Clayton J. Williams

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Clayton J. Williams is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Clayton J. Williams has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Clayton J. Williams's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (7 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Clayton J. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (7 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Clayton J. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Clayton J. Williams's co-authors include Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Henry F. Wilson, Rudolf Jaffé, Youhei Yamashita, Paul C. Frost, Ana M. Morales‐Williams, Frank J. Jochem, James H. Larson, William B. Richardson and Md Ehsanul Hoque and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Clayton J. Williams

26 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Unraveling the role of land use and microbial activity in shaping dissolved organic matter characteristics in stream ecosystems

2010 506 citations Clayton J. Williams, Henry F. Wilson et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clayton J. Williams United States	17	825	495	481	320	199	28	1.5k
Petr Porcal Czechia	24	444 0.5×	575 1.2×	457 1.0×	236 0.7×	93 0.5×	61	1.3k
André Megali Amado Brazil	20	579 0.7×	449 0.9×	503 1.0×	244 0.8×	93 0.5×	46	1.3k
Weijin Yan China	23	650 0.8×	750 1.5×	272 0.6×	449 1.4×	117 0.6×	57	1.4k
Mike Peacock United Kingdom	22	365 0.4×	365 0.7×	712 1.5×	198 0.6×	151 0.8×	51	1.4k
Lusan Liu China	20	436 0.5×	354 0.7×	513 1.1×	295 0.9×	138 0.7×	64	1.4k
Alexandrine Pannard France	13	411 0.5×	577 1.2×	328 0.7×	290 0.9×	171 0.9×	25	1.1k
Norman M. Scully United States	14	895 1.1×	387 0.8×	525 1.1×	171 0.5×	209 1.1×	18	1.4k
Juhua Yu China	22	271 0.3×	583 1.2×	382 0.8×	234 0.7×	187 0.9×	51	1.3k
Kristen Pitts United States	4	255 0.3×	731 1.5×	375 0.8×	416 1.3×	281 1.4×	5	1.4k
Maofei Ni China	18	396 0.5×	276 0.6×	183 0.4×	384 1.2×	75 0.4×	39	968

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2025). Assessing the Effect of Undirected Forest Restoration and Flooding on the Soil Quality in an Agricultural Floodplain. Soil Systems. 9(3). 88–88.

Williams, Clayton J., Paul C. Frost, Brian K. Ginn, Jiří Maršálek, & Marguerite A. Xenopoulos. (2023). Add a dash of salt? Effects of road de-icing salt (NaCl) on benthic respiration and nutrient fluxes in freshwater sediments. Limnetica. 42(2). 1–1. 2 indexed citations

Gilmour, Kimberly, et al.. (2022). Cold spots and cold moments: The potential for sediment freezing to depress denitrification in wetland sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality. 51(5). 990–1002. 1 indexed citations

Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Rebecca T. Barnes, David Butman, et al.. (2021). How humans alter dissolved organic matter composition in freshwater: relevance for the Earth’s biogeochemistry. Biogeochemistry. 154(2). 323–348. 140 indexed citations

Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2021). Effects of forested buffers on benthic macroinvertebrate indicators of water quality in the Western Finger Lakes, New York. Inland Waters. 11(1). 78–88. 1 indexed citations

Fasching, Christina, Steven W. Kembel, Daniel E. Spooner, et al.. (2019). The prevalence of nonlinearity and detection of ecological breakpoints across a land use gradient in streams. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3878–3878. 28 indexed citations

Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2018). Selective removal of dissolved organic matter affects the production and speciation of disinfection byproducts. The Science of The Total Environment. 652. 75–84. 35 indexed citations

Buchkowski, Robert W., Clayton J. Williams, Joel A. Kelly, Jonathan G. C. Veinot, & Marguerite A. Xenopoulos. (2015). Nanosilver and Nano Zero-Valent Iron Exposure Affects Nutrient Exchange Across the Sediment–Water Interface. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 96(1). 83–89. 5 indexed citations

Williams, Clayton J., Paul C. Frost, Ana M. Morales‐Williams, et al.. (2015). Human activities cause distinct dissolved organic matter composition across freshwater ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 22(2). 613–626. 207 indexed citations

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Larson, James H., Paul C. Frost, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, et al.. (2014). Relationships Between Land Cover and Dissolved Organic Matter Change Along the River to Lake Transition. Ecosystems. 17(8). 1413–1425. 32 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2013). Effects of golf course facilities on stream function in anthropogenically impacted streams. Anthropocene. 3. 51–60.

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Williams, Clayton J., Paul C. Frost, & Marguerite A. Xenopoulos. (2013). Beyond best management practices: pelagic biogeochemical dynamics in urban stormwater ponds. Ecological Applications. 23(6). 1384–1395. 97 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2013). Distinct Optical Chemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter in Urban Pond Ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80334–e80334. 26 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2013). Land‐use effects on resource net flux rates and oxygen demand in stream sediments. Freshwater Biology. 58(7). 1405–1415. 9 indexed citations

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Knapp, Ingrid S., L. Scott Godwin, Jennifer E. Smith, Clayton J. Williams, & James J. Bell. (2011). Records of non-indigenous marine species at Palmyra Atoll in the US Line Islands. Marine Biodiversity Records. 4. 21 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2011). Effects of land use on water column bacterial activity and enzyme stoichiometry in stream ecosystems. Aquatic Sciences. 74(3). 483–494. 25 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., Rudolf Jaffé, William T. Anderson, & Frank J. Jochem. (2009). Importance of seagrass as a carbon source for heterotrophic bacteria in a subtropical estuary (Florida Bay). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 85(3). 507–514. 24 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., Joseph N. Boyer, & Frank J. Jochem. (2008). Microbial activity and carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content in a subtropical seagrass estuary (Florida Bay): evidence for limited bacterial use of seagrass production. Marine Biology. 156(3). 341–353. 6 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J., et al.. (2008). Bottom-up and top-down control of heterotrophic bacterioplankton growth in a phosphorus-depleted subtropical estuary, Florida Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 372. 7–18. 9 indexed citations

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Williams, Clayton J. & Frank J. Jochem. (2006). Ectoenzyme kinetics in Florida Bay: Implications for bacterial carbon source and nutrient status. Hydrobiologia. 569(1). 113–127. 41 indexed citations

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