World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Jennifer A.J. Dungait

Jennifer A.J. Dungait

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
8962
World Ranking
6336
National Ranking
491

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
45
Citations
8848
World Ranking
2805
National Ranking
218

Jennifer A.J. Dungait publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer A.J. Dungait sits on this spectrum.

36–40 publications: 2 scientists 41–45 publications: 7 scientists 46–50 publications: 40 scientists 51–55 publications: 58 scientists 56–60 publications: 60 scientists 61–65 publications: 107 scientists 66–70 publications: 130 scientists 71–75 publications: 153 scientists 76–80 publications: 191 scientists 81–85 publications: 199 scientists 86–90 publications: 206 scientists 91–95 publications: 218 scientists 96–100 publications: 226 scientists 101–105 publications: 227 scientists 106–110 publications: 247 scientists 111–115 publications: 255 scientists 116–120 publications: 253 scientists 121–125 publications: 233 scientists 126–130 publications: 219 scientists 131–135 publications: 201 scientists 136–140 publications: 194 scientists 141–145 publications: 176 scientists 146–150 publications: 157 scientists 151–155 publications: 147 scientists 156–160 publications: 151 scientists 161–165 publications: 159 scientists 166–170 publications: 137 scientists 171–175 publications: 128 scientists 176–180 publications: 126 scientists 181–185 publications: 98 scientists 186–190 publications: 114 scientists 191–195 publications: 100 scientists 196–200 publications: 90 scientists 201–205 publications: 71 scientists 206–210 publications: 98 scientists 211–215 publications: 70 scientists 216–220 publications: 86 scientists 221–225 publications: 61 scientists 226–230 publications: 58 scientists 231–235 publications: 53 scientists 236–240 publications: 64 scientists 241–245 publications: 39 scientists 246–250 publications: 46 scientists 251–255 publications: 51 scientists 256–260 publications: 36 scientists 261–265 publications: 44 scientists 266–270 publications: 35 scientists 271–275 publications: 30 scientists 276–280 publications: 33 scientists 281–285 publications: 35 scientists 286–290 publications: 36 scientists 291–295 publications: 26 scientists 296–300 publications: 26 scientists 301–305 publications: 31 scientists 306–310 publications: 30 scientists 311–315 publications: 21 scientists 316–320 publications: 29 scientists 321–325 publications: 14 scientists 326–330 publications: 15 scientists 331–335 publications: 15 scientists 336–340 publications: 17 scientists 341–345 publications: 15 scientists 346–350 publications: 12 scientists 351–355 publications: 17 scientists 356–360 publications: 18 scientists 361–365 publications: 12 scientists 366–370 publications: 11 scientists 371–375 publications: 6 scientists 376–380 publications: 6 scientists 381–385 publications: 11 scientists 386–390 publications: 9 scientists 391–395 publications: 10 scientists 396–400 publications: 8 scientists 401–405 publications: 4 scientists 406–410 publications: 9 scientists 411–415 publications: 11 scientists 416–420 publications: 4 scientists 421–425 publications: 7 scientists 426–430 publications: 4 scientists 431–435 publications: 3 scientists 436–440 publications: 5 scientists 441–445 publications: 8 scientists 446–450 publications: 6 scientists 451–455 publications: 7 scientists 456–460 publications: 5 scientists 461–465 publications: 6 scientists 466 publications: 2 scientists 467+ publications: 99 scientists
36 publications 467+

This scientist: 144 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Jennifer A.J. Dungait D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer A.J. Dungait sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jennifer A.J. Dungait is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

Their work spans various subfields of study, including:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Jennifer A.J. Dungait has contributed to several recent papers, notable for their publication venues and citation counts. These include:

  • Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta-analysis of management effects (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacterial community to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply (2022), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Identifying the main drivers of change of phytoplankton community structure and gross primary productivity in a river-lake system (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Jing Tian
  • Timothy A. Quine
  • Fusuo Zhang
  • Yakov Kuzyakov
  • Junjie Jia

Jennifer A.J. Dungait's publications are often featured in key academic venues, such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

    Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins;Andrew S. Gregory;Andrew P. Whitmore

