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Bradford P. Wilcox

Bradford P. Wilcox

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 50 3368 3084 1340 1193 151 10527

Bradford P. Wilcox publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bradford P. Wilcox between 1986 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bradford P. Wilcox published across 41 years, from 1986 to 2026, averaging 6.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2018. 10 of the 254 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2018. 1986: 2 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 3 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 2 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 8 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 18 publications 2006: 11 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 12 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 25 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 9 publications 2026: 1 publication
1986 2026

254 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bradford P. Wilcox: publications per year, 1986 to 2026
Year Publications
1986 2
1987 1
1988 3
1989 3
1990 1
1991 2
1992 1
1993 0
1994 2
1995 4
1996 6
1997 5
1998 6
1999 4
2000 2
2001 1
2002 1
2003 8
2004 2
2005 18
2006 11
2007 5
2008 6
2009 2
2010 8
2011 5
2012 10
2013 7
2014 7
2015 12
2016 12
2017 10
2018 25
2019 12
2020 10
2021 7
2022 11
2023 5
2024 7
2025 9
2026 1
Total 254
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Bradford P. Wilcox publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bradford P. Wilcox sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 148–157 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 151 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495 151
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Bradford P. Wilcox D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bradford P. Wilcox sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 50 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183 50
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Bradford P. Wilcox is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a range of topics within this domain, particularly related to plant water relations, soil processes, and ecosystem dynamics in dryland environments.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Bradford P. Wilcox has contributed to various subfields of Environmental Science, with the following areas prominently represented in their publication record:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their scholarly output includes papers published in frequent venues such as:

  • Ecohydrology
  • Ecological Applications
  • Reading Psychology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Keith Smettem
  • Steven P. Loheide
  • Pedro A. M. Leite
  • Shishir Basant
  • Horia G. Olariu

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bradford P. Wilcox include:

  • Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains (2021) published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Ecohydrological connectivity: A unifying framework for understanding how woody plant encroachment alters the water cycle in drylands (2022) published in Frontiers in Environmental Science

Other notable recent works featuring Bradford P. Wilcox's research interests, although not as the primary author, are:

  • Woody plant encroachment enhances soil infiltrability of a semiarid karst savanna (2020) published in Environmental Research Communications
  • Woody Plant Encroachment: Evaluating Methodologies for Semiarid Woody Species Classification from Drone Images (2022) published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • VEGETATION PATCHES AND RUNOFF–EROSION AS INTERACTING ECOHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPES

    John A. Ludwig;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;David J. Tongway

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

    Brent D. Newman;Bradford P. Wilcox;Steven R. Archer;David D. Breshears

  • Effects of woody plants on microclimate in a semiarid woodland: soil temperature and evaporation in canopy and intercanopy patches

    David D. Breshears;John W. Nyhan;Christopher E. Heil;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • ECOHYDROLOGY OF A RESOURCE‐CONSERVING SEMIARID WOODLAND: EFFECTS OF SCALE AND DISTURBANCE

    Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Scale and the Nature of Spatial Variability: Field Examples Having Implications for Hydrologic Modeling

    M. S. Seyfried;B. P. Wilcox

  • Viewpoint: Sustainability of pinon-juniper ecosystems - A unifying perspective of soil erosion thresholds

    David W. Davenport;David D. Breshears;Bradford P. Wilcox;Bradford P. Wilcox;Craig D. Allen

  • Runoff and Erosion in a Piñon–Juniper Woodland Influence of Vegetation Patches

    Kevin D. Reid;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Lee MacDonald

  • Predicting Runoff From Rangeland Catchments: A Comparison of Two Models

    Bradford P. Wilcox;W. J. Rawls;D. L. Brakensiek;J. Ross Wight

  • Plot‐scale effects on runoff and erosion along a slope degradation gradient

    Mariano Moreno-de las Heras;José M. Nicolau;Luis Merino-Martín;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Factors influencing infiltrability of semiarid mountain slopes

    B.P. Wilcox;M.K. Wood;J.M. Tromble

  • Evaluation of the Penman-Monteith (FAO 56 PM) Method for Calculating Reference Evapotranspiration Using Limited Data

    Mario Córdova;Galo Carrillo-Rojas;Galo Carrillo-Rojas;Patricio Crespo;Bradford Wilcox

  • Shrub control and streamflow on rangelands: a process based viewpoint.

    Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Emerging Issues in Rangeland Ecohydrology: Vegetation Change and the Water Cycle

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Thomas L. Thurow

  • Lateral subsurface flow pathways in a semiarid Ponderosa pine hillslope

    Brent D. Newman;Andrew R. Campbell;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Successional stage of biological soil crusts: an accurate indicator of ecohydrological condition

    Jayne Belnap;Bradford P. Wilcox;Matthew W. Van Scoyoc;Susan L. Phillips

  • Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands.

    Laura Turnbull;Brad P. Wilcox;Jayne Belnap;S. Ravi

  • Runoff from a semiarid Ponderosa pine hillslope in New Mexico

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Brent D. Newman;David Brandes;David W. Davenport

  • Woody plant encroachment paradox: Rivers rebound as degraded grasslands convert to woodlands

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Yun Huang

  • Runoff from tropical alpine grasslands increases with areal extent of wetlands

    Giovanny M. Mosquera;Patricio X. Lazo;Rolando Célleri;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Water erosion monitoring and experimentation for global change studies

    Jean Poesen;J Boardman;B Wilcox;C Valentin

  • Runoff and erosion in intercanopy zones of pinyon-juniper woodlands

    Bradford P. Wilcox

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Chris B. Zou
Chris B. Zou Oklahoma State University
Binayak P. Mohanty
Binayak P. Mohanty Texas A&M University
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Mark S. Seyfried
Mark S. Seyfried Agricultural Research Service
John Pitlick
John Pitlick University of Colorado Boulder
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Steven R. Archer
Steven R. Archer University of Arizona
Urs P. Kreuter
Urs P. Kreuter Texas A&M University

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