Nick Owens

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Nick Owens is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Owens has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Oceanography, 28 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nick Owens's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (47 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (22 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers). Nick Owens is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (47 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (22 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers). Nick Owens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Nick Owens's co-authors include Cliff S. Law, R.F.C. Mantoura, Andrew P. Rees, P.H. Burkill, Jonathan Barnes, Carole A. Llewellyn, Thomas C. Preston, Robert C. Upstill‐Goddard, J. Colin Murrell and E Malcolm S Woodward and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nick Owens

66 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nick Owens United Kingdom	37	2.9k	1.7k	1.1k	1.0k	450	68	4.1k
Jonathan H. Sharp United States	29	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	988 0.9×	731 0.7×	345 0.8×	47	4.2k
Patrick Raimbault France	44	4.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.3×	660 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	701 1.6×	141	5.0k
E. Malcolm S. Woodward United Kingdom	37	3.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	717 0.6×	823 0.8×	627 1.4×	88	4.5k
Justus E. E. van Beusekom Germany	34	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	778 0.7×	862 0.8×	359 0.8×	78	3.6k
Mary I. Scranton United States	33	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	700 1.6×	84	4.1k
Yoshiaki Maita Japan	16	4.2k 1.5×	2.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	523 1.2×	48	6.0k
Nurit Kress Israel	33	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	528 0.5×	682 0.7×	398 0.9×	72	3.8k
Joel C. Goldman United States	41	4.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	1.0k 1.0×	309 0.7×	76	6.3k
Patricia A. Wheeler United States	42	4.4k 1.5×	2.3k 1.3×	997 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 2.4×	83	5.5k
Hugh L. MacIntyre United States	30	3.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	782 0.8×	281 0.6×	51	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Owens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Owens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Owens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nick Owens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nick Owens 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 Nick Owens. Nick Owens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vezzulli, Luigi, Monica Stauder, Chiara Grande, et al.. (2015). gbpA as a Novel qPCR Target for the Species-Specific Detection of Vibrio cholerae O1, O139, Non-O1/Non-O139 in Environmental, Stool, and Historical Continuous Plankton Recorder Samples. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0123983–e0123983. 18 indexed citations

Smith, M. F., et al.. (2005). Driver Violation Notification Service Feasibility Study. 63(4). 307–16. 1 indexed citations

McDonald, Ian R., et al.. (2005). Bacterial diversity in the bacterioneuston (sea surface microlayer): the bacterioneuston through the looking glass. Environmental Microbiology. 7(5). 723–736. 92 indexed citations

Clark, Darren R., Kevin J. Flynn, & Nick Owens. (2002). The large capacity for dark nitrate‐assimilation in diatoms may overcome nitrate limitation of growth. New Phytologist. 155(1). 101–108. 80 indexed citations

Flynn, Kevin J., Darren R. Clark, & Nick Owens. (2002). Modelling suggests that optimization of dark nitrogen‐assimilation need not be a critical selective feature in phytoplankton. New Phytologist. 155(1). 109–119. 26 indexed citations

Sathyendranath, Shubha, et al.. (1999). Modelling new production in the northwest Indian Ocean region. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 183. 1–12. 23 indexed citations

Owens, Nick, et al.. (1999). Nitrogen assimilation and the f-ratio in the northwestern Indian Ocean during an intermonsoon period. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 46(3-4). 725–743. 35 indexed citations

Probyn, Trevor A., H. N. Waldron, Sarah Searson, & Nick Owens. (1996). Diel variability in nitrogenous nutrient uptake at photic and subphotic depths. Journal of Plankton Research. 18(11). 2063–2079. 54 indexed citations

Rees, Andrew P., et al.. (1995). Seasonal nitrogen assimilation and carbon fixation in a fjordic sea loch. Journal of Plankton Research. 17(6). 1307–1324. 16 indexed citations

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Law, Cliff S., et al.. (1993). Nitrous oxide production by estuarine epiphyton. Limnology and Oceanography. 38(2). 435–441. 20 indexed citations

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Burkill, P.H., R. J. G. Leakey, Nick Owens, & R.F.C. Mantoura. (1993). Synechococcus and its importance to the microbial foodweb of the northwestern Indian Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 40(3). 773–782. 106 indexed citations

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Lewis, R.E., et al.. (1993). A Modelling Study of the Contribution of Riverine and Anthropogenic Inputs of Ammonium to a North Sea Coastal Area. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 37(5). 497–507. 1 indexed citations

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Owens, Nick, et al.. (1992). Episodic atmospheric nitrogen deposition to oligotrophic oceans. Nature. 357(6377). 397–399. 115 indexed citations

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Owens, Nick, et al.. (1990). Primary production and nitrogen assimilation in the North sea during July 1987. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research. 25(1-2). 143–154. 42 indexed citations

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Owens, Nick & Andrew P. Rees. (1989). Determination of nitrogen-15 at sub-microgram levels of nitrogen using automated continuous-flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry. The Analyst. 114(12). 1655–1655. 91 indexed citations

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Owens, Nick. (1988). Rapid and total automation of shipboard 15N analysis: examples from the North Sea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 122(2). 163–171. 22 indexed citations

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Burkill, P.H., R.F.C. Mantoura, Carole A. Llewellyn, & Nick Owens. (1987). Microzooplankton grazing and selectivity of phytoplankton in coastal waters. Marine Biology. 93(4). 581–590. 236 indexed citations

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Plummer, D.H., Nick Owens, & R. A. Herbert. (1987). Bacteria—particle interactions in turbid estuarine environments. Continental Shelf Research. 7(11-12). 1429–1433. 30 indexed citations

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Owens, Nick, R.F.C. Mantoura, P.H. Burkill, et al.. (1986). Nutrient cycling studies in Carmarthen Bay: phytoplankton production, nitrogen assimilation and regeneration. Marine Biology. 93(3). 329–342. 21 indexed citations

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Joint, I. R., et al.. (1986). Seasonal production of photosynthetic picoplankton and nanoplankton in the Celtic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 28. 251–258. 92 indexed citations

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