Christopher T. Nietch

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Christopher T. Nietch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher T. Nietch has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Christopher T. Nietch's work include Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (13 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (12 papers). Christopher T. Nietch is often cited by papers focused on Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (13 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (12 papers). Christopher T. Nietch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ghana and Ukraine. Christopher T. Nietch's co-authors include James T. Morris, Björn Kjerfve, P. V. Sundareshwar, Donald R. Cahoon, Jake J. Beaulieu, Jade Young, Don A. Vroblesky, Arash Massoudieh, Michael E. Tryby and Mahdi Maghrebi and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christopher T. Nietch

58 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher T. Nietch United States	24	1.6k	883	788	510	507	59	2.9k
Ramiro Neves Portugal	30	778 0.5×	541 0.6×	855 1.1×	413 0.8×	771 1.5×	156	3.0k
Nicolas Gratiot France	30	1.4k 0.9×	874 1.0×	334 0.4×	296 0.6×	588 1.2×	79	2.4k
Robert R. Lane United States	31	1.6k 1.0×	650 0.7×	529 0.7×	344 0.7×	271 0.5×	64	2.3k
María Martínez‐Mena Spain	38	1.5k 1.0×	510 0.6×	946 1.2×	330 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	70	4.5k
Scott Wilkinson Australia	28	1.4k 0.9×	437 0.5×	723 0.9×	150 0.3×	698 1.4×	69	2.4k
Xiaodong Nie China	35	1.2k 0.7×	234 0.3×	663 0.8×	224 0.4×	563 1.1×	96	3.5k
Todd Z. Osborne United States	25	1.4k 0.9×	354 0.4×	326 0.4×	341 0.7×	125 0.2×	84	2.0k
Mogens Flindt Denmark	29	1.5k 0.9×	365 0.4×	519 0.7×	127 0.2×	231 0.5×	84	2.7k
Nicholas Ward United States	25	1.4k 0.9×	146 0.2×	784 1.0×	487 1.0×	440 0.9×	106	3.1k
Zhanbin Li China	29	824 0.5×	188 0.2×	886 1.1×	456 0.9×	1.0k 2.0×	171	3.1k

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Wu, Huiyun, Christopher T. Nietch, John A. Darling, et al.. (2025). Assessment of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Biofilm of Microplastics Incubated Under a Wastewater Discharge Simulation. Environmental Microbiology. 27(5). e70103–e70103. 1 indexed citations

Smucker, Nathan J., et al.. (2025). Freezing periphyton samples and storage duration do not affect the use of diatom DNA metabarcoding to determine effects of stressors on streams. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(12). 1360–1360.

Smucker, Nathan J., Erik M. Pilgrim, Christopher T. Nietch, et al.. (2024). Using DNA metabarcoding to characterize national scale diatom-environment relationships and to develop indicators in streams and rivers of the United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 939. 173502–173502. 3 indexed citations

McManus, Michael G., et al.. (2023). Decreasing trends in total suspended solids and cumulative effects of nonpoint source projects in the Cuyahoga River Watershed, OH. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 49(3). 608–620. 1 indexed citations

Yuan, Lester L., Richard M. Mitchell, Amina I. Pollard, et al.. (2023). Understanding the effects of phosphorus on diatom richness in rivers and streams using taxon–environment relationships. Freshwater Biology. 68(3). 473–486. 7 indexed citations

Heberling, Matthew T., et al.. (2022). Linking Water Quality to Drinking Water Treatment Costs Using Time Series Analysis: Examining the Effect of a Treatment Plant Upgrade in Ohio. Water Resources Research. 58(5). 1–17. 3 indexed citations

Nietch, Christopher T., et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of Design and Implementation Alternatives for Stormwater Control Measures Modeled at the Watershed Scale. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 9(1). 1–15. 1 indexed citations

Yuan, Lester L., Nathan J. Smucker, Christopher T. Nietch, & Erik M. Pilgrim. (2021). Quantifying spatial and temporal relationships between diatoms and nutrients in streams strengthens evidence of nutrient effects from monitoring data. Freshwater Science. 41(1). 100–112. 9 indexed citations

Nietch, Christopher T., et al.. (2020). Reliability theory for microbial water quality and sustainability assessment. Journal of Hydrology. 596. 125711–125711. 4 indexed citations

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Bagley, Mark J., et al.. (2019). Evaluating putative ecological drivers of microcystin spatiotemporal dynamics using metabarcoding and environmental data. Harmful Algae. 86. 84–95. 7 indexed citations

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Heberling, Matthew T., Hale W. Thurston, & Christopher T. Nietch. (2018). Exploring Nontraditional Participation as an Approach to Make Water Quality Trading Markets More Effective. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 54(3). 586–593. 12 indexed citations

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Price, James I., Matthew T. Heberling, & Christopher T. Nietch. (2018). Economic Support for Decisions on Source Water Protection. American Water Works Association. 110(9). 56–61. 3 indexed citations

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Shuster, William D., et al.. (2018). Reliability-Based Water Quality Assessment with Load Resistance Factor Design: Application to TMDL. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 23(12). 1943–5584. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xiang, Lindsay Peed, Mano Sivaganesan, et al.. (2018). Evidence of Genetic Fecal Marker Interactions between Water Column and Periphyton in Artificial Streams. ACS Omega. 3(8). 10107–10113. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Joong Gwang, Christopher T. Nietch, & Srinivas Panguluri. (2017). Subcatchment characterization for evaluating green infrastructureusing the Storm Water Management Model. PubMed. 22. 2615–2635. 2 indexed citations

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Beaulieu, Jake J., David A. Balz, John A. Harrison, et al.. (2017). Effects of an Experimental Water-level Drawdown on Methane Emissions from a Eutrophic Reservoir. Ecosystems. 21(4). 657–674. 57 indexed citations

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Martin, Roy W., et al.. (2017). Empirically-based modeling and mapping to consider the co-occurrence of ecological receptors and stressors. The Science of The Total Environment. 613-614. 1228–1239. 6 indexed citations

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Beaulieu, Jake J., et al.. (2012). Spatial and Temporal Variations in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from an Agricultural Reservoir. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 2 indexed citations

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Peed, Lindsay, Christopher T. Nietch, Catherine A. Kelty, et al.. (2011). Combining Land Use Information and Small Stream Sampling with PCR-Based Methods for Better Characterization of Diffuse Sources of Human Fecal Pollution. Environmental Science & Technology. 45(13). 5652–5659. 54 indexed citations

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Norby, Richard J., Elizabeth G. O’Neill, Stan D. Wullschleger, Carla A. Gunderson, & Christopher T. Nietch. (1993). Growth enhancement of Quercus alba saplings by CO[sub 2] enrichment under field conditions. 2 indexed citations

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