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136
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Scott C. Doney 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 Scott C. Doney sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 520 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Scott C. Doney 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 Scott C. Doney sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 136 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2000 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Scott C. Doney is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. The scientist's research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on oceanography and related fields. Their work covers 99 publications within Earth and Planetary Sciences and 57 publications in Environmental Science, highlighting a broad engagement with environmental phenomena.

The subfields of study pursued include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Mechanical Engineering. These areas reflect the scientist's interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex Earth systems and environmental processes.

Research topics explored by Scott C. Doney involve marine and coastal ecosystems, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean acidification effects and responses, carbon dioxide capture technologies, climate change policy and economics, and methane hydrates and related phenomena. This range indicates a strong emphasis on both biogeochemical cycles and climate-related issues affecting marine environments.

Frequent collaborators include Jay Fuhrman, William Shobe, Andrés F. Clarens, Haewon McJeon, and Matthew C. Long, with collaboration frequencies ranging from 7 to 15 joint works. These co-authors represent a network of researchers involved in environmental and earth sciences.

Scott C. Doney has contributed to multiple prominent journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues of publication are:

  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental Research Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • The Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems and Reliant Human Communities (2020), published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Food-energy-water implications of negative emissions technologies in a +1.5 °C future (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle (2022), published in Nature Microbiology
  • Simulations With the Marine Biogeochemistry Library (MARBL) (2021), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy-water-land system (2023), published in Nature Climate Change

The researcher has received several distinctions including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010, the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2000, and also became a Fellow of the AGU in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Oceanic vertical mixing: a review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization

    W. G. Large;J. C. McWilliams;S. C. Doney

  • Ocean Acidification: The Other CO 2 Problem

    Scott C. Doney;Victoria J. Fabry;Richard A. Feely;Joan A. Kleypas

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

    Scott C. Doney;Mary Ruckelshaus;J. Emmett Duffy;James P. Barry

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

    William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models

    Laurent Bopp;L. Resplandy;James C. Orr;Scott C. Doney

  • Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere

    Anthony K Aufdenkampe;Emilio Mayorga;Peter A Raymond;John M Melack

  • An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Catherine Longo;Darren Hardy;Karen L. McLeod

  • Response of ocean ecosystems to climate warming

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;Richard D. Slater;Richard T. Barber;Laurent Bopp

  • Upper ocean ecosystem dynamics and iron cycling in a global three-dimensional model

    J. Keith Moore;Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay

  • The Growing Human Footprint on Coastal and Open-Ocean Biogeochemistry

    Scott C. Doney

  • Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems

    Robert W. Howarth;Francis Chan;Daniel J. Conley;Josette Garnier

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Ocean Acidification: Present Conditions and Future Changes in a High-CO2 World

    Richard A. Feely;Scott C. Doney;Sarah R. Cooley

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem

    Richard A. Feely;Scott C. Doney

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
Ivan D. Lima
Ivan D. Lima Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William J. Jenkins
William J. Jenkins Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Laurent Bopp
Laurent Bopp École Normale Supérieure
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
J. Keith Moore
J. Keith Moore University of California, Irvine
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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