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97
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170
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Chris Soulsby 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 Chris Soulsby sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 569 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Chris Soulsby 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 Chris Soulsby sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chris Soulsby is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed to numerous studies and publications focused on hydrological processes, watershed management, and environmental change. The main topics of their research include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Soulsby's recent papers illustrate their focus on ecohydrology and the application of stable isotopes in understanding water processes. Notable publications include:

  • Using isotopes to incorporate tree water storage and mixing dynamics into a distributed ecohydrologic modelling framework, 2020, Ecohydrology
  • Stable isotopes of water reveal differences in plant - soil water relationships across northern environments, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Using water stable isotopes to understand evaporation, moisture stress, and re-wetting in catchment forest and grassland soils of the summer drought of 2018, 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Quantifying the effects of land use and model scale on water partitioning and water ages using tracer-aided ecohydrological models, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Isotope-aided modelling of ecohydrologic fluxes and water ages under mixed land use in Central Europe: The 2018 drought and its recovery, 2020, Hydrological Processes

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside Soulsby include:

  • Doerthe Tetzlaff
  • Aaron Smith
  • Christian Birkel
  • Songjun Wu
  • Tobias Goldhammer

The primary venues publishing Soulsby's work are:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • What can flux tracking teach us about water age distribution patterns and their temporal dynamics

    Markus Hrachowitz;H. Savenije;H. Savenije;T. A. Bogaard;T. A. Bogaard;D. Tetzlaff

  • Fine sediment influence on salmonid spawning habitat in a lowland agricultural stream: a preliminary assessment.

    Christopher Soulsby;A. Youngson;Hamish Moir;I. A. Malcolm

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • Runoff processes, stream water residence times and controlling landscape characteristics in a mesoscale catchment: An initial evaluation

    Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;P. Rodgers;S. Dunn

  • Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions.

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christian Birkel;Jonathan James Dick;Josie Geris

  • Hydrological influences on hyporheic water quality: implications for salmon egg survival

    I. A. Malcolm;Christopher Soulsby;A. F. Youngson;D. M. Hannah

  • Isotope hydrology of the Allt a' Mharcaidh catchment, Cairngorms, Scotland : implications for hydrological pathways and residence times

    C. Soulsby;R. Malcolm;R. Helliwell;R. C. Ferrier

  • Connectivity between landscapes and riverscapes—a unifying theme in integrating hydrology and ecology in catchment science?

    D. Tetzlaff;C. Soulsby;P. J. Bacon;A. F. Youngson

  • Soil water stable isotopes reveal evaporation dynamics at the soil–plant–atmosphere interface of the critical zone

    Matthias Sprenger;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Chris Soulsby

  • Tracer-based assessment of flow paths, storage and runoff generation in northern catchments: a review

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Jim Buttle;Sean K. Carey;Kevin McGuire

  • Gamma distribution models for transit time estimation in catchments: Physical interpretation of parameters and implications for time-variant transit time assessment

    M. Hrachowitz;M. Hrachowitz;C. Soulsby;D. Tetzlaff;I. A. Malcolm

  • Conceptualization of runoff processes using a geographical information system and tracers in a nested mesoscale catchment

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;I. A. Malcolm

  • Potential effects of climate change on streambed scour and risks to salmonid survival in snow-dominated mountain basins

    Jaime R. Goode;Jaime R. Goode;John M. Buffington;Daniele Tonina;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Influence of hydrology and seasonality on DOC exports from three contrasting upland catchments

    J. J. C. Dawson;C. Soulsby;D. Tetzlaff;M. Hrachowitz

  • Variation in river water temperatures in an upland stream over a 30-year period.

    S.J. Langan;L. Johnston;M.J. Donaghy;A.F. Youngson

  • Storage as a Metric of Catchment Comparison

    James P. McNamara;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Kevin Bishop;Christopher Soulsby

  • Stream water age distributions controlled by storage dynamics and nonlinear hydrologic connectivity: Modeling with high-resolution isotope data.

    C Soulsby;C Birkel;J Geris;J Dick

  • Using stable isotope tracers to assess hydrological flow paths, residence times and landscape influences in a nested mesoscale catchment

    P. Rodgers;P. Rodgers;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;Doerthe Tetzlaff

  • Advancing tracer-aided rainfall–runoff modelling: a review of progress, problems and unrealised potential

    Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Chris Soulsby

  • Regionalization of transit time estimates in montane catchments by integrating landscape controls

    Markus Hrachowitz;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Julian James Charles Dawson

  • A comparison of forest and moorland stream microclimate, heat exchanges and thermal dynamics

    David M. Hannah;Iain A. Malcolm;Chris Soulsby;Alan F. Youngson

Frequent Co-Authors

Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sean K. Carey
Sean K. Carey McMaster University
Alan F. Youngson
Alan F. Youngson Marine Scotland
Sarah M. Dunn
Sarah M. Dunn James Hutton Institute
Jim Buttle
Jim Buttle Trent University
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich

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