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D-Index
73
Citations
19667
World Ranking
1185
National Ranking
441

Emily H. Stanley publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emily H. Stanley sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 198 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Emily H. Stanley D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emily H. Stanley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Emily H. Stanley is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's recent publications include studies on the dynamics of greenhouse gases and aquatic ecosystems. Notable papers are:

  • Global methane emissions from rivers and streams, 2023, published in Nature
  • Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers, 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 2020, published in Nature Geoscience
  • Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions, 2021, published in Nature Geoscience
  • Outsized nutrient contributions from small tributaries to a Great Lake, 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Gerard Rocher-Ros, Ryan A. Sponseller, Stephen R. Carpenter, Matthew J. Cohen, and Lily Kirk, reflecting collaboration within interdisciplinary aquatic and environmental research communities.

Publication venues where the scientist frequently contributes are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters

The primary research topics covered in their work involve:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Climate change and permafrost

Best Publications

  • THE FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HYPORHEIC ZONE IN STREAMS AND RIVERS

    Andrew J. Boulton;Stuart Findlay;Pierre Marmonier;Emily H. Stanley

  • State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes.

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Emily H. Stanley;M. Jake Vander Zanden

  • Landscape indicators of human impacts to riverine systems

    Sarah E. Gergel;Monica G. Turner;James R. Miller;John M. Melack

  • Ecosystem Expansion and Contraction in Streams Desert streams vary in both space and time and fluctuate dramatically in size

    Emily H. Stanley;Stuart G. Fisher;Nancy B. Grimm

  • The ecology of methane in streams and rivers: patterns, controls, and global significance

    Emily H. Stanley;Nora J. Casson;Samuel T. Christel;John T. Crawford

  • Process-Based Ecological River Restoration: Visualizing Three-Dimensional Connectivity and Dynamic Vectors to Recover Lost Linkages

    G. Mathias Kondolf;Andrew J. Boulton;Scott O'Daniel;Geoffrey C. Poole

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • Trading off: the ecological effects of dam removal

    Emily H. Stanley;Martin W. Doyle

  • The metabolic regimes of flowing waters

    Emily S. Bernhardt;Jim B. Heffernan;Nancy B. Grimm;Emily H. Stanley

  • Contemporary changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in human-dominated rivers: is there a role for DOC management?

    Emily H. Stanley;Stephen M. Powers;Noah R. Lottig;Ishi Buffam

  • Stream ecosystem response to small dam removal: Lessons from the Heartland

    Martin W. Doyle;Emily H. Stanley;Cailin H. Orr;Andrew R. Selle

  • Short-term changes in channel form and macroinvertebrate communities following low-head dam removal

    Emily H. Stanley;Michelle A. Luebke;Martin W. Doyle;David W. Marshall

  • Spatial Extrapolation: The Science of Predicting Ecological Patterns and Processes

    James R. Miller;Monica G. Turner;Erica A. H. Smithwick;C. Lisa Dent

  • Invertebrate resistance and resilience to intermittency in a desert stream

    Emily H. Stanley;Derek L. Buschman;Andrew J. Boulton;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Global methane emissions from rivers and streams

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  • Physical and chemical characteristics of the hyporheic zone of a Sonoran Desert stream

    H. Maurice Valett;Stuart G. Fisher;Emily H. Stanley

  • Lake microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem disturbance

    Ashley Shade;Jordan S Read;Nicholas D Youngblut;Noah Fierer

  • Effective discharge analysis of ecological processes in streams

    Martin W. Doyle;Emily H. Stanley;David L. Strayer;Robert B. Jacobson

  • Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers

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  • Cross‐scale interactions: quantifying multi‐scaled cause–effect relationships in macrosystems

    Patricia A. Soranno;Kendra S. Cheruvelil;Edward G. Bissell;Mary T. Bremigan

  • Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget for a north temperate lake district

    Ishi Buffam;Monica G. Turner;Ankur R. Desai;Paul C. Hanson

  • Toward Policies and Decision-Making for Dam Removal

    Martin W. Doyle;Jon M. Harbor;Emily H. Stanley

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin W. Doyle
Martin W. Doyle Duke University
Paul C. Hanson
Paul C. Hanson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patricia A. Soranno
Patricia A. Soranno Michigan State University
Tyler Wagner
Tyler Wagner United States Geological Survey
Robert G. Striegl
Robert G. Striegl United States Geological Survey
Andrew J. Boulton
Andrew J. Boulton University of New England
Jon Harbor
Jon Harbor Purdue University West Lafayette
Craig A. Stow
Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jordan S. Read
Jordan S. Read United States Geological Survey

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