Nathan Briggs

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nathan Briggs is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Briggs has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Oceanography, 8 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Nathan Briggs's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (35 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers). Nathan Briggs is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (35 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (22 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers). Nathan Briggs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Nathan Briggs's co-authors include Eric A. D’Asaro, Ivona Cetinić, Mary Jane Perry, Hervé Claustre, Craig M. Lee, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, Emmanuel Boss, A. Gray, Craig Lee and Eric Rehm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Briggs

42 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom

2015 274 citations Eric A. D’Asaro, Mary Jane Perry et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Briggs United Kingdom	20	1.6k	459	401	227	147	43	1.8k
Cara Wilson United States	22	998 0.6×	514 1.1×	468 1.2×	206 0.9×	107 0.7×	42	1.3k
Markus Schartau Germany	20	1.3k 0.8×	434 0.9×	476 1.2×	228 1.0×	202 1.4×	43	1.6k
Sandy Thomalla South Africa	22	1.2k 0.7×	414 0.9×	320 0.8×	218 1.0×	111 0.8×	60	1.3k
Urmas Lips Estonia	22	958 0.6×	315 0.7×	293 0.7×	188 0.8×	272 1.9×	72	1.3k
Carlos Alberto Eiras Garcia Brazil	27	1.8k 1.1×	803 1.7×	703 1.8×	454 2.0×	136 0.9×	72	2.2k
J. Icarus Allen United Kingdom	25	1.3k 0.8×	403 0.9×	736 1.8×	267 1.2×	168 1.1×	38	1.6k
Eric Rehm United States	9	915 0.6×	303 0.7×	282 0.7×	142 0.6×	91 0.6×	20	1.1k
Dmitry Aleynik United Kingdom	16	659 0.4×	269 0.6×	380 0.9×	278 1.2×	191 1.3×	43	1.1k
Chris Gotschalk United States	14	1.1k 0.7×	478 1.0×	230 0.6×	243 1.1×	237 1.6×	17	1.4k
Prasad G. Thoppil United States	17	1.1k 0.7×	221 0.5×	686 1.7×	483 2.1×	105 0.7×	27	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Briggs

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Briggs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Briggs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Briggs based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nathan Briggs. Nathan Briggs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bushinsky, Seth M., et al.. (2025). Mixing Accounts for More Than Half of Biogeochemical Changes Along Mode Water Ventilation Pathways. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(7).

Giering, Sarah L. C., Katsiaryna Pabortsava, Nathan Briggs, et al.. (2024). Inefficient transfer of diatoms through the subpolar Southern Ocean twilight zone. Nature Geoscience. 18(1). 72–77. 2 indexed citations

Briggs, Nathan, et al.. (2023). Douglas et al., Ocean Science. Weddell Gyre NPP and Sea Ice. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Lacour, Léo, Joan Llort, Nathan Briggs, Peter G. Strutton, & Philip W. Boyd. (2023). Seasonality of downward carbon export in the Pacific Southern Ocean revealed by multi-year robotic observations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1278–1278. 13 indexed citations

Claustre, Hervé, Nathan Briggs, Antoine Poteau, et al.. (2023). BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats Reveal Stark Latitudinal Gradient in the Southern Ocean Deep Carbon Flux Driven by Phytoplankton Community Composition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(11). 6 indexed citations

Villa, M., et al.. (2023). Seasonal variations of sinking velocities in Austral diatom blooms: Lessons learned from COMICS. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 213. 105353–105353. 3 indexed citations

Lampitt, Richard S., Nathan Briggs, B. B. Cael, et al.. (2023). Deep ocean particle flux in the Northeast Atlantic over the past 30 years: carbon sequestration is controlled by ecosystem structure in the upper ocean. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 12 indexed citations

Organelli, Emanuele, Nathan Briggs, Xiaogang Xing, et al.. (2021). Correction of Biogeochemical-Argo Radiometry for Sensor Temperature-Dependence and Drift: Protocols for a Delayed-Mode Quality Control. Sensors. 21(18). 6217–6217. 6 indexed citations

Hendry, Katharine, Nathan Briggs, Stephanie Henson, et al.. (2021). Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(8). 8 indexed citations

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Briggs, Nathan, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, & Hervé Claustre. (2020). Major role of particle fragmentation in regulating biological sequestration of CO ₂ by the oceans. Science. 367(6479). 791–793. 162 indexed citations

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Bellacicco, Marco, Gianluca Volpe, Nathan Briggs, et al.. (2018). Global Distribution of Non‐algal Particles From Ocean Color Data and Implications for Phytoplankton Biomass Detection. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(15). 7672–7682. 26 indexed citations

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Briggs, Nathan, Kristinn Guðmundsson, Ivona Cetinić, et al.. (2018). A multi-method autonomous assessment of primary productivity and export efficiency in the springtime North Atlantic. Biogeosciences. 15(14). 4515–4532. 26 indexed citations

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Henson, Stephanie, et al.. (2018). High‐Frequency Variability of Small‐Particle Carbon Export Flux in the Northeast Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 32(12). 1803–1814. 38 indexed citations

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Organelli, Emanuele, Marie Barbieux, Hervé Claustre, et al.. (2017). Two databases derived from BGC-Argo float measurements for marine biogeochemical and bio-optical applications. Earth system science data. 9(2). 861–880. 41 indexed citations

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Organelli, Emanuele, Marie Barbieux, Hervé Claustre, et al.. (2017). Two databases derived from BGC-Argo float measurements forbiogeochemical and bio-optical applications at the global scale. 4 indexed citations

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Cetinić, Ivona, M. J. Perry, Eric A. D’Asaro, et al.. (2015). A simple optical index shows spatial and temporal heterogeneity in phytoplankton community composition during the 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment. Biogeosciences. 12(7). 2179–2194. 80 indexed citations

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Briggs, Nathan. (2014). Using Temporal Variability in Optical Measurements to Quantify Phytoplankton Production, Particle Size, and Aggregation During the North Atlantic Spring Bloom. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 1 indexed citations

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Cetinić, Ivona, M. J. Perry, Eric A. D’Asaro, et al.. (2014). Optical community index to assess spatial patchiness during the 2008 North Atlantic Bloom. 5 indexed citations

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Gray, A., Eric A. D’Asaro, M. J. Perry, et al.. (2008). The 2008 North Atlantic Spring Bloom Experiment: Observations of a Stationary Eddy on the Eastern Flank of the Reykjanes Ridge. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations

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D’Asaro, Eric A., Katja Fennel, Eric Rehm, et al.. (2008). The 2008 North Atlantic Spring Bloom Experiment I: Overview and Strategy. AGUFM. 2008. 3 indexed citations

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