Topic · Marine and coastal ecosystems
Most cited papers in Marine and coastal ecosystems
What are the most cited papers in Marine and coastal ecosystems?
The most cited paper in Marine and coastal ecosystems is "Photoperoxidation in isolated chloroplasts" (Robert L. Heath, Lester Packer, 1968), with 11,394 citations. Next come "Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems" (6,753) and "Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components" (6,546).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,757 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Photoperoxidation in isolated chloroplasts Robert L. Heath, Lester Packer · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics | Apr 1968 | 11,394 |
| 2 | Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems Robert J. Díaz, Rutger Rosenberg · Science | 14 Aug 2008 | 6,753 |
| 3 | Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components Christopher B. Field, Michael J. Behrenfeld, James T. Randerson et al. · Science | 10 Jul 1998 | 6,546 |
| 4 | Fluorescence Excitation−Emission Matrix Regional Integration to Quantify Spectra for Dissolved Organic Matter Wen Chen, Paul K. Westerhoff, Jerry A. Leenheer et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 15 Nov 2003 | 6,382 |
| 5 | NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN Stephen R. Carpenter, N. F. Caraco, David L. Correll et al. · Ecological Applications | Aug 1998 | 5,882 |
| 6 | Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future James N. Galloway, Frank J. Dentener, Douglas G. Capone et al. · Biogeochemistry | Sep 2004 | 5,486 |
| 7 | HUMAN ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL NITROGEN CYCLE: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES Peter M. Vitousek, John D. Aber, Robert Warren Howarth et al. · Ecological Applications | Aug 1997 | 5,459 |
| 8 | Culture of Phytoplankton for Feeding Marine Invertebrates Robert R. L. Guillard | 1975 | 5,329 |
| 9 | New spectrophotometric equations for determining chlorophylls a, b, c1 and c2 in higher plants, algae and natural phytoplankton Shirley W. Jeffrey, G. F. Humphrey · Biochemie und Physiologie der Pflanzen | 1975 | 5,286 |
| 10 | Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems James J. Elser, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Elsa E. Cleland et al. · Ecology Letters | 8 Oct 2007 | 4,676 |
| 11 | Evaluation of Specific Ultraviolet Absorbance as an Indicator of the Chemical Composition and Reactivity of Dissolved Organic Carbon James L. Weishaar, George R. Aiken, Brian A. Bergamaschi et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 17 Sep 2003 | 4,655 |
| 12 | Mechanisms Controlling World Water Chemistry Ronald J. Gibbs · Science | 4 Dec 1970 | 4,496 |
| 13 | A trophic state index for lakes1 Robert E. Carlson · Limnology and Oceanography | Mar 1977 | 4,337 |
| 14 | Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget J. J. Cole, Yves T. Prairie, N. F. Caraco et al. · Ecosystems | Feb 2007 | 4,079 |
| 15 | Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Daniel J. Conley, Hans W. Paerl, Robert Warren Howarth et al. · Science | 19 Feb 2009 | 3,953 |
| 16 | Classification, Seasonality and Persistence of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Anthony G. Barnston, Robert E. Livezey · Monthly Weather Review | Jun 1987 | 3,831 |
| 17 | DETERMINATION OF CHLOROPHYLL AND PHEO‐PIGMENTS: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC EQUATIONS1 Carl J. Lorenzen · Limnology and Oceanography | Apr 1967 | 3,799 |
| 18 | BIOVOLUME CALCULATION FOR PELAGIC AND BENTHIC MICROALGAE Helmut Hillebrand, Claus‐Dieter Dürselen, David B. Kirschtel et al. · Journal of Phycology | Apr 1999 | 3,700 |
| 19 | Characterization of marine and terrestrial DOM in seawater using excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy Paula G. Coble · Marine Chemistry | 1996 | 3,699 |
| 20 | An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle Nicolas Gruber, James N. Galloway · Nature | 16 Jan 2008 | 3,698 |
| 21 | Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome Stilianos Louca, Laura Wegener Parfrey, Michael Doebeli · Science | 15 Sep 2016 | 3,695 |
| 22 | Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH K. Caldeira, Michael E. Wickett · Nature | 24 Sep 2003 | 3,686 |
| 23 | SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE IN NATURAL WATERS1 Joel D. Cline · Limnology and Oceanography | May 1969 | 3,681 |
| 24 | Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur? PeterM. Vitousek, Robert Warren Howarth · Biogeochemistry | 1991 | 3,598 |
