Bess B. Ward

18.9k citations
211 papers · 12.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 63

Impact in

  • Oceanography top 0.05%
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems
    • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Pollution top 0.05%
    • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 135
    • Isotope Analysis in Ecology 15
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems 132
    • Marine Biology and Ecology Research 43

Bess B. Ward

205 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Bess B. Ward's Hit Papers

Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics 2020 · 291 citations
2910+2+4Years since publication50100150200250

Peers

Bess B. Ward
Comparison fields: 5 of 135
  • Oceanography 6.1k
  • Pollution 4.4k
  • Ecology 7.4k
  • Environmental Chemistry 2.3k
  • Geochemistry and Petrology 643
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Bess B. Ward, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1 2004449
2 2009422
3 2002390
4 1994352
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Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics
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2020291
6 2003266
7 2013236
8 2000234
9 2014204
10 1991194
11 2007193
12 2011179
13 2003169
14 1993169
15 1987168
16 1990159
17 1989151
18 2003150
19 1996148
20 2011140

About Bess B. Ward

Bess B. Ward is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 211 papers that have together received 12.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (135 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (132 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (107 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (43 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (15 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (6.1k citations), Pollution (4.4k citations), Ecology (7.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.3k citations) and Geochemistry and Petrology (643 citations). Bess B. Ward has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Amal Jayakumar, Daniel M. Sigman, Bongkeun Song, Jonathan P. Zehr, Karen L. Casciotti, Andrew R. Babbin, Deborah A. Bronk, G. D. O’Mullan, Allan H. Devol and K. A. Kilpatrick. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Microbial Ecology and The ISME Journal.

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