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D-Index
38
Citations
6992
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8556
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316

Mark Stafford Smith 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 Mark Stafford Smith sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 84 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Stafford Smith 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 Mark Stafford Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark Stafford Smith is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Surgery, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nephrology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their main research topics cover Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Acute Kidney Injury Research, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, and Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Mark Stafford Smith include Bojie Fu, Mihai V. Podgoreanu, Lindsay P. Schwartz, Steven R. Hursh, and Lisa Boyle. This collaboration reflects multidisciplinary approaches across various topics within environmental and medical sciences.

Mark Stafford Smith has published extensively in a range of scientific venues, notably contributing multiple papers to the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, The Rangeland Journal, One Earth, and Metabolomics.

Their recent papers include:

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally, 2020, One Earth
  • Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Global-DEP conceptual framework - research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Mark Stafford Smith has also contributed to book publishing, with at least one title released by Yale University Press titled Where the Gods Are (2020).

Best Publications

  • Integration : the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Mark Stafford-Smith;David Griggs;David Griggs;Owen Gaffney;Farooq Ullah

  • Rethinking adaptation for a 4°C world.

    Mark Stafford Smith;Lisa Horrocks;Alex Harvey;Clive Hamilton

  • An integrated framework for sustainable development goals

    David John Griggs;Mark Stafford Smith;Johan Rockstrom;Marcus C Ohman

  • Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities

    Xuemei Bai;Alyson Surveyer;Thomas Elmqvist;Franz W. Gatzweiler

  • A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities

    Yiheyis Taddele Maru;Mark Stafford Smith;Ashley Sparrow;Patricia F. Pinho

  • Opinion: Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk.

    Moreno Di Marco;Moreno Di Marco;Michelle L. Baker;Peter Daszak;Paul De Barro

  • USING ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE TO RETHINK THE WAY SCIENCE SUPPORTS AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT POLICY

    Rohan Nelson;Mark Howden;Mark Stafford Smith

  • Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation

    Robert Webb;Xuemei Bai;Xuemei Bai;Mark Stafford Smith;Robert Costanza

  • Incorporating ecological and evolutionary processes into continental-scale conservation planning.

    Carissa Klein;Kerrie A. Wilson;Matthew Watts;Janet Stein

  • Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World: Beyond City Limits

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;Uno Svedin;Carole L. Crumley;Will Steffen;Will Steffen

  • Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally

    Paul Shrivastava;Mark Stafford Smith;Karen O’Brien;Laszlo Zsolnai

  • The 'desert syndrome' - causally-linked factors that characterise outback Australia

    Mark Stafford Smith

  • Climate and desertification: looking at an old problem through new lenses

    Michel M Verstraete;Robert J Scholes;Mark Stafford Smith

  • Constraints and opportunities in applying seasonal climate forecasts in agriculture

    Andrew Ash;Peter McIntosh;Brendan Cullen;Peter Carberry

  • Planetary boundaries, equity and global sustainability: why wealthy countries could benefit from more equity

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Mark Stafford Smith

  • Simulation of Grazing Strategies for Beef Production in North-East Queensland

    Greg McKeon;Andrew Ash;Wayne Hall;Mark Stafford Smith

  • Conservation strategies in response to rapid climate change: Australia as a case study

    David B. Lindenmayer;Will Steffen;Andrew A. Burbidge;Lesley Hughes

  • Ecology and population biology of mistletoes.

    N. Reid;M. S. Smith;Yan ZhaoGui;M. D. Lowman

  • Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries

    Myanna Lahsen;Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez;Patricia Romero Lankao;Pauline Dube

  • Use of agro-climate ensembles for quantifying uncertainty and informing adaptation

    Andrew J. Challinor;Andrew J. Challinor;Mark Stafford Smith;Philip Thornton;Philip Thornton

  • Assessing Inter-Sectoral Climate Change Risks: The Role of ISIMIP

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Nigel W. Arnell;Kristie L. Ebi;Hermann Lotze-Campen

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Lesley Hughes
Lesley Hughes Macquarie University
Roger L. Kitching
Roger L. Kitching Griffith University
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Nick Reid
Nick Reid University of New England
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist Stockholm Resilience Centre
Cheikh Mbow
Cheikh Mbow Centre de Suivi Ecologique
Michel M. Verstraete
Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand

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