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R. Iestyn Woolway

R. Iestyn Woolway

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
44
Citations
8410
World Ranking
484
National Ranking
21

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
11093
World Ranking
4446
National Ranking
342

R. Iestyn Woolway 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 R. Iestyn Woolway sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 112 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

R. Iestyn Woolway 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 R. Iestyn Woolway sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

R. Iestyn Woolway is a researcher affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily concentrates on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on aquatic ecosystems and climate-related changes.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad fields, Woolway's research addresses various subfields such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Water Science and Technology

Woolway's research topics emphasize:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Their recent publications include:

  • "Global lake responses to climate change" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Lake heatwaves under climate change" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes" (2020) published in Global Change Biology

Woolway frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Yunlin Zhang
  • Kun Shi
  • Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
  • Xiwen Wang
  • Sapna Sharma

Among the venues where Woolway has published extensively are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Bulletin
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Global lake responses to climate change

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Benjamin M. Kraemer;John D. Lenters;John D. Lenters;John D. Lenters;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

    Stephen F. Jane;Stephen F. Jane;Gretchen J.A. Hansen;Benjamin M. Kraemer;Peter R. Leavitt;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

    Sapna Sharma;Kevin Blagrave;John J. Magnuson;Catherine M. O’Reilly

  • Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Sapna Sharma;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Andrey Debolskiy;Andrey Debolskiy

  • Lake heatwaves under climate change.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Eleanor Jennings;Tom Shatwell;Malgorzata Golub

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems

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  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

    Luke Grant;Inne Vanderkelen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Zeli Tan

  • Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change

    Stephen C. Maberly;Ruth A. O'Donnell;R. Iestyn Woolway;Mark E. J. Cutler

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

    Benjamin M. Kraemer;Rachel M. Pilla;R. Iestyn Woolway;R. Iestyn Woolway;Orlane Anneville

  • Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

    R. Iestyn Woolway;Martin T. Dokulil;Wlodzimierz Marszelewski;Martin Schmid

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Loss of ice cover, shifting phenology, and more extreme events in Northern Hemisphere lakes

    Sapna Sharma;David C. Richardson;R. Iestyn Woolway;M. Arshad Imrit

  • A multi-lake comparative analysis of the General Lake Model (GLM) : Stress-testing across a global observatory network

    Louise C. Bruce;Marieke A. Frassl;Marieke A. Frassl;George B. Arhonditsis;Gideon Gal

  • The importance of lake-specific characteristics for water quality across the continental United States

    Emily K. Read;Vijay P. Patil;Samantha K. Oliver;Amy L. Hetherington

  • Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability.

    R. Iestyn Woolway;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Lake surface temperatures

    R.I Woolway;Gesa Weyhenmeyer

  • Drought:Monitoring global drought using the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

    Jonathan Barichivich;Timothy Osborn;Ian Harris;Gerard van der Schrier

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Merchant
Christopher J. Merchant University of Reading
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stephen C. Maberly
Stephen C. Maberly Lancaster University
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
Martin T. Dokulil
Martin T. Dokulil University of Vienna
Martin Schmid
Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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