Mark A. Bradford

340 total papers · 265.4k total citations
228 papers, 239.4k citations indexed

About

Mark A. Bradford is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark A. Bradford has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 239.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Ecology, 89 papers in Soil Science and 76 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Mark A. Bradford's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (87 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (72 papers) and Plant and animal studies (41 papers). Mark A. Bradford is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (87 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (72 papers) and Plant and animal studies (41 papers). Mark A. Bradford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Mark A. Bradford's co-authors include Noah Fierer, Robert B. Jackson, Michael S. Strickland, Christian L. Lauber, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Noah W. Sokol, Thomas W. Crowther, Stephen A. Wood, Steven Allison and Emily E. Oldfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark A. Bradford

224 papers receiving 230.0k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Rapid and Sensitive Method for the Quantitation of Microgram Quantities of Protein Utilizing the Principle of Protein-Dye Binding
    1976 212.0k citations Mark A. Bradford Analytical Biochemistry profile →
  2. TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA
    2007 3.8k citations Noah Fierer, Mark A. Bradford et al. Ecology profile →
  3. The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types
    2008 1.4k citations Christian L. Lauber, Michael S. Strickland et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
  4. Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients
    2011 1.4k citations Noah Fierer, Christian L. Lauber et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  5. Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward
    2011 1.2k citations Richard T. Conant, Michael G. Ryan et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  6. Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology
    2010 1.2k citations Steven Allison, Matthew D. Wallenstein et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  7. Global patterns in belowground communities
    2009 883 citations Noah Fierer, Michael S. Strickland et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  8. Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature
    2008 647 citations Mark A. Bradford, Christian A. Davies et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  9. Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change
    2016 600 citations Mark A. Bradford, William R. Wieder et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  10. Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition
    2009 589 citations Michael S. Strickland, Christian L. Lauber et al. Ecology profile →
  11. Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input
    2018 583 citations Noah W. Sokol, Mark A. Bradford Nature Geoscience profile →
  12. Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry
    2018 518 citations Noah W. Sokol, Jonathan Sanderman et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  13. Differential Growth Responses of Soil Bacterial Taxa to Carbon Substrates of Varying Chemical Recalcitrance
    2011 489 citations Katherine C. Goldfarb, Ulaş Karaöz et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
  14. Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields
    2019 475 citations Emily E. Oldfield, Mark A. Bradford et al. SOIL profile →
  15. Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems
    2010 470 citations Kelly S. Ramirez, Christian L. Lauber et al. Ecology profile →
  16. Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition
    2015 464 citations Mark A. Bradford, Björn Berg et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  17. Where, when and how plant–soil feedback matters in a changing world
    2016 413 citations Wim H. van der Putten, Mark A. Bradford et al. Functional Ecology profile →
  18. Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon
    2018 395 citations Noah W. Sokol, Sara E. Kuebbing et al. New Phytologist profile →
  19. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming
    2021 160 citations Pablo García‐Palacios, Thomas W. Crowther et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  20. Dominance of particulate organic carbon in top mineral soils in cold regions
    2024 48 citations Pablo García‐Palacios, Mark A. Bradford et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Mark A. Bradford 109.9k 57.1k 21.0k 16.3k 15.7k 228 239.4k
Rob Knight 132.7k 1.2× 20.2k 0.4× 49.2k 2.3× 4.6k 0.3× 12.0k 0.8× 895 225.8k
Marion M. Bradford 94.0k 0.9× 47.8k 0.8× 6.9k 0.3× 13.4k 0.8× 939 0.1× 8 194.2k
Sudhir Kumar 92.2k 0.8× 64.2k 1.1× 43.3k 2.1× 15.9k 1.0× 612 0.0× 300 222.7k
Peer Bork 96.5k 0.9× 18.6k 0.3× 15.8k 0.7× 8.3k 0.5× 475 0.0× 525 144.6k
Stephen F. Altschul 95.5k 0.9× 34.7k 0.6× 24.3k 1.2× 9.6k 0.6× 486 0.0× 70 155.8k
R. C. Edgar 41.5k 0.4× 21.6k 0.4× 25.2k 1.2× 5.4k 0.3× 4.2k 0.3× 49 89.1k
Kenneth J. Livak 94.6k 0.9× 44.1k 0.8× 7.8k 0.4× 10.3k 0.6× 247 0.0× 95 198.3k
Koichiro Tamura 82.2k 0.7× 60.5k 1.1× 41.1k 2.0× 15.2k 0.9× 574 0.0× 76 204.8k
A. Farr 143.2k 1.3× 33.6k 0.6× 8.1k 0.4× 22.6k 1.4× 650 0.0× 7 295.6k
Thomas D. Schmittgen 88.7k 0.8× 37.0k 0.6× 6.0k 0.3× 8.6k 0.5× 206 0.0× 95 180.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark A. Bradford

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