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James J. McCarthy

James J. McCarthy

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
22937
World Ranking
3355
National Ranking
1291

Overview

James J. McCarthy was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research work spanned several main fields, including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Environmental Science, with notable subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, Surgery, and Neurology.

The scientist contributed scholarly work on a variety of topics. These encompassed:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

They published papers in notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • The AAG Review of Books

Recent publications included:

  • "Prospective, Multicenter, Controlled Trial of Mobile Stroke Units," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Early versus Late Profiles of Inflammatory Cytokines after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Association with Neuropsychological Outcomes," 2020, Journal of Neurotrauma
  • "New political ecologies of renewable energy," 2022, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • "(Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico," 2021, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • "Prehospital Activation of Hospital Resources (PreAct) ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI): A Standardized Approach to Prehospital Activation and Direct to the Catheterization Laboratory for STEMI Recommendations From the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline Program," 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association

Their research collaboration involved frequent coauthors, including:

  • José-Miguel Yamal
  • David Persse
  • Dylan M. Harris
  • Kelsey Porada
  • Tiffany Small

Best Publications

  • A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

    B. L. Turner;Roger E. Kasperson;Roger E. Kasperson;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy

  • Environment and development. Sustainability science.

    Kates Rw;Clark Wc;Corell R;Hall Jm

  • HALF‐SATURATION CONSTANTS FOR UPTAKE OF NITRATE AND AMMONIUM BY MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON1

    Richard W. Eppley;Jane N. Rogers;James J. McCarthy

  • Growth rate influence on the chemical composition of phytoplankton in oceanic waters

    Joel C. Goldman;James J. McCarthy;Dwight G. Peavey

  • Temperature effects on export production in the open ocean

    Edward A. Laws;Paul G. Falkowski;Walker O. Smith;Hugh Ducklow

  • Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies.

    B. L. Turner;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy;Robert W. Corell

  • Whales as marine ecosystem engineers.

    Joe Roman;James A Estes;Lyne Morissette;Craig Smith

  • Nitrogenous nutrition of the plankton in the Chesapeake Bay. 1. Nutrient availability and phytoplankton preferences

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  • Iron and grazing constraints on primary production in the central equatorial Pacific: An EqPac synthesis

    Michael R. Lundry;Richard T. Barber;Robert R. Bidare;Fei Chai

  • Nitrogenous Nutrition of Marine Phytoplankton in Nutrient-Depleted Waters

    James J. Mccarthy;Joel C. Goldman

  • Isotope dilution models of uptake and remineralization of ammonium by marine plankton1

    Patricia M. Gilbert;Fredric Lipschultz;James J. McCarthy;Mark A. Altabet

  • The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin

    Joe Roman;James J. McCarthy

  • Steady state growth and ammonium uptake of a fast‐growing marine diatom 1

    Joel C. Goldman;James J. McCarthy

  • Saami reindeer pastoralism under climate change: Applying a generalized framework for vulnerability studies to a sub-arctic social–ecological system

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  • Export flux of particulate organic carbon from the central equatorial Pacific determined using a combined drifting trap-234Th approach

    James W. Murray;Jennifer Young;Jan Newton;John Dunne

  • The Uptake of Urea by Natural Populations of Marine PHYTOPLANKTON1

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  • Isotopic fractionation during nitrate uptake by phytoplankton grown in continuous culture

    Joseph P. Montoya;James J. McCarthy

  • Utilization of ammonium and nitrate during austral summer in the Scotia Sea

    Patricia M. Glibert;Douglas C. Biggs;James J. McCarthy

  • Baleen whales host a unique gut microbiome with similarities to both carnivores and herbivores.

    Jon G. Sanders;Annabel C. Beichman;Joe Roman;Joe Roman;Jarrod J. Scott

  • New production along 140°W in the equatorial Pacific during and following the 1992 El Niño event

    James J McCarthy;Chris Garside;John L Nevins;Richard T Barber

  • LIGHT/DARK PERIODICITY IN NITROGEN ASSIMILATION OF THE MARINE PHYTOPLANKTERS SKELETONEMA COSTATUM AND COCCOLITHUS HUXLEYI IN N‐LIMITED CHEMOSTAT CULTURE1,2

    Richard W. Eppley;Jane N. Rogers;James J. McCarthy;Alain Sournia

  • PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH AND COMPOSITION IN SHIPBOARD CULTURES SUPPLIED WITH NITRATE, AMMONIUM, OR UREA AS THE NITROGEN SOURCE1

    R. W. Eppley;A. F. Carlucci;O. Holm-Hansen;D. Kiefer

  • Temporal and spatial variations in the natural abundance of 15N in PON from a warm-core ring

    Mark A. Altabet;James J. McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan R. Robinson
Allan R. Robinson Harvard University
Terrence M. Joyce
Terrence M. Joyce Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Joseph P. Montoya
Joseph P. Montoya Georgia Institute of Technology
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
William C. Clark
William C. Clark Harvard University
James W. Murray
James W. Murray University of Washington
Tom Berman
Tom Berman National Institute of Oceanography
Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Peter H. Wiebe
Peter H. Wiebe Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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