Carl J. Watras

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Carl J. Watras is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl J. Watras has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 24 papers in Oceanography and 16 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Carl J. Watras's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (33 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (20 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (16 papers). Carl J. Watras is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (33 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (20 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (16 papers). Carl J. Watras collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Carl J. Watras's co-authors include John W. Huckabee, K. A. Morrison, Nicolas S. Bloom, Olof Regnell, Richard C. Back, Sallie W. Chisholm, Donald M. Anderson, Robert J. Hudson, Stephen P. Wente and William F. Fitzgerald and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Carl J. Watras

68 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Mercury pollution : integration and synthesis

1994 677 citations Carl J. Watras, John W. Huckabee profile →
Bioaccumulation of mercury in pelagic freshwater food webs

1998 530 citations Carl J. Watras, K. A. Morrison et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carl J. Watras United States	33	3.0k	1.2k	1.1k	782	641	68	4.3k
Dag Broman Sweden	42	3.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	697 0.6×	460 0.6×	474 0.7×	97	4.2k
Brian J. Eadie United States	35	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	970 1.5×	78	4.1k
Markus Meili Sweden	36	2.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	834 1.1×	647 1.0×	78	4.3k
Daniel Cossa France	43	3.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.5×	309 0.4×	256 0.4×	123	4.9k
Celia Y. Chen United States	37	4.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	191 0.2×	404 0.6×	97	5.2k
Marlene S. Evans Canada	34	1.7k 0.6×	710 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	524 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	122	3.9k
Dolors Planas Canada	30	915 0.3×	437 0.4×	1.4k 1.3×	785 1.0×	967 1.5×	93	2.9k
Landis Hare Canada	37	2.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	166 0.2×	475 0.7×	104	4.0k
Kyle D. Hoagland United States	32	700 0.2×	818 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	741 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	66	3.4k
W.J. Langston United Kingdom	37	3.2k 1.1×	2.5k 2.0×	586 0.5×	540 0.7×	405 0.6×	73	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carl J. Watras

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watras, Carl J., et al.. (2022). Extreme water level rise across the upper Laurentian Great Lakes region: Citizen science documentation 2010–2020. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 48(5). 1135–1139. 6 indexed citations

Watras, Carl J., et al.. (2020). Near-Decadal Oscillation of Water Levels and Mercury Bioaccumulation in the Laurentian Great Lakes Region. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 7(2). 89–94. 12 indexed citations

Watras, Carl J., et al.. (2019). A low-cost hydrologic observatory for monitoring the water balance of small lakes. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191(9). 548–548. 3 indexed citations

Regnell, Olof & Carl J. Watras. (2018). Microbial Mercury Methylation in Aquatic Environments: A Critical Review of Published Field and Laboratory Studies. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(1). 4–19. 170 indexed citations

Watras, Carl J., et al.. (2016). Effect of DOC on evaporation from small Wisconsin lakes. Journal of Hydrology. 540. 162–175. 12 indexed citations

Hanson, Paul C., Ishi Buffam, James A. Rusak, Emily H. Stanley, & Carl J. Watras. (2013). Quantifying lake allochthonous organic carbon budgets using a simple equilibrium model. Limnology and Oceanography. 59(1). 167–181. 44 indexed citations

Regnell, Olof, et al.. (2009). Mercury in a Boreal Forest Stream - Role of Historical Mercury Pollution, TOC, Temperature, and Water Discharge. Environmental Science & Technology. 43(10). 3514–3521. 19 indexed citations

Mauro, Jane B. N., et al.. (2002). Mercury methylation in macrophytes, periphyton, and water - comparative studies with stable and radio-mercury additions. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 374(6). 983–989. 95 indexed citations

Hrabik, Thomas R. & Carl J. Watras. (2002). Recent declines in mercury concentration in a freshwater fishery: isolating the effects of de-acidification and decreased atmospheric mercury deposition in Little Rock Lake. The Science of The Total Environment. 297(1-3). 229–237. 76 indexed citations

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Morrison, K. A. & Carl J. Watras. (1999). Mercury and methyl mercury in freshwater seston: direct determination at picogram per litre levels by dual filtration. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 56(5). 760–766. 14 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J., et al.. (1995). Methylmercury production in the anoxic hypolimnion of a Dimictic Seepage Lake. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 80(1-4). 735–745. 108 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J., et al.. (1995). Concentration of mercury species in relationship to other site‐specific factors in the surface waters of northern Wisconsin lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 40(3). 556–565. 193 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J. & John W. Huckabee. (1994). Mercury pollution : integration and synthesis. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

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Webster, Katherine E., T. M. Frost, Carl J. Watras, et al.. (1992). Complex biological responses to the experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin, USA. Environmental Pollution. 78(1-3). 73–78. 42 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J. & Nicolas S. Bloom. (1992). Mercury and methylmercury, in individual zooplankton: Implications for bioaccumulation. Limnology and Oceanography. 37(6). 1313–1318. 277 indexed citations

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Wiener, James G., William F. Fitzgerald, Carl J. Watras, & Ronald G. Rada. (1990). PARTITIONING AND BIOAVAILABILITY OF MERCURY IN AN EXPERIMENTALLY ACIDIFIED WISCONSIN LAKE. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 9(7). 909–909. 69 indexed citations

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Steenbergen, C. L. M., H.J. Korthals, Alan L. Baker, & Carl J. Watras. (1989). Microscale vertical distribution of algal and bacterial plankton in Lake Vechten (The Netherlands). FEMS Microbiology Letters. 62(4). 209–219. 10 indexed citations

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Olson, Randall J., Carl J. Watras, & Sallie W. Chisholm. (1986). Patterns of Individual Cell Growth in Marine Centric Diatoms. Microbiology. 132(5). 1197–1204. 10 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J., Véronique Garçon, Robert Olson, Sallie W. Chisholm, & Donald M. Anderson. (1985). The effect of zooplankton grazing on estuarine blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate Gonyaulax tamarensis. Journal of Plankton Research. 7(6). 891–908. 104 indexed citations

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Watras, Carl J. & James F. Haney. (1980). Oscillations in the reproductive condition of Diaptomus leptopus (Copepoda: Calanoida) and their relation to rates of egg-clutch production. Oecologia. 45(1). 94–103. 39 indexed citations

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