James H. McCutchan

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

James H. McCutchan is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, James H. McCutchan has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 15 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in James H. McCutchan's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (13 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (10 papers). James H. McCutchan is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (13 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (10 papers). James H. McCutchan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and France. James H. McCutchan's co-authors include William M. Lewis, Carol Kendall, James F. Saunders, Alena L. Pribyl, William M. Lewis, Sujay S. Kaushal, John Pitlick, Frederick N. Scatena, Jorge R. Ortíz-Zayas and Jennifer S. Briggs and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Water Resources Research and Limnology and Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

James H. McCutchan

24 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Variation in trophic shift for stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur

2003 2.3k citations James H. McCutchan, William M. Lewis et al. Oikos profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James H. McCutchan United States	16	2.6k	1.1k	921	647	440	24	3.0k
Kerrie M. Swadling Australia	25	1.6k 0.6×	627 0.6×	426 0.5×	823 1.3×	267 0.6×	89	2.4k
Dani Boix Spain	31	2.1k 0.8×	654 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	762 1.2×	1.2k 2.7×	121	3.2k
Avital Gasith Israel	25	1.7k 0.6×	667 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	344 0.5×	436 1.0×	70	2.9k
Gilbert Cabana Canada	19	3.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	545 0.8×	367 0.8×	41	3.8k
Jouko Sarvala Finland	29	1.5k 0.6×	698 0.6×	947 1.0×	837 1.3×	921 2.1×	111	2.4k
Christopher T. Solomon United States	29	2.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	1.5k 2.3×	1.1k 2.5×	84	3.8k
Xavier D. Quintana Spain	31	1.7k 0.6×	502 0.5×	748 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	1.1k 2.5×	100	2.7k
William M. Tonn Canada	35	3.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	3.5k 3.8×	270 0.4×	753 1.7×	116	4.7k
J. B. Rasmussen Canada	20	2.2k 0.8×	894 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	422 0.7×	237 0.5×	37	2.9k
Pär Byström Sweden	36	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	2.2k 2.4×	1.1k 1.7×	972 2.2×	80	4.2k

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McCutchan, James H., et al.. (2021). Design and use of a benthic sled for quantitative sampling of epibenthic macroinvertebrates in lakes. Lake and Reservoir Management. 37(3). 289–299. 1 indexed citations

Lewis, William M., et al.. (2019). Effects of Climatic Change on Temperature and Thermal Structure of a Mountain Reservoir. Water Resources Research. 55(3). 1988–1999. 33 indexed citations

Saunders, James F., Yun Yu, James H. McCutchan, & Fernando L. Rosario‐Ortiz. (2017). Characterizing Limits of Precision for Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Calculations. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 4(11). 452–456. 15 indexed citations

McCutchan, James H., et al.. (2017). Trophic interactions across lake–stream boundaries in mountain lakes. Inland Waters. 7(4). 440–448. 10 indexed citations

McCutchan, James H., et al.. (2016). Predator driven changes in prey size distribution stabilize secondary production in lacustrine food webs. Limnology and Oceanography. 62(2). 592–605. 23 indexed citations

Rhoades, Charles C., James H. McCutchan, David W. Clow, et al.. (2013). Biogeochemistry of beetle-killed forests: Explaining a weak nitrate response. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(5). 1756–1760. 75 indexed citations

Lewis, William M., et al.. (2012). Comparative adaptations of Aphanizomenon and Anabaena for nitrogen fixation under weak irradiance. Freshwater Biology. 57(5). 1042–1049. 13 indexed citations

McCutchan, James H., James F. Saunders, Alena L. Pribyl, & William M. Lewis. (2011). Open-channel estimation of denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 1. 74–81. 10 indexed citations

Segura, Catalina, James H. McCutchan, William M. Lewis, & John Pitlick. (2010). The influence of channel bed disturbance on algal biomass in a Colorado mountain stream. Ecohydrology. 4(3). 411–421. 23 indexed citations

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Lewis, William M. & James H. McCutchan. (2010). Ecological responses to nutrients in streams and rivers of the Colorado mountains and foothills. Freshwater Biology. 55(9). 1973–1983. 36 indexed citations

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Lewis, William M., James F. Saunders, & James H. McCutchan. (2008). Application of a nutrient-saturation concept to the control of algal growth in lakes. Lake and Reservoir Management. 24(1). 41–46. 8 indexed citations

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Higgins, Tara, James H. McCutchan, & William M. Lewis. (2008). Nitrogen ebullition in a Colorado plains river. Biogeochemistry. 89(3). 367–377. 20 indexed citations

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Cronin, G. M., James H. McCutchan, John Pitlick, & William M. Lewis. (2007). Use of Shields stress to reconstruct and forecast changes in river metabolism. Freshwater Biology. 52(8). 1587–1601. 23 indexed citations

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Kaushal, Sujay S., William M. Lewis, & James H. McCutchan. (2006). Land Use Change And Nitrogen Enrichment Of A Rocky Mountain Watershed. Ecological Applications. 16(1). 299–312. 81 indexed citations

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McCutchan, James H. & William M. Lewis. (2006). Groundwater flux and open-channel estimation of stream metabolism: response to Hall and Tank. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 4(7). 213–215. 13 indexed citations

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Pribyl, Alena L., James H. McCutchan, William M. Lewis, & James F. Saunders. (2005). Whole-system estimation of denitrification in a plains river: a comparison of two methods. Biogeochemistry. 73(3). 439–455. 49 indexed citations

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McCutchan, James H., et al.. (2003). Variation in trophic shift for stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. Oikos. 102(2). 378–390. 2266 indexed citations breakdown →

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McCutchan, James H., James F. Saunders, Alena L. Pribyl, & William M. Lewis. (2003). Open‐channel estimation of denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 1(1). 74–81. 53 indexed citations

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McCutchan, James H. & William M. Lewis. (2002). Relative importance of carbon sources for macroinvertebrates in a Rocky Mountain stream. Limnology and Oceanography. 47(3). 742–752. 130 indexed citations

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McCutchan, James H., William M. Lewis, & James F. Saunders. (1998). Uncertainty in the Estimation of Stream Metabolism from Open-Channel Oxygen Concentrations. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 17(2). 155–164. 62 indexed citations

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