James B. Cotner

14.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
125 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

James B. Cotner is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, James B. Cotner has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Ecology, 63 papers in Oceanography and 57 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in James B. Cotner's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (62 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (46 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (45 papers). James B. Cotner is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (62 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (46 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (45 papers). James B. Cotner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Canada. James B. Cotner's co-authors include Bopaiah A. Biddanda, James J. Elser, Robert W. Sterner, Wataru Makino, Sarah E. Hobbie, Therese A. Markow, Robert G. Wetzel, Lawrence J. Weider, Kristopher McNeill and Jon F. Harrison and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

James B. Cotner

124 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems

2000 810 citations James B. Cotner et al. profile →
Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota

2003 764 citations James B. Cotner et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
James B. Cotner	4.7k	3.3k	2.9k	1.7k	1.1k	125	9.2k
Tom J. Battin	6.3k 1.3×	3.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.6×	156	12.4k
Stuart E. Jones	6.5k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	3.5k 3.1×	168	10.5k
Stuart Findlay	7.2k 1.5×	3.8k 1.2×	4.9k 1.7×	2.6k 1.5×	435 0.4×	126	11.9k
Val H. Smith	6.8k 1.4×	4.7k 1.4×	8.2k 2.8×	2.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	111	16.6k
Michael J. Klug	4.4k 0.9×	910 0.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	88	9.0k
Alfons J. P. Smolders	5.1k 1.1×	1.5k 0.4×	3.0k 1.0×	595 0.4×	413 0.4×	176	8.3k
Stephen C. Maberly	3.5k 0.7×	4.4k 1.3×	3.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	186	9.9k
Douglas G. Capone	9.4k 2.0×	9.1k 2.8×	3.7k 1.2×	666 0.4×	1.7k 1.5×	144	17.2k
Anthony F. Michaels	5.6k 1.2×	9.4k 2.9×	2.7k 0.9×	677 0.4×	541 0.5×	66	14.7k
Tom Andersen	4.0k 0.8×	4.2k 1.3×	4.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	534 0.5×	177	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James B. Cotner

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Cotner, James B., et al.. (2024). The influence of mixing on seasonal carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in ponds. Biogeochemistry. 167(10). 1297–1314. 2 indexed citations

Holgerson, Meredith A., David C. Richardson, Mikkel René Andersen, et al.. (2024). Freshwater Biogeochemical Hotspots: High Primary Production and Ecosystem Respiration in Shallow Waterbodies. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(15). 5 indexed citations

Cotner, James B., Stephen M. Powers, Steven Sadro, & Diane M. McKnight. (2022). Whither Winter: The Altered Role of Winter for Freshwaters as the Climate Changes. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(6).

Cotner, James B., N. John Anderson, & Christopher L. Osburn. (2022). Accumulation of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter in aerobic aquatic systems. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 7(5). 401–409. 9 indexed citations

Cavaliere, Emily, Steven Sadro, Stella A. Berger, et al.. (2021). The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: Influence of Winter Conditions on Energy and Ecosystem Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(11). 35 indexed citations

Sebestyen, Stephen D., et al.. (2021). Sources and biodegradability of dissolved organic matter in two headwater peatland catchments at the Marcell Experimental Forest, northern Minnesota,USA. Hydrological Processes. 35(2). 11 indexed citations

Cotner, James B., et al.. (2020). Upper Midwest lakes are supersaturated with N ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(29). 17063–17067. 33 indexed citations

Cotner, James B.. (2019). How increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and ‘The Law of the Minimum’ are contributing to environmental obesity. Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia. 31. 2 indexed citations

Hall, Ed K., Emily S. Bernhardt, Raven L. Bier, et al.. (2018). Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit. Nature Microbiology. 3(9). 977–982. 162 indexed citations

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Li, Gang, et al.. (2018). Biochars induced modification of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in soil and its impact on mobility and bioaccumulation of arsenic and cadmium. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 348. 100–108. 260 indexed citations

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Godwin, Casey M. & James B. Cotner. (2017). What intrinsic and extrinsic factors explain the stoichiometric diversity of aquatic heterotrophic bacteria?. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 598–609. 28 indexed citations

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Amado, André Megali, et al.. (2017). Redfield Ratios in Inland Waters: Higher Biological Control of C:N:P Ratios in Tropical Semi-arid High Water Residence Time Lakes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1505–1505. 54 indexed citations

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Godwin, Casey M., et al.. (2017). The Effects of Nutrient Imbalances and Temperature on the Biomass Stoichiometry of Freshwater Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1692–1692. 15 indexed citations

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Cotner, Sehoya, et al.. (2016). Bold, Sedentary Fathead Minnows Have More Parasites. Zebrafish. 13(4). 248–255. 3 indexed citations

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Staley, Christopher, Trevor J. Gould, Ping Wang, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of water sampling methodologies for amplicon-based characterization of bacterial community structure. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 114. 43–50. 32 indexed citations

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Amado, André Megali, et al.. (2014). Disentangling the Interactions Between Photochemical and Bacterial Degradation of Dissolved Organic Matter: Amino Acids Play a Central Role. Microbial Ecology. 69(3). 554–566. 43 indexed citations

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Amado, André Megali, Frederico Meirelles-Pereira, Luciana O. Vidal, et al.. (2013). Tropical freshwater ecosystems have lower bacterial growth efficiency than temperate ones. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 167–167. 53 indexed citations

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Theissen, Kevin M., William O. Hobbs, Kyle D. Zimmer, et al.. (2012). The altered ecology of Lake Christina: A record of regime shifts, land-use change, and management from a temperate shallow lake. The Science of The Total Environment. 433. 336–346. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhigang, et al.. (2008). Gene expression patterns of sulfur starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 344–344. 64 indexed citations

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Cotner, James B.. (1990). Utilization of dissolved phosphorus compounds by bacteria and algae in lakes.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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