Simon O’Doherty

22.4k citations

184 papers · 7.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 43

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Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 167
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 155
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 128
Global and Planetary Change 152
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 149

Co-authors: Ray F. Weiss (61 shared papers)Peter K. Salameh (34 shared papers)Peter G. Simmonds (40 shared papers)Alistair J. Manning (57 shared papers)Ronald G. Prinn (45 shared papers)Christina M. Harth (29 shared papers)Stefan Reimann (36 shared papers)Paul B. Krummel (54 shared papers)
Journals: Atmospheric chemistry and physics (44 papers)Atmospheric Environment (23 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (13 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (10 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (10 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

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Simon O’Doherty

179 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Simon O’Doherty's Hit Papers

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Evidence for Substantial Variations of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Radicals in the Past Two Decades 2001 · 539 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.

2001 Science
2000 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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1	A history of chemically and radiatively important gases in air deduced from ALE/GAGE/AGAGE Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·R. G. Prinn, Ray F. Weiss, P. J. Fraser, P. G. Simmonds, D. M. Cunnold, F. N. Alyea, Simon O’Doherty, Peter K. Salameh, B. R. Miller, J. Huang, R. H. J. Wang, Dana E. Hartley, Christina M. Harth, L. P. Steele, G. A. Sturrock, P.M. Midgley, Archie McCulloch Hit paper breakdown →	2000	545
2	Evidence for Substantial Variations of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Radicals in the Past Two Decades Science ·Ronald G. Prinn, J. Huang, Ray F. Weiss, D. M. Cunnold, Paul J. Fraser, Peter G. Simmonds, Archie McCulloch, Christina M. Harth, Peter K. Salameh, Simon O’Doherty, R. H. J. Wang, L. W. Porter, B. R. Miller Hit paper breakdown →	2001	539
3	Renewed growth of atmospheric methane Geophysical Research Letters ·Matthew Rigby, Ronald G. Prinn, Paul J. Fraser, Peter G. Simmonds, R. L. Langenfelds, J. Huang, D. M. Cunnold, L. P. Steele, Paul B. Krummel, Ray F. Weiss, Simon O’Doherty, Peter K. Salameh, H. J. Wang, Christina M. Harth, Jens Mühle, L. W. Porter	2008	395
4	Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52 S. A. Montzka, Stefan Reimann, Anja Engel, Kirstin Krüger, Simon O’Doherty, William T. Sturges	2011	295
5	Transport of boreal forest fire emissions from Canada to Europe Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·C. Forster, Ulla Wandinger, Gerhard Wotawa, P. James, Ina Mattis, Dietrich Althausen, Peter Simmonds, Simon O’Doherty, S. G. Jennings, Christoph Kleefeld, Johannes Schneider, Thomas Trickl, Stephan Kreipl, H. Jäger, A. Stohl	2001	277
6	Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthew Rigby, S. A. Montzka, Ronald G. Prinn, James W. C. White, Dickon Young, Simon O’Doherty, Mark F. Lunt, Anita L. Ganesan, Alistair J. Manning, Peter G. Simmonds, Peter K. Salameh, Christina M. Harth, Jens Mühle, Ray F. Weiss, Paul J. Fraser, L. P. Steele, Paul B. Krummel, Archie McCulloch, Sunyoung Park	2017	252
7	Evidence for variability of atmospheric hydroxyl radicals over the past quarter century Geophysical Research Letters ·R. G. Prinn, J. Huang, Ray F. Weiss, D. M. Cunnold, P. J. Fraser, P. G. Simmonds, A. McCulloch, Christina M. Harth, Stefan Reimann, Peter K. Salameh, Simon O’Doherty, R. H. J. Wang, L. W. Porter, B. R. Miller, Paul B. Krummel	2005	209
8	Inverse modeling of European CH₄ emissions 2001–2006 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·P. Bergamaschi, Maarten Krol, Jan Fokke Meirink, (unknown), Arjo Segers, J. van Aardenne, Suvi Monni, Alex Vermeulen, Martina Schmidt, Michel Ramonet, Camille Yver Kwok, Frank Meinhardt, Euan G. Nisbet, Rebecca Fisher, Simon O’Doherty, E. J. Dlugokencky	2010	154
9	Rapid growth of hydrofluorocarbon 134a and hydrochlorofluorocarbons 141b, 142b, and 22 from Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) observations at Cape Grim, Tasmania, and Mace Head, Ireland Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Simon O’Doherty, D. M. Cunnold, Alistair J. Manning, B. R. Miller, R. H. J. Wang, Paul B. Krummel, Paul J. Fraser, Peter G. Simmonds, Archie McCulloch, Ray F. Weiss, Peter K. Salameh, L. W. Porter, Ronald G. Prinn, J. Huang, G. A. Sturrock, D. B. Ryall, Richard G. Derwent, S. A. Montzka	2004	122
10	Robust extraction of baseline signal of atmospheric trace species using local regression Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Andreas Ruckstuhl, Stephan Henne, Stefan Reimann, Martin Steinbacher, Martin K. Vollmer, Simon O’Doherty, B. Buchmann, Christoph Hueglin	2012	121
