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D-Index
42
Citations
6814
World Ranking
7405
National Ranking
276

Stephen Lewis 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 Stephen Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen Lewis 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 Stephen Lewis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephen Lewis is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has an extensive publication record in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to coral and marine ecosystems, marine and fisheries research, geology and paleoclimatology, climate variability and models, marine and coastal plant biology, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and geological formations and processes.

Their work has appeared frequently in several scientific venues including:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Stephen Lewis has collaborated with several researchers often, including:

  • Zoë Bainbridge
  • Wusheng Yu
  • Yaoming Ma
  • Zhaowei Jing
  • Thomas Stevens

The research papers authored or coauthored by Stephen Lewis reflect a focus on environmental impacts on marine and coastal systems. Some recent publications include:

  • "Catchment to sea connection: Impacts of terrestrial run-off on benthic ecosystems in American Samoa" (2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • "Soil organic matter formation is controlled by the chemistry and bioavailability of organic carbon inputs across different land uses" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Land use change in the river basins of the Great Barrier Reef, 1860 to 2019: A foundation for understanding environmental history across the catchment to reef continuum" (2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin)
  • "Inverse altitude effect disputes the theoretical foundation of stable isotope paleoaltimetry" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Spatiotemporal variation of rare earth elements from river to reef continuum aids monitoring of terrigenous sources in the Great Barrier Reef" (2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Stephen Lewis's work covers multiple subfields in earth and environmental sciences, such as ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, atmospheric science, and earth-surface processes.

Their research contributes to understanding complex interactions within marine ecosystems, the effects of land use change on reef environments, and the chemistry of organic carbon cycles in various landscapes. This multidisciplinary approach includes the study of groundwater geochemistry and climate variability models relevant to marine and terrestrial systems.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial pollutant runoff to the Great Barrier Reef: An update of issues, priorities and management responses

    JE Brodie;FJ Kroon;Britta Schaffelke;EC Wolanski

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

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

  • Herbicides: a new threat to the Great Barrier Reef.

    Stephen E. Lewis;Jon E. Brodie;Zoe T. Bainbridge;Ken W. Rohde

  • Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years: a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

    Jessica M. Reeves;Helen C. Bostock;Linda K. Ayliffe;Timothy T. Barrows

  • Fine sediment and nutrient dynamics related to particle size and floc formation in a Burdekin River flood plume, Australia.

    Zoe T. Bainbridge;Eric Wolanski;Eric Wolanski;Jorge G. Álvarez-Romero;Stephen E. Lewis

  • Relating sediment impacts on coral reefs to watershed sources, processes and management: A review

    Rebecca Bartley;Zoe T. Bainbridge;Stephen E. Lewis;Frederieke J. Kroon

  • Catchment to sea connection: Impacts of terrestrial run-off on benthic ecosystems in American Samoa

    Mia T. Comeros-Raynal;Jon Brodie;Zoe Bainbridge;John Howard Choat

  • A multi-trace element coral record of land-use changes in the Burdekin River catchment, NE Australia

    Stephen E. Lewis;Graham A. Shields;Balz S. Kamber;Janice M. Lough

  • Identifying the land-based sources of suspended sediments, nutrients and pesticides discharged to the Great Barrier Reef from the Tully–Murray Basin, Queensland, Australia

    Zoe T. Bainbridge;Jon E. Brodie;John W. Faithful;John W. Faithful;Damon A. Sydes

  • Mid‐late Holocene sea‐level variability in eastern Australia

    Stephen E. Lewis;Raphael A. J. Wüst;Jody M. Webster;Graham A. Shields;Graham A. Shields

  • Impaired recovery of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative stress

    Juan Carlos Ortiz;Juan Carlos Ortiz;Nicholas H. Wolff;Nicholas H. Wolff;Nicholas H. Wolff;Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Michelle Devlin

  • Pesticide Behavior, Fate, and Effects in the Tropics: An Overview of the Current State of Knowledge

    Stephen E. Lewis;D. Mark Silburn;Rai S. Kookana;Melanie Shaw

  • Sea-level change and demography during the last glacial termination and early Holocene across the Australian continent

    Alan N. Williams;Sean Ulm;Tom Sapienza;Stephen Lewis

  • Importance of wave-induced bed liquefaction in the fine sediment budget of Cleveland Bay, Great Barrier Reef

    J. Lambrechts;C. Humphrey;L. McKinna;O. Gourge

  • Quantifying the sources of pollutants in the Great Barrier Reef catchments and the relative risk to reef ecosystems

    J. Waterhouse;J. Brodie;S. Lewis;A. Mitchell

  • Environmental impacts of irrigated sugarcane production: Herbicide run-off dynamics from farms and associated drainage systems

    A.M. Davis;P.J. Thorburn;S.E. Lewis;Z.T. Bainbridge

  • Fine sediment and particulate organic matter: a review and case study on ridge-to-reef transport, transformations, fates, and impacts on marine ecosystems

    Z. Bainbridge;S. Lewis;R. Bartley;K. Fabricius

  • Calculating sediment trapping efficiencies for reservoirs in tropical settings: A case study from the Burdekin Falls Dam, NE Australia

    Stephen E. Lewis;Zoë T. Bainbridge;Petra M. Kuhnert;Bradford S. Sherman

  • Changes in water clarity in response to river discharges on the Great Barrier Reef continental shelf: 2002–2013

    K.E. Fabricius;M. Logan;S.J. Weeks;S.E. Lewis

  • Assessing the additive risks of PSII herbicide exposure to the Great Barrier Reef.

    Stephen E. Lewis;Britta Schaffelke;Melanie Shaw;Zoë T. Bainbridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Brodie
Jon Brodie James Cook University
Michelle Devlin
Michelle Devlin Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Scott G. Smithers
Scott G. Smithers James Cook University
Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University
Jochen F. Mueller
Jochen F. Mueller University of Queensland
Janice M. Lough
Janice M. Lough Australian Institute of Marine Science
Katharina Fabricius
Katharina Fabricius Australian Institute of Marine Science
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Britta Schaffelke
Britta Schaffelke Australian Institute of Marine Science
Frederieke J. Kroon
Frederieke J. Kroon Australian Institute of Marine Science

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