2026 Patrick J. Mulholland: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	82	883	385	159	24352

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Patrick J. Mulholland was affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focused on fields including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they contributed extensively to subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Mulholland's work covered several main topics related to neuroscience and health, including:

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Stress Responses and Cortisol
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Their publication record includes research published in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alcohol, Translational Psychiatry, Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research, and eNeuro. Mulholland co-authored work with several frequent collaborators, notably Jennifer A. Rinker, Howard C. Becker, Marcelo F. Lopez, John J. Woodward, and Audrey E. Padula.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Mulholland are:

Assessing negative affect in mice during abstinence from alcohol drinking: Limitations and future challenges, 2022, Alcohol
Distinct Region- and Time-Dependent Functional Cortical Adaptations in C57BL/6J Mice after Short and Prolonged Alcohol Drinking, 2020, eNeuro
Absence of effects of intermittent access to alcohol on negative affective and anxiety-like behaviors in male and female C57BL/6J mice, 2020, Alcohol
Polyploid giant cancer cells are dependent on cholesterol for progeny formation through amitotic division, 2022, Scientific Reports
Interaction of chronic intermittent ethanol and repeated stress on structural and functional plasticity in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex, 2020, Neuropharmacology

Mulholland was recognized by their peers through awards including being named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997 and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009.

Best Publications

Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams

Bruce J. Peterson;Wilfred M. Wollheim;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jackson R. Webster

1853
Citations
Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

Patrick J. Mulholland;Patrick J. Mulholland;Ashley M. Helton;Geoffrey C. Poole;Robert O. Hall

1493
Citations
A comparison of methods for determining forest evapotranspiration and its components: sap-flow, soil water budget, eddy covariance and catchment water balance

Kell B Wilson;Paul J Hanson;Patrick J Mulholland;Dennis D Baldocchi

955
Citations
Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

Jake J. Beaulieu;Jennifer L. Tank;Stephen K. Hamilton;Wilfred M. Wollheim

814
Citations
Scaling the gas transfer velocity and hydraulic geometry in streams and small rivers

Peter A. Raymond;Christopher J. Zappa;David Butman;Thomas L. Bott

801
Citations
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control of Stream Periphyton: Effects of Nutrients and Herbivores

Amy D. Rosemond;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jerry W. Elwood

600
Citations
Inter‐biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism

P. J. Mulholland;Christy Susan Fellows;J. L. Tank;N. B. Grimm

573
Citations
Streams and Ground Waters

Jeremy Boyd Jones;Patrick J. Mulholland

488
Citations
Multiple Scales of Temporal Variability in Ecosystem Metabolism Rates: Results from 2 Years of Continuous Monitoring in a Forested Headwater Stream

Brian J. Roberts;Patrick J. Mulholland;Walter R. Hill

462
Citations
Evidence that hyporheic zones increase heterotrophic metabolism and phosphorus uptake in forest streams

Patrick J. Mulholland;Erich R. Marzolf;Jackson R. Webster;Deborah R. Hart

437
Citations
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND HEALTH

Judy L. Meyer;Michael J. Sale;Patrick J. Mulholland;N. LeRoy Poff

425
Citations
Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism

Melody J. Bernot;Daniel J. Sobota;Daniel J. Sobota;Robert O. Hall;Patrick J. Mulholland

406
Citations
Regulation of nutrient concentrations in a temperate forest stream: Roles of upland, riparian, and instream processes

Patrick J. Mulholland

387
Citations
Seasonal patterns in streamwater nutrient and dissolved organic carbon concentrations: Separating catchment flow path and in-stream effects

Patrick J. Mulholland;Walter R. Hill

373
Citations
Improvements to the diurnal upstream-downstream dissolved oxygen change technique for determining whole-stream metabolism in small streams

Erich R. Marzolf;Patrick J. Mulholland;Alan D. Steinman

361
Citations
NITROGEN CYCLING IN A FOREST STREAM DETERMINED BY A 15N TRACER ADDITION

Patrick J. Mulholland;Jennifer L. Tank;Diane M. Sanzone;Wilfred M. Wollheim

348
Citations
Effects of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems of the South-Eastern United States and the Gulf Coast of Mexico

Patrick J. Mulholland;G. Ronnie Best;Charles C. Coutant;George M. Hornberger

347
Citations
Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams – an inter‐biome perspective

Jackson R. Webster;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jennifer L. Tank;H. Maurice Valett

347
Citations
N uptake as a function of concentration in streams

Walter K. Dodds;Amanda J. Lopez;William B. Bowden;Stan Gregory

346
Citations
Phosphorus Spiralling in a Woodland Stream: Seasonal Variations

Patrick J. Mulholland;J. Denis Newbold;Jerry W. Elwood;Leigh Ann Ferren

341
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jackson R. Webster Virginia Tech

Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame

Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory

Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University

Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University

William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire

Alan D. Steinman Grand Valley State University

H. Maurice Valett University of Montana

Judy L. Meyer University of Georgia

Wilfred M. Wollheim University of New Hampshire

External Links

Personal website of Patrick J. Mulholland

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