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Earth Science 47 3966 3638 1553 1377 116 9347

Elizabeth A. Canuel publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Elizabeth A. Canuel between 1984 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Elizabeth A. Canuel published across 42 years, from 1984 to 2025, averaging 3.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2011. 5 of the 158 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1984 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 23. Peak 23 publications in 2011. 1984: 1 publication 1985: 1 publication 1986: 4 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 4 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 23 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 1 publication
1984 2025

158 publications in total across all disciplines

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Elizabeth A. Canuel: publications per year, 1984 to 2025
Year Publications
1984 1
1985 1
1986 4
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 2
1991 0
1992 0
1993 2
1994 0
1995 1
1996 2
1997 2
1998 0
1999 1
2000 4
2001 7
2002 5
2003 3
2004 0
2005 4
2006 4
2007 7
2008 2
2009 10
2010 3
2011 23
2012 4
2013 7
2014 5
2015 5
2016 11
2017 6
2018 6
2019 2
2020 6
2021 3
2022 7
2023 2
2024 4
2025 1
Total 158
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Elizabeth A. Canuel 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 Elizabeth A. Canuel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 108–117 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 116 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484 116
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Elizabeth A. Canuel 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 Elizabeth A. Canuel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 47 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202 47
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Elizabeth A. Canuel 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, contributing to a total of 27 and 16 publications in these fields respectively.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The main topics addressed in their research include marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, toxic organic pollutants impact, and land use and ecosystem services.

Elizabeth A. Canuel has published research in several scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Canuel include:

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • On the human appropriation of wetland primary production, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and sedimentary PAH fluxes, 2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Dissolved organic carbon sorption dynamics in tidal marsh soils, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Carbon Pools Differ in Source and Temporal Patterns in a Tidal Marsh Creek System of the York River, VA Estuary, 2021, Estuaries and Coasts

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Canuel's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Christina R. Pondell
  • Maria Tzortziou
  • J. Patrick Megonigal
  • Patrick J. Neale
  • Hannah Morrissette

Elizabeth A. Canuel received the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of aquatic and terrestrial plants of the San Francisco Bay estuarine system

    James E. Cloern;Elizabeth A. Canuel;David Harris

  • AUTOMOTIVE SOURCES OF CARCINOGENIC POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION

    R M Dickhut;E A Canuel;K E Gustafson;K Liu

  • Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds

    J. Emmett Duffy;J. Paul Richardson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Reactivity of recently deposited organic matter: Degradation of lipid compounds near the sediment-water interface

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Christopher S. Martens

  • Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Thomas S. Bianchi;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • A geochemical record of eutrophication and anoxia in Chesapeake Bay sediments: anthropogenic influence on organic matter composition

    Andrew R Zimmerman;Elizabeth A Canuel

  • Global-change controls on soil-carbon accumulation and loss in coastal vegetated ecosystems

    Amanda C. Spivak;Jonathan Sanderman;Jennifer L. Bowen;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Molecular and isotopic tracers used to examine sources of organic matter and its incorporation into the food webs of San Francisco Bay

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;James E. Cloern;David B. Ringelberg;James B. Guckert

  • Seasonal variations in the sources and alteration of organic matter associated with recently-deposited sediments

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Christopher S. Martens

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) distributions and associations with organic matter in surface waters of the York River, VA Estuary

    Rebecca E. Countway;Rebecca M. Dickhut;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Sources, Ages, and Alteration of Organic Matter in Estuaries.

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Amber K. Hardison

  • Organic geochemistry of particulate matter in the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean: Implications for particle dynamics

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

    R. G. Najjar;M. Herrmann;R. Alexander;E. W. Boyer

  • Isotopic compositions of lipid biomarker compounds in estuarine plants and surface sediments

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Katherine H. Freeman;Stuart G. Wakeham

  • Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

    Arash Sharifi;Ali Pourmand;Elizabeth A. Canuel;Erin Ferer-Tyler

  • Photochemical and microbial alteration of dissolved organic matter in temperate headwater streams associated with different land use

    Yuehan Lu;James E. Bauer;Elizabeth A. Canuel;Youhei Yamashita

  • Sources of sedimentary organic matter in the Mississippi River and adjacent Gulf of Mexico as revealed by lipid biomarker and δ13CTOC analyses

    Elizabeth J. Waterson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Bulk Organic Matter and Lipid Biomarker Composition of Chesapeake Bay Surficial Sediments as Indicators of Environmental Processes

    A.R Zimmerman;E.A Canuel

  • Sediment geochemical records of eutrophication in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay

    Andrew R. Zimmerman;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Sources of estuarine dissolved and particulate organic matter: A multi-tracer approach

    S. Leigh McCallister;James E. Bauer;Hugh W. Ducklow;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Tracking the fate of a high concentration groundwater nitrate plume through a fringing marsh: A combined groundwater tracer and in situ isotope enrichment study

    Craig R. Tobias;Stephen A. Macko;Iris C. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
James E. Bauer
James E. Bauer The Ohio State University
Rebecca M. Dickhut
Rebecca M. Dickhut Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Andrew R. Zimmerman
Andrew R. Zimmerman University of Florida
Iris C. Anderson
Iris C. Anderson Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Franco Marcantonio
Franco Marcantonio Texas A&M University
James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution

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