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D-Index
38
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9910
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8506
National Ranking
3036

Alan D. Jassby publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan D. Jassby sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 72 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Alan D. Jassby D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan D. Jassby sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan D. Jassby is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research concentrates primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on specific subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their recent scholarly work includes the paper titled Chlorophyll trends are negative for lakes but positive for estuarine-coastal waters, published in 2025 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This paper contributes to understanding trends in aquatic ecosystems by analyzing chlorophyll levels across different water bodies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include James E. Cloern, with whom they have co-authored at least one publication.

Alan D. Jassby's research topics cover:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

The venues where their research is published are focused within high-impact scientific journals, with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences being a notable platform for their recent work.

Best Publications

  • Mathematical formulation of the relationship between photosynthesis and light for phytoplankton

    Alan D. Jassby;Trevor Platt

  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND LIGHT FOR NATURAL ASSEMBLAGES OF COASTAL MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON1

    Trevor Platt;Alan D. Jassby

  • Isohaline Position as a Habitat Indicator for Estuarine Populations

    Alan D. Jassby;William J. Kimmerer;Stephen G. Monismith;Charles Armor

  • Drivers of change in estuarine-coastal ecosystems: Discoveries from four decades of study in San Francisco Bay

    James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby

  • Patterns and scales of phytoplankton variability in estuarine-coastal ecosystems.

    James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby

  • Annual primary production: Patterns and mechanisms of change in a nutrient-rich tidal ecosystem

    Alan D. Jassby;James E. Cloern;Brian E. Cole

  • Projected Evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System in a Century of Climate Change

    James E. Cloern;Noah Knowles;Larry R. Brown;Daniel Cayan

  • Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and phosphorus in the annual nutrient load of Lake Tahoe (California‐Nevada)

    Alan D. Jassby;John E. Reuter;Richard P. Axler;Charles R. Goldman

  • Vertical patterns of eddy diffusion during stratification in Castle Lake, California1

    Alan Jassby;Thomas Powell

  • Complex seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land-sea interface.

    James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby

  • A cold phase of the East Pacific triggers new phytoplankton blooms in San Francisco Bay

    James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby;Janet K. Thompson;Kathryn A. Hieb

  • Bioavailability of organic matter in a highly disturbed Estuary: The role of detrital and algal resources

    William V. Sobczak;James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby;Anke B. Müller-Solger

  • Detecting Changes in Ecological Time Series

    Alan D. Jassby;Thomas M. Powell

  • Ecosystem variability along the estuarine salinity gradient: Examples from long‐term study of San Francisco Bay

    James E. Cloern;Alan D. Jassby;Tara S. Schraga;Erica Nejad

  • Organic matter sources and rehabilitation of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (California, USA)

    Alan D. Jassby;James E. Cloern

  • Water clarity modeling in Lake Tahoe: Linking suspended matter characteristics to Secchi depth

    Theodore J. Swift;Theodore J. Swift;Joaquim Perez-Losada;Joaquim Perez-Losada;S. Geoffrey Schladow;John E. Reuter

  • Nutritional quality of food resources for zooplankton (Daphnia) in a tidal freshwater system (Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta)

    Anke B. Müller-Solger;Alan D. Jassby;Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra

  • Origins and scale dependence of temporal variability in the transparency of Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada

    Alan D. Jassby;Charles R. Goldman;John E. Reuter;Robert C. Richards

  • Interannual fluctuations in primary production: Meteorological forcing at two subalpine lakes

    Charles R. Goldman;Alan Jassby;Thomas Powell

  • Organic carbon sources and sinks in San Francisco Bay: variability induced by river flow

    AD Jassby;JE Cloern;TM Powell

  • ISOHALINE POSITION AS A HABITAT INDICATOR FOR

    Alan D. Jassby;William J. Kimmerer;Stephen G. Monismith;Charles Armor

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey
Charles R. Goldman
Charles R. Goldman University of California, Davis
Thomas M. Powell
Thomas M. Powell University of California, Berkeley
Monika Winder
Monika Winder Stockholm University
David H. Schoellhamer
David H. Schoellhamer United States Geological Survey
Trevor Platt
Trevor Platt Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Stephen G. Monismith
Stephen G. Monismith Stanford University
Mark T. Stacey
Mark T. Stacey University of California, Berkeley

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