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D-Index
58
Citations
12011
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3272
National Ranking
1269

Matthew J. Church 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 Matthew J. Church sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 151 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthew J. Church 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 Matthew J. Church sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Matthew J. Church is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Oceanography, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research focuses on key topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Church has published research in a range of venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Progress In Oceanography

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Seasonal-to-decadal scale variability in primary production and particulate matter export at Station ALOHA," 2021, Progress In Oceanography
  • "Upper Ocean Biogeochemistry of the Oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: From Nutrient Sources to Carbon Export," 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth," 2022, Ecology Letters
  • "Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation," 2023, Earth system science data
  • "Biogeochemical Dynamics in Adjacent Mesoscale Eddies of Opposite Polarity," 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Church include:

  • David M. Karl
  • Angelicque White
  • Samuel T. Wilson
  • Emma K. Wear
  • Logan M. Peoples

The breadth of Church's work reflects an engagement across interdisciplinary fields related to ocean ecology, biogeochemical cycling, and microbial processes within marine environments.

Best Publications

  • Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific.

    John E. Dore;Roger Lukas;Daniel W. Sadler;Matthew J. Church

  • Quantitative distribution of presumptive archaeal and bacterial nitrifiers in Monterey Bay and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

    Tracy J. Mincer;Matthew J. Church;Lance Trent Taylor;Christina Preston

  • A Time-Series View of Changing Ocean Chemistry Due to Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic CO2 and Ocean Acidification

    Nicholas R. Bates;Yrene M. Astor;Matthew J Church;Kim Currie

  • Aerobic production of methane in the sea

    David M. Karl;Lucas Beversdorf;Karin M. Björkman;Matthew J. Church

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Temporal Patterns of Nitrogenase Gene (nifH) Expression in the Oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean

    Matthew J. Church;Matthew J. Church;Cindy M. Short;Bethany D. Jenkins;David M. Karl

  • Predictable and efficient carbon sequestration in the North Pacific Ocean supported by symbiotic nitrogen fixation.

    David M. Karl;Matthew J. Church;John E. Dore;Ricardo M. Letelier

  • Vertical distributions of nitrogen-fixing phylotypes at Stn ALOHA in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean

    Matthew J. Church;Bethany D. Jenkins;David M. Karl;Jonathan P. Zehr

  • Limitation of bacterial growth by dissolved organic matter and iron in the Southern ocean

    Matthew J. Church;David A. Hutchins;Hugh W. Ducklow

  • Abundance and distribution of planktonic Archaea and Bacteria in the waters west of the Antarctic Peninsula

    Matthew J. Church;Edward F. DeLong;Hugh W. Ducklow;Markus B. Karner

  • Physical forcing of nitrogen fixation and diazotroph community structure in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

    Matthew J. Church;Claire Mahaffey;Ricardo M. Letelier;Roger Lukas

  • Microbial oceanography and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series programme.

    David M. Karl;Matthew J. Church

  • Abundances of crenarchaeal amoA genes and transcripts in the Pacific Ocean

    Matthew J. Church;Brenner Wai;David M. Karl;Edward F. DeLong

  • Summer phytoplankton blooms in the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Historical perspective and recent observations

    John E. Dore;Ricardo M. Letelier;Matthew J. Church;Roger Lukas

  • Regional distributions of nitrogen‐fixing bacteria in the Pacific Ocean

    Matthew J. Church;Karin M. Björkman;David M. Karl;Mak A. Saito

  • Challenges of modeling depth-integrated marine primary productivity over multiple decades: A case study at BATS and HOT

    Vincent S. Saba;Vincent S. Saba;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Mary-Elena Carr;David Antoine

  • Does eddy-eddy interaction control surface phytoplankton distribution and carbon export in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre?

    Lionel Guidi;Paulo H. R. Calil;Paulo H. R. Calil;Solange Duhamel;Karin M. Björkman

  • Ecological control of nitrite in the upper ocean

    Emily J. Zakem;Emily J. Zakem;Alia Al-Haj;Matthew J. Church;Gert L. van Dijken

  • Nitrogen fixation in an anticyclonic eddy in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean

    Allison A. Fong;David Michael Karl;Roger Lukas;Ricardo M. Letelier;Ricardo M. Letelier

  • Comparative assessment of nitrogen fixation methodologies, conducted in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean.

    Samuel T. Wilson;Daniela Böttjer;Matthew J. Church;David M. Karl

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ricardo M. Letelier
Ricardo M. Letelier Oregon State University
Jonathan P. Zehr
Jonathan P. Zehr University of California, Santa Cruz
Angelicque E. White
Angelicque E. White University of Hawaii at Manoa
Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii at Manoa
John E. Dore
John E. Dore Montana State University
Robert R. Bidigare
Robert R. Bidigare University of Hawaii at Manoa
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Roger Lukas
Roger Lukas University of Hawaii at Manoa
Craig R. Smith
Craig R. Smith University of Hawaii at Manoa

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