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17825
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Michael E. McClain 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 Michael E. McClain sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 156 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael E. McClain 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 Michael E. McClain sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael E. McClain is affiliated with the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications in this field. The scientist's work covers specific subfields that include Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics of their research involve Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Transboundary Water Resource Management, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Michael E. McClain has contributed to various journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their work include:

  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Water

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan," 2020, BioScience
  • "Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction: a state-of-the-art review of the research area," 2020, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • "Simulating the hydrological regime of the snow fed and glaciarised Gilgit Basin in the Upper Indus using global precipitation products and a data parsimonious precipitation-runoff model," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss," 2023, Environmental Reviews
  • "Understanding human-water feedbacks of interventions in agricultural systems with agent based models: a review," 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael E. McClain include:

  • Saket Pande
  • Frank O. Masese
  • Sida Liu
  • Yangxiao Zhou
  • Xu-Sheng Wang

Best Publications

  • Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

    Michael E. McClain;Elizabeth W. Boyer;C. Lisa Dent;Sarah E. Gergel

  • Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

    G. Grill;B. Lehner;M. Thieme;B. Geenen

  • Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities

    Robert J. Naiman;H. Décamps;Michael E. McClain

  • Driven by Nature: Plant Litter Quality and Decomposition

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  • Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan.

    David Tickner;Jeffrey J Opperman;Robin Abell;Mike Acreman

  • Preserving the biodiversity and ecological services of rivers: new challenges and research opportunities

    Angela H Arthington;Robert J Naiman;Michael E McClain;Christer Nilsson

  • Land use and climate change impacts on the hydrology of the upper Mara River Basin, Kenya: results of a modeling study to support better resource management

    L. M. Mango;A. M. Melesse;M. E. McClain;M. E. McClain;D. Gann

  • Special Issue: Environmental flows: science and management.

    A. H. Arthington;R. J. Naiman;M. E. McClain;C. Nilsson

  • The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

    Angela H. Arthington;Anik Bhaduri;Stuart E. Bunn;Sue E. Jackson

  • Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction: a state-of-the-art review of the research area

    Laddaporn Ruangpan;Laddaporn Ruangpan;Zoran Vojinovic;Zoran Vojinovic;Silvana Di Sabatino;Laura Sandra Leo

  • Suspended sediment load prediction of river systems: An artificial neural network approach

    A. M. Melesse;Sajjad Ahmad;M. E. McClain;M. E. McClain;X. Wang

  • The impact of accelerating land-use change on the N-Cycle of tropical aquatic ecosystems: Current conditions and projected changes

    J. A. Downing;M. McClain;R. Twilley;J. M. Melack

  • Organic matter in Bolivian tributaries of the Amazon River: A comparison to the lower mainstream

    John I. Hedges;Emilio Mayorga;Elizabeth Tsamakis;Michael E. McClain

  • Nitrogen yields from undisturbed watersheds in the Americas

    William M. Lewis;John M. Melack;William H. McDowell;Michael McClain

  • Andean Influences on the Biogeochemistry and Ecology of the Amazon River

    Michael E. McClain;Robert J. Naiman

  • Ecosystem-based water security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    Charles J. Vörösmarty;Charles J. Vörösmarty;Vanesa Rodríguez Osuna;Anthony D. Cak;Anik Bhaduri

  • Merging aquatic and terrestrial perspectives of nutrient biogeochemistry.

    Nancy B. Grimm;Sarah E. Gergel;William H. McDowell;Elizabeth W. Boyer

  • Macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups in Kenyan highland streams: evidence for a diverse shredder guild

    Frank O. Masese;Nzula Kitaka;Nzula Kitaka;Julius Kipkemboi;Julius Kipkemboi;Gretchen M. Gettel

  • The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin

    Michael E. McClain;Reynaldo L. Victoria;Jeffrey Edward Richey

  • Socioeconomic Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

    Carlos F. Mena;Richard E. Bilsborrow;Michael E. McClain

  • Dissolved organic matter and terrestrial-lotic linkages in the central Amazon basin of Brazil

    Michael E. McClain;Jeffrey E. Richey;Jay A. Brandes;Tania P. Pimentel

  • The Ecohydrology of South American Rivers and Wetlands

    M. E. McClain

Frequent Co-Authors

Assefa M. Melesse
Assefa M. Melesse Florida International University
Robert J. Naiman
Robert J. Naiman University of Washington
Jeffrey E. Richey
Jeffrey E. Richey University of Washington
Angela Arthington
Angela Arthington Griffith University
Christer Nilsson
Christer Nilsson Umeå University
N. LeRoy Poff
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Maciej Zalewski
Maciej Zalewski Lodz University of Technology
Kenneth Irvine
Kenneth Irvine IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Gilles Pinay
Gilles Pinay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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