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D-Index
36
Citations
6684
World Ranking
7038
National Ranking
2369

Bernard W. Sweeney publications per year

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1969 2025

85 publications in total across all disciplines

Bernard W. Sweeney publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard W. Sweeney sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 79 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Bernard W. Sweeney D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Bernard W. Sweeney sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bernard W. Sweeney is affiliated with the Stroud Water Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and aquatic systems. Within this broad field, their work covers subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, cellular and molecular neuroscience, aquatic science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Sweeney's research spans several main topics such as fish ecology and management studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, neurobiology and insect physiology research, aquaculture nutrition and growth, invertebrate taxonomy and ecology, and species distribution and climate change.

The scientist has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Experimental Biology, Scientific Reports, Limnologica, Journal of Threatened Taxa, and Preprints.org.

  • Oxygen limitation fails to explain upper chronic thermal limits and the temperature size rule in mayflies, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Transcriptomic and life history responses of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to chronic diel thermal challenge, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Evaluating water quality for Amazonian streams along the interoceanic highway in Peru using macroinvertebrates collected by hand and with leaf packs, 2020, Limnologica
  • Watershed survey of streams in western Bhutan with macroinvertebrates, water chemistry, bacteria and DNA barcodes, 2024, Journal of Threatened Taxa
  • Otologic and Sinonasal Manifestations of Pediatric Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: A Scoping Review, 2025, Preprints.org

Frequent collaborators in Sweeney's work include David H. Funk, John K. Jackson, Juliann M. Battle, Hsuan Chou, and Dereje D. Jima.

  • David H. Funk
  • John K. Jackson
  • Juliann M. Battle
  • Hsuan Chou
  • Dereje D. Jima

Best Publications

  • GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THERMAL EQUILIBRIA: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF NATURAL AND MODIFIED THERMAL REGIMES ON AQUATIC INSECT COMMUNITIES

    Robin L. Vannote;Bernard W. Sweeney

  • Riparian deforestation, stream narrowing, and loss of stream ecosystem services

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Thomas L. Bott;John K. Jackson;Louis A. Kaplan

  • Streamside Forest Buffer Width Needed to Protect Stream Water Quality, Habitat, and Organisms: A Literature Review†

    Bernard W. Sweeney;J. Denis Newbold

  • Size variation and the distribution of hemimetabolous aquatic insects: two thermal equilibrium hypotheses.

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote

  • Can DNA barcodes of stream macroinvertebrates improve descriptions of community structure and water quality

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Juliann M. Battle;John K. Jackson

  • POPULATION SYNCHRONY IN MAYFLIES: A PREDATOR SATIATION HYPOTHESIS.

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote

  • Ephemerella Mayflies of White Clay Creek: Bioenergetic and Ecological Relationships Among Six Coexisting Species

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote

  • Bioenergetic and developmental response of a mayfly to thermal variation 1

    Bernard W. Sweeney

  • Streamside Forests and the Physical, Chemical, and Trophic Characteristics of Piedmont Streams in Eastern North America

    Bernard. W. Sweeney

  • Egg and Larval Development Times for 35 Species of Tropical Stream Insects from Costa Rica

    John K. Jackson;Bernard W. Sweeney

  • Climate Change and the Life Histories and Biogeography of Aquatic Insects in Eastern North America

    Bernard W. Sweeney;John K. Jackson;J. Denis Newbold;David H. Funk

  • Influence of food quality and temperature on life history characteristics of the parthenogenetic mayfly, Cloeon triangulifer

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote

  • Growth and Production of Stream Stonefly: Influences of Diet and Temperature

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote

  • Cryptic biodiversity in streams: a comparison of macroinvertebrate communities based on morphological and DNA barcode identifications

    John K. Jackson;Juliann M. Battle;Bryan P. White;Erik M. Pilgrim

  • Effects of Temperature and Food Quality on Growth and Development of a Mayfly, Leptophlebia intermedia

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote;Peter J. Dodds

  • Egg Development, Growth, and Metabolism of Sigara Alternata (Say) (Hemiptera: Corixidae) in Fluctuating Thermal Environments

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Juan A. Schnack

  • Concentrations and Export of Solutes from Six Mountain Streams in Northwestern Costa Rica

    J. Denis Newbold;Bernard W. Sweeney;John K. Jackson;Louis A. Kaplan

  • The relative importance of temperature and diet to larval development and adult size of the winter stonefly, Soyedina carolinensis (Piecoptera: Nemouridae)

    Bernard W. Sweeney;Robin L. Vannote;Peter J. Dodds

  • Organic Matter Dynamics in White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania, USA

    J. D. Newbold;T. L. Bott;L. A. Kaplan;B. W. Sweeney

  • Water quality functions of a 15-year-old riparian forest buffer system.

    J. Denis Newbold;Susan Herbert;Bernard W. Sweeney;Paul Kiry

  • Macroinvertebrate distribution in relation to land use and water chemistry in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds

    Erika B. Kratzer;John K. Jackson;David B. Arscott;Anthony K. Aufdenkampe

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Denis Newbold
J. Denis Newbold Stroud Water Research Center
Louis A. Kaplan
Louis A. Kaplan Drexel University
David B. Buchwalter
David B. Buchwalter North Carolina State University
David L. Strayer
David L. Strayer University of Utah
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Alexander D. Huryn
Alexander D. Huryn University of Alabama
Donald J. Baird
Donald J. Baird University of New Brunswick
Jane M. Hughes
Jane M. Hughes Griffith University

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