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

    Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

  • Agriculture: Steps to sustainable livestock

    Mark C. Eisler;Michael R. F. Lee;Michael R. F. Lee;John F. Tarlton;Graeme B. Martin

  • Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period

    Christopher M. Wurster;Michael I. Bird;Ian D. Bull;Frances Creed

  • Quantifying carbon for agricultural soil management: from the current status toward a global soil information system

    K. Paustian;S. Collier;J. Baldock;R. Burgess

  • Long‐term nitrogen addition modifies microbial composition and functions for slow carbon cycling and increased sequestration in tropical forest soil

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Xiankai Lu;Yunfeng Yang

  • Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects

    Unknown

  • Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: evidences from a 13C labelled-leaf litter experiment.

    M. Rubino;J.A.J. Dungait;R.P. Evershed;T. Bertolini

  • Variable responses of the soil microbial biomass to trace concentrations of 13C-labelled glucose, using 13C-PLFA analysis

    J. A. J. Dungait;S. J. Kemmitt;L. Michallon;S. Guo

  • Soil organic carbon dynamics 75 years after land-use change in perennial grassland and annual wheat agricultural systems

    Joshua W. Beniston;Joshua W. Beniston;S. Tianna DuPont;Jerry D. Glover;Rattan Lal

  • Straw incorporation increases crop yield and soil organic carbon sequestration but varies under different natural conditions and farming practices in China: a system analysis

    Xiao Han;Cong Xu;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Roland Bol

  • 13C-Labelling of lipids to investigate microbial communities in the environment

    Richard P Evershed;Zoe M. Crossman;Ian D. Bull;Hazel Mottram

  • Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming

    Unknown

  • Advances in the understanding of nutrient dynamics and management in UK agriculture.

    Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Laura M. Cardenas;Martin S.A. Blackwell;Lianhai Wu

  • Soil functions and ecosystem services research in the Chinese karst Critical Zone

    Sophie M. Green;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Chenglong Tu;Heather Buss

  • Absence of seasonal patterns in MBT-CBT indices in mid-latitude soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Beth Bernhardt;Francien Peterse;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne

  • Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic

    Filipa Cox;Filipa Cox;Kevin K. Newsham;Kevin K. Newsham;Roland Bol;Jennifer A. J. Dungait

  • Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacteria to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply

    Unknown

  • The North Wyke Farm Platform : effect of temperate grassland farming systems on soil moisture contents, runoff and associated water quality dynamics

    Robert Orr;Philip Murray;C J Eyles;Martin Blackwell

  • Interactions among agricultural production and other ecosystem services delivered from European temperate grassland systems

    Emma S. Pilgrim;Christopher J.A. Macleod;Martin S.A. Blackwell;Roland Bol

  • Coupled incorporation of maize (Zea mays L.) straw with nitrogen fertilizer increased soil organic carbon in Fluvic Cambisol.

    Fanqiao Meng;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Xingliang Xu;Roland Bol

  • Long-term management changes topsoil and subsoil organic carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a temperate agricultural system.

    A. S. Gregory;J. A. J. Dungait;C. W. Watts;R. Bol

  • Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation

    Fernando T. Maestre;Cristina Escolar;Richard D. Bardgett;Jennifer A. J. Dungait

  • Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Ning Zong;Iain P Hartley;Nianpeng He

  • Neutral monosaccharides as biomarker proxies for bog-forming plants for application to palaeovegetation reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat deposits

    Guodong Jia;Guodong Jia;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Elizabeth M. Bingham;Minna Valiranta

  • Carbon and macronutrient losses during accelerated erosion under different tillage and residue management

    J. W. Beniston;M. J. Shipitalo;R. Lal;E. A. Dayton

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Bol
Roland Bol Forschungszentrum Jülich
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Laura M. Cardenas
Laura M. Cardenas Rothamsted Research
David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College
Iain P. Hartley
Iain P. Hartley University of Exeter
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Adrian L. Collins
Adrian L. Collins Rothamsted Research
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Michael R. F. Lee
Michael R. F. Lee Harper Adams University

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Jennifer A.J. Dungait

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles