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Environmental Sciences
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2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 151 26 24 14 12 459 120518

Steven W. Running publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Steven W. Running between 1972 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Steven W. Running published across 53 years, from 1972 to 2024, averaging 8.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2007. 3 of the 467 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1972 to 2024. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2007. 1972: 1 publication 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 3 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 1 publication 1978: 2 publications 1979: 2 publications 1980: 3 publications 1981: 2 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 3 publications 1984: 3 publications 1985: 4 publications 1986: 3 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 5 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 9 publications 1991: 9 publications 1992: 6 publications 1993: 11 publications 1994: 10 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 18 publications 1997: 10 publications 1998: 15 publications 1999: 17 publications 2000: 19 publications 2001: 14 publications 2002: 14 publications 2003: 15 publications 2004: 15 publications 2005: 15 publications 2006: 27 publications 2007: 28 publications 2008: 15 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 20 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 2 publications
1972 2024

467 publications in total across all disciplines

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Steven W. Running: publications per year, 1972 to 2024
Year Publications
1972 1
1973 0
1974 0
1975 3
1976 2
1977 1
1978 2
1979 2
1980 3
1981 2
1982 0
1983 3
1984 3
1985 4
1986 3
1987 3
1988 5
1989 4
1990 9
1991 9
1992 6
1993 11
1994 10
1995 5
1996 18
1997 10
1998 15
1999 17
2000 19
2001 14
2002 14
2003 15
2004 15
2005 15
2006 27
2007 28
2008 15
2009 15
2010 10
2011 11
2012 9
2013 20
2014 14
2015 10
2016 10
2017 9
2018 11
2019 7
2020 11
2021 7
2022 7
2023 1
2024 2
Total 467
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Steven W. Running publications per year - data summary

  • Steven W. Running, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Montana, has 467 publications recorded across 53 years, from 1972 to 2024.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1972 and the most recent to 2024.
  • The most productive year is 2007, with 28 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1972, 1977 and 2023, with 1 publication each.
  • 3 of the 53 years in the span carry no publications at all (1973, 1974 and 1982).
  • The rate of publication averages 8.8 papers per year over the whole span, or 9.3 per year counting only the 50 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2020-2024) hold 28 publications, 6% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1972-1989: 41 publications (2.3 per year); 1990-2007: 257 publications (14.3 per year); 2008-2024: 169 publications (9.9 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Steven W. Running 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 Steven W. Running sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 451–460 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 459 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32 459
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Steven W. Running publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 66 ranges running from 41–50 to 690+ publications.
  • Steven W. Running, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Montana, records 459 publications - the 96th percentile of the discipline.
  • 96% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Steven W. Running, and about 4% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 161–170 publications range, and Steven W. Running ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 121–130 publications, holding 617 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 67% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 201–210 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 690 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Steven W. Running 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 Steven W. Running sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 126+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 151 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92 151
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Steven W. Running D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 30 to 126+ D-Index.
  • Steven W. Running, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Montana, records 151 D-Index - the 100th percentile of the discipline.
  • 100% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Steven W. Running, and about 0% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 51 D-Index range, and Steven W. Running ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 45 D-Index, holding 348 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more, 92 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Steven W. Running is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

They have published extensively on topics related to remote sensing and ecological processes. The main topics of their research include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Earth's Future

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Multispectral high resolution sensor fusion for smoothing and gap-filling in the cloud," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Soil-related developments of the Biome-BGCMuSo v6.2 terrestrial ecosystem model," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Quantifying uncertainty in high resolution biophysical variable retrieval with machine learning," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Steven W. Running has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Gustau Camps-Valls, Álvaro Moreno-Martínez, Jordi Muñoz-Marí, Nicholas Clinton, and John S. Kimball.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2002.

Best Publications

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Haroun Chenchouni;Dominique Bachelet

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

    Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Charles D. Keeling;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Hirofumi Hashimoto;William M. Jolly

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

    Qiaozhen Mu;Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

    Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • A Continuous Satellite-Derived Measure of Global Terrestrial Primary Production

    Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Faith Ann Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

    Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications I. Hydrologic balance, canopy gas exchange and primary production processes

    Steven W. Running;Joseph C. Coughlan

  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

    C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • Development of a global evapotranspiration algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Qiaozhen Mu;Faith Ann Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;Steven W. Running

  • Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set

    Maosheng Zhao;Faith Ann Heinsch;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Steven W. Running

  • Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain

    Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running;Michael A. White

  • A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability

    Michael A. White;Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running

  • Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

    Benjamin Poulter;David Frank;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Water in a changing world

    Robert B. Jackson;Stephen R. Carpenter;Clifford N. Dahm;Diane M. McKnight

  • Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed par using radiative transfer models

    R.B. Myneni;R. Ramakrishna;R. Nemani;S.W. Running

Frequent Co-Authors

Maosheng Zhao
Maosheng Zhao Science Systems and Applications (United States)
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Ramakrishna R. Nemani
Ramakrishna R. Nemani Ames Research Center
Qiaozhen Mu
Qiaozhen Mu Science Systems & Applications, Inc.
Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Richard H. Waring
Richard H. Waring Oregon State University
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Michael R. H. White
Michael R. H. White University of Manchester

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