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Alan R. Townsend

Active 1994–2016

36
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27,479
Citations
36
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Citations

Citations per year for Alan R. Townsend1995: 14 citations1996: 8 citations1997: 21 citations1998: 15 citations1999: 23 citations2000: 31 citations2001: 33 citations2002: 29 citations2003: 43 citations2004: 51 citations2005: 50 citations2006: 70 citations2007: 83 citations2008: 103 citations2009: 134 citations2010: 154 citations2011: 177 citations2012: 120 citations2013: 164 citations2014: 127 citations2015: 151 citations2016: 128 citations2017: 152 citations2018: 138 citations2019: 198 citations2020: 194 citations2021: 162 citations2022: 130 citations2023: 104 citations2024: 94 citations2025: 40 citations

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,191 citing papers, 25.7% of this breakdownChina: 654 citing papers, 14.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 267 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownGermany: 250 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownCanada: 196 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 194 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownFrance: 190 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownAustralia: 187 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownSweden: 124 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownSpain: 88 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownItaly: 88 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 84 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science45.6%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.1%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences8.1%
  • Chemical Engineering5.3%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.8%
  • Medicine1.7%
  • Other4.4%

Topics

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics9.8%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology7.7%
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics4.5%
  • Gut microbiota and health3.7%
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology3.1%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies2.3%
  • Other68.9%

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  1. Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

    Authors: James N. Galloway, Alan R. Townsend, Jan Willem Erisman, Mateete Bekunda, Zucong Cai, J. R. Freney, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Mark A. Sutton - Science 2008 cited by 7,083

  2. Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future

    Authors: James N. Galloway, Frank Dentener, Douglas G. Capone, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Robert W. Howarth, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Gregory P. Asner, Cory C. Cleveland, Pamela Green, Elisabeth A. Holland, David M. Karl, Anthony F. Michaels, John H. Porter, Alan R. Townsend, C. J. V�osmarty - Biogeochemistry 2004 cited by 5,409

  3. Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

    Authors: Scott Ferrenberg, Sean O’Neill, Joseph E. Knelman, Bryan Theodore-Lon Todd, Sam B. Duggan, Daniel Bradley, Taylor Robinson, Steven K. Schmidt, Alan R. Townsend, Mark Williams, Cory C. Cleveland, Brett A Melbourne, Lin Jiang, Diana R. Nemergut - The ISME Journal 2013 cited by 458

  4. Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development

    Authors: Peter M. Vitousek, Rosamond L. Naylor, Timothy E. Crews, M. B. David, Laurie E. Drinkwater, Elisabeth A. Holland, Penny J Johnes, John Katzenberger, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Pamela A. Matson, Generose Nziguheba, Dennis S. Ojima, C. A. Palm, G. Philip Robertson, Pedro A. Sánchez, Alan R. Townsend, Fusuo Zhang - Science 2009 cited by 1,449

  5. Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

    Authors: Diana R. Nemergut, Joseph E. Knelman, Scott Ferrenberg, Teresa Bilinski, Brett Melbourne, Lin Jiang, Cyrille Violle, John L. Darcy, Tiffany Prest, Steven K. Schmidt, Alan R. Townsend - The ISME Journal 2015 cited by 222

  6. Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa

    Authors: Diana R. Nemergut, Elizabeth K. Costello, Micah Hamady, Catherine Lozupone, Lin Jiang, Steven K. Schmidt, Noah Fierer, Alan R. Townsend, Cory C. Cleveland, Lee F. Stanish, Rob Knight - Environmental Microbiology 2010 cited by 465

  7. The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling

    Authors: Diana R. Nemergut, Alan R. Townsend, Sarah Sattin, Kristen R. Freeman, Noah Fierer, Jason C. Neff, William D. Bowman, Christopher W. Schadt, Michael Weintraub, Steven K. Schmidt - Environmental Microbiology 2008 cited by 302

  8. Functional Ecology of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation: A Contemporary Perspective

    Authors: Sasha C. Reed, Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2011 cited by 716

  9. Excess Nitrogen in the U.S. Environment: Trends, Risks, and Solutions

    Authors: Eric A. Davidson, M. B. David, James N. Galloway, Christine L. Goodale, Richard Haeuber, John A. Harrison, Robert W. Howarth, Dan B. Jaynes, Richard Lowrance, Nolan B. Thomas, Jennifer L. Peel, R. W. Pinder, Ellen Porter, Clifford S. Snyder, Alan R. Townsend, Mary H. Ward - 2011 cited by 247

