David R. Barton

5.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

David R. Barton is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David R. Barton has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David R. Barton's work include Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (44 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (30 papers). David R. Barton is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (44 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (30 papers). David R. Barton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. David R. Barton's co-authors include William D. Taylor, Robert E. Hecky, Jennifer A. Dionne, Mark Lawrence, Stephanie J. Guildford, E. Todd Howell, M. N. Charlton, H. B. N. Hynes, G. Power and Ted Ozersky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David R. Barton

98 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

The nearshore phosphorus shunt: a consequence of ecosystem engineering by dreissenids in the Laurentian Great Lakes

2004 597 citations David R. Barton et al. profile →
Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

2022 158 citations Mengjie Yu, David R. Barton et al. Nature profile →
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate

2025 23 citations Yaowen Hu, Di Zhu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David R. Barton Canada	31	2.5k	1.8k	718	455	416	100	3.9k
Feng Liu China	38	1.1k 0.4×	365 0.2×	330 0.5×	692 1.5×	578 1.4×	148	4.8k
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi Japan	24	584 0.2×	376 0.2×	368 0.5×	242 0.5×	128 0.3×	192	2.2k
Ewald Weber Australia	30	1.4k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	133 0.2×	576 1.3×	124 0.3×	113	5.9k
A. Jenkins United Kingdom	29	529 0.2×	164 0.1×	1.0k 1.4×	374 0.8×	517 1.2×	112	2.8k
Donald R. Young United States	47	1.7k 0.7×	990 0.5×	47 0.1×	1.2k 2.6×	463 1.1×	177	6.3k
Gioṙgio Matteucci Italy	42	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	453 0.6×	3.2k 7.1×	452 1.1×	194	6.7k
Hiroshi Koizumi Japan	40	1.4k 0.5×	706 0.4×	246 0.3×	2.1k 4.5×	47 0.1×	204	5.5k
Robert E. Moeller United States	26	911 0.4×	333 0.2×	1.0k 1.4×	236 0.5×	149 0.4×	53	2.7k
Robert A. Armstrong United States	31	1.4k 0.5×	562 0.3×	497 0.7×	944 2.1×	22 0.1×	61	4.9k
Jack Lynch United States	35	997 0.4×	216 0.1×	560 0.8×	575 1.3×	104 0.3×	144	4.1k

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Xin, C. J., Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari, Boris Desiatov, et al.. (2025). Wavelength-accurate and wafer-scale process for nonlinear frequency mixers in thin-film lithium niobate. Communications Physics. 8(1). 7 indexed citations

Powell, Keith, David R. Barton, Gage Hills, et al.. (2025). High-power and narrow-linewidth laser on thin-film lithium niobate enabled by photonic wire bonding. APL Photonics. 10(2). 10 indexed citations

Liao, Yuhong, et al.. (2024). Properties of Laser-Clad Stainless Steel–Ni/WC Double-Layer Coatings. Coatings. 14(8). 1054–1054. 1 indexed citations

Assumpção, Daniel, Dylan Renaud, Chawina De-Eknamkul, et al.. (2024). A thin film lithium niobate near-infrared platform for multiplexing quantum nodes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10459–10459. 9 indexed citations

Yu, Mengjie, David R. Barton, Rebecca Cheng, et al.. (2022). Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate. Nature. 612(7939). 252–258. 158 indexed citations breakdown →

Barton, David R., et al.. (2021). High quality factor silicon-on-lithium niobate metasurfaces for electro-optically reconfigurable wavefront shaping. arXiv (Cornell University). 68 indexed citations

Poulikakos, Lisa V., Mark Lawrence, David R. Barton, Stefanie S. Jeffrey, & Jennifer A. Dionne. (2020). Guided-Mode-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces for Colorimetric Imaging of Material Anisotropy in Fibrous Biological Tissue. ACS Photonics. 7(11). 3216–3227. 20 indexed citations

Lawrence, Mark, David R. Barton, Jefferson Dixon, et al.. (2020). High quality factor phase gradient metasurfaces. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(11). 956–961. 152 indexed citations

Abendroth, John M., Michelle L. Solomon, David R. Barton, et al.. (2020). Helicity‐Preserving Metasurfaces for Magneto‐Optical Enhancement in Ferromagnetic [Pt/Co]_N Films. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(22). 24 indexed citations

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Kilgour, Bruce W., Keith M. Somers, & David R. Barton. (2004). A comparison of the sensitivity of stream benthic community indices to effects associated with mines, pulp and paper mills, and urbanization. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(1). 212–221. 21 indexed citations

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Power, Michael, et al.. (2003). Effects of temperature on isotopic enrichment in Daphnia magna : implications for aquatic food‐web studies. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 17(14). 1619–1625. 90 indexed citations

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Barton, David R., et al.. (2003). Environmental Factors Controlling the Distributions of Benthic Invertebrates on Rocky Shores of Lake Malawi, Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 29. 202–215. 21 indexed citations

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Brown, Richard S., et al.. (2001). Abundance of stream invertebrates in winter: seasonal changes and effects of river ice. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 115(1). 68–74. 13 indexed citations

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Barton, David R. & Michael Farmer. (1997). The effects of conservation tillage practices on benthic invertebrate communities in headwater streams in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Environmental Pollution. 96(2). 207–215. 21 indexed citations

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Sibley, Paul K., Juliette Legler, D. George Dixon, & David R. Barton. (1997). Environmental Health Assessment of the Benthic Habitat Adjacent to a Pulp Mill Discharge. I. Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Sediments to Benthic Macroinvertebrates. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 32(3). 274–284. 28 indexed citations

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Barton, David R. & Janice L. Metcalfe‐Smith. (1992). A comparison of sampling techniques and summary indices for assessment of water quality in the Yamaska River, Qu�bec, based on benthic macroinvertebrates. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 21(3). 225–244. 54 indexed citations

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Munkittrick, Kelly R., Paul Miller, David R. Barton, & D. George Dixon. (1991). Altered performance of white sucker populations in the manitouwadge chain of lakes is associated with changes in benthic macroinvertebrate communities as a result of copper and zinc contamination. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 21(3). 318–326. 28 indexed citations

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Barton, David R. & Richard Zippel. (1985). Polynomial decomposition algorithms. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 1(2). 159–168. 39 indexed citations

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Barton, David R.. (1980). Oberservations on the life histories and biology of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera in northeastern Alberta. Aquatic Insects. 2(2). 97–111. 27 indexed citations

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Barton, David R.. (1978). Breeding Fairy Penguins at Twofold Bay, N.S.W.. 71–72. 1 indexed citations

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