2026 R. Iestyn Woolway: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	44	484	484	21	21	113	8410
Environmental Sciences	52	4446	4255	342	333	112	11093

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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

1289
Citations
Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

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

602
Citations
Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

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

585
Citations
Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

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

499
Citations
Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change.

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

383
Citations
Lake heatwaves under climate change.

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

378
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

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

344
Citations
State of the Climate in 2014

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

332
Citations
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems

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285
Citations
Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

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

264
Citations
State of the Climate in 2018

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

233
Citations
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

Luke Grant;Inne Vanderkelen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Zeli Tan

206
Citations
Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change

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

201
Citations
Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

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

196
Citations
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

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

167
Citations
Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

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

162
Citations
State of the Climate in 2016

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

161
Citations
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

161
Citations
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

154
Citations
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

133
Citations
Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability.

R. Iestyn Woolway;Christopher J. Merchant

123
Citations
Lake surface temperatures

R.I Woolway;Gesa Weyhenmeyer

41
Citations
Drought:Monitoring global drought using the self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

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

18
Citations
[Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Merchant University of Reading

James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Stephen C. Maberly Lancaster University

Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University

Martin T. Dokulil University of Vienna

Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council

Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

External Links

Personal website of R. Iestyn Woolway

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