Kelly E. Mason

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
11 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Kelly E. Mason is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelly E. Mason has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Soil Science, 5 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Kelly E. Mason's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (3 papers). Kelly E. Mason is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (3 papers). Kelly E. Mason collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Kelly E. Mason's co-authors include Nick Ostle, Robert I. Griffiths, Richard D. Bardgett, Hyun S. Gweon, Jeanette Whitaker, Kate M. Buckeridge, Hayley Craig, Franciska T. de Vries, Philippe Lemanceau and Aidan M. Keith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Kelly E. Mason

11 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

2018 1.4k citations Franciska T. de Vries, Robert I. Griffiths et al. Nature Communications profile →
Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

2018 630 citations Ashish A. Malik, Jérémy Puissant et al. Nature Communications profile →
Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

2018 235 citations Jonathan W. Leff, Richard D. Bardgett et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelly E. Mason United Kingdom	10	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	544	366	11	2.9k
Aurore Kaisermann France	9	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	587 1.1×	335 0.9×	13	2.6k
Kelly Hamonts Australia	24	975 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	566 1.0×	280 0.8×	36	2.6k
Jennifer D. Rocca United States	17	932 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	804 0.7×	548 1.0×	301 0.8×	24	2.5k
Jessica Gutknecht United States	30	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	946 0.8×	413 0.8×	241 0.7×	71	3.1k
Aidan M. Keith United Kingdom	24	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	974 0.8×	402 0.7×	577 1.6×	60	3.1k
Rongxiao Che China	30	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	852 0.7×	397 0.7×	208 0.6×	77	2.9k
Yongliang Chen China	27	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	273 0.5×	282 0.8×	67	3.1k
Zhenghu Zhou China	27	2.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	997 0.9×	297 0.5×	252 0.7×	63	3.1k
Pierre‐Alain Maron France	28	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	851 0.7×	621 1.1×	273 0.7×	46	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelly E. Mason

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11 of 11 papers shown

Elias, Dafydd, Kelly E. Mason, Tim Goodall, et al.. (2024). Microbial and mineral interactions decouple litter quality from soil organic matter formation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10063–10063. 22 indexed citations

Elias, Dafydd, Kelly E. Mason, Nadine Mitschunas, et al.. (2023). The potential to increase grassland soil C stocks by extending reseeding intervals is dependent on soil texture and depth. Journal of Environmental Management. 334. 117465–117465. 23 indexed citations

Buckeridge, Kate M., Kelly E. Mason, Nick Ostle, et al.. (2022). Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 36 indexed citations

Buckeridge, Kate M., Kelly E. Mason, Niall P. McNamara, et al.. (2020). Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization. Communications Earth & Environment. 1(1). 182 indexed citations

Buckeridge, Kate M., Kelly E. Mason, Jeanette Whitaker, et al.. (2020). Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 149. 107929–107929. 125 indexed citations

Mason, Kelly E., Simon Oakley, Lorna E. Street, et al.. (2019). Boreal Forest Floor Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across a Pleurozium schreberi-Dominated, Wildfire-Disturbed Chronosequence. Ecosystems. 22(6). 1381–1392. 6 indexed citations

Long, Jonathan R. De, Benjamin G. Jackson, Anna Wilkinson, et al.. (2019). Relationships between plant traits, soil properties and carbon fluxes differ between monocultures and mixed communities in temperate grassland. Journal of Ecology. 107(4). 1704–1719. 71 indexed citations

Malik, Ashish A., Jérémy Puissant, Kate M. Buckeridge, et al.. (2018). Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3591–3591. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

Vries, Franciska T. de, Robert I. Griffiths, Mark Bailey, et al.. (2018). Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3033–3033. 1411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Semchenko, Marina, Jonathan Leff, Yudi M. Lozano, et al.. (2018). Fungal diversity regulates plant-soil feedbacks in temperate grassland. Science Advances. 4(11). eaau4578–eaau4578. 178 indexed citations

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Leff, Jonathan W., Richard D. Bardgett, Anna Wilkinson, et al.. (2018). Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1794–1805. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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