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Stefan H. Doerr 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 Stefan H. Doerr sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 251 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Stefan H. Doerr 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 Stefan H. Doerr sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 90th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stefan H. Doerr is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the field of Environmental Science, focusing extensively on Global and Planetary Change as well as subfields such as Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science, and Materials Chemistry.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Key recent publications by Doerr and collaborators illustrate their academic focus and impact. These include:

  • "Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change," 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives," 2021, Air Soil and Water Research
  • "Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "State of Wildfires 2023-2024," 2024, Earth System Science Data
  • "Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply," 2021, Hydrological Processes

Doerr frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Cristina Santín
  • Gareth D. Clay
  • Matthew W. Jones
  • Claire M. Belcher
  • Gianni De Fabritiis

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in various academic venues, showing a concentration in certain journals and repositories. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geoderma
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Through their research contributions, Stefan H. Doerr explores the interactions between fire dynamics and environmental processes, including carbon cycling, ecosystem impacts, and hazard assessment. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates elements ranging from ecological effects to advanced analytical methods such as machine learning.

Best Publications

  • Soil water repellency: its causes, characteristics and hydro-geomorphological significance

    S.H. Doerr;R.A. Shakesby;R.P.D. Walsh

  • Wildfire as a hydrological and geomorphological agent

    R.A. Shakesby;S.H. Doerr

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

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  • Wildland fire ash: Production, composition and eco-hydro-geomorphic effects

    Merche B. Bodí;Merche B. Bodí;Deborah A. Martin;Victoria N. Balfour;Cristina Santín

  • Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world.

    Stefan H. Doerr;Cristina Santín

  • The role of soil moisture in controlling water repellency: new evidence from forest soils in Portugal

    Stefan H. Doerr;Andrew D. Thomas

  • On standardizing the ‘Water Drop Penetration Time’ and the ‘Molarity of an Ethanol Droplet’ techniques to classify soil hydrophobicity: A case study using medium textured soils

    Stefan H. Doerr

  • Hydrophobicity and aggregate stability in calcareous topsoils from fire-affected pine forests in southeastern Spain

    J Mataix-Solera;S.H Doerr

  • Water Repellency and Critical Soil Water Content in a Dune Sand

    Louis W. Dekker;Stefan H. Doerr;Klaas Oostindie;Apostolos K. Ziogas

  • The effect of ash and needle cover on surface runoff and erosion in the immediate post-fire period

    Artemi Cerdà;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Evan S. Kane;Caroline A. Masiello

  • Effects of differing wildfire severities on soil wettability and implications for hydrological response

    S.H. Doerr;R.A. Shakesby;W.H. Blake;C.J. Chafer

  • The erosional impact of soil hydrophobicity: current problems and future research directions

    R.A. Shakesby;S.H. Doerr;R.P.D. Walsh

  • Influence of vegetation recovery on soil hydrology and erodibility following fire: an 11-year investigation

    Artemi Cerdá;Artemi Cerdá;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Fire effects on soils: the human dimension.

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Spatial variability of soil hydrophobicity in fire-prone eucalyptus and pine forests, Portugal

    Stefan H. Doerr;Richard A. Shakesby;Rory P. D. Walsh

  • Occurrence, prediction and hydrological effects of water repellency amongst major soil and land-use types in a humid temperate climate

    S. H. Doerr;R. A. Shakesby;L. W. Dekker;C. J. Ritsema

  • Pyrogenic organic matter production from wildfires: a missing sink in the global carbon cycle

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Caroline M. Preston;Gil González‐Rodríguez

  • Soil hydrophobicity variations with depth and particle size fraction in burned and unburned Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus pinaster forest terrain in the Águeda Basin, Portugal

    Stefan H. Doerr;Richard A. Shakesby;Rory P.D. Walsh

  • Soil wettability, runoff and erodibility of major dry-Mediterranean land use types on calcareous soils

    Artemi Cerdà;Stefan H. Doerr;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Soil water repellency as a potential parameter in rainfall-runoff modelling: experimental evidence at point to catchment scales from Portugal

    S. H. Doerr;A. J. D. Ferreira;R. P. D. Walsh;R. A. Shakesby

  • Extraction of compounds associated with water repellency in sandy soils of different origin

    S. H. Doerr;C. T. Llewellyn;P. Douglas;C. P. Morley

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Shakesby
Richard A. Shakesby Swansea University
Cristina Santín
Cristina Santín Swansea University
William H. Blake
William H. Blake Plymouth University
Peter Wallbrink
Peter Wallbrink Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Artemi Cerdà
Artemi Cerdà University of Valencia
Jorge Mataix-Solera
Jorge Mataix-Solera Miguel Hernandez University
Rory P. D. Walsh
Rory P. D. Walsh Swansea University
António Ferreira
António Ferreira Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
Michael I. Newton
Michael I. Newton Nottingham Trent University
Glen McHale
Glen McHale University of Edinburgh

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