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James J. Elser

Active 1987–2024

83
Papers
41,660
Citations
75
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Citations

Citations per year for James J. Elser1955: 2 citations1988: 3 citations1989: 5 citations1990: 6 citations1991: 5 citations1992: 11 citations1993: 6 citations1994: 9 citations1995: 6 citations1996: 9 citations1997: 22 citations1998: 11 citations1999: 20 citations2000: 27 citations2001: 34 citations2002: 59 citations2003: 73 citations2004: 123 citations2005: 128 citations2006: 112 citations2007: 88 citations2008: 139 citations2009: 132 citations2010: 146 citations2011: 199 citations2012: 195 citations2013: 222 citations2014: 184 citations2015: 200 citations2016: 231 citations2017: 189 citations2018: 164 citations2019: 261 citations2020: 261 citations2021: 236 citations2022: 149 citations2023: 106 citations2024: 162 citations2025: 64 citations1956–1987: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,245 citing papers, 20.7% of this breakdownChina: 532 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownGermany: 379 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 379 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 328 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownCanada: 325 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownFrance: 260 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 220 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 167 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSpain: 166 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSweden: 145 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownAustria: 97 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science50.1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.8%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.2%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences7.4%
  • Medicine2.6%
  • Engineering1.9%
  • Other7%

Topics

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology4.6%
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies4.4%
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics3.9%
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems3.8%
  • Plant and animal studies3.2%
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics3%
  • Other77.1%

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  1. TRY – a global database of plant traits

    Authors: Jens Kattge, Soledad Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel, I. Colin Prentice, Paul Leadley, Gerhard Bönisch, Éric Garnier, Mark Westoby, Peter B. Reich, Ian J. Wright, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Cyrille Violle, Sandy P. Harrison, Peter M. van Bodegom, Markus Reichstein, Brian J. Enquist, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, David D. Ackerly, M. Anand, Owen K. Atkin, Michael Bahn, Timothy R. Baker, Dennis Baldocchi, R.M. Bekker, C. Blanco, Benjamin Blonder, William J. Bond, Ross A. Bradstock, Dan Bunker, Fernando Casanoves, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, F. Stuart Chapin, Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes, William K. Cornwell, Joseph M. Craine, Barbara Dobrin, Leandro Duarte, Walter Durka, James J. Elser, G. Esser, Marc Estiarte, William F. Fagan, Jinwei Fang, Fernando Fernández‐Méndez, Alessandra Fidélis, Bryan Finegan, Olivier Flores, HENRY FORD, Dorothea Frank, Grégoire T. Freschet, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Rachael V. Gallagher, W. A. GREEN, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez, Thomas Hickler, Steven I. Higgins, J. G. Hodgson, Amir Jalili, Steven Jansen, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Donald W. Kirkup, Kaoru Kitajima, Michael Kleyer, Stefan Klotz, Johannes M. H. Knops, K. Krämer, Ingolf Kühn, H. Kurokawa, Daniel C. Laughlin, Tali D. Lee, Michelle R. Leishman, Frederic Lens, Tanja I. Lenz, Simon L. Lewis, Jon Lloyd, Joan Llusià, Frédérique Louault, Sai Ma, Miguel D. Mahecha, Peter Manning, Tara Joy Massad, Belinda E. Medlyn, J. Messier, Angela T. Moles, Sandra Cristina Müller, Karin Nadrowski, S. NAEEM, Ülo Niinemets, Stephanie Nöllert, Alison Nuske, Romà Ogaya, Jacek Oleksyn, V. G. Onipchenko, Yusuke Onoda, Jenny Ordóñez, Gerhard E. Overbeck, W.A. Ozinga and 35 more - Global Change Biology 2011 cited by 2,669

  2. The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    Authors: Paul G. Falkowski, Robert J. Scholes, E. Boyle, Josep G. Canadell, Donald E. Canfield, James J. Elser, Nicolas Gruber, Kathy Hibbard, Peter Högberg, Sune Linder, Fred T. Mackenzie, Berrien Moore, Thomas F. Pedersen, Yair Rosenthal, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Victor Smetacek, Will Steffen - Science 2000 cited by 2,190

  3. Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems

    Authors: James J. Elser, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Elsa E. Cleland, Daniel S. Gruner, W. Stanley Harpole, Helmut Hillebrand, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Eric W. Seabloom, Jonathan B. Shurin, Jennifer E. Smith - Ecology Letters 2007 cited by 4,599

  4. Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere

    Authors: Robert W. Sterner, James J. Elser - Princeton University Press eBooks 2002 cited by 4,526

  5. Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

    Authors: Ulrich Sommer, Rita Adrian, Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis, James J. Elser, Ursula Gaedke, Bas W. Ibelings, Erik Jeppesen, Miquel Lürling, Juan Carlos Molinero, Wolf M. Mooij, Ellen van Donk, Monika Winder - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2012 cited by 887

  6. Sustainability Challenges of Phosphorus and Food: Solutions from Closing the Human Phosphorus Cycle

    Authors: Daniel L. Childers, Jessica R. Corman, Mark Edwards, James J. Elser - BioScience 2011 cited by 520

  7. Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change

    Authors: James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Nathan G. Swenson, Brian J. Enquist - New Phytologist 2010 cited by 1,029

