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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 39 8323 7989 2971 2759 100 6548

Megan Konar publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Megan Konar between 2007 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Megan Konar published across 20 years, from 2007 to 2026, averaging 6.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2018. 19 of the 128 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2007 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2018. 2007: 1 publication 2008: 0 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 3 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 15 publications 2026: 4 publications
2007 2026

128 publications in total across all disciplines

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Megan Konar: publications per year, 2007 to 2026
Year Publications
2007 1
2008 0
2009 0
2010 1
2011 3
2012 4
2013 3
2014 6
2015 9
2016 6
2017 8
2018 15
2019 15
2020 9
2021 5
2022 10
2023 8
2024 6
2025 15
2026 4
Total 128
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Megan Konar publications per year - data summary

  • Megan Konar, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has 128 publications recorded across 20 years, from 2007 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2007 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive years are 2018, 2019 and 2025, with 15 publications each.
  • The least productive years with any output are 2007 and 2010, with 1 publication each.
  • 2 of the 20 years in the span carry no publications at all (2008 and 2009).
  • The rate of publication averages 6.4 papers per year over the whole span, or 7.1 per year counting only the 18 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 43 publications, 34% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2007-2013: 12 publications (1.7 per year); 2014-2020: 68 publications (9.7 per year); 2021-2026: 48 publications (8.0 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Megan Konar 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 Megan Konar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 91–100 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 100 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440 100
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Megan Konar publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 66 ranges running from 41–50 to 690+ publications.
  • Megan Konar, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, records 100 publications - the 13th percentile of the discipline.
  • 13% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Megan Konar, and about 87% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 161–170 publications range, and Megan Konar ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 121–130 publications, holding 617 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 67% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 201–210 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 690 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Megan Konar 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 Megan Konar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275 39
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Megan Konar D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 30 to 126+ D-Index.
  • Megan Konar, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, records 39 D-Index - the 15th percentile of the discipline.
  • 15% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Megan Konar, and about 85% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 51 D-Index range, and Megan Konar ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 45 D-Index, holding 348 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more, 92 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Overview

Megan Konar is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable focus on water-related systems and sustainability.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their key subfields of study are:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Soil Science

Konar's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Water Resources and Sustainability

Recent published papers by Konar include:

  • Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Grain export restrictions during COVID-19 risk food insecurity in many low- and middle-income countries, 2021, Nature Food
  • Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human-Earth Systems, 2022, Earth s Future
  • Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

They have frequently collaborated with a group of coauthors including:

  • Deniz Berfin Karakoc
  • Siao Sun
  • P. J. Ruess
  • Qiuhong Tang
  • Chuanglin Fang

Konar's work is commonly published in the following venues:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Water Resources Research
  • Nature Food
  • Earth s Future
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Evolution of the global virtual water trade network

    Carole Dalin;Megan Konar;Naota Hanasaki;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

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  • Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Murugesu Sivapalan;Maria Rusca;Christophe Cudennec

  • Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene

    M. Sivapalan;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;A. Chhatre

  • Human–water interface in hydrological modelling : current status and future directions

    Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ad de Roo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

    M. Konar;C. Dalin;S. Suweis;S. Suweis;N. Hanasaki

  • Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts

    Paolo D'Odorico;Joel A. Carr;Carole Dalin;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Jampel Dell'Angelo

  • A Dynamic Framework for Water Security

    Veena Srinivasan;Megan Konar;Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Virtual groundwater transfers from overexploited aquifers in the United States

    Landon Marston;Megan Konar;Ximing Cai;Tara J. Troy

  • Prediction in a socio-hydrological world

    Veena Srinivasan;M. Sanderson;M. Garcia;M. Konar

  • Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change

    M. Konar;M. Konar;Z. Hussein;N. Hanasaki;Denise L. Mauzerall

  • Water Footprint of Cities: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

    Willa Paterson;Richard Rushforth;Benjamin L. Ruddell;Megan Konar

  • Virtual Water Scarcity Risk to the Global Trade System

    Shen Qu;Sai Liang;Megan Konar;Zeqi Zhu

  • High-Resolution Water Footprints of Production of the United States

    Landon Marston;Yufei Ao;Megan Konar;Mesfin M. Mekonnen

  • Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks

    Megan Konar;C. Dalin;N. Hanasaki;A. Rinaldo;A. Rinaldo

  • Structure and controls of the global virtual water trade network

    Samir Suweis;Samir Suweis;Megan Konar;Carol Dalin;Naota Hanasaki

  • Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studies

    T. J. Troy;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;S. Thompson

  • Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales

    Xiaogang He;Xiaogang He;Lyndon Estes;Megan Konar;Di Tian

  • Agricultural virtual water flows within the United States

    Qian Dang;Xiaowen Lin;Megan Konar

  • Drought impacts to water footprints and virtual water transfers of the Central Valley of California

    Landon Marston;Megan Konar

  • Direct and indirect urban water footprints of the United States

    Christopher M. Chini;Megan Konar;Ashlynn S. Stillwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Don Fullerton
Don Fullerton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
Kathy Baylis
Kathy Baylis University of California, Santa Barbara
Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara

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