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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 95 181 154 89 75 409 37253

Bridget R. Scanlon publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bridget R. Scanlon between 1985 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bridget R. Scanlon published across 41 years, from 1985 to 2025, averaging 12.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 34 publications in 2019. 42 of the 508 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1985 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 34. Peak 34 publications in 2019. 1985: 2 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 2 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 5 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 3 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 6 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 8 publications 2003: 9 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 16 publications 2008: 14 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 31 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 26 publications 2013: 31 publications 2014: 20 publications 2015: 21 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 21 publications 2018: 27 publications 2019: 34 publications 2020: 24 publications 2021: 29 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 23 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 24 publications
1985 2025

508 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bridget R. Scanlon: publications per year, 1985 to 2025
Year Publications
1985 2
1986 0
1987 1
1988 0
1989 1
1990 2
1991 2
1992 5
1993 1
1994 3
1995 0
1996 0
1997 5
1998 1
1999 6
2000 2
2001 1
2002 8
2003 9
2004 7
2005 10
2006 8
2007 16
2008 14
2009 15
2010 31
2011 15
2012 26
2013 31
2014 20
2015 21
2016 25
2017 21
2018 27
2019 34
2020 24
2021 29
2022 20
2023 23
2024 18
2025 24
Total 508
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Bridget R. Scanlon 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 Bridget R. Scanlon 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, 408–417 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: 409 publications — 95th percentile

95% 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
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 31 409
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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Bridget R. Scanlon 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 Bridget R. Scanlon 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, 95 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: 95 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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
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 95
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the evaluation of groundwater recharge and aquifer depletion.
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Bridget R. Scanlon is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on related subfields such as Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, GNSS positioning and interference, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Bridget R. Scanlon has contributed to numerous publications across several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing's groundwater levels, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle, 2024, Science
  • Can we beneficially reuse produced water from oil and gas extraction in the U.S.?, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Di Long, Ashraf Rateb, R. C. Reedy, Alexander Y. Sun, and Sarah Fakhreddine.

In addition to academic articles, Bridget R. Scanlon has contributed to book publications, with at least one book published by 5m Books Ltd titled The Profitable Farm - Balancing Business, Nature and Energy through MSO, scheduled for 2025.

The scientist's professional recognition includes being named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to the evaluation of groundwater recharge and aquifer depletion. In 2014, they were also named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Ground water and climate change

    Richard G. Taylor;Bridget R. Scanlon;Petra Döll;Matt Rodell

  • Choosing appropriate techniques for quantifying groundwater recharge

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Richard W. Healy;Peter G. Cook

  • Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Claudia C. Faunt;Laurent Longuevergne;Robert C. Reedy

  • Global synthesis of groundwater recharge in semiarid and arid regions

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Kelley E. Keese;Alan L. Flint;Lorraine E. Flint

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

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  • Global impacts of conversions from natural to agricultural ecosystems on water resources: Quantity versus quality

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Ian Jolly;Marios Sophocleous;Lu Zhang

  • Estimating groundwater recharge

    Richard W. Healy;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Impact of land use and land cover change on groundwater recharge and quality in the southwestern US

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Robert C. Reedy;David A. Stonestrom;David E. Prudic

  • Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations

    P. Döll;H. Hoffmann-Dobrev;F. T. Portmann;S. Siebert

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Water Use for Shale-Gas Production in Texas, U.S.

    Jean-Philippe Nicot;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

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

  • Daily gridded meteorological variables in Brazil (1980–2013)

    Alexandre Candido Xavier;Carey W King;Bridget R Scanlon

  • Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

    Di Long;Laurent Longuevergne;Bridget R. Scanlon

  • Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge

    P. Dillon;P. Dillon;P. Stuyfzand;T. Grischek;M. Lluria

  • Global Evaluation of New GRACE Mascon Products for Hydrologic Applications

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;David N. Wiese

  • Can we simulate regional groundwater flow in a karst system using equivalent porous media models? Case study, Barton Springs Edwards aquifer, USA

    Bridget R Scanlon;Robert E Mace;Michael E Barrett;Brian Smith

  • South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels

    Di Long;Wenting Yang;Bridget R. Scanlon;Jianshi Zhao

  • How can Big Data and machine learning benefit environment and water management: a survey of methods, applications, and future directions

    Alexander Y Sun;Bridget R Scanlon

  • Implications of projected climate change for groundwater recharge in the western United States

    Thomas Meixner;Andrew H. Manning;David A. Stonestrom;Diana M. Allen

  • A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005

    Stefan Siebert;Matti Kummu;Miina Porkka;Petra Döll

  • Ground referencing GRACE satellite estimates of groundwater storage changes in the California Central Valley, USA

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Di Long

  • GRACE satellite monitoring of large depletion in water storage in response to the 2011 drought in Texas

    Di Long;Bridget R. Scanlon;Laurent Longuevergne;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam.

    P.S.J. Minderhoud;G. Erkens;H. van Pham;H. van Pham;Vuong Tran Bui

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Reedy
Robert C. Reedy The University of Texas at Austin
Di Long
Di Long Tsinghua University
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Clark R. Wilson
Clark R. Wilson The University of Texas at Austin
Jean-Philippe Nicot
Jean-Philippe Nicot The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Y. Sun
Alexander Y. Sun The University of Texas at Austin
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University
Jianli Chen
Jianli Chen Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan

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