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Jeffrey J. McDonnell

Jeffrey J. McDonnell

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Earth Science
Canada
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
110
Citations
42994
World Ranking
74
National Ranking
2

Jeffrey J. McDonnell 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 Jeffrey J. McDonnell sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 553 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.

Jeffrey J. McDonnell 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 Jeffrey J. McDonnell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 110 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 Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Jeffrey J. McDonnell is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research primarily centers around environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on hydrology and related processes.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Fill-and-Spill: A Process Description of Runoff Generation at the Scale of the Beholder, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Where Is the Bottom of a Watershed?, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Tree water deficit and dynamic source water partitioning, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Crustal Groundwater Volumes Greater Than Previously Thought, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Magali F. Nehemy
  • Paolo Benettin
  • Andrea Rinaldo
  • Mitra Asadollahi
  • John Herbohn

Their work has been published in various scientific journals with notable frequency, including:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Ecohydrology

Main fields of study in their research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, subfields of study are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

The main topics covered in their work consist of:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies

Jeffrey J. McDonnell has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2015), Academy of Science
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2009)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences

    M. Sivapalan;K. Takeuchi;S. W. Franks;V. K. Gupta

  • Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology

    Carol Kendall;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • A review and evaluation of catchment transit time modeling

    Kevin J. McGuire;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

    J J McDonnell;J J McDonnell;M Sivapalan;K Vache;S Dunn

  • Ecohydrologic separation of water between trees and streams in a Mediterranean climate

    J. Renée Brooks;Holly R. Barnard;Rob Coulombe;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • A rationale for old water discharge through macropores in a steep, humid catchment.

    Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Hydrograph separation using stable isotopes: Review and evaluation

    J. Klaus;J.J. McDonnell;J.J. McDonnell

  • Threshold relations in subsurface stormflow: 2. The fill and spill hypothesis

    H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld;H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld;J. J. McDonnell

  • On the dialog between experimentalist and modeler in catchment hydrology: Use of soft data for multicriteria model calibration

    Jan Seibert;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow

    Jaivime Evaristo;Scott Jasechko;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Debates—The future of hydrological sciences: A (common) path forward? A call to action aimed at understanding velocities, celerities and residence time distributions of the headwater hydrograph

    Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Keith Beven

  • Linking the hydrologic and biogeochemical controls of nitrogen transport in near-stream zones of temperate-forested catchments: a review

    Christopher P. Cirmo;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Threshold relations in subsurface stormflow: 1. A 147-storm analysis of the Panola hillslope

    H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld;H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld;J. J. McDonnell

  • On the interrelations between topography, soil depth, soil moisture, transpiration rates and species distribution at the hillslope scale

    H.J. Tromp-van Meerveld;J.J. McDonnell

  • Quantifying contributions to storm runoff through end-member mixing analysis and hydrologic measurements at the Panola Mountain Research Watershed (Georgia, USA).

    Douglas A. Burns;Jeffrey J. Mcdonnell;Richard P. Hooper;Norman E. Peters

  • Quantifying the relative contributions of riparian and hillslope zones to catchment runoff

    Brian L. McGlynn;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old

    Scott Jasechko;James W. Kirchner;James W. Kirchner;Jeffrey M. Welker;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

  • Virtual experiments: a new approach for improving process conceptualization in hillslope hydrology

    Markus Weiler;Jeff McDonnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Pfister
Laurent Pfister Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Julian Klaus
Julian Klaus University of Bonn
Kevin J. McGuire
Kevin J. McGuire Virginia Tech
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Jim Buttle
Jim Buttle Trent University

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