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Douglas W.R. Wallace

Douglas W.R. Wallace

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
19737
World Ranking
1200
National Ranking
56

Douglas W.R. Wallace 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 Douglas W.R. Wallace sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 241 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas W.R. Wallace 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 Douglas W.R. Wallace sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Douglas W.R. Wallace is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. The primary fields of study in their research include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant focus on the subfields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work span Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics.

Among the frequent coauthors who have collaborated with this scientist are Dariia Atamanchuk, Jihua Liu, Xilin Xiao, Rui Zhang, and Julie LaRoche.

Douglas W.R. Wallace has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Biogeosciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Ocean Science.

Recent published papers include the following:

  • "Correcting a major error in assessing organic carbon pollution in natural waters," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Rapid transfer of oxygen to the deep ocean mediated by bubbles," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Physical mixing in coastal waters controls and decouples nitrification via biomass dilution," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Oxygen export to the deep ocean following Labrador Sea Water formation," 2022, Biogeosciences
  • "A modelling study of temporal and spatial p CO 2 variability on the biologically active and temperature-dominated Scotian Shelf," 2021, Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

    Christopher L. Sabine;Richard A. Feely;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key

  • MS Excel Program Developed for CO2 System Calculations

    D.E. Pierrot;D.W.R. Wallace;E. Lewis

  • Program developed for CO{sub 2} system calculations

    E. Lewis;D. Wallace;L.J. Allison

  • Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes

    Lothar Stramma;Eric D. Prince;Sunke Schmidtko;Sunke Schmidtko;Jiangang Luo

  • Methodological Underestimation of Oceanic Nitrogen Fixation Rates

    Wiebke Mohr;Tobias Großkopf;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Julie LaRoche

  • Doubling of marine dinitrogen-fixation rates based on direct measurements

    Tobias Großkopf;Wiebke Mohr;Tina Baustian;Harald Schunck

  • Brown Tide blooms in Long Island’s coastal waters linked to interannual variability in groundwater flow

    Julie Laroche;Robert Nuzzi;Robert Waters;Kevin Wyman

  • The salinity normalization of marine inorganic carbon chemistry data

    Karsten Friis;Arne Körtzinger;Douglas W.R. Wallace

  • Air‐sea flux of bromoform: Controls, rates, and implications

    Birgit Quack;Douglas W.R. Wallace

  • Tracking the variable North Atlantic sink for atmospheric CO2

    Andrew J. Watson;Ute Schuster;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Nicholas R. Bates

  • An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;K. Smith;K. Smith;S. Hankin

  • Public perceptions of marine threats and protection from around the world

    Heike K. Lotze;Haley Guest;Jennifer O'Leary;Arthur Tuda;Arthur Tuda

  • Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: A review of effectiveness, environmental impacts and emerging governance

    Phillip Williamson;Douglas W.R. Wallace;Cliff S. Law;Philip W. Boyd

  • Global oceanic production of nitrous oxide.

    Alina Freing;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Hermann W. Bange

  • Alkalinity of the Mediterranean Sea

    Anke Schneider;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Arne Körtzinger

  • The Northeast Water Polynya as an atmospheric CO2 sink: A seasonal rectification hypothesis

    Patricia L. Yager;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Kenneth M. Johnson;Walker O. Smith

  • The CARINA data synthesis project: introduction and overview

    Robert Key;T. Tanhua;Are Olsen;Are Olsen;M. Hoppema

  • Youth and the sea: Ocean literacy in Nova Scotia, Canada

    Haley Guest;Heike K. Lotze;Douglas Wallace

  • Global sea-to-air flux climatology for bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide

    Franziska Ziska;Birgit Quack;K. Abrahamsson;S. D. Archer

  • On the temporal increase of anthropogenic CO2 in the subpolar North Atlantic

    K. Friis;Arne Körtzinger;J. Pätsch;Douglas W. R. Wallace

  • Trends in marine dissolved oxygen: Implications for ocean circulation changes and the carbon budget

    Fortunat Joos;Gian-Kasper Plattner;Thomas F. Stocker;Arne Körtzinger

  • Measurements of organic species in air and seawater from the tropical Atlantic

    Jonathan Williams;Rupert Holzinger;V. Gros;X. Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne Körtzinger
Arne Körtzinger GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Toste Tanhua
Toste Tanhua GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Johannes Karstensen
Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
John L. Bullister
John L. Bullister National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Elliot L Atlas
Elliot L Atlas University of Miami
Truls Johannessen
Truls Johannessen University of Bergen
Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
Ute Schuster
Ute Schuster University of Exeter
Peter Schlosser
Peter Schlosser Arizona State University

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