HW Higgins

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

About

HW Higgins is a scholar working on Pollution, Oceanography and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, HW Higgins has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Pollution, 3 papers in Oceanography and 2 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in HW Higgins's work include Heavy metals in environment (4 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (2 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (2 papers). HW Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (4 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (2 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (2 papers). HW Higgins collaborates with scholars based in Australia. HW Higgins's co-authors include DJ Mackey, HJ Marchant, D.J. Mackey, D. Steven Mackey, John O’Sullivan and Edward C. V. Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Chromatography A and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

In The Last Decade

HW Higgins

6 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

CHEMTAX - a program for estimating class abundances from chemical markers:application to HPLC measurements of phytoplankton

1996 1.1k citations DJ Mackey, HW Higgins et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
HW Higgins Australia	6	1.3k	756	352	142	112	6	1.5k
Jean‐Claude Marty France	18	1.5k 1.1×	652 0.9×	211 0.6×	333 2.3×	200 1.8×	21	1.7k
David A. Phinney United States	16	1.0k 0.8×	579 0.8×	207 0.6×	248 1.7×	69 0.6×	35	1.2k
B. Irwin Canada	16	1.3k 1.0×	821 1.1×	215 0.6×	244 1.7×	100 0.9×	21	1.5k
DA Bronk United States	11	977 0.7×	620 0.8×	355 1.0×	157 1.1×	58 0.5×	14	1.3k
Edward H. Renger United States	18	1.4k 1.1×	653 0.9×	340 1.0×	337 2.4×	81 0.7×	19	1.7k
Y. Z. Yacobi Israel	18	781 0.6×	484 0.6×	485 1.4×	124 0.9×	72 0.6×	35	1.1k
Gerd Slawyk France	20	1.2k 0.9×	694 0.9×	295 0.8×	258 1.8×	78 0.7×	37	1.4k
Anne-Mette Jespersen Denmark	7	587 0.4×	464 0.6×	485 1.4×	117 0.8×	53 0.5×	9	915
C. Robertson United States	13	949 0.7×	583 0.8×	242 0.7×	222 1.6×	107 1.0×	27	1.2k
Shigeru Montani Japan	21	882 0.7×	708 0.9×	217 0.6×	309 2.2×	163 1.5×	91	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by HW Higgins

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Fields of papers citing papers by HW Higgins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of HW Higgins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of HW Higgins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of HW Higgins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with HW Higgins. HW Higgins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Mackey, DJ, et al.. (1996). CHEMTAX - a program for estimating class abundances from chemical markers:application to HPLC measurements of phytoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 144. 265–283. 1147 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mackey, D. Steven, et al.. (1996). Trace elements and organic matter in a pristine environment: Bathurst Harbour, Southwestern Tasmania. The Science of The Total Environment. 191(1-2). 137–151. 20 indexed citations

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Marchant, HJ, et al.. (1996). Analysis of phytoplankton of the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean:comparisons of microscopy and size frequency data with interpretations of pigment HPLC data using the 'CHEMTAX' matrix factorisation program. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 144. 285–298. 272 indexed citations

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Mackey, D.J. & HW Higgins. (1988). Reversed-phase chromatographic separation and analysis of marine metal—organic complexes. Journal of Chromatography A. 436. 243–257. 10 indexed citations

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Higgins, HW & DJ Mackey. (1987). Role of Ecklonia radiata (C. Ag.) J. Agardh in determining trace metal availability in coastal waters. I. Total trace metals. Marine and Freshwater Research. 38(3). 307–315. 17 indexed citations

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Higgins, HW & DJ Mackey. (1987). Role of Ecklonia radiata (C. Ag.) J. Agardh in determining trace metal availability in coastal waters. II. Trace metal speciation. Marine and Freshwater Research. 38(3). 317–328. 10 indexed citations

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