Brian H. Hill

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Brian H. Hill is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian H. Hill has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 23 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Brian H. Hill's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (46 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (37 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (20 papers). Brian H. Hill is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (46 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (37 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (20 papers). Brian H. Hill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ghana and Ireland. Brian H. Hill's co-authors include Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Jennifer J. Follstad Shah, Alan T. Herlihy, Philip R. Kaufmann, R. Jan Stevenson, Daryl Moorhead, Michael Weintraub, Colleen M. Elonen, Yangdong Pan and Terri M. Jicha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Brian H. Hill

80 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment

2009 1.3k citations Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Brian H. Hill et al. Nature profile →
Vector analysis of ecoenzyme activities reveal constraints on coupled C, N and P dynamics

2015 608 citations Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Brian H. Hill et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian H. Hill United States	34	3.1k	1.9k	1.8k	996	765	80	5.2k
Luc Abbadie France	39	2.4k 0.8×	3.5k 1.8×	1.2k 0.7×	904 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	81	6.3k
Albert Tietema Netherlands	43	2.8k 0.9×	3.4k 1.7×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	110	6.4k
Scott W. Bailey United States	37	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	607 0.8×	116	4.5k
Gregory B. Lawrence United States	36	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	508 0.7×	97	5.0k
H. Tiessen Canada	42	1.4k 0.4×	4.7k 2.4×	2.4k 1.3×	445 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	88	6.6k
Tenna Riis Denmark	36	3.1k 1.0×	478 0.2×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	618 0.8×	150	4.4k
Jianlin Shen China	35	1.5k 0.5×	3.0k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	436 0.4×	1.7k 2.3×	115	6.6k
Mike Beare New Zealand	43	2.6k 0.8×	6.8k 3.5×	2.5k 1.4×	800 0.8×	1.9k 2.5×	141	9.2k
Annette Baattrup‐Pedersen Denmark	35	2.5k 0.8×	495 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	396 0.5×	131	3.7k
Bruce A. Caldwell United States	29	1.6k 0.5×	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	578 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	51	4.6k

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Arango, Clay P., Jake J. Beaulieu, Ken M. Fritz, et al.. (2017). Urban infrastructure influences dissolved organic matter quality and bacterial metabolism in an urban stream network. Freshwater Biology. 62(11). 1917–1928. 14 indexed citations

Hill, Brian H., et al.. (2017). Microbial ecoenzyme stoichiometry, nutrient limitation, and organic matter decomposition in wetlands of the conterminous United States. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 26(3). 425–439. 37 indexed citations

Hill, Brian H., et al.. (2016). Comparisons of soil nitrogen mass balances for an ombrotrophic bog and a minerotrophic fen in northern Minnesota. The Science of The Total Environment. 550. 880–892. 27 indexed citations

Beaulieu, Jake J., Heather E. Golden, Christopher D. Knightes, et al.. (2015). Urban Stream Burial Increases Watershed-Scale Nitrate Export. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132256–e0132256. 32 indexed citations

Smucker, Nathan J., Anne Kuhn, Michael Charpentier, et al.. (2015). Quantifying Urban Watershed Stressor Gradients and Evaluating How Different Land Cover Datasets Affect Stream Management. Environmental Management. 57(3). 683–695. 16 indexed citations

Angradi, Ted R., et al.. (2012). Modeled Summer Background Concentration of Nutrients and Suspended Sediment in the Mid‐Continent (USA) Great Rivers¹. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 48(5). 1054–1070. 4 indexed citations

Pearson, Mark S., Ted R. Angradi, David W. Bolgrien, et al.. (2011). Multimetric Fish Indices for Midcontinent (USA) Great Rivers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 140(6). 1547–1564. 9 indexed citations

Sinsabaugh, Robert L., Brian H. Hill, & Jennifer J. Follstad Shah. (2009). Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment. Nature. 462(7274). 795–798. 1263 indexed citations breakdown →

Reavie, Euan D., Terri M. Jicha, Ted R. Angradi, David W. Bolgrien, & Brian H. Hill. (2009). Algal assemblages for large river monitoring: Comparison among biovolume, absolute and relative abundance metrics. Ecological Indicators. 10(2). 167–177. 64 indexed citations

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Angradi, Ted R., David W. Bolgrien, Terri M. Jicha, et al.. (2008). A bioassessment approach for mid-continent great rivers: the Upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio (USA). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 152(1-4). 425–442. 40 indexed citations

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Griffith, Michael B., et al.. (2005). Comparative application of indices of biotic integrity based on periphyton, macroinvertebrates, and fish to southern Rocky Mountain streams. Ecological Indicators. 5(2). 117–136. 118 indexed citations

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Griffith, Michael B., et al.. (2003). Analysis of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Relation to Environmental Gradients among Lotic Habitats of California's Central Valley. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 82(3). 281–309. 27 indexed citations

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Trebitz, Anett S., Brian H. Hill, & Frank H. McCormick. (2003). Sensitivity of Indices of Biotic Integrity to Simulated Fish Assemblage Changes. Environmental Management. 32(4). 499–515. 15 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H., et al.. (2003). Assessment of streams of the eastern United States using a periphyton index of biotic integrity. Ecological Indicators. 2(4). 325–338. 88 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H., R. Jan Stevenson, Yangdong Pan, et al.. (2001). Comparison of correlations between environmental characteristics and stream diatom assemblages characterized at genus and species levels. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 20(2). 299–310. 96 indexed citations

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Pan, Yangdong, R. Jan Stevenson, Brian H. Hill, Philip R. Kaufmann, & Alan T. Herlihy. (1999). SPATIAL PATTERNS AND ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF BENTHIC ALGAL ASSEMBLAGES IN MID‐ATLANTIC STREAMS, USA. Journal of Phycology. 35(3). 460–468. 128 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H., et al.. (1997). The effects of elevated metals on benthic community metabolism in a rocky mountain stream. Environmental Pollution. 95(2). 183–190. 39 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H., et al.. (1992). Benthic organic matter dynamics in Texas prairie streams. Hydrobiologia. 242(1). 1–5. 11 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H. & Jackson R. Webster. (1982). Aquatic macrophyte breakdown in an Appalachian river. Hydrobiologia. 89(1). 53–59. 29 indexed citations

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Hill, Brian H.. (1981). Distribution and Production of Justicia americana In the New River, Virginia. Castanea. 46(2). 162–169. 5 indexed citations

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