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D-Index
84
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28396
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784
National Ranking
333

Craig A. Carlson publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Craig A. Carlson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 205 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Craig A. Carlson D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Craig A. Carlson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Craig A. Carlson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on oceanography and marine ecosystems.

Their work extensively covers the study of marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, and marine biology and ecology research. Additional topics of interest include protist diversity and phylogeny, isotope analysis in ecology, ocean acidification effects and responses, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Craig A. Carlson has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Seasonal Differences and Variability of Concentrations, Chemical Composition, and Cloud Condensation Nuclei of Marine Aerosol Over the North Atlantic (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Distinguishing the molecular diversity, nutrient content, and energetic potential of exometabolomes produced by macroalgae and reef-building corals (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Pangenomics Analysis Reveals Diversification of Enzyme Families and Niche Specialization in Globally Abundant SAR202 Bacteria (2020), mBio
  • Different carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules proxy compounds select distinct bacterioplankton for oxidation of dissolved organic matter in the mesopelagic Sargasso Sea (2020), Limnology and Oceanography
  • An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment (2021), Elementa Science of the Anthropocene

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Keri Opalk
  • Shuting Liu
  • Stephen J. Giovannoni
  • Nicholas Baetge
  • Brandon M. Stephens

Carlson's research has been published consistently in prominent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Communications Biology

Their main fields of study are environmental science, with 88 publications, and earth and planetary sciences, with 85 publications. Within these fields, subfield areas of focus include oceanography (77 publications), ecology (62 publications), molecular biology (15 publications), global and planetary change (11 publications), and atmospheric science (7 publications).

Best Publications

  • SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities

    Robert M. Morris;Michael S. Rappé;Stephanie A. Connon;Kevin L. Vergin

  • Biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter

    Dennis A. Hansell;Craig A. Carlson

  • The marine viromes of four oceanic regions

    Florent E Angly;Ben Felts;Mya Breitbart;Peter Salamon

  • Dissolved organic matter in the ocean. A controversy stimulates new insights

    Dennis A. Hansell;Craig A. Carlson;Daniel J. Repeta;Reiner Schlitzer

  • Eddy/Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms

    Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Laurence A. Anderson;Nicholas R. Bates;Thomas Bibby

  • Annual flux of dissolved organic carbon from the euphotic zone in the northwestern Sargasso Sea

    Craig A. Carlson;Hugh W. Ducklow;Anthony F. Michaels

  • Oceanic Bacterial Production

    Hugh W. Ducklow;Craig A. Carlson

  • Overview of the US JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS): a decade-scale look at ocean biology and biogeochemistry

    Deborah K Steinberg;Craig A Carlson;Nicholas R Bates;Rodney J Johnson

  • Zooplankton vertical migration and the active transport of dissolved organic and inorganic carbon in the Sargasso Sea

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Craig A. Carlson;Nicholas R. Bates;Sarah A. Goldthwait

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain

    Pia H. Moisander;Roxanne A. Beinart;Ian Hewson;Angelicque E. White

  • Dominance of bacterial biomass in the Sargasso Sea and its ecological implications

    JA Fuhrman;TD Sleeter;CA Carlson;LM Proctor

  • DOM Sources, Sinks, Reactivity, and Budgets

    Craig A. Carlson;Dennis A. Hansell

  • The biological pump in a high CO 2 world

    Uta Passow;Craig A. Carlson

  • Growth of bacterioplankton and consumption of dissolved organic carbon in the Sargasso Sea

    Carlson Ca;Ducklow Hw

  • Deep-ocean gradients in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon

    Dennis A. Hansell;Craig A. Carlson

  • Transport functions dominate the SAR11 metaproteome at low-nutrient extremes in the Sargasso Sea.

    Sarah M Sowell;Larry J Wilhelm;Angela D Norbeck;Mary S Lipton

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Mesoscale eddies drive increased silica export in the subtropical Pacific Ocean.

    Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson;Robert R. Bidigare;Tommy D. Dickey;Michael R. Landry

  • Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis

    Carol Robinson;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson;Javier Arístegui

  • Biogeochemistry of total organic carbon and nitrogen in the Sargasso Sea: control by convective overturn

    Dennis A Hansell;Craig A Carlson

  • Dissolved organic carbon in the upper ocean of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean, 1992: Daily and finescale vertical variations

    C.A. Carlson;C.A. Carlson;H.W. Ducklow;H.W. Ducklow

  • Organic carbon partitioning during spring phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea polynya and the Sargasso Sea

    Craig A. Carlson;Hugh W. Ducklow;Dennis A. Hansell;Walker O. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis A. Hansell
Dennis A. Hansell University of Miami
Stephen J. Giovannoni
Stephen J. Giovannoni Oregon State University
Nicholas R. Bates
Nicholas R. Bates Arizona State University
David A. Siegel
David A. Siegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark A. Brzezinski
Mark A. Brzezinski University of California, Santa Barbara
Deborah K. Steinberg
Deborah K. Steinberg Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Walker O. Smith
Walker O. Smith Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Michael J. Behrenfeld
Michael J. Behrenfeld Oregon State University
Reiner Schlitzer
Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Anthony F. Michaels
Anthony F. Michaels University of Southern California

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