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William J. Parton

Active 1981–2020

68
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Citations

Citations per year for William J. Parton1983: 1 citations1985: 1 citations1986: 1 citations1988: 1 citations1989: 3 citations1990: 9 citations1991: 15 citations1992: 25 citations1993: 35 citations1994: 30 citations1995: 64 citations1996: 56 citations1997: 87 citations1998: 79 citations1999: 70 citations2000: 96 citations2001: 98 citations2002: 78 citations2003: 83 citations2004: 93 citations2005: 126 citations2006: 89 citations2007: 110 citations2008: 117 citations2009: 171 citations2010: 150 citations2011: 130 citations2012: 142 citations2013: 166 citations2014: 162 citations2015: 201 citations2016: 142 citations2017: 171 citations2018: 166 citations2019: 173 citations2020: 158 citations2021: 130 citations2022: 101 citations2023: 94 citations2024: 83 citations2025: 47 citations2026: 10 citations1984: no citations, so this year is not shown1987: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,405 citing papers, 26.2% of this breakdownChina: 457 citing papers, 8.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 367 citing papers, 6.9% of this breakdownGermany: 364 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 288 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownFrance: 253 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownCanada: 228 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 155 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSweden: 131 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 120 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSpain: 114 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownItaly: 103 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Environmental Science45.1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.3%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences3.7%
  • Engineering3.2%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.9%
  • Medicine1%
  • Other2.8%

Topics

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics14.6%
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics6.4%
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology5.1%
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics4.3%
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics3.7%
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies3.5%
  • Other62.4%

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  1. Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

    Authors: M. Francesca Cotrufo, Jennifer L. Soong, Andrew J. Horton, Eleanor E. Campbell, Michelle L. Haddix, Diana H. Wall, William J. Parton - Nature Geoscience 2015 cited by 1,781

  2. The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Authors: Uta Stockmann, Mark A. Adams, John W. Crawford, Damien J. Field, Nilusha Henakaarchchi, Meaghan E. Jenkins, Budiman Minasny, Alex B. McBratney, Vivien de Rémy de Courcelles, Kanika Singh, Ichsani Wheeler, Lynette K. Abbott, Denis A. Angers, Jeff Baldock, Michael I. Bird, Philip C. Brookes, Claire Chenu, Julie Jastrow, Rattan Lal, Johannes Lehmann, Anthony G. O’Donnell, William J. Parton, David Whitehead, Michael Zimmermann - Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2012 cited by 1,686

  3. Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

    Authors: Richard T. Conant, Michael G. Ryan, Göran I. Ågren, Hannah E. Birgé, Eric A. Davidson, Peter Eliasson, Sarah Evans, Serita D. Frey, Christian P. Giardina, F. M. Hopkins, Riitta Hyvönen, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, Jocelyn M. Lavallee, Jens Leifeld, William J. Parton, Jessica Megan Steinweg, Matthew D. Wallenstein, J. Å. Martin Wetterstedt, Mark A. Bradford - Global Change Biology 2011 cited by 1,620

  4. A model for diurnal variation in soil and air temperature

    Authors: William J. Parton, Jesse A. Logan - Agricultural Meteorology 1981 cited by 458

  5. Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

    Authors: Andrea Koch, Alex B. McBratney, Mark A. Adams, Damien J. Field, Robert W. Hill, John W. Crawford, Budiman Minasny, Rattan Lal, Lynette K. Abbott, Anthony G. O’Donnell, Denis A. Angers, Jeff Baldock, Edward B. Barbier, Dan Binkley, William J. Parton, Diana H. Wall, Michael I. Bird, J. Bouma, Claire Chenu, Cornelia Butler Flora, K. W. T. Goulding, Sabine Grunwald, Jon Hempel, Julie Jastrow, Johannes Lehmann, Klaus Lorenz, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Charles W. Rice, David Whitehead, Iain M. Young, Michael Zimmermann - Global Policy 2013 cited by 358

  6. Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Authors: Yiqi Luo, Anders Ahlström, Steven Allison, N.H. Batjes, Victor Brovkin, Nuno Carvalhais, Adrian Chappell, Philippe Ciais, Eric A. Davidson, Adien Finzi, Katerina Georgiou, Bertrand Guenet, Oleksandra Hararuk, J. W. Harden, Yujie He, F. M. Hopkins, Lifen Jiang, Charles D. Koven, Robert B. Jackson, Chris D. Jones, Mark J. Lara, Junyi Liang, A. David McGuire, William J. Parton, Changhui Peng, James T. Randerson, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos Sierra, Matthew J. Smith, Hanqin Tian, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Margaret Torn, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Ying‐Ping Wang, Tristram O. West, Yaxing Wei, William R. Wieder, Jianyang Xia, Xia Xu, Xiaofeng Xu, Tao Zhou - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2015 cited by 545

  7. Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate‐dependent

    Authors: Diana H. Wall, Mark A. Bradford, Mark G. St. John, J. A. Trofymow, Valerie M. Behan‐Pelletier, David E. Bignell, J. Mark Dangerfield, William J. Parton, Josef Rusek, Winfried Voigt, Volkmar Wolters, HOLLEY ZADEH GARDEL, F.O. Ayuke, R. Bashford, OLGA I. BELJAKOVA, Patrick J. Bohlen, Alain Brauman, Stephen P. Flemming, Joh R. Henschel, Dan L. Johnson, T. Hefin Jones, Marcela Kovařová, J. M. Kranabetter, Les Kutny, Kuo-Chuan Lin, Mohamed Maryati, Dominique Massé, A. D. Pokarzhevskii, Homathevi Rahman, Millôr Godoy Sabará, J.-A. Salamon, M. J. Swift, A. Varela, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Don G. White, Xiaoming Zou - Global Change Biology 2008 cited by 535

