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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 45 4509 4148 210 191 84 6822

John N. Smith publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John N. Smith between 1970 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John N. Smith published across 55 years, from 1970 to 2024, averaging 1.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 6 publications in 1987. 4 of the 95 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2024. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 6. Peak 6 publications in 1987. 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 1 publication 1980: 2 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 6 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 3 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 4 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 4 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 3 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 0 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 1 publication 2013: 0 publications 2014: 2 publications 2015: 2 publications 2016: 2 publications 2017: 2 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 3 publications
1970 2024

95 publications in total across all disciplines

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John N. Smith: publications per year, 1970 to 2024
Year Publications
1970 1
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 1
1980 2
1981 1
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 2
1987 6
1988 2
1989 1
1990 3
1991 2
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 4
1996 1
1997 4
1998 5
1999 4
2000 3
2001 4
2002 3
2003 2
2004 1
2005 3
2006 2
2007 0
2008 2
2009 4
2010 3
2011 3
2012 1
2013 0
2014 2
2015 2
2016 2
2017 2
2018 4
2019 2
2020 2
2021 2
2022 2
2023 1
2024 3
Total 95
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John N. Smith 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 John N. Smith sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 78–87 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 84 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278 84
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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John N. Smith 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 John N. Smith sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257 45
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

John N. Smith is affiliated with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada and conducts research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses on multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Smith has published several papers addressing circulation and tracer studies in the Arctic Ocean and related regions. Notable publications include:

  • Circulation timescales of Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean determined from anthropogenic radionuclides, 2021, Ocean science
  • A Changing Arctic Ocean: How Measured and Modeled 129I Distributions Indicate Fundamental Shifts in Circulation Between 1994 and 2015, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Synoptic 129I and CFC-SF6 Transit Time Distribution (TTD) Sections Across the Central Arctic Ocean From the 2015 GEOTRACES Cruises, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans, 2022, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Circulation Timescales and Pathways of Atlantic Water in the Canada Basin: Insights From Transient Tracers 129I and 236U, 2024, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Their frequent coauthors include Núria Casacuberta, Marcus Christl, Anne-Marie Wefing, William J. Williams, and William M. Smethie.

Smith's work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Ocean Science, Annual Review of Marine Science, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Best Publications

  • Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways.

    R.W. Macdonald;L.A. Barrie;T.F. Bidleman;M.L. Diamond

  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Composition and Potential Sources for Sediment Samples from the Beaufort and Barents Seas

    Mark B. Yunker;Lloyd R. Snowdon;Robie W. Macdonald;John N. Smith

  • Fukushima Daiichi–Derived Radionuclides in the Ocean: Transport, Fate, and Impacts

    Ken O. Buesseler;Minhan Dai;Michio Aoyama;Claudia R. Benítez-Nelson

  • Why should we believe 210Pb sediment geochronologies

    John Norton Smith

  • Changes in temperature and tracer distributions within the Arctic Ocean: results from the 1994 Arctic Ocean section

    Eddy C. Carmack;Knut Aagaard;James H. Swift;Robie W. MacDonald

  • A comparison of doses from 137Cs and 210Po in marine food: A major international study

    A. Aarkrog;M.S. Baxter;A.O. Bettencourt;R. Bojanowski

  • 129I and 137Cs tracer measurements in the Arctic Ocean

    John N Smith;Katherine M Ellis;Linas R Kilius

  • Plutonium and210Pb distributions in northeast Atlantic sediments: subsurface anomalies caused by non-local mixing

    John Norton Smith;Bernard P. Boudreau;Victor Noshkin

  • Seasonal changes in POC export flux in the Chukchi Sea and implications for water column-benthic coupling in Arctic shelves

    S.B. Moran;R.P. Kelly;K. Hagstrom;J.N. Smith

  • Mercury Profiles in Sediments of the Arctic Ocean Basins

    Charles Gobeil;Robie W. Macdonald;John N. Smith

  • Basin sedimentation and the growth of prograding deltas

    James P. M. Syvitski;John N. Smith;E. A. Calabrese;B. P. Boudreau

  • 234Th/238U disequilibrium in the central Arctic Ocean: implications for particulate organic carbon export

    S.B. Moran;K.M. Ellis;J.N. Smith

  • The Canada Basin, 1989–1995: Upstream events and far‐field effects of the Barents Sea

    Fiona McLaughlin;Eddy Carmack;Robie Macdonald;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Recent changes in Arctic Ocean circulation revealed by iodine-129 observations and modeling

    Michael Karcher;John N. Smith;Frank Kauker;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Accumulation of contaminant metals in marine sediments of Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia: environmental factors and historical trends

    Dale E. Buckley;John N. Smith;Gary V. Winters

  • Does 234Th/238U disequilibrium provide an accurate record of the export flux of particulate organic carbon from the upper ocean?

    S. B. Moran;S. E. Weinstein;H. N. Edmonds;J. N. Smith

  • Disequilibria between226Ra, 210Pb and 210Po in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for chemical modification of the Pacific water inflow

    R.M. Moore;J.N. Smith

  • Dissolved and particulate 231 Pa and 230 Th in the Atlantic Ocean: constraints on intermediate/deep water age, boundary scavenging, and 231 Pa/ 230 Th fractionation

    S.B. Moran;C.-C. Shen;H.N. Edmonds;S.E. Weinstein

  • Technetium-99 and cesium-134 as long distance tracers in Arctic waters

    A. Aarkrog;S. Boelskifte;H. Dahlgaard;S. Duniec

  • Circulation features in the central Arctic Ocean revealed by nuclear fuel reprocessing tracers from Scientific Ice Expeditions 1995 and 1996

    John N. Smith;Katherine M. Ellis;Timothy Boyd

  • Arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity plume in North American continental waters

    John N. Smith;Robin M. Brown;William J. Williams;Marie Robert

Frequent Co-Authors

S.B. Moran
S.B. Moran University of Rhode Island
Robie W. Macdonald
Robie W. Macdonald Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Charles Gobeil
Charles Gobeil University of Quebec
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Michael Karcher
Michael Karcher Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Minhan Dai
Minhan Dai Xiamen University
Fiona A. McLaughlin
Fiona A. McLaughlin Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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