Adam S. Ward

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Adam S. Ward is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam S. Ward has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Water Science and Technology, 57 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 33 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Adam S. Ward's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (57 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (55 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (19 papers). Adam S. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (57 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (55 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (19 papers). Adam S. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Adam S. Ward's co-authors include Peter Fisher, M. N. Gooseff, Kamini Singha, N. M. Schmadel, Steven M. Wondzell, Michael Fitzgerald, Christa Kelleher, Thorsten Wagener, Amy J. Burgin and Caroline A. Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Adam S. Ward

84 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Medicine in Europe: Complementary medicine in Europe 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Medicine in Europe: Complementary medicine in Europe
    1994 582 citations Peter Fisher, Adam S. Ward BMJ profile →

Peers

Adam S. Ward
Jennifer L. Graham United States
Birgitte Hansen Denmark
P. Bellamy United Kingdom
Makoto Tani Japan
Yong Luo China
Irfan Rashid India
Meixian Liu China
Junming Guo China
Zhanbin Li China
Qi Lin China
Jennifer L. Graham United States
Adam S. Ward
Citations per year, relative to Adam S. Ward Adam S. Ward (= 1×) peers Jennifer L. Graham

Countries citing papers authored by Adam S. Ward

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adam S. Ward

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Adam S. Ward. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Adam S. Ward. The network helps show where Adam S. Ward may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adam S. Ward

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Adam S. Ward. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Adam S. Ward 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 Adam S. Ward. Adam S. Ward is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Golden, Heather E., Jay R. Christensen, Hilary McMillan, et al.. (2025). Advancing the science of headwater streamflow for global water protection. Nature Water. 3(1). 16–26. 8 indexed citations
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Jones, C. Nathan, et al.. (2025). Empirical Evidence of Dynamic Hydrogeomorphic Feature Inundation in a Lowland Floodplain. Hydrological Processes. 39(1). 1 indexed citations
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Seybold, Erin, C. Nathan Jones, Amy J. Burgin, et al.. (2023). How low can you go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(6). 804–811. 14 indexed citations
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Herzog, Skuyler, Jason Galloway, Eddie W. Banks, et al.. (2023). Combined Surface-Subsurface Stream Restoration Structures Can Optimize Hyporheic Attenuation of Stream Water Contaminants. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(10). 4153–4166. 2 indexed citations
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Ward, Adam S., Steven M. Wondzell, M. N. Gooseff, et al.. (2023). Breaking the Window of Detection: Using Multi‐Scale Solute Tracer Studies to Assess Mass Recovery at the Detection Limit. Water Resources Research. 59(3). 1 indexed citations
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Kelleher, Christa, et al.. (2022). The fluid definition of the ‘waters of the United States’: Non‐uniform effects of regulation on US wetland protections. Hydrological Processes. 36(11). 6 indexed citations
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Krause, Stefan, Benjamin W. Abbott, Viktor Baranov, et al.. (2022). Organizational Principles of Hyporheic Exchange Flow and Biogeochemical Cycling in River Networks Across Scales. Water Resources Research. 58(3). 39 indexed citations
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Hannah, David M., Benjamin W. Abbott, Kieran Khamis, et al.. (2022). Illuminating the ‘invisible water crisis’ to address global water pollution challenges. Hydrological Processes. 36(3). 33 indexed citations
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Danczak, Robert, Amy Goldman, Rosalie Chu, et al.. (2021). Ecological theory applied to environmental metabolomes reveals compositional divergence despite conserved molecular properties. The Science of The Total Environment. 788. 147409–147409. 22 indexed citations
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Kelleher, Christa, Adam S. Ward, Julia L. A. Knapp, et al.. (2019). Exploring Tracer Information and Model Framework Trade‐Offs to Improve Estimation of Stream Transient Storage Processes. Water Resources Research. 55(4). 3481–3501. 29 indexed citations
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Yoder, Landon, Adam S. Ward, Kajsa E. Dalrymple, Scott N. Spak, & Rebecca Lave. (2019). An analysis of conservation practice adoption studies in agricultural human-natural systems. Journal of Environmental Management. 236. 490–498. 50 indexed citations
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Horne, Sam Van, et al.. (2017). Variability in students' evaluating processes in peer assessment with calibrated peer review. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 33(2). 178–190. 23 indexed citations
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Kurz, Marie J., Jennifer Drummond, Eugènia Martı́, et al.. (2017). Impacts of water level on metabolism and transient storage in vegetated lowland rivers: Insights from a mesocosm study. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(3). 628–644. 19 indexed citations
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Hannah, David M., Stephen J. Dugdale, Marie J. Kurz, et al.. (2017). Low flow controls on stream thermal dynamics. Limnologica. 68. 157–167. 14 indexed citations
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Singha, Kamini, Ricardo González‐Pinzón, Adam S. Ward, et al.. (2016). A FIELD COMPARISON OF MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES TO QUANTIFY SURFACE WATER- GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 2 indexed citations
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Ward, Adam S., M. N. Gooseff, & Kamini Singha. (2012). How Does Subsurface Characterization Affect Simulations of Hyporheic Exchange?. Ground Water. 51(1). 14–28. 32 indexed citations
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Fisher, Peter & Adam S. Ward. (1994). Medicine in Europe: Complementary medicine in Europe. BMJ. 309(6947). 107–111. 582 indexed citations breakdown →

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