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Tom Gleeson publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Gleeson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 174 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Tom Gleeson D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Gleeson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tom Gleeson is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on earth and planetary sciences. Their scholarly contributions span numerous areas within these fields, emphasizing environmental engineering, water science and technology, global and planetary change, geochemistry and petrology, and ocean engineering.

The primary topics of Tom Gleeson's research include hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, groundwater flow and contamination studies, flood risk assessment and management, water resources management and optimization, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, and groundwater and watershed analysis.

They have collaborated frequently with a consistent group of coauthors:

  • Miina Porkka
  • Lan Wang-Erlandsson
  • J. S. Famiglietti
  • Dieter Gerten
  • Matti Kummu

Their research output has appeared repeatedly in several key publication venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Ground Water
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Tom Gleeson include:

  • "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future," 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Global Groundwater Sustainability, Resources, and Systems in the Anthropocene," 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • "Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "A planetary boundary for green water," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Tom Gleeson's work frequently addresses the sustainability and management of groundwater resources, exploring their critical roles in global water cycles, ecosystem functions, and planetary boundaries. Their interdisciplinary research integrates hydrological science with environmental engineering and earth system perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint

    Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ludovicus P. H. van Beek

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

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  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion

    Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Tom Gleeson

  • Fault zone hydrogeology

    Victor Bense;Tom Gleeson;Sian Loveless;Olivier Bour

  • Water on an Urban Planet: Urbanization and the Reach of Urban Water Infrastructure

    Robert I. McDonald;Katherine Weber;Julie Padowski;Martina Flörke

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater

    Tom Gleeson;Tom Gleeson;Kevin M. Befus;Scott Jasechko;Elco Luijendijk;Elco Luijendijk

  • Vulnerability of coastal aquifers to groundwater use and climate change

    Grant Ferguson;Tom Gleeson

  • Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping

    Inge E. M. de Graaf;Inge E. M. de Graaf;Inge E. M. de Graaf;Tom Gleeson;L. P. H. (Rens) van Beek;Edwin H. Sutanudjaja

  • Relative contribution of monsoon precipitation and pumping to changes in groundwater storage in India

    Akarsh Asoka;Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada;Vimal Mishra

  • Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

    Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

  • Global patterns and dynamics of climate-groundwater interactions

    M. O. Cuthbert;M. O. Cuthbert;T. Gleeson;N. Moosdorf;K. M. Befus

  • The pronounced seasonality of global groundwater recharge

    Scott Jasechko;S. Jean Birks;Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada

  • Global Groundwater Sustainability, Resources, and Systems in the Anthropocene

    Tom Gleeson;Mark Olaf Cuthbert;Mark Olaf Cuthbert;Grant Ferguson;Debra Perrone

  • A planetary boundary for green water

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  • Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth

    Tom Gleeson;Leslie Smith;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann

  • The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle

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  • Towards Sustainable Groundwater Use: Setting Long-Term Goals, Backcasting, and Managing Adaptively

    Tom Gleeson;William M. Alley;Diana M. Allen;Marios A. Sophocleous

  • A glimpse beneath earth's surface: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS (GLHYMPS) of permeability and porosity

    Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Global aquifers dominated by fossil groundwaters but wells vulnerable to modern contamination

    Scott Jasechko;Debra Perrone;Kevin M. Befus;M. Bayani Bayani Cardenas

  • Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems.

    Elco Luijendijk;Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf

  • Groundwater sustainability strategies

    Tom Gleeson;Jonathan VanderSteen;Marios A. Sophocleous;Makoto Taniguchi

  • Regional groundwater flow in mountainous terrain: Three‐dimensional simulations of topographic and hydrogeologic controls

    Tom Gleeson;Andrew H. Manning

  • Relative Contribution of Monsoon Precipitation and Pumping to Changes in Groundwater Storage in India

    T. P. Gleeson;Y. Wada;V. Mishra

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Marc F. P. Bierkens
Marc F. P. Bierkens Utrecht University
Scott Jasechko
Scott Jasechko University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark O. Cuthbert
Mark O. Cuthbert Cardiff University
Nils Moosdorf
Nils Moosdorf Kiel University
Ingo Fetzer
Ingo Fetzer Stockholm Resilience Centre
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Jeffrey M. McKenzie
Jeffrey M. McKenzie McGill University

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