Bess B. Ward

18.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
211 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Bess B. Ward is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Bess B. Ward has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Ecology, 138 papers in Oceanography and 109 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Bess B. Ward's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (135 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (132 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (107 papers). Bess B. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (135 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (132 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (107 papers). Bess B. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Bess B. Ward's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Bess B. Ward

205 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics

2020 291 citations Bess B. Ward, Daniel M. Sigman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bess B. Ward United States	63	7.4k	6.1k	4.4k	2.3k	2.0k	211	12.3k
Gaute Lavik Germany	53	6.0k 0.8×	4.7k 0.8×	4.2k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	103	10.3k
Lars Peter Nielsen Denmark	61	5.2k 0.7×	4.1k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	3.7k 1.6×	1.3k 0.7×	149	13.4k
Nils Risgaard‐Petersen Denmark	53	4.6k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	846 0.4×	89	8.9k
Douglas G. Capone United States	63	9.4k 1.3×	9.1k 1.5×	2.0k 0.5×	3.7k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	144	17.2k
James T. Hollibaugh United States	52	4.7k 0.6×	3.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	3.0k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	128	9.3k
Mary Ann Moran United States	74	11.1k 1.5×	7.5k 1.2×	1.9k 0.4×	2.6k 1.1×	5.8k 3.0×	189	16.7k
Jonathan P. Zehr United States	70	12.8k 1.7×	11.1k 1.8×	2.3k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	5.1k 2.6×	242	17.6k
Bo Thamdrup Denmark	69	7.9k 1.1×	6.1k 1.0×	5.6k 1.3×	5.7k 2.4×	1.7k 0.9×	176	17.5k
Christopher Francis United States	49	7.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.4×	4.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.4×	100	9.9k
Meinhard Simon Germany	62	9.3k 1.3×	6.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	2.8k 1.2×	3.8k 1.9×	195	13.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Weiyi, et al.. (2025). Substrate Effect on the Contribution of Ammonium and Urea to Marine Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production. Environmental Microbiology. 27(10). e70187–e70187.

Baya, Pascale A., et al.. (2024). Isotopomer labeling and oxygen dependence of hybrid nitrous oxide production. Biogeosciences. 21(14). 3215–3238. 2 indexed citations

Tang, Weiyi, et al.. (2024). Determination of site‐specific nitrogen cycle reaction kinetics allows accurate simulation of in situ nitrogen transformation rates in a large North American estuary. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(8). 1757–1768. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Xin, et al.. (2024). Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria adapted to low-oxygen conditions dominate nitrite oxidation in marine oxygen minimum zones. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Tang, Weiyi, Bess B. Ward, Laura A. Bristow, et al.. (2023). Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean. Earth system science data. 15(11). 5039–5077. 14 indexed citations

Sheng, Huaxia, Xianhui Wan, Bobo Zou, et al.. (2023). An efficient diazotroph‐derived nitrogen transfer pathway in coral reef system. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(4). 963–981. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Xin, et al.. (2022). Controls on nitrite oxidation in the upper Southern Ocean: insights from winter kinetics experiments in the Indian sector. Biogeosciences. 19(14). 3425–3444. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Xin, Shantelle Smith, Alakendra N. Roychoudhury, et al.. (2022). The kinetics of ammonium uptake and oxidation across the Southern Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(4). 973–991. 11 indexed citations

Tang, Weiyi, Amal Jayakumar, Xin Sun, et al.. (2022). Nitrous Oxide Consumption in Oxygenated and Anoxic Estuarine Waters. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21). 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Claudia Frey, Emilio García‐Robledo, Amal Jayakumar, & Bess B. Ward. (2021). Microbial niche differentiation explains nitrite oxidation in marine oxygen minimum zones. The ISME Journal. 15(5). 1317–1329. 39 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, Claudia Frey, Emilio García‐Robledo, Amal Jayakumar, & Bess B. Ward. (2021). Correction: Microbial niche differentiation explains nitrite oxidation in marine oxygen minimum zones. The ISME Journal. 15(8). 2492–2492. 1 indexed citations

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Schulz, Kai G., Eric P. Achterberg, Javier Arı́stegui, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen loss processes in response to upwelling in a Peruvian coastal setting dominated by denitrification – a mesocosm approach. Biogeosciences. 18(14). 4305–4320. 4 indexed citations

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Rees, Andrew P., Ian Brown, Amal Jayakumar, et al.. (2021). Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 22 indexed citations

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Schulz, Kai G., Eric P. Achterberg, Javier Arı́stegui, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen loss processes in response to upwelling in a Peruviancoastal setting dominated by denitrification. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Xin, et al.. (2021). Controls on nitrite oxidation in the upper Southern Ocean: insights from winter kinetics experiments in the Indian sector. 3 indexed citations

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Thomalla, Sandy, et al.. (2020). The Seasonal Cycle of Nitrogen Uptake and Nitrification in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34(7). 33 indexed citations

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Babbin, Andrew R., Amal Jayakumar, & Bess B. Ward. (2015). Organic Matter Loading Modifies the Microbial Community Responsible for Nitrogen Loss in Estuarine Sediments. Microbial Ecology. 71(3). 555–565. 19 indexed citations

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Fawcett, Sarah E., Michael W. Lomas, Bess B. Ward, John R. Casey, & Daniel M. Sigman. (2010). Eukaryotes dominate new production in the Sargasso Sea. AGUFM. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Klotz, Martin G., Daniel J. Arp, Patrick Chain, et al.. (2006). The Complete Genome Sequence of the Marine, Chemolithoautotrophic, Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC19707. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 5 indexed citations

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Taroncher‐Oldenburg, Gaspar, Erin Griner, Christopher Francis, & Bess B. Ward. (2003). Oligonucleotide Microarray for the Study of Functional Gene Diversity in the Nitrogen Cycle in the Environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69(2). 1159–1171. 169 indexed citations

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