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Svein Sundby 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 Svein Sundby sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 113 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Svein Sundby 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 Svein Sundby sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Svein Sundby is affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics related to marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean waves and remote sensing, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Recent publications include:

  • Factors affecting the vertical distribution of eggs (2025), published in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
  • Highly mixed impacts of near-future climate change on stock productivity proxies in the North East Atlantic (2021), published in Fish and Fisheries
  • Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate-induced shifts in spatial distribution (2020), published in Fish and Fisheries
  • Long-Term Statistics of Observed Bubble Depth Versus Modeled Wave Dissipation (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Comparison of visual and molecular taxonomic methods to identify ichthyoplankton in the North Sea (2020), published in Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sundby include Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Anders Thorsen, Anne Britt Sandø, Jan Erik Stiansen, and Geir Huse.

The scientist has contributed multiple publications to several venues with repeated appearances in Fish and Fisheries, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, and Fisheries Oceanography, among others.

In 2015, Sundby was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Recruitment of Atlantic cod stocks in relation to temperature and advectlon of copepod populations

    Svein Sundby

  • Spatial shifts in spawning habitats of Arcto-Norwegian cod related to multidecadal climate oscillations and climate change

    Svein Sundby;Odd Nakken

  • Spawning on the edge: spawning grounds and nursery areas around the southern African coastline

    L. Hutchings;L. E. Beckley;M. H. Griffiths;M. J. Roberts

  • Feeding conditions of Arcto-norwegian cod larvae compared with the Rothschild–Osborn theory on small-scale turbulence and plankton contact rates

    S. Sundby;P. Fossum

  • A one-dimensional model for the vertical distribution of pelagic fish eggs in the mixed layer

    Svein Sundby

  • Buoyancy variations in eggs of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) in relation to chorion thickness and egg size: theory and observations

    O. S. Kjesbu;H. Kryvi;S. Sundby;P. Solemdal

  • Impacts of climate change on commercial fish stocks in Norwegian waters

    Erling Kåre Stenevik;Svein Sundby

  • Observation-based evaluation of surface wave effects on currents and trajectory forecasts

    Johannes Röhrs;Kai Håkon Christensen;Lars Robert Hole;Göran Broström

  • Recruitment Variability in North Atlantic Cod and Match-Mismatch Dynamics

    Trond Kristiansen;Kenneth F. Drinkwater;R. Gregory Lough;Svein Sundby

  • Effects of temperature, wind and spawning stock biomass on recruitment of Arcto-Norwegian cod

    Geir Ottersen;Svein Sundby

  • The combined effect of transport and temperature on distribution and growth of larvae and pelagic juveniles of Arcto-Norwegian cod

    Frode Vikebø;Svein Sundby;Bjørn Ådlandsvik;Øyvind Fiksen

  • Factors affecting the vertical distribution of eggs

    Svein Sundby

  • The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation: Its manifestations and impacts with special emphasis on the Atlantic region north of 60°N

    Kenneth F. Drinkwater;Martin Miles;Iselin Medhaug;Odd Helge Otterå

  • On the mechanisms behind salinity anomaly signals of the northern North Atlantic

    Svein Sundby;Kenneth Drinkwater

  • An Integrated Assessment of changes in the thermohaline circulation

    Till Kuhlbrodt;Stefan Rahmstorf;Kirsten Zickfeld;Frode Bendiksen Vikebø

  • Modelling the influence of light, turbulence and ontogeny on ingestion rates in larval cod and herring

    Ø. Fiksen;A.C.W. Utne;D.L. Aksnes;K. Eiane

  • The Principles of Buoyancy in Marine Fish Eggs and Their Vertical Distributions across the World Oceans

    Svein Sundby;Trond Kristiansen

  • Turbulence and ichtyoplankton: influence on vertical distributions and encounter rates

    Svein Sundby

  • Role of the midnight sun: comparative growth of pelagic juvenile cod (Gadus morhua) from the Arcto-Norwegian and a Nova Scotian stock

    Iain M. Suthers;Svein Sundby

  • Wave-induced transport and vertical mixing of pelagic eggs and larvae

    Johannes Röhrs;Kai Håkon Christensen;Frode Vikebø;Svein Sundby

  • The North Atlantic Spring-Bloom System—Where the Changing Climate Meets the Winter Dark

    Svein Sundby;Kenneth F. Drinkwater;Olav S. Kjesbu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth F. Drinkwater
Kenneth F. Drinkwater Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
Olav Sigurd Kjesbu Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen
Keith Brander
Keith Brander Technical University of Denmark
Geir Ottersen
Geir Ottersen University of Oslo
Dag L. Aksnes
Dag L. Aksnes University of Bergen
Øyvind Fiksen
Øyvind Fiksen University of Bergen
Geir Huse
Geir Huse Institute of Marine Research
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard D.M. Nash
Richard D.M. Nash Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

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