Elizabeth B. Wiggins

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 547 citations indexed

About

Elizabeth B. Wiggins is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth B. Wiggins has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 547 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth B. Wiggins's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (11 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (7 papers). Elizabeth B. Wiggins is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (11 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (11 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (7 papers). Elizabeth B. Wiggins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Austria. Elizabeth B. Wiggins's co-authors include James T. Randerson, Sander Veraverbeke, Charles E. Miller, Brendan M. Rogers, Mike Goulden, Randi Jandt, Guaciara M. Santos, Xiaomei Xu, C. I. Czimczik and Yang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth B. Wiggins

20 papers receiving 535 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.

Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

2017 327 citations Sander Veraverbeke, Brendan M. Rogers et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth B. Wiggins United States	9	461	303	83	60	46	21	547
Alexandra Jonko United States	12	581 1.3×	528 1.7×	45 0.5×	21 0.3×	21 0.5×	25	748
Bernard Sol France	5	283 0.6×	98 0.3×	68 0.8×	43 0.7×	41 0.9×	6	363
Akiyo Yatagai Japan	11	374 0.8×	353 1.2×	28 0.3×	52 0.9×	8 0.2×	34	508
Dong Guo China	13	300 0.7×	315 1.0×	30 0.4×	69 1.1×	13 0.3×	28	414
Rachel Burgess United Kingdom	5	152 0.3×	171 0.6×	83 1.0×	39 0.7×	2 0.0×	8	308
Rolf Nyberg Sweden	15	85 0.2×	433 1.4×	87 1.0×	266 4.4×	13 0.3×	31	557
V. V. Spektor Russia	8	115 0.2×	239 0.8×	51 0.6×	36 0.6×	6 0.1×	20	324
C. J. Lolis Greece	16	527 1.1×	501 1.7×	25 0.3×	5 0.1×	3 0.1×	33	698
Forest Cannon United States	19	878 1.9×	966 3.2×	27 0.3×	103 1.7×	3 0.1×	43	1.2k
L. Scott Eaton United States	9	110 0.2×	126 0.4×	156 1.9×	189 3.1×	7 0.2×	23	353

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wiggins, Elizabeth B., Edward L. Winstead, Claire Robinson, et al.. (2025). Look Within: Intraplume Differences on Smoke Aerosol Aging Driven by Concentration Gradients. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(5).

Saide, Pablo E., Jacob Bortnik, Arlindo da Silva, et al.. (2024). Forecasting Daily Fire Radiative Energy Using Data Driven Methods and Machine Learning Techniques. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(16). 5 indexed citations

Liu, Tianjia, James T. Randerson, Yang Chen, et al.. (2024). Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations. Earth system science data. 16(3). 1395–1424. 4 indexed citations

Gallo, Francesca, Kevin J. Sanchez, B. E. Anderson, et al.. (2023). Measurement report: Aerosol vertical profiles over the western North Atlantic Ocean during the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES). Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(2). 1465–1490. 6 indexed citations

Tomsche, Laura, Felix Piel, Tomáš Mikoviny, et al.. (2023). Measurement report: Emission factors of NH ₃ and NH _x for wildfires and agricultural fires in the United States. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(4). 2331–2343. 9 indexed citations

Ahern, Adam T., Frank Erdesz, N. L. Wagner, et al.. (2022). Laser imaging nephelometer for aircraft deployment. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(5). 1093–1105. 7 indexed citations

Ahern, Adam T., Frank Erdesz, N. L. Wagner, et al.. (2021). Laser Imaging Nephelometer for aircraft deployment. 1 indexed citations

Wiggins, Elizabeth B., A. E. Andrews, Colm Sweeney, et al.. (2021). Boreal forest fire CO and CH ₄ emission factors derived from tower observations in Alaska during the extreme fire season of 2015. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(11). 8557–8574. 22 indexed citations

Wiggins, Elizabeth B., A. E. Andrews, Colm Sweeney, et al.. (2020). Evidence for a larger contribution of smoldering combustion to boreal forest fire emissions from tower observations in Alaska. 8 indexed citations

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Kahn, Ralph A., James A. Limbacher, Zhanqing Li, et al.. (2020). Wildfire Smoke Particle Properties and Evolution, From Space-Based Multi-Angle Imaging II: The Williams Flats Fire during the FIREX-AQ Campaign. Remote Sensing. 12(22). 3823–3823. 21 indexed citations

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Crosbie, Ewan, Michael A. Shook, Luke D. Ziemba, et al.. (2020). Coupling an online ion conductivity measurement with the particle-into-liquid sampler: Evaluation and modeling using laboratory and field aerosol data. Aerosol Science and Technology. 54(12). 1542–1555. 4 indexed citations

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Randerson, J. T., Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2018). Development of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED): Toward reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up constraints on fire contributions to variability and trends in carbonaceous aerosol. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Elizabeth B., C. I. Czimczik, Guaciara M. Santos, et al.. (2018). Smoke radiocarbon measurements from Indonesian fires provide evidence for burning of millennia-aged peat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(49). 12419–12424. 53 indexed citations

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Veraverbeke, Sander, Brendan M. Rogers, Mike Goulden, et al.. (2017). Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests. Nature Climate Change. 7(7). 529–534. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Veraverbeke, Sander, Brendan M. Rogers, Mike Goulden, et al.. (2017). ABoVE: Ignitions, burned area and emissions of fires in AK, YT, and NWT, 2001-2015. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 4 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Elizabeth B.. (2016). Some Weyl Modules for Simple Algebraic Groups of TypeB₄andD₄. Communications in Algebra. 44(9). 4001–4025. 2 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Elizabeth B., Sander Veraverbeke, John M. Henderson, et al.. (2016). The influence of daily meteorology on boreal fire emissions and regional trace gas variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 121(11). 2793–2810. 12 indexed citations

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Czimczik, C. I., Simon Fahrni, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, et al.. (2015). Black carbon aerosol dynamics and isotopic composition in Alaska linked with boreal fire emissions and depth of burn in organic soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(11). 1977–2000. 25 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Elizabeth B., et al.. (2009). On Accelerating the PageRank Computation. Internet Mathematics. 6(2). 157–171. 1 indexed citations

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Moorthy, Krishna, Vipin Asopa, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, & M J Callam. (2004). Is the reexcision rate higher if breast conservation surgery is performed by surgical trainees?. The American Journal of Surgery. 188(1). 45–48. 20 indexed citations

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