11	Perfluorocarbons in the global atmosphere: tetrafluoromethane, hexafluoroethane, and octafluoropropane Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jens Mühle, Anita L. Ganesan, B. R. Miller, Peter K. Salameh, Christina M. Harth, B. R. Greally, Matthew Rigby, L. W. Porter, L. P. Steele, Cathy M. Trudinger, Paul B. Krummel, Simon O’Doherty, Paul J. Fraser, P. G. Simmonds, Ronald G. Prinn, Ray F. Weiss	2010	120
12	Global environmental impacts of the hydrogen economy Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Richard G. Derwent, Peter Simmonds, Simon O’Doherty, Alistair J. Manning, W. J. Collins, David S. Stevenson	2006	117
13	Estimating European emissions of ozone‐depleting and greenhouse gases using observations and a modeling back‐attribution technique Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Alistair J. Manning, D. B. Ryall, Richard G. Derwent, P. G. Simmonds, Simon O’Doherty	2003	105
14	Hydrochlorofluorocarbon and hydrofluorocarbon emissions in East Asia determined by inverse modeling Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·A. Stohl, Jooil Kim, S. Li, Simon O’Doherty, Jens Mühle, Peter K. Salameh, Takuya Saito, Martin K. Vollmer, Dan Wan, Ray F. Weiss, Bo Yao, Yoko Yokouchi, Lingxi Zhou	2010	100
15	European greenhouse gas emissions estimated from continuous atmospheric measurements and radon 222 at Mace Head, Ireland Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sébastien Biraud, Philippe Ciais, Michel Ramonet, Peter Simmonds, Victor Kazan, P. Monfray, Simon O’Doherty, T. Gerard Spain, S. G. Jennings	2000	100
16	Characterization of uncertainties in atmospheric trace gas inversions using hierarchical Bayesian methods Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Anita L. Ganesan, Matthew Rigby, Andrew Zammit‐Mangion, Alistair J. Manning, Ronald G. Prinn, Paul J. Fraser, Christina M. Harth, K.‐R. Kim, Paul B. Krummel, S. Li, Jens Mühle, Simon O’Doherty, Sunyoung Park, Peter K. Salameh, L. P. Steele, Ray F. Weiss	2014	92
17	Global trends, seasonal cycles, and European emissions of dichloromethane, trichloroethene, and tetrachloroethene from the AGAGE observations at Mace Head, Ireland, and Cape Grim, Tasmania Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·P. G. Simmonds, Alistair J. Manning, D. M. Cunnold, Archie McCulloch, Simon O’Doherty, Richard G. Derwent, Paul B. Krummel, P. J. Fraser, B. L. Dunse, L. W. Porter, R. H. J. Wang, B. R. Greally, B. R. Miller, Peter K. Salameh, Ray F. Weiss, R. G. Prinn	2006	89
18	Methane emissions in East Asia for 2000–2011 estimated using an atmospheric Bayesian inversion Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Rona L. Thompson, A. Stohl, Lei Zhou, E. J. Dlugokencky, Y. Fukuyama, Yasunori Tohjima, Sung‐Yong Kim, Haeyoung Lee, Euan G. Nisbet, Rebecca Fisher, David Lowry, Ray F. Weiss, Ronald G. Prinn, Simon O’Doherty, Dickon Young, James W. C. White	2015	87
19	Re-evaluation of the lifetimes of the major CFCs and CH ₃ CCl ₃ using atmospheric trends Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Matthew Rigby, Ronald G. Prinn, Simon O’Doherty, S. A. Montzka, Archie McCulloch, C. M. Harth, Jens Mühle, Peter K. Salameh, Ray F. Weiss, Dickon Young, Peter G. Simmonds, B. D. Hall, G. S. Dutton, David Nance, D. J. Mondeel, James W. Elkins, Paul B. Krummel, Lloyd Steele, Paul J. Fraser	2013	86
20	Recent and future trends in synthetic greenhouse gas radiative forcing Geophysical Research Letters ·Matthew Rigby, Ronald G. Prinn, Simon O’Doherty, B. R. Miller, Diane J. Ivy, Jens Mühle, Christina M. Harth, Peter K. Salameh, Tim Arnold, Ray F. Weiss, Paul B. Krummel, L. P. Steele, Paul J. Fraser, Dickon Young, P. G. Simmonds	2014	82

About Simon O’Doherty

Simon O’Doherty is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Spectroscopy, having authored 184 papers that have together received 7.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (155 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (149 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (128 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (19 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (7 papers), Vehicle emissions and performance (5 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (5 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.6k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (905 citations), Environmental Chemistry (474 citations) and Environmental Engineering (452 citations). Simon O’Doherty has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Ray F. Weiss, Peter K. Salameh, Peter G. Simmonds, Alistair J. Manning, Ronald G. Prinn, Christina M. Harth, Stefan Reimann, Paul B. Krummel, Paul J. Fraser and Archie McCulloch. Their work appears in journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and Environmental Science & Technology.

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