Aaron Thompson

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Aaron Thompson is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Chemistry and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Thompson has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 34 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 27 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Aaron Thompson's work include Iron oxide chemistry and applications (38 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (21 papers). Aaron Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Iron oxide chemistry and applications (38 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (21 papers). Aaron Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Aaron Thompson's co-authors include Chunmei Chen, Oliver A. Chadwick, Jon Chorover, Steven J. Hall, Denis Rancourt, Elizabeth K. Coward, Christof Meile, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Jared Wilmoth and Diego Barcellos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Thompson

108 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

2018 542 citations Craig Rasmussen, Caitlin Hicks Pries et al. Biogeochemistry profile →
Iron-mediated organic matter decomposition in humid soils can counteract protection

2020 387 citations Steven J. Hall, Aaron Thompson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Thompson United States	36	1.7k	1.4k	982	945	894	113	4.8k
Reinhold Jahn Germany	36	2.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	554 0.6×	954 1.1×	92	6.5k
Robert Mikutta Germany	46	3.9k 2.4×	1.9k 1.3×	2.3k 2.4×	748 0.8×	799 0.9×	107	7.9k
Donald L. Suarez United States	45	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	326 0.3×	485 0.5×	963 1.1×	175	7.2k
Ludwig Haumaier Germany	37	2.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	279 0.3×	555 0.6×	64	6.1k
Rota Wagai Japan	27	2.2k 1.3×	797 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	255 0.3×	324 0.4×	69	3.7k
Jörg Prietzel Germany	34	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	880 0.9×	251 0.3×	381 0.4×	105	3.6k
Felipe Macı́as Spain	37	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	297 0.3×	896 1.0×	195	5.2k
Ulla S. Lundström Sweden	34	1.3k 0.8×	967 0.7×	900 0.9×	181 0.2×	581 0.6×	73	4.6k
Dean Hesterberg United States	39	824 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	290 0.3×	705 0.7×	540 0.6×	128	4.9k
Biqing Liang Canada	39	4.5k 2.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	198 0.2×	586 0.7×	89	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Aaron Thompson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Aaron Thompson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Thompson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aaron Thompson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aaron Thompson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aaron Thompson. Aaron Thompson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thompson, Aaron, et al.. (2025). On the equivalence between laboratory and field estimates of soil water retention parameters and its implications for modeling oxygen diffusion in structured agricultural soils. Vadose Zone Journal. 24(5).

Fromm, Sophie F. von, Hermann F. Jungkunst, Steven J. Hall, et al.. (2025). Moisture and soil depth govern relationships between soil organic carbon and oxalate-extractable metals at the global scale. Biogeochemistry. 168(1). 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yatao, et al.. (2025). Is Net Carbon Goal an accounting game? Insights from supply-demand interactions in carbon sequestration service. Land Use Policy. 161. 107850–107850.

Parsa, Mohammad, C J M Lawley, Steven E. Zhang, et al.. (2025). Pan-Canadian Predictive Modeling of Lithium–Cesium–Tantalum Pegmatites with Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. Natural Resources Research. 34(2). 639–668. 5 indexed citations

Mikutta, Christian, et al.. (2024). Redox cycling of straw-amended soil simultaneously increases iron oxide crystallinity and the content of highly disordered organo-iron(III) solids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 371. 126–143. 6 indexed citations

Spielman-Sun, Eleanor, Kristin Boye, Dipankar Dwivedi, et al.. (2024). A Critical Look at Colloid Generation, Stability, and Transport in Redox-Dynamic Environments: Challenges and Perspectives. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 8(4). 630–653. 17 indexed citations

Saikawa, Eri, et al.. (2024). Soil greenhouse gas fluxes in corn systems with varying agricultural practices and pesticide levels. Environmental Science Advances. 3(12). 1760–1774. 1 indexed citations

Richter, Daniel deB., et al.. (2023). The primacy of temporal dynamics in driving spatial self-organization of soil iron redox patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(51). e2313487120–e2313487120. 4 indexed citations

Sumner, Malcolm E., et al.. (2023). Mineral characteristics of volcanic ash‐derived soils affecting boron adsorption. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87(3). 682–695. 5 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Paul A., et al.. (2022). Mineralogical and Elemental Trends in Regolith on Historically Managed Sites in the southeastern United States Piedmont. Clays and Clay Minerals. 70(4). 539–554. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Nanqing, Robert Kupper, Jeffrey G. Catalano, Aaron Thompson, & Clara S. Chan. (2022). Biological Oxidation of Fe(II)-Bearing Smectite by Microaerophilic Iron Oxidizer Sideroxydans lithotrophicus Using Dual Mto and Cyc2 Iron Oxidation Pathways. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(23). 17443–17453. 20 indexed citations

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Duckworth, Owen W., Matthew L. Polizzotto, & Aaron Thompson. (2022). Bringing soil chemistry to environmental health science to tackle soil contaminants. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 8 indexed citations

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Hill, N. S., Matthew R. Levi, Aaron Thompson, et al.. (2021). White clover living mulch enhances soil health vs. annual cover crops. Agronomy Journal. 113(4). 3697–3707. 8 indexed citations

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Calabrese, Salvatore, Diego Barcellos, Aaron Thompson, & Amilcare Porporato. (2020). Theoretical Constraints on Fe Reduction Rates in Upland Soils as a Function of Hydroclimatic Conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(12). 12 indexed citations

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Wilmoth, Jared, Mary Ann Moran, & Aaron Thompson. (2018). Transient O2 pulses direct Fe crystallinity and Fe(III)-reducer gene expression within a soil microbiome. Microbiome. 6(1). 189–189. 19 indexed citations

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Thompson, Aaron, et al.. (2017). The potential for iron reduction in upland soils in Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Jing, Brian J. Mailloux, Steven N. Chillrud, et al.. (2017). Simultaneously quantifying ferrihydrite and goethite in natural sediments using the method of standard additions with X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Chemical Geology. 476. 248–259. 36 indexed citations

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Thompson, Aaron, et al.. (2016). Molybdenum sources and isotopic composition during early stages of pedogenesis along a basaltic climate transect. Chemical Geology. 445. 54–67. 40 indexed citations

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Silver, Whendee L., et al.. (2014). Iron: A Biogeochemical Engine That Drives Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycling in Humid Tropical Forest Soils. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Aaron, Denis Rancourt, Oliver A. Chadwick, & Jon Chorover. (2008). Evolution of soil Iron mineral composition as a function of climate-driven Fe loss. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12). 1 indexed citations

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