2026 Gary Parker: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	99	157	148	56	52	436	32504
Earth Science	105	102	84	50	40	518	37217

Gary Parker 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 Gary Parker sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 603+

This scientist: 518 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gary Parker 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 Gary Parker sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gary Parker is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a concentration on several subfields including ecology, soil science, earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, and areas involving management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics of investigation in their body of work include hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, hydraulic flow and structures, flood risk assessment and management, as well as hydrology and watershed management studies.

Frequent publication venues for Gary Parker include:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Water Resources Research
Earth Surface Dynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research efforts are:

Xudong Fu
Chenge An
Michael P. Lamb
Jeffrey A. Nittrouer
Jeremy G. Venditti

Representative recent publications by Gary Parker include:

"Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material," 2020, Nature Geoscience
"Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers," 2022, Nature Communications
"Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel," 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
"Suspended Sediment-Induced Stratification Inferred From Concentration and Velocity Profile Measurements in the Lower Yellow River, China," 2020, Water Resources Research
"Numerical Simulations of Meanders Migrating Laterally as They Incise Into Bedrock," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Gary Parker has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017 and has been a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2003.

Best Publications

Surface-based bedload transport relation for gravel rivers

Gary Parker

1116
Citations
Bend theory of river meanders. Part 1. Linear development

Syunsuke Ikeda;Gary Parker;Kenji Sawai

1001
Citations
Bedload and Size Distribution in Paved Gravel-Bed Streams

Gary Parker;Peter C. Klingeman;David G. McLean

948
Citations
SELF-ACCELERATING TURBIDITY CURRENTS

Gary Parker;Yusuke Fukushima;Henry M. Pantin

910
Citations
On why gravel bed streams are paved

Gary Parker;Peter C. Klingeman

817
Citations
Reanalysis and Correction of Bed-Load Relation of Meyer-Peter and Müller Using Their Own Database

Miguel Wong;Gary Parker

760
Citations
Entrainment of Bed Sediment into Suspension

Marcelo Garcia;Gary Parker

727
Citations
On the cause and characteristic scales of meandering and braiding in rivers

Gary Parker

708
Citations
Model Experiments on Mobile, Paved Gravel Bed Streams

Gary Parker;Sundararajan Dhamotharan;Heinz Stefan

707
Citations
Self-formed straight rivers with equilibrium banks and mobile bed. Part 2. The gravel river

Gary Parker

656
Citations
Experiments on turbidity currents over an erodible bed

G. Parker;M. Garcia;Y. Fukushima;W. Yu

599
Citations
Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

David Mohrig;David Mohrig;Kelin X. Whipple;Miki Hondzo;Christopher Ellis

555
Citations
HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY OF ACTIVE GRAVEL RIVERS

Gary Parker

548
Citations
Physical basis for quasi-universal relations describing bankfull hydraulic geometry of single-thread gravel bed rivers

Gary Parker;Peter R. Wilcock;Chris Paola;William E. Dietrich

486
Citations
Selective Sorting and Abrasion of River Gravel. I: Theory

Gary Parker

442
Citations
Selective Sorting and Abrasion of River Gravel. II: Applications

Gary Parker

435
Citations
Conditions for the ignition of catastrophically erosive turbidity currents

Gary Parker

415
Citations
Experiments on the entrainment of sediment into suspension by a dense bottom current

Marcelo Horacio Garcia;Gary Parker

411
Citations
Linear Theory of River Meanders

Helgi Johannesson;Gary Parker

399
Citations
Natural Processes in Delta Restoration: Application to the Mississippi Delta

Chris Paola;Robert R. Twilley;Douglas A. Edmonds;Douglas A. Edmonds;Wonsuck Kim

385
Citations
Self-formed straight rivers with equilibrium banks and mobile bed. Part 1. The sand-silt river

Gary Parker

378
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chris Paola University of Minnesota

David Mohrig The University of Texas at Austin

Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University

Carlos Pirmez Eburon Resources LLC

William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley

Guangqian Wang Tsinghua University

Yasuyuki Shimizu Hokkaido University

Michael P. Lamb California Institute of Technology

Jacques Locat Université Laval

External Links

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