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Irene Gregory-Eaves

Irene Gregory-Eaves

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6831
World Ranking
8032
National Ranking
364

Irene Gregory-Eaves 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 Irene Gregory-Eaves sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Irene Gregory-Eaves 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 Irene Gregory-Eaves sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

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

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

Overview

Irene Gregory-Eaves is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology.

Their work focuses on a variety of topics, with notable emphasis on:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations" (2021) published in Quaternary
  • "Distribution, abundance, and diversity of microplastics in the upper St. Lawrence River" (2020) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Microplastics in lakes and rivers: an issue of emerging significance to limnology" (2021) published in Environmental Reviews
  • "The alarming state of freshwater biodiversity in Canada" (2021) published in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • "On "success" in applied environmental research - What is it, how can it be achieved, and how does one know when it has been achieved?" (2020) published in Environmental Reviews

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Paleolimnology, Limnology and Oceanography, The Science of The Total Environment, and Environmental Reviews.

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of their research output, with frequent coauthors including Beatrix E. Beisner, John P. Smol, Cindy Paquette, Yannick Huot, and Katherine Griffiths.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climatic change and fishing on Pacific salmon abundance over the past 300 years.

    Bruce P. Finney;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Jon Sweetman;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • Fisheries productivity in the northeastern Pacific Ocean over the past 2,200 years

    Bruce P. Finney;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Marianne S. V. Douglas;John P. Smol

  • Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene.

    Zofia E Taranu;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Peter R Leavitt;Lynda Bunting

  • A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

    Gordon W. Holtgrieve;Daniel E. Schindler;William O. Hobbs;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Nutrients and water temperature are significant predictors of cyanobacterial biomass in a 1147 lakes data set

    Marieke Beaulieu;Frances Pick;Irene Gregory-Eaves

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Distribution, abundance, and diversity of microplastics in the upper St. Lawrence River.

    Alex Crew;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Anthony Ricciardi

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

    Nathalie Dubois;Nathalie Dubois;Émilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

  • Aquatic ecology: delivery of pollutants by spawning salmon.

    E. M. Krümmel;R. W. Macdonald;L. E. Kimpe;I. Gregory-Eaves

  • Predicting cyanobacterial dynamics in the face of global change: the importance of scale and environmental context

    Zofia E. Taranu;Ron W. Zurawell;Frances Pick;Irene Gregory-Eaves

  • Urban point sources of nutrients were the leading cause for the historical spread of hypoxia across European lakes.

    Jean-Philippe Jenny;Alexandre Normandeau;Pierre Francus;Zofia Ecaterina Taranu;Zofia Ecaterina Taranu

  • DNA-based methods in paleolimnology: new opportunities for investigating long-term dynamics of lacustrine biodiversity

    Isabelle Domaizon;Amanda Winegardner;Eric Capo;Joanna Gauthier

  • Microplastics in lakes and rivers: an issue of emerging significance to limnology

    Genevieve D’Avignon;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Anthony Ricciardi

  • Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Jean Philippe Jenny;Sujan Koirala;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Pierre Francus;Pierre Francus

  • Quantifying Relationships Among Phosphorus, Agriculture, and Lake Depth at an Inter-Regional Scale

    Zofia E. Taranu;Irene Gregory-Eaves

  • Dams have varying impacts on fish communities across latitudes: a quantitative synthesis

    Katrine Turgeon;Katrine Turgeon;Christian Turpin;Irene Gregory-Eaves

  • The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate

    Yannick Huot;Catherine A. Brown;Geneviève Potvin;Dermot Antoniades

  • Diatom-based Transfer Functions for Inferring past Climatic and Environmental Changes in Alaska, U.S.A.

    Irene Gregory-Eaves;John P. Smol;Bruce P. Finney;Mary E. Edwards

  • Predicting microcystin concentrations in lakes and reservoirs at a continental scale: A new framework for modelling an important health risk factor

    Zofia E. Taranu;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Russell J. Steele;Marieke Beaulieu

  • Palaeolimnological insights for biodiversity science: an emerging field

    Irene Gregory-Eaves;Beatrix E. Beisner

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems

    Nathalie Dubois;Emilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Bruce P. Finney
Bruce P. Finney Idaho State University
Peter R. Leavitt
Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Pierre Francus
Pierre Francus Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jules M. Blais
Jules M. Blais University of Ottawa
Isabelle Domaizon
Isabelle Domaizon Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Elena M. Bennett
Elena M. Bennett McGill University
David A. Walsh
David A. Walsh Concordia University
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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