Allan H. Devol

22.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
146 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

Allan H. Devol is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan H. Devol has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Oceanography, 81 papers in Ecology and 43 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Allan H. Devol's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (94 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (36 papers). Allan H. Devol is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (94 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (36 papers). Allan H. Devol collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and India. Allan H. Devol's co-authors include Jay A. Brandes, John I. Hedges, Jeffrey E. Richey, Richard G. Keil, Hilairy E. Hartnett, Paul D. Quay, James M. Tiedje, Louis A Codispoti, Tadashi Yoshinari and Amal Jayakumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Allan H. Devol

145 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Nitrogen in the Marine Environment

1985 810 citations Allan H. Devol profile →
Compositions and fluxes of particulate organic material in the Amazon River1

1986 719 citations Jeffrey E. Richey, Allan H. Devol et al. profile →
Influence of oxygen exposure time on organic carbon preservation in continental margin sediments

1998 662 citations Hilairy E. Hartnett, Richard G. Keil et al. profile →
The oceanic fixed nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets: Moving targets as we enter the anthropocene?

2001 625 citations Jay A. Brandes, Allan H. Devol et al. profile →
The combined effects of ocean acidification, mixing, and respiration on pH and carbonate saturation in an urbanized estuary

2010 480 citations Richard A. Feely, Simone R. Alin et al. profile →
Effects of fungal degradation on the CuO oxidation products of lignin: A controlled laboratory study

1988 417 citations Allan H. Devol et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allan H. Devol United States	70	9.0k	8.5k	4.2k	3.2k	2.7k	146	16.5k
Douglas G. Capone United States	63	9.1k 1.0×	9.4k 1.1×	3.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	144	17.2k
Niels Peter Revsbech Denmark	79	7.0k 0.8×	8.3k 1.0×	4.6k 1.1×	4.7k 1.5×	1.1k 0.4×	192	18.5k
Ronald Benner United States	88	17.2k 1.9×	13.5k 1.6×	5.9k 1.4×	2.0k 0.6×	4.8k 1.7×	231	27.1k
Ronnie N. Glud Denmark	67	7.4k 0.8×	6.0k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	268	14.0k
Bo Thamdrup Denmark	69	6.1k 0.7×	7.9k 0.9×	5.7k 1.4×	5.6k 1.8×	1.9k 0.7×	176	17.5k
Robert C. Aller United States	72	7.6k 0.8×	5.6k 0.7×	3.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	169	15.6k
Thorsten Dittmar Germany	80	12.0k 1.3×	13.6k 1.6×	5.9k 1.4×	2.7k 0.9×	5.9k 2.1×	278	29.2k
Daniel J. Conley Sweden	69	8.7k 1.0×	5.5k 0.6×	6.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.4×	3.8k 1.4×	212	19.2k
Thomas S. Bianchi United States	70	8.9k 1.0×	7.4k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	4.4k 1.6×	268	16.2k
David A. Hutchins United States	70	12.3k 1.4×	6.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	228	16.6k

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Fuchsman, Clara A., Megan Duffy, Jacob A. Cram, et al.. (2025). Contributions of Vertically Migrating Metazoans to Sinking and Suspended Particulate Matter Fuel N₂ Production in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(3). 1 indexed citations

Moffett, James W., et al.. (2023). Rapid Expansion of Fixed Nitrogen Deficit in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Revealed by 50‐Year Time Series. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(10). 4 indexed citations

Cram, Jacob A., Clara A. Fuchsman, Megan Duffy, et al.. (2021). Slow Particle Remineralization, Rather Than Suppressed Disaggregation, Drives Efficient Flux Transfer Through the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(1). 15 indexed citations

Fuchsman, Clara A., Hilary I. Palevsky, Brittany Widner, et al.. (2019). Cyanobacteria and cyanophage contributions to carbon and nitrogen cycling in an oligotrophic oxygen-deficient zone. The ISME Journal. 13(11). 2714–2726. 64 indexed citations

Devol, Allan H.. (2018). Denitrification in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.

Fassbender, Andrea J., Simone R. Alin, Richard A. Feely, et al.. (2018). Seasonal carbonate chemistry variability in marine surface waters of the US Pacific Northwest. Earth system science data. 10(3). 1367–1401. 32 indexed citations

Mordy, Calvin W., Allan H. Devol, Lisa B. Eisner, et al.. (2017). Nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics on the inner shelf of the eastern Bering Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(3). 2422–2440. 7 indexed citations

Fuchsman, Clara A., et al.. (2017). Niche Partitioning of the N Cycling Microbial Community of an Offshore Oxygen Deficient Zone. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 2384–2384. 65 indexed citations

Heal, Katherine R., Wei Qin, François Ribalet, et al.. (2016). Two distinct pools of B ₁₂ analogs reveal community interdependencies in the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(2). 364–369. 145 indexed citations

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Peng, Xuefeng, Clara A. Fuchsman, Amal Jayakumar, et al.. (2016). Revisiting nitrification in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific: A focus on controls. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 121(3). 1667–1684. 83 indexed citations

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Keil, Richard G., et al.. (2016). A multiproxy approach to understanding the "enhanced" flux of organic matter through the oxygen-deficient waters of the Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences. 13(7). 2077–2092. 68 indexed citations

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Bourbonnais, Annie, S. Kim Juniper, D. A. Butterfield, et al.. (2012). Activity and abundance of denitrifying bacteria in the subsurface biosphere of diffuse hydrothermal vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Biogeosciences. 9(11). 4661–4678. 34 indexed citations

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Devol, Allan H., et al.. (2008). Anthropogenic Contributions to Hypoxia in Lower Hood Canal, Washington State. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Mooy, Benjamin A. S. Van, et al.. (2006). Sulfolipids dramatically decrease phosphorus demand by picocyanobacteria in oligotrophic marine environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(23). 8607–8612. 285 indexed citations

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Tiquia-Arashiro, Sonia M., et al.. (2006). Diversity of Biogeochemical Cycling Genes from Puget Sound Sediments using DNA Microarrays. Environmental Technology. 27(12). 1377–1389. 6 indexed citations

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Naqvi, S.W.A., Hema Naik, Anil Pratihary, et al.. (2006). Coastal versus open-ocean denitrification in the Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences. 3(4). 621–633. 155 indexed citations

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Hartnett, Hilairy E., Allan H. Devol, Jay A. Brandes, & Bonnie X. Chang. (2005). Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine sediments during respiration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 69(10). 3 indexed citations

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Hartnett, Hilairy E. & Allan H. Devol. (2003). Role of a strong oxygen-deficient zone in the preservation and degradation of organic matter: a carbon budget for the continental margins of northwest Mexico and Washington State. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 67(2). 247–264. 147 indexed citations

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Brandes, Jay A. & Allan H. Devol. (2002). A global marine‐fixed nitrogen isotopic budget: Implications for Holocene nitrogen cycling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4). 398 indexed citations

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Victória, R. L., et al.. (1989). Spatial and temporal variations in soil chemistry on the Amazon floodplain. GeoJournal. 19(1). 45–52. 13 indexed citations

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