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Sujay S. Kaushal 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 Sujay S. Kaushal sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sujay S. Kaushal 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 Sujay S. Kaushal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sujay S. Kaushal is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Pollution, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Smart Materials for Construction, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Biogeochemistry, The Science of The Total Environment, Applied Geochemistry, Urban Ecosystems, and Frontiers in Environmental Science, with a noted presence of three or more publications in each.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Sujay S. Kaushal are:

  • Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks, 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • Where the rubber meets the road: Emerging environmental impacts of tire wear particles and their chemical cocktails, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Making 'chemical cocktails' - Evolution of urban geochemical processes across the periodic table of elements, 2020, Applied Geochemistry
  • The anthropogenic salt cycle, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Collaborations are an integral part of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include Megan A. Rippy, Stanley B. Grant, Paul M. Mayer, Shantanu V. Bhide, and Joseph G. Galella, each contributing significantly over multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

    S.T.A. Pickett;M.L. Cadenasso;J.M. Grove;Christopher G. Boone

  • Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Gene E. Likens;Kenneth T. Belt

  • Rising stream and river temperatures in the United States

    Sujay S Kaushal;Gene E Likens;Norbert A Jaworski;Michael L Pace;Michael L Pace

  • Tracking nonpoint source nitrogen pollution in human-impacted watersheds.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Lawrence E. Band;Emily M. Elliott

  • Freshwater salinization syndrome on a continental scale.

    Sujay S Kaushal;Gene E Likens;Michael L Pace;Ryan M Utz

  • The urban watershed continuum: evolving spatial and temporal dimensions

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Kenneth T. Belt

  • Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science

    Seth J. Wenger;Allison H. Roy;C. Rhett Jackson;Emily S. Bernhardt

  • Opportunities and challenges for managing nitrogen in urban stormwater: A review and synthesis

    Kelly A. Collins;Timothy J. Lawrence;Emilie K. Stander;Robert J. Jontos

  • Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads

    Laura S Craig;Margaret A Palmer;Margaret A Palmer;David C Richardson;Solange Filoso

  • Disappearing headwaters: patterns of stream burial due to urbanization

    Andrew J Elmore;Sujay S Kaushal

  • Effects of stream restoration on denitrification in an urbanizing watershed.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Paul M. Mayer;Elise Striz

  • Patterns in potassium dynamics in forest ecosystems.

    Christopher E. Tripler;Sujay S. Kaushal;Gene E. Likens;M. Todd Walter

  • Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes

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  • Relationship between C:N ratios of lake sediments, organic matter sources, and historical deforestation in Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, USA

    Sujay Kaushal;Michael W. Binford

  • Interaction between urbanization and climate variability amplifies watershed nitrate export in Maryland.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Lawrence E. Band;Catherine A. Shields

  • Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Gene E. Likens;Michael L. Pace;Jenna E. Reimer

  • Human-accelerated weathering increases salinization, major ions, and alkalinization in fresh water across land use

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Shuiwang Duan;Thomas R. Doody;Shahan Haq

  • Phosphorus export across an urban to rural gradient in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

    Shuiwang Duan;Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Lawrence E. Band

  • Land Use and Climate Variability Amplify Carbon, Nutrient, and Contaminant Pulses: A Review with Management Implications

    Sujay S Kaushal;Peter M Mayer;Philippe G Vidon;Rose M Smith

  • Increased River Alkalinization in the Eastern U.S.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Gene E. Likens;Ryan M. Utz;Michael L. Pace

  • Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

    Alexander P. Wolfe;William O. Hobbs;Hilary H. Birks;Jason P. Briner

  • Effects of chronic nitrogen amendment on dissolved organic matter and inorganic nitrogen in soil solution

    William H McDowell;Alison H Magill;Jacqueline A Aitkenhead-Peterson;John D Aber

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Paul M. Mayer
Paul M. Mayer Environmental Protection Agency
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Gene E. Likens
Gene E. Likens University of Connecticut
Michael L. Pace
Michael L. Pace University of Virginia
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Stuart E. G. Findlay Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Arthur J. Gold
Arthur J. Gold University of Rhode Island
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Wilfred M. Wollheim
Wilfred M. Wollheim University of New Hampshire
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin

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