2026 Stephanie Dutkiewicz: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	67	1971	1879	817	754	202	16677

Overview

Stephanie Dutkiewicz is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research focuses extensively on Oceanography and Ecology, with additional work in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

Marine and coastal ecosystems
Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Among recent publications, the following papers are notable:

Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate, 2021, Nature Communications
Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean, 2021, Biogeosciences
Global health effects of future atmospheric mercury emissions, 2021, Nature Communications
Marine phytoplankton functional types exhibit diverse responses to thermal change, 2021, Nature Communications
The ECCO-Darwin Data-Assimilative Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Model: Estimates of Seasonal to Multidecadal Surface Ocean pCO₂ and Air-Sea CO₂ Flux, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephanie Dutkiewicz include:

Michael J. Follows
Oliver Jahn
Christopher L. Follett
Dustin Carroll
B. B. Cael

Publication venues where this scientist has contributed regularly include:

Harvard Dataverse
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a Model Ocean

Michael J. Follows;Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Scott Grant;Scott Grant;Sallie W. Chisholm

999
Citations
Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

Paul Tréguer;Chris Bowler;Brivaela Moriceau;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

794
Citations
Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO2

Nicolas Gruber;Manuel Gloor;Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Scott C. Doney

691
Citations
Inverse estimates of anthropogenic CO2 uptake, transport, and storage by the ocean

Mikaloff Fletcher;Mikaloff Fletcher;Nicolas Gruber;Andrew Jacobson;Scott Doney

491
Citations
Future HAB science: Directions and challenges in a changing climate.

Mark L. Wells;Mark L. Wells;Bengt Karlson;Angela Wulff;Raphael Kudela

418
Citations
How well do global ocean biogeochemistry models simulate dissolved iron distributions

Alessandro Tagliabue;Olivier Aumont;Ros Death;John P. Dunne

407
Citations
Patterns of diversity in marine phytoplankton

Andrew D. Barton;Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Glenn Flierl;Jason Bragg

399
Citations
A size-structured food-web model for the global ocean

B. A. Ward;S. Dutkiewicz;O. Jahn;M. J. Follows

374
Citations
Probabilistic forecast for twenty-first-century climate based on uncertainties in emissions (without policy) and climate parameters.

A. P. Sokolov;P. H. Stone;C. E. Forest;R. Prinn

362
Citations
Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities

Stephanie Dutkiewicz;J. Jeffrey Morris;J. Jeffrey Morris;Michael J. Follows;Jeffery Scott

334
Citations
Global biogeochemical implications of mercury discharges from rivers and sediment burial.

Helen Marie Amos;Daniel James Jacob;David Kocman;Hannah Marie Horowitz

320
Citations
The role of nutricline depth in regulating the ocean carbon cycle

Pedro Cermeño;Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Roger P. Harris;Mick Follows

313
Citations
Modeling the coupling of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry

Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Michael J. Follows;Jason G. Bragg;Jason G. Bragg

303
Citations
Modeling Diverse Communities of Marine Microbes

Michael J. Follows;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

303
Citations
Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate.

Stephanie A. Henson;B. B. Cael;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie R. Allen;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

298
Citations
Why marine phytoplankton calcify

Fanny M Monteiro;Lennart T. Bach;Colin Brownlee;Paul Bown

292
Citations
The evolution of diatoms and their biogeochemical functions.

Anne-Sophie Benoiston;Federico M. Ibarbalz;Lucie Bittner;Lionel Guidi;Lionel Guidi

282
Citations
Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

Paul J. Tréguer;Jill N. Sutton;Mark Brzezinski;Matthew A. Charette

277
Citations
Long-term climate commitments projected with climate-carbon cycle models

G.-K. Plattner;R. Knutti;F. Joos;T.F. Stocker

267
Citations
Iron conservation by reduction of metalloenzyme inventories in the marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii

Mak A. Saito;Erin M. Bertrand;Stephanie Dutkiewicz;Vladimir V. Bulygin

250
Citations
Global relationship between phytoplankton diversity and productivity in the ocean.

Sergio M. Vallina;M.J. Follows;S. Dutkiewicz;José M. Montoya

218
Citations
Challenges of modeling depth-integrated marine primary productivity over multiple decades: A case study at BATS and HOT

Vincent S. Saba;Vincent S. Saba;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Mary-Elena Carr;David Antoine

210
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Follows MIT

Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology

Astrid Bracher University of Bremen

Martin Losch Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Andreas Oschlies GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Andrei P. Sokolov MIT

Scott C. Doney University of Virginia

David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa

John Marshall MIT

Vladimir V. Rozanov University of Bremen

External Links

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