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D-Index
89
Citations
37073
World Ranking
491
National Ranking
176

Robert L. Sinsabaugh publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Sinsabaugh sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 177 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Robert L. Sinsabaugh D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert L. Sinsabaugh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 89 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert L. Sinsabaugh is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Soil Science and Ecology among their subfields of study.

Their published work primarily addresses topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics. Additional areas of interest include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Bioenergy crop production and management, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Global Change Biology, Nature Geoscience, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon-degrading enzymes (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Long-term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Microbial macroecology: In search of mechanisms governing microbial biogeographic patterns (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • New insights into the patterns of ecoenzymatic stoichiometry in soil and sediment (2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)

Frequent co-authors with whom Robert L. Sinsabaugh has collaborated include Ji Chen, Daryl Moorhead, Yongxing Cui, Kees Jan van Groenigen, and Yiqi Luo.

Best Publications

  • Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Christian L. Lauber;Michael N. Weintraub;Bony Ahmed

  • Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions

    Richard G. Burns;Jared L. DeForest;Juergen Marxsen;Robert L. Sinsabaugh

  • The effects of long term nitrogen deposition on extracellular enzyme activity in an Acer saccharum forest soil

    K.R Saiya-Cork;R.L Sinsabaugh;D.R Zak

  • Phenol oxidase, peroxidase and organic matter dynamics of soil

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh

  • Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Brian H. Hill;Jennifer J. Follstad Shah

  • MICROBIAL ENZYME SHIFTS EXPLAIN LITTER DECAY RESPONSES TO SIMULATED NITROGEN DEPOSITION

    M. M. Carreiro;R. L. Sinsabaugh;D. A. Repert;D. F. Parkhurst

  • Ecoenzymatic Stoichiometry and Ecological Theory

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Jennifer J. Follstad Shah

  • Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Stefano Manzoni;Daryl L. Moorhead;Andreas Richter

  • A THEORETICAL MODEL OF LITTER DECAY AND MICROBIAL INTERACTION

    Daryl L. Moorhead;Robert L. Sinsabaugh

  • Vector analysis of ecoenzyme activities reveal constraints on coupled C, N and P dynamics

    Daryl L. Moorhead;Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Brian H. Hill;Michael N. Weintraub

  • Allocation of extracellular enzymatic activity in relation to litter composition, N deposition, and mass loss

    R.L. Sinsabaugh;M.M. Carreiro;D.A. Repert

  • Resource allocation to extracellular enzyme production: A model for nitrogen and phosphorus control of litter decomposition

    R.L. Sinsabaugh;D.L. Moorhead

  • Aquatic ecosystems: interactivity of dissolved organic matter

    Stuart E. G. Findlay;Robert L. Sinsabaugh

  • WOOD DECOMPOSITION: NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS DYNAMICS IN RELATION TO EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY'

    R. L. Sinsabaugh;R. K. Antibus;A. E. Linkins;C. A. McClaugherty

  • Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

    Scott L. Collins;Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Chelsea Crenshaw;Laura Green

  • NITROGEN DEPOSITION MODIFIES SOIL CARBON STORAGE THROUGH CHANGES IN MICROBIAL ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY

    Mark P. Waldrop;Donald R. Zak;Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Marcy Gallo

  • Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Benjamin L. Turner;Jennifer M. Talbot;Bonnie G. Waring

  • Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial nutrient acquisition in tropical soils

    Bonnie Grace Waring;Samantha Rose Weintraub;Robert L. Sinsabaugh

  • Extracellular enzyme activities and soil organic matter dynamics for northern hardwood forests receiving simulated nitrogen deposition

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Marcy E. Gallo;Christian Lauber;Mark P. Waldrop

  • Dynamic relationships between microbial biomass, respiration, inorganic nutrients and enzyme activities: informing enzyme-based decomposition models.

    Daryl L Moorhead;Zachary L Rinkes;Robert L Sinsabaugh;Michael N Weintraub

  • Microbial community response to nitrogen deposition in northern forest ecosystems

    Mark P Waldrop;Donald R Zak;Robert L Sinsabaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Daryl L. Moorhead
Daryl L. Moorhead University of Toledo
Donald R. Zak
Donald R. Zak University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Stuart E. G. Findlay Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Michael N. Weintraub
Michael N. Weintraub University of Toledo
Jennifer A. Rudgers
Jennifer A. Rudgers University of New Mexico
Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Marcy E. Litvak
Marcy E. Litvak University of New Mexico
Mark P. Waldrop
Mark P. Waldrop United States Geological Survey
Cheryl R. Kuske
Cheryl R. Kuske Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico

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