Caitlin Hicks Pries

5.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
63 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Caitlin Hicks Pries is a scholar working on Soil Science, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Caitlin Hicks Pries has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Soil Science, 20 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Caitlin Hicks Pries's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Climate change and permafrost (17 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers). Caitlin Hicks Pries is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Climate change and permafrost (17 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers). Caitlin Hicks Pries collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Caitlin Hicks Pries's co-authors include C. Böttcher, C.M. van Gent, Margaret Torn, Edward A. G. Schuur, Rachel Porras, Cristina Castanha, Kathryn G. Crummer, Susan M. Natali, Kate Lajtha and Vanessa Bailey and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Caitlin Hicks Pries

57 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

A rapid and sensitive sub-micro phosphorus determination

1961 905 citations Caitlin Hicks Pries et al. profile →
Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

2018 542 citations Craig Rasmussen, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe et al. Biogeochemistry profile →
The whole-soil carbon flux in response to warming

2017 456 citations Caitlin Hicks Pries, Cristina Castanha et al. profile →
Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO ₂ efflux

2021 159 citations Jennifer L. Soong, Cristina Castanha et al. Science Advances profile →
The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change

2023 79 citations Caitlin Hicks Pries, Rebecca Ryals et al. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Caitlin Hicks Pries United States	26	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	739	434	63	4.0k
Sabine Fiedler Germany	33	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	421 0.4×	318 0.4×	386 0.9×	95	3.8k
Caiyun Fang China	26	970 0.6×	471 0.4×	262 0.2×	886 1.2×	724 1.7×	73	3.0k
Chunbo Huang China	36	780 0.5×	801 0.7×	245 0.2×	1.6k 2.2×	1.2k 2.8×	102	4.4k
John D. King United States	16	538 0.4×	907 0.8×	279 0.2×	476 0.6×	282 0.6×	34	2.7k
Huiying Liu China	33	643 0.4×	951 0.8×	342 0.3×	776 1.1×	664 1.5×	100	3.6k
Todd A. Anderson United States	54	1.2k 0.8×	845 0.7×	362 0.3×	3.8k 5.1×	463 1.1×	246	14.0k
Per Bengtson Sweden	27	1.1k 0.7×	846 0.7×	134 0.1×	663 0.9×	177 0.4×	47	2.5k
Shiqing Li China	45	3.2k 2.1×	881 0.8×	176 0.2×	1.2k 1.6×	1.0k 2.3×	279	7.6k
Timothy J. Sullivan United States	29	219 0.1×	525 0.5×	420 0.4×	725 1.0×	515 1.2×	119	3.4k
Mark A. Russell United Kingdom	27	748 0.5×	626 0.5×	163 0.1×	505 0.7×	106 0.2×	76	2.9k

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Caitlin Hicks Pries

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caitlin Hicks Pries

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fromm, Sophie F. von, Carlos A. Sierra, Charles T. Driscoll, et al.. (2025). Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Soil Carbon Cycling and Its Response to Environmental Change in a Northern Hardwood Forest. Global Change Biology. 31(5). e70250–e70250.

Fromm, Sophie F. von, Hermann F. Jungkunst, Steven J. Hall, et al.. (2025). Moisture and soil depth govern relationships between soil organic carbon and oxalate-extractable metals at the global scale. Biogeochemistry. 168(1). 4 indexed citations

Holland‐Moritz, Hannah, et al.. (2025). Rhizosphere bacteria and fungi are differentially structured by host plants, soil mineralogy, and ectomycorrhizal communities in the Alaskan Tundra. Arctic Science. 11. 1–18.

Pries, Caitlin Hicks, et al.. (2025). Winter Climate Change Reshapes Soil Climate and Biogeochemistry in a Novel Snowmelt Experiment. Global Change Biology. 31(8). e70405–e70405.

Lynd, Lee R., Armen R. Kemanian, Jo Smith, et al.. (2024). Soil application of high-lignin fermentation byproduct to increase the sustainability of liquid biofuel production from crop residues. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 83002–83002. 3 indexed citations

Lankau, Richard A., et al.. (2024). Mycorrhizal associations of temperate forest seedlings mediate rhizodeposition, but not soil carbon storage, under elevated nitrogen availability. Global Change Biology. 30(8). e17446–e17446. 2 indexed citations

Wurzburger, Nina, et al.. (2023). Ectomycorrhizal effects on decomposition are highly dependent on fungal traits, climate, and litter properties: A model-based assessment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 184. 109073–109073. 12 indexed citations

Pries, Caitlin Hicks, Rebecca Ryals, Biao Zhu, et al.. (2023). The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 54(1). 375–401. 79 indexed citations breakdown →

Soong, Jennifer L., Cristina Castanha, Caitlin Hicks Pries, et al.. (2021). Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO ₂ efflux. Science Advances. 7(21). 159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgens, Rebecca Finger, Caitlin Hicks Pries, & Ross A. Virginia. (2020). Trade-offs Between Wood and Leaf Production in Arctic Shrubs Along a Temperature and Moisture Gradient in West Greenland. Ecosystems. 24(3). 652–666. 7 indexed citations

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Pries, Caitlin Hicks, et al.. (2020). Plants and earthworms control soil carbon and water quality trade-offs in turfgrass mesocosms. The Science of The Total Environment. 753. 141884–141884. 3 indexed citations

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Schädel, Christina, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller, Susan E. Crow, et al.. (2020). Decomposability of soil organic matter over time: the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb, version 1.0) and guidance for incubation procedures. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1511–1524. 31 indexed citations

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Pries, Caitlin Hicks, et al.. (2020). Using respiration quotients to track changing sources of soil respiration seasonally and with experimental warming. Biogeosciences. 17(12). 3045–3055. 16 indexed citations

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Plaza, César, Elaine Pegoraro, Rosvel Bracho, et al.. (2019). Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra. Nature Geoscience. 12(8). 627–631. 162 indexed citations

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Pries, Caitlin Hicks, Benjamin N. Sulman, Caitlin O’Neill, et al.. (2018). Root litter decomposition slows with soil depth. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 125. 103–114. 133 indexed citations

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Porras, Rachel, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Margaret Torn, & Peter Nico. (2017). Synthetic iron (hydr)oxide-glucose associations in subsurface soil: Effects on decomposability of mineral associated carbon. The Science of The Total Environment. 613-614. 342–351. 47 indexed citations

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Pries, Caitlin Hicks, Rachel Porras, Cristina Castanha, & Margaret Torn. (2016). Changes in Root Decomposition Rates Across Soil Depths. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Schuur, Edward A. G., et al.. (2016). Permafrost degradation stimulates carbon loss from experimentally warmed tundra. Ecology and Society. 95(3). 602–608. 3 indexed citations

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Castanha, Cristina, Biao Zhu, Caitlin Hicks Pries, & Margaret Torn. (2015). Soil Warming and Rhizosphere Effects on Root Litter Decomposition at Two Depths in a Mediterranean Grassland Ecosystem. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Torn, Margaret, Abad Chabbi, Patrick Crill, et al.. (2015). A call for international soil experiment networks for studying, predicting, and managing global change impacts. SOIL. 1(2). 575–582. 20 indexed citations

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