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Robie W. Macdonald

Robie W. Macdonald

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Earth Science
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 96 173 3 330 35988

Robie W. Macdonald publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Robie W. Macdonald between 1964 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Robie W. Macdonald published across 62 years, from 1964 to 2025, averaging 6.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2009. 4 of the 399 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1964 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2009. 1964: 1 publication 1965: 1 publication 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 4 publications 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 1 publication 1973: 1 publication 1974: 1 publication 1975: 1 publication 1976: 1 publication 1977: 1 publication 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 1 publication 1981: 3 publications 1982: 4 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 2 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 3 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 7 publications 1992: 6 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 7 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 10 publications 2000: 13 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 11 publications 2004: 15 publications 2005: 14 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 22 publications 2009: 24 publications 2010: 21 publications 2011: 21 publications 2012: 20 publications 2013: 19 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 16 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 3 publications
1964 2025

399 publications in total across all disciplines

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Robie W. Macdonald: publications per year, 1964 to 2025
Year Publications
1964 1
1965 1
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 4
1970 1
1971 0
1972 1
1973 1
1974 1
1975 1
1976 1
1977 1
1978 1
1979 0
1980 1
1981 3
1982 4
1983 0
1984 1
1985 2
1986 1
1987 3
1988 2
1989 5
1990 1
1991 7
1992 6
1993 3
1994 4
1995 8
1996 7
1997 3
1998 4
1999 10
2000 13
2001 4
2002 11
2003 11
2004 15
2005 14
2006 6
2007 14
2008 22
2009 24
2010 21
2011 21
2012 20
2013 19
2014 13
2015 16
2016 11
2017 8
2018 5
2019 3
2020 12
2021 11
2022 10
2023 2
2024 1
2025 3
Total 399
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Robie W. Macdonald publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robie W. Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 328–337 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 330 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87 330
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Robie W. Macdonald D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robie W. Macdonald sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 96 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10 96
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Robie W. Macdonald was affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada. Their research spanned multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing a significant body of work that addressed various environmental and atmospheric issues.

The scientist's main fields of study included Environmental Science, with 52 publications, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 33 publications. They also specialized in subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (27 publications), Atmospheric Science (26 publications), Global and Planetary Change (9 publications), Oceanography (6 publications), and Environmental Chemistry (5 publications).

The principal topics addressed in their research were diverse and included Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (28 publications), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (24 publications), Air Quality and Health Impacts (20 publications), Climate change and permafrost (12 publications), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 publications), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (10 publications), and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 publications).

Robie W. Macdonald authored several papers published in notable venues. Key recent papers included:

  • Human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls embodied in global fish trade, 2020, Nature Food
  • Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • CASCADE - The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE, 2021, Earth system science data
  • New equation to predict size-resolved gas-particle partitioning quotients for polybrominated diphenyl ethers, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Effect of terrestrial organic matter on ocean acidification and CO2 flux in an Arctic shelf sea, 2020, Progress In Oceanography

Frequent co-authors with whom Macdonald collaborated included Yi-Fan Li, Anatoly Nikolaev, Liyan Liu, Wan-Li Ma, and Lina Qiao, reflecting ongoing collaborations within their research community.

They published often in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications), Chemosphere (3 publications), Environmental Science & Technology (2 publications), Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (2 publications), and Nature Food (1 publication).

Robie W. Macdonald was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010, indicative of their professional standing within the geophysical research community.

Best Publications

  • PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition

    Mark B Yunker;Robie W Macdonald;Roxanne Vingarzan;Reginald H Mitchell

  • Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

    A. David McGuire;Leif G. Anderson;Torben R. Christensen;Scott Dallimore

  • The organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean

    Ruediger Stein;Robie W. Macdonald

  • Recent climate change in the Arctic and its impact on contaminant pathways and interpretation of temporal trend data.

    R.W. Macdonald;T. Harner;J. Fyfe

  • Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways.

    R.W. Macdonald;L.A. Barrie;T.F. Bidleman;M.L. Diamond

  • Sources and pathways of selected organochlorine pesticides to the Arctic and the effect of pathway divergence on HCH trends in biota: a review.

    Y.F. Li;R.W. Macdonald

  • Interactions between climate change and contaminants.

    Doris Schiedek;Brita Sundelin;James W. Readman;Robie W. Macdonald

  • Alkane and PAH depositional history, sources and fluxes in sediments from the Fraser River Basin and Strait of Georgia, Canada

    Mark B Yunker;Robie W Macdonald

  • Oceanography of the Canadian Shelf of the Beaufort Sea: A Setting for Marine Life

    Eddy C. Carmack;Robie W. Macdonald

  • Modelling The Mean Velocity Profile In The Urban Canopy Layer

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  • A sediment and organic carbon budget for the Canadian Beaufort Shelf

    R.W. Macdonald;S.M. Solomon;R.E. Cranston;H.E. Welch

  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Composition and Potential Sources for Sediment Samples from the Beaufort and Barents Seas

    Mark B. Yunker;Lloyd R. Snowdon;Robie W. Macdonald;John N. Smith

  • Distribution and sources of organic biomarkers in arctic sediments from the Mackenzie River and Beaufort Shelf

    Miguel A Goñi;Mark B Yunker;Robie W Macdonald;Timothy I Eglinton

  • Mobilization pathways of organic carbon from permafrost to arctic rivers in a changing climate

    Laodong Guo;Chien-Lu Ping;Robie W. Macdonald

  • Physical and geochemical properties across the Atlantic/Pacific water mass front in the southern Canadian Basin

    Fiona A. McLaughlin;Eddy C. Carmack;Robie W. Macdonald;James K. B. Bishop

  • Phytoplankton productivity on the Canadian Shelf of the Beaufort Sea

    Eddy C. Carmack;Robie W. Macdonald;Steve Jasper

  • Terrestrial and marine biomarkers in a seasonally ice-covered Arctic estuary — integration of multivariate and biomarker approaches

    Mark B. Yunker;Robie W. Macdonald;David J. Veltkamp;Walter J. Cretney

  • The supply and preservation of ancient and modern components of organic carbon in the Canadian Beaufort Shelf of the Arctic Ocean

    Miguel A. Goñi;Mark B. Yunker;Robie W. Macdonald;Timothy I. Eglinton

  • Evidence for warming of Atlantic water in the Southern Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean: Results from the Larsen‐93 Expedition

    Eddy C. Carmack;Robie W. Macdonald;Ronald G. Perkin;Fiona A. McLaughlin

  • Climate variability and physical forcing of the food webs and the carbon budget on panarctic shelves

    Eddy Carmack;David Barber;Jens Christensen;Robie Macdonald

  • Waters of the Makarov and Canada basins

    J.H. Swift;E.P. Jones;K. Aagaard;E.C. Carmack

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary A. Stern
Gary A. Stern University of Manitoba
David G. Barber
David G. Barber University of Manitoba
Eddy C. Carmack
Eddy C. Carmack Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Fiona A. McLaughlin
Fiona A. McLaughlin Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Charles Gobeil
Charles Gobeil University of Quebec
Peter M. Outridge
Peter M. Outridge University of Manitoba
Fei-Yue Wang
Fei-Yue Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hamed Sanei
Hamed Sanei Aarhus University
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences

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