M. E. Davis

15.5k citations

78 papers · 12.0k · 5 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Climate change and permafrost
Earth-Surface Processes top 0.2%
- Geological formations and processes

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 74
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 64
- Cryospheric studies and observations 54
- Climate change and permafrost 18
- Tree-ring climate responses 12
Global and Planetary Change 18
- Climate variability and models 13

Co-authors: Lonnie G. Thompson (63 shared papers)Ellen Mosley‐Thompson (50 shared papers)Ping‐Nan Lin (30 shared papers)Keith Henderson (6 shared papers)Tandong Yao (19 shared papers)John F. Bolzan (8 shared papers)V. M. Kotlyakov (2 shared papers)Jean‐Robert Petit (2 shared papers)
Journals: Annals of Glaciology (17 papers)Science (6 papers)Quaternary Science Reviews (4 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (3 papers)Nature (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Russia

In The Last Decade

M. E. Davis

77 papers receiving 11.1k citations

M. E. Davis's Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa 2002 · 630 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2002 Science
2000 Science
1999 Nature
1997 Science
1995 Science

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside M. E. Davis, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica Nature ·Jean‐Robert Petit, J. Jouzel, Dominique Raynaud, N I Barkov, Jean-Marc Barnola, Isabelle Basile, Michael L. Bender, J. Chappellaz, M. E. Davis, Gilles Delaygue, Marc Delmotte, V. M. Kotlyakov, Michel Legrand, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, Laurence Pépin, Catherine Ritz, E. S. Saltzman, M. Stiévenard Hit paper breakdown →	1999	4786
2	Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Tandong Yao, M. E. Davis, Keith Henderson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Ping‐Nan Lin, J. Beer, Hans‐Arno Synal, Jihong Cole‐Dai, John F. Bolzan Hit paper breakdown →	1997	987
3	A High-Resolution Millennial Record of the South Asian Monsoon from Himalayan Ice Cores Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Tandong Yao, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Keith Henderson, Ping‐Nan Lin Hit paper breakdown →	2000	795
4	Late Glacial Stage and Holocene Tropical Ice Core Records from Huascarán, Peru Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ping‐Nan Lin, Keith Henderson, Jihong Cole‐Dai, John F. Bolzan, Kam-Biu LIU Hit paper breakdown →	1995	775
5	Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Keith Henderson, Henry H. Brecher, V. Zagorodnov, Tracy A. Mashiotta, Ping‐Nan Lin, Vladimir N Mikhalenko, Douglas R. Hardy, Jürg Beer Hit paper breakdown →	2002	630
6	Holocene—Late Pleistocene Climatic Ice Core Records from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, John F. Bolzan, J. Dai, L. Klein, Tandong Yao, X. Wu, Zhouqing Xie, N. Gundestrup	1989	427
7	Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Henry H. Brecher, M. E. Davis, Blanca León, D. H. Les, Ping‐Nan Lin, Tracy A. Mashiotta, Keith R. Mountain	2006	371
8	Mass loss on Himalayan glacier endangers water resources Geophysical Research Letters ·Natalie Kehrwald, Lonnie G. Thompson, (unknown), Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, U. Schotterer, Vasily Alfimov, Jürg Beer, J. Eikenberg, M. E. Davis	2008	240
9	Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability over the Past ~1800 Years Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, V. Zagorodnov, Ian M. Howat, Vladimir N Mikhalenko, Ping‐Nan Lin	2013	231
10	Tropical Glacier and Ice Core Evidence of Climate Change on Annual to Millennial Time Scales Advances in global change research ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, P-N. Lin, Katrina Henderson, Tracy A. Mashiotta	2003	207
11	Tropical Glacier and Ice Core Evidence of Climate Change on Annual to Millennial Time Scales Climatic Change ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ping‐Nan Lin, Katrina Henderson, Tracy A. Mashiotta	2003	183
12	“Recent warming”: ice core evidence from tropical ice cores with emphasis on Central Asia Global and Planetary Change ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ping‐Nan Lin, Tandong Yao, Mark B. Dyurgerov, J. Dai	1993	167
13	Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change Atmósfera ·Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, M. E. Davis, Mark A. Cane, Naomi Naik, Jennifer Nakamura, Cuihua Li, Edward R. Cook, David W. Stahle	2009	155
14	Holocene climate variability archived in the Puruogangri ice cap on the central Tibetan Plateau Annals of Glaciology ·Lonnie G. Thompson, (unknown), M. E. Davis, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Tracy A. Mashiotta, Ping‐Nan Lin, Vladimir N Mikhalenko, V. Zagorodnov	2006	139
15	A 1000 year climate ice-core record from the Guliya ice cap, China: its relationship to global climate variability Annals of Glaciology ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ping‐Nan Lin, J. Dai, John F. Bolzan, Tandong Yao	1995	108
16	Climate since AD 1510 on Dyer Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula: evidence for recent climate change Annals of Glaciology ·Lonnie G. Thompson, David Peel, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Robert Mulvaney, J. Dal, Ping‐Nan Lin, M. E. Davis, C. F. Raymond	1994	100
17	Ice core records of climate variability on the Third Pole with emphasis on the Guliya ice cap, western Kunlun Mountains Quaternary Science Reviews ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Tandong Yao, M. E. Davis, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Guangjian Wu, Stacy E. Porter, Baiqing Xu, Ping‐Nan Lin, Ninglian Wang, Émilie Beaudon, Keqin Duan, M. Roxana Sierra‐Hernández, Donald V. Kenny	2018	98
18	Glacial Stage Ice-Core Records from the Subtropical Dunde Ice Cap, China Annals of Glaciology ·Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, M. E. Davis, John F. Bolzan, J. Dai, L. Klein, N. Gundestrup, Tandong Yao, X. Wu, Zhouqing Xie	1990	91
19	Pre-Incan agricultural activity recorded in dust layers in two tropical ice cores Nature ·Lonnie G. Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, K.-b. Liu	1988	91
20	Tropical ice core records: evidence for asynchronous glaciation on Milankovitch timescales Journal of Quaternary Science ·Lonnie G. Thompson, M. E. Davis, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Ping‐Nan Lin, Keith Henderson, Tracy A. Mashiotta	2005	83

About M. E. Davis

M. E. Davis is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Anthropology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 78 papers that have together received 12.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (64 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (54 papers), Climate change and permafrost (18 papers), Climate variability and models (13 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (7 papers), Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (5 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (9.5k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.6k citations), Paleontology (1.3k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.1k citations) and Anthropology (1.3k citations). M. E. Davis has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Ping‐Nan Lin, Keith Henderson, Tandong Yao, John F. Bolzan, V. M. Kotlyakov, Jean‐Robert Petit, V. Lipenkov and Dominique Raynaud. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Glaciology, Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature.

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