Samuel E. Muñoz

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Samuel E. Muñoz is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel E. Muñoz has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Atmospheric Science, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Samuel E. Muñoz's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (10 papers). Samuel E. Muñoz is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (10 papers). Samuel E. Muñoz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Samuel E. Muñoz's co-authors include Aron Stubbins, Kara Lavender Law, Thomas S. Bianchi, Lixin Zhu, Konrad Gajewski, Matthew Peros, John W. Williams, André Viau, Sissel Schroeder and Sylvia Dee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel E. Muñoz

42 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Plastics in the Earth system

2021 557 citations Aron Stubbins, Kara Lavender Law et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel E. Muñoz United States	18	560	468	403	369	339	45	1.9k
Kai Wirtz Germany	27	219 0.4×	505 1.1×	432 1.1×	613 1.7×	106 0.3×	85	2.2k
Oliver Bens Germany	33	342 0.6×	729 1.6×	223 0.6×	532 1.4×	67 0.2×	88	3.8k
Marcondes Lima da Costa Brazil	28	417 0.7×	125 0.3×	226 0.6×	405 1.1×	338 1.0×	160	2.5k
Maria Geraga Greece	21	453 0.8×	219 0.5×	344 0.9×	357 1.0×	238 0.7×	77	1.6k
Feng Zhang China	34	598 1.1×	989 2.1×	129 0.3×	597 1.6×	57 0.2×	191	3.2k
Thomas G. Bornman South Africa	21	338 0.6×	559 1.2×	492 1.2×	649 1.8×	75 0.2×	52	1.9k
Sarah A. Finkelstein Canada	23	756 1.4×	131 0.3×	186 0.5×	659 1.8×	77 0.2×	72	1.4k
Elisa López‐Capél United Kingdom	23	245 0.4×	317 0.7×	475 1.2×	517 1.4×	72 0.2×	46	3.7k
Didier Galop France	25	1.2k 2.1×	228 0.5×	1.7k 4.1×	332 0.9×	563 1.7×	81	3.6k
Kevin McSweeney United States	20	294 0.5×	282 0.6×	132 0.3×	249 0.7×	165 0.5×	52	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel E. Muñoz

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All Works

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Berg, Peter, Réjean Hébert, Charlotte Wiman, et al.. (2025). Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 10(6). 990–998.

O’Donnell, Michelle, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of hydroclimatic biases in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1) within the Mississippi River basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(18). 4637–4660.

Tierney, Jessica E., et al.. (2025). Climate Variability in the Gulf of California Over the Last 1,300 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(2). 1 indexed citations

Dee, Sylvia, et al.. (2024). Competing Influences of Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Mississippi River Basin Hydroclimate Simulated Over the Last Millennium. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(7). 2 indexed citations

Alemu, Jahson B., et al.. (2024). Evaluating ecosystem services in urban salt marshes: Assessing vulnerability to sea-level rise and implications for coastal management. Journal of Environmental Management. 371. 123065–123065. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Zhixiong, et al.. (2024). Land-use change as a major driver for mid-20th-century flood intensity reduction in the Southeastern US. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 84054–84054. 1 indexed citations

Muñoz, Samuel E., et al.. (2023). Mississippi River low-flows: context, causes, and future projections. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 31001–31001. 11 indexed citations

Dee, Sylvia, et al.. (2022). Tropical Pacific and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Patterns Modulate Mississippi Basin Hydroclimate Extremes Over the Last Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(2). 9 indexed citations

Wiman, Charlotte, et al.. (2021). Reduced Lower Mississippi River Discharge During the Medieval Era. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). 13 indexed citations

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Stubbins, Aron, Kara Lavender Law, Samuel E. Muñoz, Thomas S. Bianchi, & Lixin Zhu. (2021). Plastics in the Earth system. Science. 373(6550). 51–55. 557 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muñoz, Samuel E., Trevor J. Porter, Jesse Nusbaumer, et al.. (2020). Lipid Biomarker Record Documents Hydroclimatic Variability of the Mississippi River Basin During the Common Era. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(12). 10 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Samuel E., et al.. (2020). After Cahokia: Indigenous Repopulation and Depopulation of the Horseshoe Lake Watershed AD 1400–1900. American Antiquity. 85(2). 263–278. 12 indexed citations

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Stinchcomb, Gary E., et al.. (2020). Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene. The Holocene. 30(9). 1279–1295. 11 indexed citations

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Giosan, Liviu, William D. Orsi, Marco J. L. Coolen, et al.. (2018). Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis. Climate of the past. 14(11). 1669–1686. 45 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Samuel E., Liviu Giosan, Matthew D. Therrell, et al.. (2018). Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering. Nature. 556(7699). 95–98. 204 indexed citations

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Walsh, Jake R., Jessica R. Corman, & Samuel E. Muñoz. (2018). Coupled long‐term limnological data and sedimentary records reveal new control on water quality in a eutrophic lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 64(S1). 20 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Samuel E. & Sylvia Dee. (2017). El Niño increases the risk of lower Mississippi River flooding. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1772–1772. 58 indexed citations

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Walsh, Jake R., et al.. (2016). Outbreak of an undetected invasive species triggered by a climate anomaly. Ecosphere. 7(12). 32 indexed citations

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Martin, Paul, et al.. (2014). An iBeacon primer for indoor localization. 190–191. 91 indexed citations

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Peros, Matthew, Samuel E. Muñoz, Konrad Gajewski, & André Viau. (2009). Prehistoric demography of North America inferred from radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37(3). 656–664. 140 indexed citations

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