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42
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7374
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Jonathan Sharples 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 Jonathan Sharples sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan Sharples 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 Jonathan Sharples sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan Sharples is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Oceanography. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research addresses various topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine and coastal ecosystems, tropical and extratropical cyclones, marine biology and ecology, avian ecology and behavior, geology and paleoclimatology, as well as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Sharples has published frequently in several academic venues. Notable venues with multiple publications include Fisheries Oceanography, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Nature Communications. Other publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science and Limnology and Oceanography.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sharples include:

  • "Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure" (2022) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Control of a phytoplankton bloom by wind-driven vertical mixing and light availability" (2021) in Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird" (2021) in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Observations of Nutrient Supply by Mesoscale Eddy Stirring and Small-Scale Turbulence in the Oligotrophic North Atlantic" (2021) in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "The Three Rs: Resolving Respiration Robotically in Shelf Seas" (2022) in Geophysical Research Letters

Their frequent coauthors highlight collaboration with peers across various studies. These include Ben Lincoln, Tom P. Rippeth, Joanne Hopkins, Steven J. Bograd, and Tetsuya Takatsu, each having coauthored multiple publications with Sharples.

Best Publications

  • Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria

    Klaus D. Jöhnk;Jef Huisman;Jonathan Sharples;Ben Sommeijer

  • Changes in turbulent mixing shift competition for light between phytoplankton species

    Jef Huisman;Jonathan Sharples;Jasper M. Stroom;Petra M. Visser

  • Introduction to the Physical and Biological Oceanography of Shelf Seas

    John H. Simpson;Jonathan Sharples

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • Phytoplankton photoacclimation and photoadaptation in response to environmental gradients in a shelf sea

    C. Mark Moore;David J. Suggett;Anna E. Hickman;Young-Nam Kim

  • Spring‐neap modulation of internal tide mixing and vertical nitrate fluxes at a shelf edge in summer

    Jonathan Sharples;Jacqueline F. Tweddle;J. A. Mattias Green;Matthew R. Palmer

  • Recipe for 1-D Lagrangian particle tracking models in space-varying diffusivity

    Oliver N. Ross;Jonathan Sharples

  • Inter-annual variability in the timing of stratification and the spring bloom in the North-western North Sea

    Jonathan Sharples;Oliver N. Ross;Beth E. Scott;Simon P.R. Greenstreet

  • What proportion of riverine nutrients reaches the open ocean

    Jonathan Sharples;Jack J. Middelburg;Katja Fennel;Timothy D. Jickells

  • Sub-surface hotspots in shallow seas: fine-scale limited locations of top predator foraging habitat indicated by tidal mixing and sub-surface chlorophyll

    B.E. Scott;J. Sharples;Oliver N. Ross;J. Wang

  • Internal tide dissipation, mixing, and vertical nitrate flux at the shelf edge of NE New Zealand

    Jonathan Sharples;C. Mark Moore;Edward R. Abraham

  • Internal tidal mixing as a control on continental margin ecosystems

    Jonathan Sharples;C. Mark Moore;Anna E. Hickman;Patrick M. Holligan

  • Investigating fine-scale spatio-temporal predator-prey patterns in dynamic marine ecosystems: a functional data analysis approach

    Clare B. Embling;Janine Illian;Eric Armstrong;Jeroen van der Kooij;Jeroen van der Kooij

  • Modelling the effect of physical variability on the midwater chlorophyll maximum

    Jonathan Sharples;Paul Tett

  • A prescriptive model of stratification induced by freshwater runoff

    John Simpson;Jonathan Sharples;Tom Rippeth

  • Physical controls on phytoplankton physiology and production at a shelf sea front: a fast repetition-rate fluorometer based field study

    C.M. Moore;D. Suggett;P.M. Holligan;J. Sharples

  • Potential impacts of the spring-neap tidal cycle on shelf sea primary production.

    Jonathan Sharples

  • Primary production and nitrate uptake within the seasonal thermocline of a stratified shelf sea

    A.E. Hickman;C.M. Moore;J. Sharples;M.I. Lucas

  • Phytoplankton motility and the competition for nutrients in the thermocline

    Oliver N. Ross;Jonathan Sharples

  • Variation in the abundance of sandeels Ammodytes marinus off southeast Scotland: an evaluation of area-closure fisheries management and stock abundance assessment methods

    Simon P.R. Greenstreet;Eric Armstrong;Henrik Mosegaard;Henrik Jensen

  • Observations and Modelling of Periodic Stratification in the Upper York River Estuary, Virginia

    J. Sharples;J.H. Simpson;J.M. Brubaker

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Simpson
John H. Simpson Bangor University
Beth E. Scott
Beth E. Scott University of Aberdeen
Tom P. Rippeth
Tom P. Rippeth Bangor University
C. Mark Moore
C. Mark Moore University of Southampton
Francis Daunt
Francis Daunt Natural Environment Research Council
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science
Patrick M. Holligan
Patrick M. Holligan University of Southampton
Richard G. Williams
Richard G. Williams University of Liverpool
Sarah Wanless
Sarah Wanless Natural Environment Research Council
Jonathan A. Green
Jonathan A. Green University of Liverpool

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