otto Hasekamp, Mikhail D. Alexandrov and Kirk Knobelspiesse and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Cairns

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

Brian Cairns

176 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Cairns

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