2026 Zoe V. Finkel: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	48	5400	5175	226	212	119	16131

Overview

Zoe V. Finkel is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research primarily revolves around environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on oceanography and related subfields. They have made contributions to multiple areas including ecology, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work covers several key topics in marine and ecological research, addressing various aspects of marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, and marine biology and ecology research. Their studies also touch on algal biology and biofuel production, marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, as well as isotope analysis in ecology.

Finkel's recent papers highlight a range of environmental and biological themes. These include:

"Anthropogenic climate change impacts on copepod trait biogeography," 2020, Global Change Biology
"Basin-scale biogeography of marine phytoplankton reflects cellular-scale optimization of metabolism and physiology," 2022, Science Advances
"Trait-dependent variability of the response of marine phytoplankton to oil and dispersant exposure," 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
"Dynamic Photophysiological Stress Response of a Model Diatom to Ten Environmental Stresses," 2020, Journal of Phycology
"Growth-dependent changes in elemental stoichiometry and macromolecular allocation in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi under different environmental conditions," 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

Throughout their career, Finkel has frequently collaborated with several researchers in their field. The most frequent co-authors include Andrew J. Irwin, Justin D. Liefer, Michael J. Follows, Yingyu Hu, and Laura Bretherton.

The scientist also has a presence in several publication venues, often contributing to journals and platforms relevant to marine science and environmental studies. Their common publication venues are:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Marine Pollution Bulletin
Limnology and Oceanography
Frontiers in Marine Science
Global Change Biology

Best Publications

Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

Carl Folke;Steve Carpenter;Brian Walker;Marten Scheffer

4821
Citations
Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry

Zoe V. Finkel;John Beardall;Kevin J. Flynn;Antonietta Quigg;Antonietta Quigg

1287
Citations
The elemental composition of some marine phytoplankton

Tung Yuan Ho;Antonietta Quigg;Zoe V. Finkel;Allen J. Milligan

830
Citations
Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

Paul Tréguer;Chris Bowler;Brivaela Moriceau;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

794
Citations
The evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in marine phytoplankton

Antonietta Quigg;Zoe V. Finkel;Andrew J. Irwin;Yair Rosenthal

595
Citations
Scaling-up from nutrient physiology to the size-structure of phytoplankton communities

Andrew J. Irwin;Zoe V. Finkel;Oscar M. E. Schofield;Paul G. Falkowski

386
Citations
The biogeography of marine plankton traits.

Andrew D. Barton;Andrew D. Barton;Andrew J. Pershing;Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Nicholas R. Record;Nicholas R. Record

366
Citations
Are you what you eat? Physiological constraints on organismal stoichiometry in an elementally imbalanced world

Paul C. Frost;Michelle A. Evans-White;Zoe V. Finkel;Thomas C. Jensen

335
Citations
Extinctions in ancient and modern seas

Paul G. Harnik;Heike K. Lotze;Sean C. Anderson;Zoe V. Finkel

334
Citations
Light absorption and size scaling of light-limited metabolism in marine diatoms

Zoe Vanessa Finkel

322
Citations
Anthropogenic climate change drives shift and shuffle in North Atlantic phytoplankton communities

Andrew D. Barton;Andrew J. Irwin;Zoe V. Finkel;Charles A. Stock

297
Citations
Cell size trade-offs govern light exploitation strategies in marine phytoplankton.

Tim Key;Avery McCarthy;Douglas A. Campbell;Christophe Six

277
Citations
Evolutionary Trajectories and Biogeochemical Impacts of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton

Miriam E. Katz;Zoe V. Finkel;Daniel Grzebyk;Andrew H. Knoll

260
Citations
Climatically driven macroevolutionary patterns in the size of marine diatoms over the Cenozoic.

Zoe V. Finkel;Miriam E. Katz;James D. Wright;Oscar M. E. Schofield

239
Citations
Nitrogen‐fixation strategies and Fe requirements in cyanobacteria

Ilana Berman-Frank;Antonietta Quigg;Zoe V. Finkel;Andrew J. Irwin

237
Citations
Resource limitation alters the 3 ⁄ 4 size scaling of metabolic rates in phytoplankton

Zoe V. Finkel;Andrew J. Irwin;Oscar Schofield

215
Citations
Phylogenetic Diversity in the Macromolecular Composition of Microalgae.

Zoe V. Finkel;Mick J. Follows;Justin D. Liefer;Chris M. Brown

214
Citations
Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans

Seth Finnegan;Sean C. Anderson;Paul G. Harnik;Carl Simpson

193
Citations
Allometry and stoichiometry of unicellular, colonial and multicellular phytoplankton.

John Beardall;Drew Allen;Jason Bragg;Zoe V. Finkel

189
Citations
Decadal variability in coastal phytoplankton community composition in a changing West Antarctic Peninsula

Oscar Schofield;Grace Saba;Kaycee Coleman;Filipa Carvalho

163
Citations
Phytoplankton in a changing world: Cell size and elementary stoichiometry

Zoe Finkel;John Beardall;Kevin Flynn;Antonietta Quigg

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonietta Quigg Texas A&M University at Galveston

Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University

Douglas A. Campbell Mount Allison University

Michael J. Follows MIT

John A. Raven University of Dundee

Uta Passow Memorial University of Newfoundland

Miriam E. Katz Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kevin J. Flynn Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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