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Scott G. Smithers

Scott G. Smithers

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
8033
World Ranking
6090
National Ranking
214

Scott G. Smithers 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 G. Smithers sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 126 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Scott G. Smithers 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 G. Smithers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Scott G. Smithers is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these areas, they have contributed significantly to subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Smithers has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Remote Sensing
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Among recent papers involving Smithers' work are:

  • "Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Projections of coral cover and habitat change on turbid reefs under future sea-level rise" (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Protected mangrove forests and aquaculture development for livelihoods" (2021), Ocean & Coastal Management
  • "Measuring sediment grain size across the catchment to reef continuum: Improved methods and environmental insights" (2021), Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "A Machine Learning Algorithm for Himawari-8 Total Suspended Solids Retrievals in the Great Barrier Reef" (2022), Remote Sensing

Smithers collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Stephen Lewis
  • Emily Lazarus
  • Stephanie Duce
  • Chris T. Perry
  • Zoë Bainbridge

Best Publications

  • Post-glacial sea-level changes around the Australian margin: a review

    Stephen E. Lewis;Craig R. Sloss;Colin V. Murray-Wallace;Colin D. Woodroffe

  • Caribbean-wide decline in carbonate production threatens coral reef growth

    Chris T. Perry;Gary N. Murphy;Paul S. Kench;Scott G. Smithers

  • Loss of coral reef growth capacity to track future increases in sea level

    Chris T. Perry;Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip;Nicholas A. J. Graham;Peter J. Mumby

  • The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity and Change

    David Hopley;Scott G. Smithers;Kevin E. Parnell

  • From barriers to limits to climate change adaptation: path dependency and the speed of change

    Jon Barnett;Louisa S. Evans;Catherine Gross;Anthony S. Kiem

  • Widespread inundation of Pacific islands triggered by distant-source wind-waves

    Ron K. Hoeke;Kathleen L. McInnes;Jens C. Kruger;Rebecca J. McNaught

  • Global declines in coral reef calcium carbonate production under ocean acidification and warming

    Christopher E Cornwall;Christopher E Cornwall;Christopher E Cornwall;Steeve Comeau;Steeve Comeau;Steeve Comeau;Niklas A Kornder;Niklas A Kornder;Chris T Perry

  • Estimating rates of biologically driven coral reef framework production and erosion: a new census-based carbonate budget methodology and applications to the reefs of Bonaire

    C. T. Perry;E. N. Edinger;P. S. Kench;G. N. Murphy

  • Implications of reef ecosystem change for the stability and maintenance of coral reef islands

    Chris T. Perry;Paul S. Kench;Scott G. Smithers;Bernhard Riegl

  • A review of the ecological and taphonomic controls on foraminiferal assemblage development in intertidal environments

    Andrew Berkeley;Christopher T. Perry;Scott G. Smithers;B. P. Horton

  • Holocene reef growth in Torres Strait

    C.D Woodroffe;D.M Kennedy;D Hopley;C.E Rasmussen

  • Atoll reef-island formation and response to sea-level change: West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands

    C.D Woodroffe;R.F McLean;S.G Smithers;E.M Lawson

  • Sand beach ridges record 6000 year history of extreme tropical cyclone activity in northeastern Australia

    Jonathan Nott;Scott Smithers;Kevin Walsh;Ed Rhodes

  • Geological effects of tsunami on mid-ocean atoll islands: The Maldives before and after the Sumatran tsunami

    Paul S. Kench;Roger F. McLean;Robert W. Brander;Scott L. Nichol

  • Nearshore Turbid-Zone Corals Exhibit High Bleaching Tolerance on the Great Barrier Reef Following the 2016 Ocean Warming Event

    Kyle M. Morgan;Chris T. Perry;Jamie A. Johnson;Scott G. Smithers

  • Regional-scale dominance of non-framework building corals on Caribbean reefs affects carbonate production and future reef growth.

    Chris T. Perry;Robert S. Steneck;Gary N. Murphy;Paul S. Kench

  • Cycles of coral reef ‘turn‐on’, rapid growth and ‘turn‐off’ over the past 8500 years: a context for understanding modern ecological states and trajectories

    Chris T. Perry;Scott G. Smithers

  • Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergence of reef bioeroders as critical controls on present and future reef growth potential.

    Chris T. Perry;Gary N. Murphy;Paul S. Kench;Evan N. Edinger

  • Holocene reef growth in the Maldives: Evidence of a mid-Holocene sea-level highstand in the central Indian Ocean

    Paul Kench;SG Smithers;RF McLean;SL Nichol

  • Mid-Pacific microatolls record sea-level stability over the past 5000 yr

    Colin D. Woodroffe;Helen V. McGregor;Kurt Lambeck;Kurt Lambeck;Scott G. Smithers

  • The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef by David Hopley

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Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Perry
Chris Perry University of Exeter
Paul S. Kench
Paul S. Kench Simon Fraser University
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis James Cook University
Colin D. Woodroffe
Colin D. Woodroffe University of Wollongong
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Quan Hua
Quan Hua Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Evan Edinger
Evan Edinger Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jon Brodie
Jon Brodie James Cook University

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