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E. Gregory McPherson

E. Gregory McPherson

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
12029
World Ranking
4005
National Ranking
1528

E. Gregory McPherson 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 E. Gregory McPherson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

E. Gregory McPherson 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 E. Gregory McPherson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

E. Gregory McPherson is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research intersects primarily with the fields of Health Professions and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Within these domains, they have contributed to subfields including General Health Professions and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, notably:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

McPherson's recent scholarly output includes the paper titled Understanding resilience in medical interns through ecological momentary assessments, predictive modelling, and topic analysis, published in 2025 in Communications Medicine.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Laura E. Meine
  • Jan B. Schmutz
  • Christian C. Ruff
  • Lorenzo Käser
  • Johannes Bohacek

Publications by McPherson are found in venues focusing on medical and health sciences, with Communications Medicine being a notable platform where their work has appeared.

Best Publications

  • The Urban Forest and Ecosystem Services: Impacts on Urban Water, Heat, and Pollution Cycles at the Tree, Street, and City Scale

    S. J. Livesley;E. G. McPherson;C. Calfapietra

  • Quantifying urban forest structure, function, and value: the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project

    E. Gregory McPherson;David Nowak;Gordon Heisler;Sue Grimmond

  • Assessing the Benefits and Costs of the Urban Forest

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  • Urban ecosystems and the North American carbon cycle

    D. E. Pataki;R. J. Alig;A. S. Fung;N. E. Golubiewski

  • Measuring and analyzing urban tree cover

    David J. Nowak;Rowan A. Rowntree;E.Gregory McPherson;Susan M. Sisinni

  • Winter rainfall interception by two mature open‐grown trees in Davis, California

    Qingfu Xiao;E. Gregory McPherson;Susan L. Ustin;Mark E. Grismer

  • Rainfall interception by Santa Monica's municipal urban forest

    Qingfu Xiao;E. Gregory McPherson

  • Measuring and analyzing urban tree cover

    David J. Nowak;Rowan A. Rowntree;E. Gregory McPherson;Susan M. Sisinni

  • Benefits and costs of street trees in Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Luísa Soares;Francisco Castro Rego;E.G. McPherson;J.R. Simpson

  • Potential energy savings in buildings by an urban tree planting programme in California

    E. Gregory McPherson;James R. Simpson

  • Accounting for benefits and costs of urban greenspace

    E. Gregory McPherson

  • Urban forest biomass estimates: is it important to use allometric relationships developed specifically for urban trees?

    M. R. McHale;M. R. McHale;I. C. Burke;M. A. Lefsky;P. J. Peper

  • A new approach to modeling tree rainfall interception

    Qingfu Xiao;E. Gregory McPherson;Susan L. Ustin;Mark E. Grismer

  • Structure, function and value of street trees in California, USA

    E. Gregory McPherson;Natalie van Doorn;John de Goede

  • ENERGY CONSERVATION POTENTIAL OF URBAN TREE PLANTING

    E. Gregory McPherson;Rowan A. Rowntree

  • Equations for Predicting Diameter, Height, Crown Width, and Leaf Area of San Joaquin Valley Street Trees

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  • The potential of urban tree plantings to be cost effective in carbon credit markets

    Melissa R. McHale;E. Gregory McPherson;Ingrid C. Burke

  • Effects of Tree Cover on Parking Lot Microclimate and Vehicle Emissions

    Unknown

  • Surface Water Storage Capacity of Twenty Tree Species in Davis, California

    Qingfu Xiao;E. Gregory McPherson

  • Air Pollutant Uptake by Sacramento's Urban Forest

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  • ESTIMATING COST EFFECTIVENESS OF RESIDENTIAL YARD TREES FOR IMPROVING AIR QUALITY IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USING EXISTING MODELS

    E.Gregory McPherson;Klaus I. Scott;James R. Simpson

  • Evaluation of four methods for estimating leaf area of isolated trees

    Paula J. Peper;E. Gregory McPherson

  • Governing metropolitan green infrastructure in the United States

    Robert F. Young;E. Gregory McPherson

  • A new approach to quantify and map carbon stored, sequestered and emissions avoided by urban forests

    E. Gregory McPherson;Qingfu Xiao;Elena Aguaron

  • Urban tree database and allometric equations

    E. Gregory McPherson;Natalie S. van Doorn;Paula J. Peper

Frequent Co-Authors

Alissa Kendall
Alissa Kendall University of California, Davis
David J. Nowak
David J. Nowak US Forest Service
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Mark E. Grismer
Mark E. Grismer University of California, Davis
James F. Quinn
James F. Quinn University of California, Davis
James H. Thorne
James H. Thorne University of California, Davis
Ingrid C. Burke
Ingrid C. Burke Yale University
Bernd Hamann
Bernd Hamann University of California, Davis
Haider Taha
Haider Taha Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nina L. Bassuk
Nina L. Bassuk Cornell University

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