Scott Jasechko publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Scott Jasechko between 2011 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Scott Jasechko published across 15 years, from 2011 to 2025, averaging 7.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2016. 13 of the 111 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10

2011 2025

111 publications in total across all disciplines

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Scott Jasechko: publications per year, 2011 to 2025
Year	Publications
2011	3
2012	2
2013	7
2014	10
2015	11
2016	13
2017	10
2018	7
2019	9
2020	7
2021	6
2022	3
2023	10
2024	10
2025	3
Total	111

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Scott Jasechko 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 Jasechko sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400 500

38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 95 publications — 10th percentile

10% 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	95
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
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 Jasechko 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 Jasechko sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

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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Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Scott Jasechko is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with extensive contributions to subfields including environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, water science and technology, ocean engineering, and global and planetary change.

The main topics of Jasechko's work span groundwater and isotope geochemistry, groundwater flow and contamination studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater and watershed analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, and water resources management and optimization.

Jasechko has published a significant number of papers, with notable recent works including:

Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally (2024, Nature)
Global groundwater wells at risk of running dry (2021, Science)
The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle (2024, Science)
Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion (2020, Nature Communications)
Widespread potential loss of streamflow into underlying aquifers across the USA (2021, Nature)

Their work is published in several prominent venues, with frequent publications in:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Nature Communications
Nature
Science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Jasechko often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Debra Perrone, Hansjörg Seybold, Ying Fan, Richard G. Taylor, and James W. Kirchner.

In 2020, Jasechko was awarded the Hellman Fellow recognition.

Best Publications

Terrestrial water fluxes dominated by transpiration

Scott Jasechko;Zachary D. Sharp;John J. Gibson;S. Jean Birks

1441
Citations
Transpiration in the global water cycle

William H. Schlesinger;Scott Jasechko

1059
Citations
The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater

Tom Gleeson;Tom Gleeson;Kevin M. Befus;Scott Jasechko;Elco Luijendijk;Elco Luijendijk

760
Citations
Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow

Jaivime Evaristo;Scott Jasechko;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

565
Citations
Revisiting the contribution of transpiration to global terrestrial evapotranspiration

Zhongwang Wei;Kei Yoshimura;Lixin Wang;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles

503
Citations
Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally

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446
Citations
Substantial proportion of global streamflow less than three months old

Scott Jasechko;James W. Kirchner;James W. Kirchner;Jeffrey M. Welker;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Jeffrey J. McDonnell

416
Citations
The pronounced seasonality of global groundwater recharge

Scott Jasechko;S. Jean Birks;Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada

411
Citations
The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle

Unknown

345
Citations
Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

Scott Jasechko;Debra Perrone;Kevin M. Befus;M. Bayani Bayani Cardenas

328
Citations
Global Isotope Hydrogeology―Review

Scott Jasechko

325
Citations
Global groundwater wells at risk of running dry.

Scott Jasechko;Debra Perrone

315
Citations
Intensive rainfall recharges tropical groundwaters

Scott Jasechko;Richard G Taylor

186
Citations
Groundwater level observations in 250,000 coastal US wells reveal scope of potential seawater intrusion.

Scott Jasechko;Debra Perrone;Hansjörg Seybold;Ying Fan

174
Citations
Widespread potential loss of streamflow into underlying aquifers across the USA.

Scott Jasechko;Hansjörg Seybold;Debra Perrone;Ying Fan

138
Citations
Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers

Andreas Hartmann;Andreas Hartmann;Scott Jasechko;Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada

127
Citations
Dry groundwater wells in the western United States

D Perrone;S Jasechko;S Jasechko

118
Citations
Isotopic evidence for widespread cold‐season‐biased groundwater recharge and young streamflow across central Canada

Scott Jasechko;Leonard I. Wassenaar;Bernhard Mayer

106
Citations
Stable isotope mass balance of the Laurentian Great Lakes

Scott Jasechko;John J. Gibson;Thomas W.D. Edwards

95
Citations
Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion

Debra Perrone;Scott Jasechko

94
Citations
Evidence of discharging saline formation water to the Athabasca River in the oil sands mining region, northern Alberta

J.J. Gibson;J. Fennell;S.J. Birks;Y. Yi

70
Citations
Partitioning young and old groundwater with geochemical tracers

Scott Jasechko

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan

Tom Gleeson University of Victoria

James W. Kirchner ETH Zurich

Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu

Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

M. Bayani Cardenas The University of Texas at Austin

Grant Ferguson University of Saskatchewan

Diego G. Miralles Ghent University

John J. Gibson University of Victoria

Xuhui Lee Yale University

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