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D-Index
41
Citations
12758
World Ranking
7554
National Ranking
2682

Erika Marin-Spiotta 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 Erika Marin-Spiotta sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 136 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Erika Marin-Spiotta 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 Erika Marin-Spiotta sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Erika Marin-Spiotta is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of social sciences with a focus on environmental and earth system studies.

The scientist's primary areas of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields of their work cover:

  • Gender Studies
  • Soil Science
  • Safety Research
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Recent publications by Erika Marin-Spiotta include:

  • "Multidimensional tropical forest recovery," 2021, Science
  • "Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences," 2020, Advances in geosciences
  • "Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marin-Spiotta include:

  • Blair Schneider
  • Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
  • Meredith G. Hastings
  • Allison Mattheis
  • Rebecca T. Barnes

The researcher has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Advances in geosciences

Best Publications

  • Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

    Martin Wiesmeier;Livia Urbanski;Eleanor Hobley;Birgit Lang

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem

    L. K. Tiemann;L. K. Tiemann;A. S. Grandy;E. E. Atkinson;E. Marin-Spiotta

  • Beyond clay: Towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

    Craig Rasmussen;Katherine Heckman;William R. Wieder;Marco Keiluweit

  • Ecological interpretations of nitrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial plants and soils

    Joseph M. Craine;E. N. J. Brookshire;Michael D. Cramer;Niles J. Hasselquist

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • Role of Soil Erosion in Biogeochemical Cycling of Essential Elements: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus

    Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;Rebecca T. Barnes;Johan Six;Erika Marín-Spiotta

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Paradigm shifts in soil organic matter research affect interpretations of aquatic carbon cycling: transcending disciplinary and ecosystem boundaries

    E. Marín-Spiotta;K. E. Gruley;J. Crawford;J. Crawford;E. E. Atkinson

  • Microbial community structure varies across soil organic matter aggregate pools during tropical land cover change

    A.P. Smith;E. Marín-Spiotta;M.A. de Graaff;T.C. Balser

  • The rise of novelty in ecosystems.

    Volker C. Radeloff;John W. Williams;Brooke L. Bateman;Kevin D. Burke

  • Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies.

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Patrick Meyfroidt;Julia Pongratz

  • Soil organic matter dynamics during 80 years of reforestation of tropical pastures

    Erika Marin-Spiotta;Whendee L. Silver;Christopher W. Swanston;Rebecca. Ostertag

  • Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course

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  • Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

    Lourens Poorter;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;Jarcilene S. de Almeida-Cortez

  • Carbon storage in successional and plantation forest soils: a tropical analysis

    Erika Marín-Spiotta;Sapna Sharma

  • Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

    Bruno Locatelli;Carla P. Catterall;Pablo Imbach;Chetan Kumar

  • LONG-TERM PATTERNS IN TROPICAL REFORESTATION: PLANT COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS ACCUMULATION

    E. Mar¡n-Spiotta;R. Ostertag;W L Silver

  • Litterfall and Decomposition in Relation to Soil Carbon Pools Along a Secondary Forest Chronosequence in Puerto Rico

    Rebecca Ostertag;Erika Marín-Spiotta;Whendee L. Silver;Jodie Schulten

  • Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences

    Erika Marín-Spiotta;Rebecca T. Barnes;Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;Meredith G. Hastings

  • Soil burial contributes to deep soil organic carbon storage

    Nina T. Chaopricha;Erika Marín-Spiotta

Frequent Co-Authors

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe University of California, Merced
Joseph A. Mason
Joseph A. Mason University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Craig Rasmussen
Craig Rasmussen University of Arizona
Joshua P. Schimel
Joshua P. Schimel University of California, Santa Barbara
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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