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Vincent L. St. Louis

Vincent L. St. Louis

University of Alberta
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
11089
World Ranking
3851
National Ranking
159

Vincent L. St. Louis 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 Vincent L. St. Louis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Vincent L. St. Louis 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 Vincent L. St. Louis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 61st percentile

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

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

Overview

Vincent L. St. Louis is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily addresses topics related to climate change and permafrost, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine animal studies overview, toxic organic pollutants impact, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

The scientist's recent publications indicate sustained contributions to understanding ecosystem carbon fluxes, mercury contamination recovery, and Arctic-boreal carbon dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • "Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties" (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations" (2021), published in Nature
  • "The ABCflux database: Arctic-boreal CO2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems" (2022), published in Earth system science data
  • "Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems" (2024), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Warming Climate Is Reducing the Diversity of Dominant Microbes in the Largest High Arctic Lake" (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vincent L. St. Louis include Craig A. Emmerton, Oliver Sonnentag, Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer D. Watts, and Donatella Zona.

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature
  • Earth system science data

Their fields of study focus primarily on environmental science with 31 publications and earth and planetary sciences with 22 publications. Subfields represented in their work include atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Reservoir Surfaces as Sources of Greenhouse Gases to the Atmosphere: A Global Estimate

    Vincent L. St. Louis;Carol A. Kelly;Éric Duchemin;John W. M. Rudd

  • Importance of Wetlands as Sources of Methyl Mercury to Boreal Forest Ecosystems

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Ken G. Beaty

  • Whole-ecosystem study shows rapid fish-mercury response to changes in mercury deposition

    Reed C. Harris;John W. M. Rudd;Marc Amyot;Christopher L. Babiarz

  • Production and Loss of Methylmercury and Loss of Total Mercury from Boreal Forest Catchments Containing Different Types of Wetlands

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Ken G. Beaty

  • Observed decrease in atmospheric mercury explained by global decline in anthropogenic emissions

    Yanxu Zhang;Daniel James Jacob;Hannah Marie Horowitz;Long Chen;Long Chen

  • Reactivity and Mobility of New and Old Mercury Deposition in a Boreal Forest Ecosystem during the First Year of the METAALICUS Study

    Holger Hintelmann;Reed Harris;Andrew Heyes;James P. Hurley

  • Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters

    Igor Lehnherr;Vincent L. St. Louis;Holger Hintelmann;Jane L. Kirk;Jane L. Kirk

  • Importance of the forest canopy to fluxes of methyl mercury and total mercury to boreal ecosystems.

    Vincent L. St. Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;Britt D. Hall

  • The rise and fall of mercury methylation in an experimental reservoir.

    Vincent L. St.Louis;John W. M. Rudd;Carol A. Kelly;R. A. (Drew) Bodaly

  • Forest fire increases mercury accumulation by fishes via food web restructuring and increased mercury inputs

    Erin N. Kelly;David W. Schindler;Vincent L. St. Louis;David B. Donald

  • Microbial consumption of nitric and sulfuric acids in acidified north temperate lakes1

    John W. M. Rudd;C. A. Kelly;Vincent St. Louis;R. H. Hesslein

  • Long-Term Wet and Dry Deposition of Total and Methyl Mercury in the Remote Boreal Ecoregion of Canada

    Jennifer A Graydon;Vincent L St Louis;Holger Hintelmann;Steve E Lindberg

  • Mercury in Arctic Marine Ecosystems: Sources, Pathways, and Exposure

    Jane L. Kirk;Igor Lehnherr;Maria Andersson;Birgit M. Braune

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • Importance of Ultraviolet Radiation in the Photodemethylation of Methylmercury in Freshwater Ecosystems

    Igor Lehnherr;Vincent L St Louis

  • Comparison of three techniques used to measure diffusive gas exchange from sheltered aquatic surfaces.

    Cory J. D. Matthews;Vincent L. St.Louis;Raymond H. Hesslein

  • Impacts of Reservoir Creation on the Biogeochemical Cycling of Methyl Mercury and Total Mercury in Boreal Upland Forests

    B.D. Hall;B.D. Hall;V.L. St. Louis;K.R. Rolfhus;R.A. Bodaly

  • Is Total Mercury Concentration a Good Predictor of Methyl Mercury Concentration in Aquatic Systems

    Carol A. Kelly;John W. M. Rudd;Vincent L. St.Louis;Andrew Heyes

  • Rapid reduction and reemission of mercury deposited into snowpacks during atmospheric mercury depletion events at churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

    Jane L Kirk;Vincent L St Louis;Martin J Sharp

  • A mass budget for mercury and methylmercury in the Arctic Ocean

    Anne L. Soerensen;Anne L. Soerensen;Daniel J. Jacob;Amina T. Schartup;Jenny A. Fisher

  • Some Sources and Sinks of Monomethyl and Inorganic Mercury on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic

    Vincent L. St. Louis;Martin J. Sharp;Alexandra Steffen;Al May

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Kelly
Carol A. Kelly University of Manitoba
John W. M. Rudd
John W. M. Rudd University of Alberta
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Sherry L. Schiff
Sherry L. Schiff University of Waterloo
Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Steve E. Lindberg
Steve E. Lindberg Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael J. Paterson
Michael J. Paterson International Institute for Sustainable Development
David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Alexandra Steffen
Alexandra Steffen Environment and Climate Change Canada

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