John E. Brittain

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
112 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

John E. Brittain is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Brittain has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Ecology, 49 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in John E. Brittain's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (58 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (49 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (41 papers). John E. Brittain is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (58 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (49 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (41 papers). John E. Brittain collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Sweden and Italy. John E. Brittain's co-authors include Svein Jakob Saltveit, Alexander M. Milner, Emmanuel Castella, Valeria Lencioni, Geoffrey E. Petts, Luigi Monte, Jón S. Ólafsson, Lars Håkanson, A. Lillehammer and Gísli Már Gíslason and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

John E. Brittain

109 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Invertebrate drift ? A review

1988 512 citations John E. Brittain et al. Hydrobiologia profile →
Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

2017 437 citations Alexander M. Milner, Kieran Khamis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Brittain Norway	30	2.6k	1.7k	516	494	426	112	3.7k
Kimmo Tolonen Finland	36	3.6k 1.4×	756 0.4×	689 1.3×	1.7k 3.4×	123 0.3×	82	4.5k
Didier Pont France	44	4.3k 1.6×	3.6k 2.0×	900 1.7×	295 0.6×	892 2.1×	110	6.6k
Dean Jacobsen Denmark	36	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	392 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	726 1.7×	105	4.5k
Florian Malard France	40	3.5k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	703 1.4×	333 0.7×	1.3k 3.0×	98	5.5k
Mark M. Brinson United States	34	3.5k 1.3×	999 0.6×	1.3k 2.5×	445 0.9×	799 1.9×	78	5.1k
María Rieradevall Spain	34	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	409 0.8×	584 1.2×	542 1.3×	95	3.6k
Patrick D. Armitage United Kingdom	39	4.8k 1.8×	2.9k 1.7×	253 0.5×	212 0.4×	1.2k 2.9×	112	6.1k
Kendra K. McLauchlan United States	26	1.7k 0.6×	846 0.5×	1.2k 2.4×	1.2k 2.4×	100 0.2×	66	4.2k
David M. Rosenberg Canada	20	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	543 1.1×	101 0.2×	564 1.3×	43	3.0k
W. T. Baisden New Zealand	33	1.9k 0.7×	429 0.2×	879 1.7×	1.2k 2.4×	180 0.4×	98	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by John E. Brittain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John E. Brittain

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eriksen, Tor Erik, John E. Brittain, Leonard Sandin, & Nikolai Friberg. (2024). Unveiling cryptic macroinvertebrate sentinels to enhance biomonitoring in tropical rivers: Bridging traditional approaches with DNA barcoding in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178064–178064. 1 indexed citations

Lento, Jennifer, Danny C. P. Lau, John E. Brittain, Joseph M. Culp, & Willem Goedkoop. (2023). Macroinvertebrate traits in Arctic streams reveal latitudinal patterns in physiology and habits that are strongly linked to climate. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11.

Heggenes, Jan, et al.. (2021). Hydropower‐driven thermal changes, biological responses and mitigating measures in northern river systems. River Research and Applications. 37(5). 743–765. 35 indexed citations

Eriksen, Tor Erik, Dean Jacobsen, Benoît O. L. Demars, et al.. (2021). Effects of pollution-induced changes in oxygen conditions scaling up from individuals to ecosystems in a tropical river network. The Science of The Total Environment. 814. 151958–151958. 15 indexed citations

L'Abée‐Lund, Jan Henning, et al.. (2021). Geographic variation and temporal trends in ice phenology in Norwegian lakes over a century. 3 indexed citations

L'Abée‐Lund, Jan Henning, et al.. (2021). Geographic variation and temporal trends in ice phenology in Norwegian lakes during the period 1890–2020. The cryosphere. 15(5). 2333–2356. 10 indexed citations

Huser, Brian, Martyn N. Futter, John E. Brittain, et al.. (2020). Spatial and temporal variation in Arctic freshwater chemistry—Reflecting climate‐induced landscape alterations and a changing template for biodiversity. Freshwater Biology. 67(1). 14–29. 28 indexed citations

Brittain, John E., Jani Heino, Nikolai Friberg, et al.. (2020). Ecological correlates of riverine diatom and macroinvertebrate alpha and beta diversity across Arctic Fennoscandia. Freshwater Biology. 67(1). 49–63. 17 indexed citations

Brown, Lee E., Kieran Khamis, Martin Wilkes, et al.. (2017). Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 325–333. 94 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E., et al.. (2017). Aquatic biodiversity in sedimentation ponds receiving road runoff – What are the key drivers?. The Science of The Total Environment. 610-611. 1527–1535. 20 indexed citations

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Tracy, B. L., F. Carini, S. Barabash, et al.. (2013). The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 122. 1–8. 9 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E. & Reidar Borgstrøm. (2010). The Norwegian reference lake ecosystem, Øvre Heimdalsvatn. Hydrobiologia. 642(1). 5–12. 8 indexed citations

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Monte, Luigi, et al.. (2004). Review and assessment of models for predicting the migration of radionuclides through rivers. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 79(3). 273–296. 34 indexed citations

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Monte, Luigi, John E. Brittain, Lars Håkanson, et al.. (2003). Review and assessment of models used to predict the fate of radionuclides in lakes. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 69(3). 177–205. 39 indexed citations

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Hongve, Dag, John E. Brittain, & Helge E. Bjørnstad. (2002). Aquatic mosses as a monitoring tool for 137Cs contamination in streams and rivers—a field study from central southern Norway. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 60(1-2). 139–147. 24 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E., et al.. (2000). Life cycle, diet and habitat of Polycentropus flavomaculatus, Plectrocnemia conspersa and Rhyacophila nubila (Trichoptera) in Øvre Heimdalen, Jotunheimen Mountains, Norway.. 47(2). 113–124. 3 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E., et al.. (1996). FOREWORD: REMEDIAL STRATEGIES IN REGULATED RIVERS. Regulated Rivers Research & Management. 12(4-5). 345–345. 1 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E., et al.. (1988). Invertebrate drift ? A review. Hydrobiologia. 166(1). 77–93. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brittain, John E. & B. Nagell. (1981). Overwintering at Low Oxygen Concentrations in the Mayfly Leptophlebia Vespertina. Oikos. 36(1). 45–45. 15 indexed citations

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Brittain, John E.. (1973). The biology and life cycle of Nemoura avicularis Morton (Plecoptera). Freshwater Biology. 3(2). 199–210. 26 indexed citations

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