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D-Index
66
Citations
16388
World Ranking
1684
National Ranking
209

Bland J. Finlay publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bland J. Finlay sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 141 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bland J. Finlay D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bland J. Finlay sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Bland J. Finlay is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with specific attention to environmental chemistry and ecology as subfields. The scientist has contributed to the understanding of aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Their recent scholarly work includes the paper titled Seasonal Patterns of Phytoplankton Taxon Richness in Lakes: Effects of Temperature, Turnover and Abundance, published in 2022 in the journal Protist.

Frequent co-authors with whom Bland J. Finlay has collaborated include:

  • Stephen C. Maberly
  • Anne Chao

Their contributions have appeared notably in the venue:

  • Protist

The scientist's main fields of study encompass:

  • Environmental Science

With related subfields:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology

Focus on key research topics includes:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Bland J. Finlay was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Global Dispersal of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryote Species

    Bland J. Finlay

  • Lipids of aquatic organisms as potential contributors to lacustrine sediments—II☆

    N. Robinson;P.A. Cranwell;B.J. Finlay;G. Eglinton

  • The Ubiquity of Small Species: Patterns of Local and Global Diversity

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J. Finlay

  • Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J. Finlay

  • Microbial diversity and ecosystem function

    Bland J. Finlay;Stephen C. Maberly;J. Ian Cooper

  • Ubiquitous dispersal of microbial species

    Bland J. Finlay;Ken J. Clarke

  • Fluxes of methane and carbon dioxide from a small productive lake to the atmosphere

    Peter Casper;Stephen C. Maberly;Grahame H. Hall;Bland J. Finlay

  • Respiration rates in heterotrophic, free-living protozoa.

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J. Finlay

  • Cosmopolitan metapopulations of free-living microbial eukaryotes.

    Bland J. Finlay;T.o.m. Fenchel

  • Local versus global diversity of microorganisms : cryptic diversity of ciliated protozoa

    Tom Fenchel;Genoveva F. Esteban;Bland J. Finlay

  • Freshwater protozoa: biodiversity and ecological function

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  • Oxygen and the Spatial Structure of Microbial Communities

    Tom Fenchel;Bland Finlay

  • The use of rRNA sequences and fluorescent probes to investigate the phylogenetic positions of the anaerobic ciliate Metopus palaeformis and its archaeobacterial endosymbiont.

    Embley Tm;Finlay Bj;Thomas Rh;Dyal Pl

  • Hypothesis: The Rate and Scale of Dispersal of Freshwater Diatom Species is a Function of their Global Abundance

    Bland J Finlay;Elaine B Monaghan;Stephen C Maberly

  • Biodiversity at the microbial level: The number of free-living ciliates in the biosphere

    B. J. Finlay;J. O. Corliss;G. Esteban;T. Fenchel

  • The biology of free-living anaerobic ciliates

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J. Finlay

  • Multiple origins of anaerobic ciliates with hydrogenosomes within the radiation of aerobic ciliates.

    T M Embley;B J Finlay;P L Dyal;R P Hirt

  • Microbial diversity and activity in a Danish Fjord with anoxic deep water

    Tom Fenchel;Catherine Bernard;Genoveva Esteban;Bland J. Finlay

  • On the abundance and distribution of protozoa and their food in a productive freshwater pond.

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  • The diversity of microbes: resurgence of the phenotype

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J Finlay

  • Divergent perspectives on protist species richness.

    Bland J. Finlay;Tom Fenchel

  • Protist diversity is different

    Bland J. Finlay;Genoveva F. Esteban;T.o.m. Fenchel

  • Anaerobic free-living protozoa: growth efficiencies and the structure of anaeorobic communities

    Tom Fenchel;Bland J. Finlay

  • Global diversity and body size

    Bland J. Finlay;Genoveva F. Esteban;Tom Fenchel

  • Ecology of marine protozoa: edited by Gerard M. Capriulo, Oxford University Press, 1990. $98.00/£80.00 hbk (viii + 366 pages) ISBN 0 19 504316 2

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Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Fenchel
Tom Fenchel University of Copenhagen
Stephen C. Maberly
Stephen C. Maberly Lancaster University
Bernhard Schink
Bernhard Schink University of Konstanz
Robert P. Hirt
Robert P. Hirt Newcastle University
T. Martin Embley
T. Martin Embley Newcastle University
Maria Rosa Miracle
Maria Rosa Miracle University of Valencia
Ralph T. Clarke
Ralph T. Clarke Bournemouth University
J. A. Thomas
J. A. Thomas University of Oxford
Alan Warren
Alan Warren Natural History Museum

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