  8. Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes

    Authors: Boqiang Qin, Jian Zhou, James J. Elser, Wayne S. Gardner, Jianming Deng, Justin D. Brookes - Environmental Science & Technology 2020 cited by 509

  9. Phosphorus: a limiting nutrient for humanity?

    Authors: James J. Elser - Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2012 cited by 370

  10. Improvement in municipal wastewater treatment alters lake nitrogen to phosphorus ratios in populated regions

    Authors: Yindong Tong, Mengzhu Wang, Josep Peñuelas, Xueyan Liu, Hans W. Paerl, James J. Elser, Jordi Sardans, Raoul‐Marie Couture, Thorjørn Larssen, Hong‐Ying Hu, Xin Dong, Wei He, Wei Zhang, Xuejun Wang, Yang Zhang, Yi Liu, Siyu Zeng, Xiangzhen Kong, Annette B.G. Janssen, Yan Lin - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 cited by 241

  11. Dynamics of Stoichiometric Bacteria-Algae Interactions in the Epilimnion

    Authors: Hao Wang, Hal L. Smith, Yang Kuang, James J. Elser - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 2007 cited by 67

  12. Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs

    Authors: James J. Elser, William F. Fagan, Robert F. Denno, Dean R. Dobberfuhl, Ayoola Folarin, Andrea F. Huberty, Sebastian J. Interlandi, Susan S. Kilham, Edward McCauley, Kimberly L. Schulz, Evan Siemann, Robert W. Sterner - Nature 2000 cited by 1,669

  13. Phylogenetic and Growth Form Variation in the Scaling of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Seed Plants

    Authors: Andrew J. Kerkhoff, William F. Fagan, James J. Elser, Brian J. Enquist - The American Naturalist 2006 cited by 500

  14. Long-term accumulation and transport of anthropogenic phosphorus in three river basins

    Authors: Stephen M. Powers, Thomas W. Bruulsema, Tim Burt, Neng Iong Chan, James J. Elser, P. M. Haygarth, Nicholas Howden, Helen P. Jarvie, Yang Lyu, Heidi Peterson, Andrew N. Sharpley, Jianbo Shen, Fred Worrall, Fusuo Zhang - Nature Geoscience 2016 cited by 428

  15. Genomic adaptations in information processing underpin trophic strategy in a whole-ecosystem nutrient enrichment experiment

    Authors: Jordan G. Okie, Amisha T. Poret‐Peterson, Zarraz M.-P. Lee, Alexander Richter, Luis David Alcaraz, Luis E. Eguiarte, Janet L. Siefert, Valeria Souza, Christopher L. Dupont, James J. Elser - eLife 2020 cited by 48

  16. Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities

    Authors: W. Stanley Harpole, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Elsa E. Cleland, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Matthew E. S. Bracken, James J. Elser, Daniel S. Gruner, Helmut Hillebrand, Jonathan B. Shurin, Jennifer E. Smith - Ecology Letters 2011 cited by 1,086

  17. Intensification of phosphorus cycling in China since the 1600s

    Authors: Xin Liu, Sheng Hu, Songyan Jiang, Zengwei Yuan, Chaosheng Zhang, James J. Elser - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 291

  18. The Functional Significance of Ribosomal (r)DNA Variation: Impacts on the Evolutionary Ecology of Organisms

    Authors: Lawrence J. Weider, James J. Elser, Teresa J. Crease, Mariana Mateos, James B. Cotner, Therese A. Markow - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2005 cited by 160

  19. Organism Size, Life History, and N:P Stoichiometry

    Authors: James J. Elser, Dean R. Dobberfuhl, Neil A. MacKay, John H. Schampel - BioScience 1996 cited by 988

  20. Nitrogen in Insects: Implications for Trophic Complexity and Species Diversification

    Authors: William F. Fagan, Evan Siemann, Charles Mitter, Robert F. Denno, Andrea F. Huberty, H. Arthur Woods, James J. Elser - The American Naturalist 2002 cited by 445

  21. Linking stoichiometric homoeostasis with ecosystem structure, functioning and stability

    Authors: Qiang Yu, Quansheng Chen, James J. Elser, Nianpeng He, Honghui Wu, Guangming Zhang, Jianguo Wu, Yongfei Bai, Xingguo Han - Ecology Letters 2010 cited by 367

  22. Impacts of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: From Genomes to Natural Ecosystems and Agriculture

    Authors: Maïté S. Guignard, Andrew R. Leitch, Claudia Acquisti, Christophe Eizaguirre, James J. Elser, Dag O. Hessen, Punidan D. Jeyasingh, Maurine Neiman, Alan E. Richardson, Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Carly Stevens, Mark Trimmer, Lawrence J. Weider, Guy Woodward, Ilia J. Leitch - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2017 cited by 286

  23. Temperature and the chemical composition of poikilothermic organisms

    Authors: H. Arthur Woods, Wataru Makino, James B. Cotner, Sarah E. Hobbie, J. F. Harrison, K. Acharya, James J. Elser - Functional Ecology 2003 cited by 278

  24. Linkages of stoichiometric imbalances to soil microbial respiration with increasing nitrogen addition: Evidence from a long-term grassland experiment

    Authors: Xiaobo Yuan, Decao Niu, Laureano Gherardi, Yanbin Liu, Ying Wang, James J. Elser, Hua Fu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2019 cited by 225