| 25 | Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis Philip N. Froelich, Gary P. Klinkhammer, Michael L. Bender et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Jul 1979 | 3,409 |
| 26 | Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology Clément de Boyer Montégut, Gurvan Madec, Albert S. Fischer et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | Dec 2004 | 3,331 |
| 27 | Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters Denise L. Breitburg et al. · Science | 5 Jan 2018 | 3,320 |
| 28 | Isopycnal Mixing in Ocean Circulation Models Peter R. Gent, James C. McWilliams · Journal of Physical Oceanography | 1990 | 3,285 |
| 29 | Variation of O18 content of waters from natural sources Samuel Abraham Epstein, T. K. Mayeda · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Nov 1953 | 3,253 |
| 30 | Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum, 6S: an overview Eric F. Vermote, Didier Tanré, Jean Luc Deuze et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | May 1997 | 3,224 |
| 31 | Spectrofluorometric characterization of dissolved organic matter for indication of precursor organic material and aromaticity Diane Marie McKnight, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Paul K. Westerhoff et al. · Limnology and Oceanography | 2001 | 3,170 |
| 32 | Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems Val H. Smith, David Tilman, Jeffrey C. Nekola · Environmental Pollution | 1999 | 3,098 |
| 33 | Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate T. D. Jickells, Zhisheng An, K. K. Andersen et al. · Science | 31 Mar 2005 | 3,074 |
| 34 | Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean Sydney Levitus · Eos | 6 Dec 1983 | 3,067 |
| 35 | Absorption spectral slopes and slope ratios as indicators of molecular weight, source, and photobleaching of chromophoric dissolved organic matter John Robert Helms, Aron Stubbins, Jason D. Ritchie et al. · Limnology and Oceanography | May 2008 | 3,027 |
| 36 | Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentration Michael J. Behrenfeld, Paul G. Falkowski · Limnology and Oceanography | 1997 | 2,993 |
| 37 | Description of Global-Scale Circulation Cells in the Tropics with a 40–50 Day Period Roland A. Madden, PAUL R. JULIAN · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Sep 1972 | 2,992 |
| 38 | Preservation of elemental and isotopic source identification of sedimentary organic matter Philip A. Meyers · Chemical Geology | Jun 1994 | 2,988 |
| 39 | Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Nutrient sources, composition, and consequences Donald Mark Anderson, Patricia M. Glibert, JoAnn M. Burkholder · Estuaries | Aug 2002 | 2,972 |
| 40 | The Nitrogen Cascade James N. Galloway, John D. Aber, Jan Willem Erisman et al. · BioScience | 2003 | 2,939 |
| 41 | Biogeochemical Controls and Feedbacks on Ocean Primary Production Paul G. Falkowski, Richard T. Barber, Victor S. Smetacek · Science | 10 Jul 1998 | 2,915 |
| 42 | Cyanobacterial blooms Jef Huisman, Geoffrey A. Codd, Hans W. Paerl et al. · Nature Reviews Microbiology | 26 Jun 2018 | 2,912 |
| 43 | Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem James E. Cloern · Marine Ecology Progress Series | 2001 | 2,910 |
| 44 | Microalgae for oil: Strain selection, induction of lipid synthesis and outdoor mass cultivation in a low‐cost photobioreactor Liliana Rodolfi, Graziella Chini Zittelli, Niccoló Bassi et al. · Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 18 Jun 2008 | 2,885 |
| 45 | Continuous recording of photochemical and non-photochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching with a new type of modulation fluorometer Ulrich C. Schreiber, Ulrich Schliwa, Wolfgang Bilger · Photosynthesis Research | 1986 | 2,852 |
| 46 | Characterizing dissolved organic matter fluorescence with parallel factor analysis: a tutorial Colin Andrew Stedmon, Rasmus Bro · Limnology and Oceanography Methods | Nov 2008 | 2,845 |
| 47 | Alternative equilibria in shallow lakes Marten Scheffer, S. Harry Hosper, Marie-Louise Meijer et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Aug 1993 | 2,840 |
| 48 | Blooms Like It Hot Hans W. Paerl, Jef Huisman · Science | 3 Apr 2008 | 2,823 |
| 49 | Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate Lars J. Tranvik et al. · Limnology and Oceanography | Nov 2009 | 2,812 |
| 50 | UPTAKE OF NEW AND REGENERATED FORMS OF NITROGEN IN PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY1 Richard C. Dugdale, John J. Goering · Limnology and Oceanography | Apr 1967 | 2,780 |
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