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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 39 6076 5627 2186 1942 122 6696

Scott D. Wankel publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Scott D. Wankel between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Scott D. Wankel published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 6.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2022. 13 of the 163 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2022. 2002: 1 publication 2003: 0 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 2 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 14 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 19 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 7 publications
2002 2025

163 publications in total across all disciplines

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Scott D. Wankel: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 1
2003 0
2004 5
2005 3
2006 3
2007 7
2008 1
2009 2
2010 3
2011 6
2012 2
2013 4
2014 9
2015 12
2016 8
2017 7
2018 9
2019 14
2020 14
2021 12
2022 19
2023 9
2024 6
2025 7
Total 163
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Scott D. Wankel 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 Scott D. Wankel 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, 118–127 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: 122 publications — 23rd percentile

23% 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
118–127 540 122
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
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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Scott D. Wankel 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 Scott D. Wankel 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, 39 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: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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 39
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
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Scott D. Wankel is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Pollution, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers core topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Scott D. Wankel has published extensively, including in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Marine Chemistry

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Dark biological superoxide production as a significant flux and sink of marine dissolved oxygen," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Nitrite oxidation exceeds reduction and fixed nitrogen loss in anoxic Pacific waters," 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • "Multiple integrated metabolic strategies allow foraminiferan protists to thrive in anoxic marine sediments," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Limited iodate reduction in shipboard seawater incubations from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Collaboration is a significant component of their work, with frequent co-authors including Colleen M. Hansel, Heather V. Graham, J. C. Stern, Kevin Sutherland, and Daniel S. Jones.

Best Publications

  • Tracing Anthropogenic Inputs of Nitrogen to Ecosystems

    Carol Kendall;Emily M. Elliott;Scott D. Wankel

  • Nitrogen Isotopes as Indicators of NOx Source Contributions to Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition Across the Midwestern and Northeastern United States

    Emily M. Elliott;Carol Kendall;Scott D. Wankel;Douglas A. Burns

  • Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses.

    Jillian M. Petersen;Frank U. Zielinski;Thomas Pape;Richard Seifert

  • Coupled biotic–abiotic Mn(II) oxidation pathway mediates the formation and structural evolution of biogenic Mn oxides

    D.R. Learman;S.D. Wankel;S.M. Webb;N. Martinez

  • Dominance of sulfur-fueled iron oxide reduction in low-sulfate freshwater sediments.

    Colleen M Hansel;Chris J Lentini;Yuanzhi Tang;David T Johnston

  • Isotopic overprinting of nitrification on denitrification as a ubiquitous and unifying feature of environmental nitrogen cycling

    Julie Granger;Scott D. Wankel

  • Nitrification in the euphotic zone as evidenced by nitrate dual isotopic composition: Observations from Monterey Bay, California

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;J. Timothy Pennington;Francisco P. Chavez

  • Influence of ammonia oxidation rate on thaumarchaeal lipid composition and the TEX86 temperature proxy

    Sarah J. Hurley;Felix J. Elling;Martin Könneke;Carolyn Buchwald;Carolyn Buchwald

  • Evidence for fungal and chemodenitrification based N2O flux from nitrogen impacted coastal sediments

    Scott D. Wankel;Wiebke Ziebis;Carolyn Buchwald;Chawalit N. Charoenpong

  • Enriched iron(III)-reducing bacterial communities are shaped by carbon substrate and iron oxide mineralogy

    Christopher James Lentini;Scott D. Wankel;Colleen Hansel;Colleen Hansel

  • Nitrogen sources and cycling in the San Francisco Bay estuary: A nitrate dual isotopic composition approach

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;Chris A. Francis;Adina Paytan

  • Influence of subsurface biosphere on geochemical fluxes from diffuse hydrothermal fluids

    Scott D. Wankel;Leonid N. Germanovich;Marvin D. Lilley;Gence Genc

  • Constraining the role of iron in environmental nitrogen transformations: Dual stable isotope systematics of abiotic NO2− reduction by Fe(II) and its production of N2O

    Carolyn Buchwald;Kalina Grabb;Colleen M. Hansel;Scott D. Wankel

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation in metalliferous hydrothermal sediments: influence on carbon flux and decoupling from sulfate reduction.

    Scott D. Wankel;Melissa Marie Adams;David T Johnston;Colleen Hansel

  • Spatial variability in nitrification rates and ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in the agriculturally impacted Elkhorn Slough estuary, California.

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Annika C. Mosier;Colleen M. Hansel;Colleen M. Hansel;Adina Paytan

  • Tracing sources of nitrate in snowmelt runoff using a high‐resolution isotopic technique

    N. Ohte;S.D. Sebestyen;J.B. Shanley;D.H. Doctor

  • A dual nitrite isotopic investigation of chemodenitrification by mineral-associated Fe(II) and its production of nitrous oxide

    Kalina C. Grabb;Kalina C. Grabb;Carolyn Buchwald;Colleen M. Hansel;Scott D. Wankel

  • Sources of aerosol nitrate to the Gulf of Aqaba: Evidence from δ15N and δ18O of nitrate and trace metal chemistry

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Ying Chen;Carol Kendall;Anton F. Post

  • Identifying Sources of Nitrogen to Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Utilizing the Nitrogen Isotope Signature of Macroalgae

    Elizabeth Derse;Karen L. Knee;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall

  • Microbial activity in the marine deep biosphere: progress and prospects

    Beth N. Orcutt;Douglas E. LaRowe;Jennifer F. Biddle;Frederick S. Colwell

  • Using nitrate dual isotopic composition (δ15N and δ18O) as a tool for exploring sources and cycling of nitrate in an estuarine system: Elkhorn Slough, California

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;Adina Paytan

  • Rainfall limit of the N cycle on Earth

    Stephanie A. Ewing;Greg Michalski;Mark Thiemens;Richard C. Quinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Girguis
Peter R. Girguis Harvard University
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
Adina Paytan
Adina Paytan University of California, Santa Cruz
Arthur J. Spivack
Arthur J. Spivack University of Rhode Island
Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Steven D'Hondt
Steven D'Hondt University of Rhode Island
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Eric Pelletier
Eric Pelletier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Richard Seifert
Richard Seifert Universität Hamburg

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