Edward J. Carpenter

22.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
203 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Edward J. Carpenter is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward J. Carpenter has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Oceanography, 93 papers in Ecology and 38 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Edward J. Carpenter's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (110 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (52 papers). Edward J. Carpenter is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (110 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (52 papers). Edward J. Carpenter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Edward J. Carpenter's co-authors include Douglas G. Capone, K.L. Smith, Birgitta Bergman, Jonathan P. Zehr, Ajit Subramaniam, Senjie Lin, Joseph P. Montoya, Hans W. Paerl, Susan J. Anderson and Joel C. Goldman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Edward J. Carpenter

190 papers receiving 14.2k 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.

Plastics on the Sargasso Sea Surface

1972 1.2k citations Edward J. Carpenter et al. profile →
Trichodesmium , a Globally Significant Marine Cyanobacterium

1997 1.0k citations Douglas G. Capone, Birgitta Bergman et al. profile →
Polystyrene Spherules in Coastal Waters

1972 819 citations Edward J. Carpenter et al. profile →
Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans

2002 547 citations Birgitta Bergman, Douglas G. Capone et al. profile →
Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium spp.: An important source of new nitrogen to the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

2005 505 citations Douglas G. Capone, James A. Burns et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

2023 215 citations Edward J. Carpenter et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Edward J. Carpenter	9.2k	7.4k	3.1k	2.5k	1.9k	203	15.1k
Patricia M. Glibert	14.7k 1.6×	8.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	8.4k 3.3×	941 0.5×	216	21.2k
Diane M. McKnight	7.1k 0.8×	8.6k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	7.5k 3.0×	2.1k 1.1×	309	23.0k
Hans W. Paerl	8.5k 0.9×	6.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	8.5k 3.3×	904 0.5×	175	14.9k
Douglas G. Capone	9.1k 1.0×	9.4k 1.3×	2.0k 0.6×	3.7k 1.4×	447 0.2×	144	17.2k
Paul J. Harrison	12.8k 1.4×	6.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	4.3k 1.7×	542 0.3×	249	18.4k
Robert G. Wetzel	5.7k 0.6×	8.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	8.1k 3.2×	1.2k 0.6×	237	17.0k
TIMOTHY R. PARSONS	12.3k 1.3×	7.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	4.4k 1.7×	624 0.3×	107	19.3k
Marcel M. M. Kuypers	7.2k 0.8×	12.2k 1.6×	8.3k 2.7×	5.3k 2.1×	1.1k 0.6×	194	23.1k
John Strickland	10.1k 1.1×	5.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	4.0k 1.6×	846 0.4×	68	15.8k
Daniel J. Conley	8.7k 0.9×	5.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	6.1k 2.4×	1.2k 0.7×	212	19.2k

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Qi, Lin, Menghua Wang, Brian B. Barnes, et al.. (2025). Global floating algae blooms are expanding. Nature Communications. 17(1). 612–612.

Cochlan, William P., et al.. (2019). Effect of ocean acidification on the nutritional quality of marine phytoplankton for copepod reproduction. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0217047–e0217047. 22 indexed citations

Bezryadina, Anna, Tobias Hansson, Rekha Gautam, et al.. (2017). Nonlinear Self-Action of Light through Biological Suspensions. Physical Review Letters. 119(5). 58101–58101. 44 indexed citations

Medeiros, Patricia M., Michael Seidel, Nicholas Ward, et al.. (2015). Fate of the Amazon River dissolved organic matter in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 677–690. 175 indexed citations

Niederberger, Thomas D., Jill A. Sohm, Troy Gunderson, et al.. (2015). Carbon-Fixation Rates and Associated Microbial Communities Residing in Arid and Ephemerally Wet Antarctic Dry Valley Soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1347–1347. 22 indexed citations

Niederberger, Thomas D., Jill A. Sohm, Troy Gunderson, et al.. (2015). Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 9–9. 65 indexed citations

Guo, Zhiling, et al.. (2014). Detecting In Situ Copepod Diet Diversity Using Molecular Technique: Development of a Copepod/Symbiotic Ciliate-Excluding Eukaryote-Inclusive PCR Protocol. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103528–e103528. 26 indexed citations

Villareal, Tracy A. & Edward J. Carpenter. (2013). Nitrogen Fixation, Suspension Characteristics, and Chemical Composition of Rhizosolenia Mats in the Central North Pacific Gyre. 6. 327–345. 12 indexed citations

Bergman, Birgitta, Gustaf Sandh, Senjie Lin, John Larsson, & Edward J. Carpenter. (2012). Trichodesmium– a widespread marine cyanobacterium with unusual nitrogen fixation properties. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 37(3). 286–302. 181 indexed citations

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Lefebvre, Stephane C., Ina Benner, Jonathon H. Stillman, et al.. (2011). Nitrogen source and pCO₂ synergistically affect carbon allocation, growth and morphology of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi: potential implications of ocean acidification for the carbon cycle. Global Change Biology. 18(2). 493–503. 55 indexed citations

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Foster, Rachel A., Jackie L. Collier, & Edward J. Carpenter. (2006). REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION PCR AMPLIFICATION OF CYANOBACTERIAL SYMBIONT 16S RRNA SEQUENCES FROM SINGLE NON‐PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTIC MARINE PLANKTONIC HOST CELLS ¹. Journal of Phycology. 42(1). 243–250. 39 indexed citations

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Sañudo‐Wilhelmy, Sergio A., Antonio Tovar‐Sánchez, Fei‐Xue Fu, et al.. (2004). The impact of surface-adsorbed phosphorus on phytoplankton Redfield stoichiometry. Nature. 432(7019). 897–901. 187 indexed citations

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Villareal, Tracy A. & Edward J. Carpenter. (2003). Buoyancy Regulation and the Potential for Vertical Migration in the Oceanic Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Microbial Ecology. 45(1). 1–10. 131 indexed citations

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Kustka, Adam B., Edward J. Carpenter, & Sergio A. Sañudo‐Wilhelmy. (2002). Iron and marine nitrogen fixation: progress and future directions. Research in Microbiology. 153(5). 255–262. 98 indexed citations

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Sañudo‐Wilhelmy, Sergio A., Adam B. Kustka, Christopher J. Gobler, et al.. (2001). Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean. Nature. 411(6833). 66–69. 499 indexed citations

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Lin, Senjie & Edward J. Carpenter. (1999). A PSTTLRE-form of cdc2-like gene in the marine microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta. Gene. 239(1). 39–48. 10 indexed citations

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Villareal, Tracy A. & Edward J. Carpenter. (1989). Nitrogen Fixation, Suspension Characteristics, and Chemical Composition of Rhizosolenia Mats in the Central North Pacific Gyre. 6(3-4). 327–345. 1 indexed citations

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Bentley, Barbara L. & Edward J. Carpenter. (1984). Direct transfer of newly-fixed nitrogen from free-living epiphyllous microorganisms to their host plant. Oecologia. 63(1). 52–56. 34 indexed citations

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Fisher, Nicholas S., Edward J. Carpenter, Charles C. Remsen, & Charles F. Wurster. (1974). Effects of PCB on interspecific competition in natural and gnotobiotic phytoplankton communities in continuous and batch cultures. Microbial Ecology. 1(1). 39–50. 47 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Edward J.. (1969). Some friends of Walt Whitman : a study in sex-psychology. 8 indexed citations

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