  8. Synthesis and modeling perspectives of rhizosphere priming

    Authors: Weixin Cheng, William J. Parton, Miquel A. Gonzàlez‐Meler, Richard P. Phillips, Shinichi Asao, Gordon G. McNickle, Edward Brzostek, Julie Jastrow - New Phytologist 2013 cited by 610

  9. DAYCENT and its land surface submodel: description and testing

    Authors: William J. Parton, Melannie D. Hartman, Dennis S. Ojima, David Schimel - Global and Planetary Change 1998 cited by 867

  10. Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide

    Authors: William J. Parton, J. M. O. Scurlock, Dennis S. Ojima, Tagir G. Gilmanov, Robert J. Scholes, David Schimel, T. Kirchner, J.C. Menaut, Timothy R. Seastedt, E. Garcia Moya, A. Kamnalrut, J. I. Kinyamario - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1993 cited by 1,361

  11. A General Model for Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: Sensitivity to Litter Chemistry, Texture and Management

    Authors: William J. Parton, Dennis S. Ojima, C. V. Cole, David Schimel - SSSA special publication series 1994 cited by 633

  12. Generalized model for N2 and N2O production from nitrification and denitrification

    Authors: William J. Parton, A. R. Mosier, Dennis S. Ojima, D. W. Valentine, D. Schimel, K. L. Weier, Airi Kulmala - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1996 cited by 595

  13. Simple three‐pool model accurately describes patterns of long‐term litter decomposition in diverse climates

    Authors: E. Carol Adair, William J. Parton, STEVEN J. DEL GROSSO, Whendee L. Silver, Mark E. Harmon, Sonia A. Hall, Ingrid C. Burke, Stephen C. Hart - Global Change Biology 2008 cited by 537

  14. Modifying DSSAT Crop Models for Low‐Input Agricultural Systems Using a Soil Organic Matter–Residue Module from CENTURY

    Authors: Arjan J. Gijsman, Gerrit Hoogenboom, William J. Parton, P. C. Kerridge - Agronomy Journal 2002 cited by 288

  15. Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long‐term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4)

    Authors: Gordon B. Bonan, Melannie D. Hartman, William J. Parton, William R. Wieder - Global Change Biology 2012 cited by 228

  16. Dynamics of C, N, P and S in grassland soils: a model

    Authors: William J. Parton, John Stewart, C. V. Cole - Biogeochemistry 1988 cited by 1,495

  17. Primary Production of the Central Grassland Region of the United States

    Authors: Osvaldo E. Sala, William J. Parton, Linda A. Joyce, William K. Lauenroth - Ecology 1988 cited by 1,307

  18. 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

  19. Long‐term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition

    Authors: Henry L. Gholz, David A. Wedin, Stephen M. Smitherman, Mark E. Harmon, William J. Parton - Global Change Biology 2000 cited by 954

  20. 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

  21. General model for N2O and N2 gas emissions from soils due to dentrification

    Authors: Stephen J. Del Grosso, William J. Parton, A. R. Mosier, Dennis S. Ojima, Airi Kulmala, S. Phongpan - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2000 cited by 470

  22. Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Authors: Sönke Zaehle, Belinda E. Medlyn, Martin G. De Kauwe, Anthony P. Walker, Michael C. Dietze, Thomas Hickler, Yiqi Luo, Ying‐Ping Wang, Bassil El Masri, Peter Thornton, Atul K. Jain, Shusen Wang, David Wårlind, Ensheng Weng, William J. Parton, Colleen M. Iversen, Anne Gallet‐Budynek, Heather R. McCarthy, Adrien C. Finzi, Paul J. Hanson, I. Colin Prentice, Ram Oren, Richard J. Norby - New Phytologist 2014 cited by 462

  23. Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    Authors: G. Philip Robertson, Virginia H. Dale, Otto C. Doering, Steven P. Hamburg, Jerry M. Melillo, Michele M. Wander, William J. Parton, Paul R. Adler, Jacob N. Barney, Richard M. Cruse, Clifford S. Duke, Philip M. Fearnside, R. F. Follett, Holly Gibbs, José Goldemberg, David J. Mladenoff, Dennis S. Ojima, Michael W. Palmer, Andrew Sharpley, Linda L. Wallace, Kathleen C. Weathers, John A. Wiens, Wallace W. Wilhelm - Science 2008 cited by 436

  24. Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Authors: Belinda E. Medlyn, Sönke Zaehle, Martin G. De Kauwe, Anthony P. Walker, Michael C. Dietze, Paul J. Hanson, Thomas Hickler, Atul K. Jain, Yiqi Luo, William J. Parton, I. Colin Prentice, Peter Thornton, Shusen Wang, Ying‐Ping Wang, Ensheng Weng, Colleen M. Iversen, Heather R. McCarthy, J. M. Warren, Ram Oren, Richard J. Norby - Nature Climate Change 2015 cited by 368