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D-Index
66
Citations
16922
World Ranking
2076
National Ranking
849

Deborah K. Steinberg 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 Deborah K. Steinberg sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Deborah K. Steinberg 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 Deborah K. Steinberg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Deborah K. Steinberg is affiliated with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers a range of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, and marine and fisheries research. Additional areas of specialization include marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, isotope analysis in ecology, microbial community ecology and physiology, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Recent papers by Deborah K. Steinberg include:

  • The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean, 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Toward a better understanding of fish-based contribution to ocean carbon flux, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Status, Change, and Futures of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Association of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control With Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • 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 coauthors collaborating with Deborah K. Steinberg include:

  • Oscar Schofield (11 joint publications)
  • Amy E. Maas (9 joint publications)
  • John A. Conroy (9 joint publications)
  • Karen Stamieszkin (8 joint publications)
  • Hugh W. Ducklow (8 joint publications)

Steinberg's contributions have appeared prominently in several publication venues such as:

  • Limnology and Oceanography (6 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2 publications)
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers (2 publications)

Best Publications

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

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

  • Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Michael R. Landry

  • Upper Ocean Carbon Export and the Biological Pump

    Hugh W. Ducklow;Deborah K. Steinberg;Ken O. Buesseler

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Ken O. Buesseler;Carl H. Lamborg;Philip W. Boyd;Phoebe J. Lam

  • 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

  • An assessment of the use of sediment traps for estimating upper ocean particle fluxes

    Ken O. Buesseler;Avan N. Antia;Min Chen;Scott W. Fowler

  • Protegrin-1: a broad-spectrum, rapidly microbicidal peptide with in vivo activity.

    D. A. Steinberg;M. A. Hurst;C. A. Fujii;A. H. C. Kung

  • 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

  • Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Ken O. Buesseler;Philip W. Boyd

  • West Antarctic Peninsula: An Ice-Dependent Coastal Marine Ecosystem in Transition

    Hugh W. Ducklow;William R. Fraser;Michael P. Meredith;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Sharon E. Stammerjohn

  • Krill ( Euphausia superba ) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L. Hill;Evgeny A. Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

  • Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis

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

  • Winter and spring controls on the summer food web of the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

    Grace K. Saba;William R. Fraser;Vincent S. Saba;Richard A. Iannuzzi

  • Jellyfish blooms result in a major microbial respiratory sink of carbon in marine systems.

    Robert H. Condon;Deborah K. Steinberg;Paul A. del Giorgio;Thierry C. Bouvier

  • Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?

    Adrian B. Burd;Dennis A. Hansell;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Production of chromophoric dissolved organic matter by Sargasso Sea microbes

    Norman B Nelson;Craig A Carlson;Deborah K Steinberg

  • Prediction of the Export and Fate of Global Ocean Net Primary Production: The EXPORTS Science Plan

    David A. Siegel;Ken O. Buesseler;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson

  • Changes in fecal pellet characteristics with depth as indicators of zooplankton repackaging of particles in the mesopelagic zone of the subtropical and subarctic North Pacific Ocean

    Stephanie E. Wilson;Deborah K. Steinberg;Ken O. Buesseler

  • A comparison of mesopelagic mesozooplankton community structure in the subtropical and subarctic North Pacific Ocean

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Joseph S. Cope;Stephanie E. Wilson;T. Kobari

  • The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles.

    E. L. Cavan;A. Belcher;A. Atkinson;S. L. Hill

  • Long-term (1993-2013) changes in macrozooplankton off the Western Antarctic Peninsula

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Kate E. Ruck;Miram R. Gleiber;Lori M. Garzio

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar Schofield
Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Craig A. Carlson
Craig A. Carlson University of California, Santa Barbara
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Nicholas R. Bates
Nicholas R. Bates Arizona State University
David A. Siegel
David A. Siegel University of California, Santa Barbara
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Sharon Stammerjohn
Sharon Stammerjohn Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Deborah A. Bronk
Deborah A. Bronk Virginia Institute of Marine Science

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