  10. Parasitic and Infectious Disease Responses to Changing Global Nutrient Cycles

    Authors: Valerie J. McKenzie, Alan R. Townsend - EcoHealth 2007 cited by 128

  11. Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

    Authors: David Schimel, B. H. Braswell, Elisabeth A. Holland, R. McKeown, Dennis S. Ojima, T. H. Painter, William J. Parton, Alan R. Townsend - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1994 cited by 1,075

  12. Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Authors: Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend, Philip Taylor, Silvia Álvarez-Clare, Mercedes Bustamante, George B. Chuyong, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Pauline F. Grierson, Kyle E. Harms, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Alison Marklein, William J. Parton, Stephen Porder, Sasha C. Reed, Carlos A. Sierra, Whendee L. Silver, Edmund V. J. Tanner, William R. Wieder - Ecology Letters 2011 cited by 485

  13. Phosphorus Limitation of Microbial Processes in Moist Tropical Forests: Evidence from Short-term Laboratory Incubations and Field Studies

    Authors: Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend, Steven K. Schmidt - Ecosystems 2002 cited by 481

  14. Plot-scale manipulations of organic matter inputs to soils correlate with shifts in microbial community composition in a lowland tropical rain forest

    Authors: Diana R. Nemergut, Cory C. Cleveland, William R. Wieder, Christopher L. Washenberger, Alan R. Townsend - Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2010 cited by 279

  15. Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife

    Authors: Pieter T. J. Johnson, Alan R. Townsend, Cory C. Cleveland, Patricia M. Glibert, Robert W. Howarth, Valerie J. McKenzie, Eliška Rejmánková, Mary H. Ward - Ecological Applications 2010 cited by 269

  16. Controls over leaf litter decomposition in wet tropical forests

    Authors: William R. Wieder, Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend - Ecology 2009 cited by 224

  17. Disease Ecology Meets Ecosystem Science

    Authors: Daniel L. Preston, John Mischler, Alan R. Townsend, Pieter T. J. Johnson - Ecosystems 2016 cited by 110

  18. Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N2) fixation in natural ecosystems

    Authors: Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend, David Schimel, H. Fisher, Robert W. Howarth, Lars O. Hedin, Steven S. Perakis, Erika F. Latty, Joseph C. von Fischer, Adrien Elseroad, Matt F. Wasson - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1999 cited by 1,042

  19. Ecology for a Crowded Planet

    Authors: Margaret A. Palmer, Emily S. Bernhardt, Elizabeth A. Chornesky, Scott L. Collins, Andrew P. Dobson, Clifford S. Duke, Barry D. Gold, Robert B. Jacobson, Sharon Kingsland, Rhonda Kranz, Michael J. Mappin, M. Luisa Martínez, Fiorenza Micheli, Jennifer Morse, Michael L. Pace, Mercedes Pascual, Stephen R. Palumbi, O. J. Reichman, Ashley Simons, Alan R. Townsend, Monica G. Turner - Science 2004 cited by 554

  20. Nutrient additions to a tropical rain forest drive substantial soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere

    Authors: Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006 cited by 484

  21. Human health effects of a changing global nitrogen cycle

    Authors: Alan R. Townsend, Robert W. Howarth, Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Mary S. Booth, Cory C. Cleveland, Sharon K. Collinge, Andrew P. Dobson, Paul R. Epstein, Elisabeth A. Holland, D. R. Keeney, Michael A. Mallin, Christine A. Rogers, Peter M. Wayne, Amir H. Wolfe - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2003 cited by 478

  22. Increases in soil respiration following labile carbon additions linked to rapid shifts in soil microbial community composition

    Authors: Cory C. Cleveland, Diana R. Nemergut, Steven K. Schmidt, Alan R. Townsend - Biogeochemistry 2006 cited by 437

  23. The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests

    Authors: Alan R. Townsend, Gregory P. Asner, Cory C. Cleveland - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2008 cited by 308

  24. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics Along Gradients in Temperature and Land Use on the Island of Hawaii

    Authors: Alan R. Townsend, Peter M. Vitousek, Susan Trumbore - Ecology 1995 cited by 284