Patrick G. Hatcher

34.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
398 papers, 26.7k citations indexed

About

Patrick G. Hatcher is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick G. Hatcher has authored 398 papers receiving a total of 26.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Ecology, 79 papers in Oceanography and 66 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Patrick G. Hatcher's work include Isotope Analysis in Ecology (85 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (76 papers) and NMR spectroscopy and applications (57 papers). Patrick G. Hatcher is often cited by papers focused on Isotope Analysis in Ecology (85 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (76 papers) and NMR spectroscopy and applications (57 papers). Patrick G. Hatcher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Patrick G. Hatcher's co-authors include Rachel L. Sleighter, Sunghwan Kim, Benny Chefetz, Heike Knicker, David Clifford, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, John I. Hedges, Ronald Benner, Robert D. Minard and Thomas S. Bianchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Patrick G. Hatcher

396 papers receiving 25.8k 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 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.

Graphical Method for Analysis of Ultrahigh-Resolution Broadband Mass Spectra of Natural Organic Matter, the Van Krevelen Diagram

2003 1.1k citations Patrick G. Hatcher et al. profile →
Bulk Chemical Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean

1992 748 citations Patrick G. Hatcher et al. profile →
Illuminated darkness: Molecular signatures of Congo River dissolved organic matter and its photochemical alteration as revealed by ultrahigh precision mass spectrometry

2010 577 citations Hongmei Chen, Patrick G. Hatcher et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick G. Hatcher	7.0k	6.4k	4.4k	3.5k	3.3k	398	26.7k
John I. Hedges	13.4k 1.9×	16.0k 2.5×	8.5k 1.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	142	32.0k
Thorsten Dittmar	13.6k 2.0×	12.0k 1.9×	5.9k 1.3×	2.7k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	278	29.2k
Philippe Van Cappellen	3.8k 0.5×	4.0k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	277	20.7k
Donald E. Canfield	9.5k 1.4×	8.2k 1.3×	11.4k 2.6×	3.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.5×	282	42.8k
George R. Aiken	5.6k 0.8×	7.9k 1.2×	4.1k 0.9×	5.4k 1.5×	8.5k 2.6×	193	25.4k
Timothy I. Eglinton	8.1k 1.2×	6.3k 1.0×	12.2k 2.8×	1.4k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	412	22.3k
Marcel M. M. Kuypers	12.2k 1.7×	7.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.5×	8.3k 2.4×	1.5k 0.4×	194	23.1k
Ronald Benner	13.5k 1.9×	17.2k 2.7×	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	231	27.1k
Cong‐Qiang Liu	2.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.3×	4.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	623	17.3k
Diane M. McKnight	8.6k 1.2×	7.1k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	309	23.0k

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Gan, Shuchai, Verena B. Heuer, Frauke Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Moderate heating renders 7.8-million-year-old sedimentary organic matter bioavailable. Science Advances. 11(34). eadw8638–eadw8638. 1 indexed citations

Goranov, Aleksandar I., et al.. (2025). Deciphering the Chemistry of Condensed Aromatic “Black” Carbon and Nitrogen in Amazonian Anthrosols. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(32). 17047–17058. 1 indexed citations

Goranov, Aleksandar I., P. P. A. Oliveira, José Ricardo Macedo Pezzopane, et al.. (2024). Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and inorganic solutes in soil profiles of tropical pasturelands. Soil and Tillage Research. 240. 106100–106100. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Chen, Aleksandar I. Goranov, Daniel I. Kaplan, et al.. (2024). Molecular features of uranium-binding natural organic matter in a riparian wetland determined by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry. The Science of The Total Environment. 948. 174867–174867. 1 indexed citations

Hatcher, Patrick G., et al.. (2024). Interaction between peptide and solid lignin suggest mechanisms of abiotic covalent bond formation. Organic Geochemistry. 197. 104861–104861. 3 indexed citations

Goranov, Aleksandar I., Erlend Sørmo, Nikolas Hagemann, et al.. (2024). Using the benzenepolycarboxylic acid (BPCA) method to assess activated biochars and their PFAS sorption abilities. Chemosphere. 355. 141750–141750. 4 indexed citations

Sørmo, Erlend, Raoul Wolf, Aleksandar I. Goranov, et al.. (2024). The impact of biochar's physicochemical properties on sorption of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 177191–177191. 7 indexed citations

Barreto, Matheus Sampaio Carneiro, Aleksandar I. Goranov, Tyler D. Sowers, et al.. (2024). Carbon Fate, Iron Dissolution, and Molecular Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter in Thawed Yedoma Permafrost under Varying Redox Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(9). 4155–4166. 7 indexed citations

Goranov, Aleksandar I., et al.. (2024). Potentially Massive and Global Non-Pyrogenic Production of Condensed “Black” Carbon through Biomass Oxidation. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(6). 2750–2761. 16 indexed citations

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Obeid, Wassim, et al.. (2023). Two-step hydrothermal liquefaction of Scenedesmus/Desmodesmus algae for the production of hydrocarbon-based fuels. Organic Geochemistry. 182. 104637–104637. 4 indexed citations

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Zimmerman, Andrew R., et al.. (2021). Biolability of Fresh and Photodegraded Pyrogenic Dissolved Organic Matter From Laboratory‐Prepared Chars. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(5). 47 indexed citations

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Lin, Peng, Chen Xu, Daniel I. Kaplan, et al.. (2019). Nagasaki sediments reveal that long-term fate of plutonium is controlled by select organic matter moieties. The Science of The Total Environment. 678. 409–418. 12 indexed citations

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Xu, Chen, Saijin Zhang, Andrew S. Wozniak, et al.. (2018). Decreased sedimentation efficiency of petro- and non-petro-carbon caused by a dispersant for Macondo surrogate oil in a mesocosm simulating a coastal microbial community. Marine Chemistry. 206. 34–43. 23 indexed citations

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Xu, Jianzhong, Amanda M. Grannas, Cunde Xiao, et al.. (2018). High-resolution mass spectrometric characterization of dissolved organic matter from warm and cold periods in the NEEM ice core. Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions. 10(1). 38–46. 3 indexed citations

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DiDonato, Nicole, Chen Xu, Peter H. Santschi, & Patrick G. Hatcher. (2017). Substructural Components of Organic Colloids from a Pu-Polluted Soil with Implications for Pu Mobilization. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(9). 4803–4811. 7 indexed citations

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Hatcher, Patrick G., Wassim Obeid, Andrew S. Wozniak, et al.. (2017). Identifying oil/marine snow associations in mesocosm simulations of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill event using solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 126. 159–165. 25 indexed citations

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Sleighter, Rachel L., Rose M. Cory, Louis A. Kaplan, Hussain Abdulla, & Patrick G. Hatcher. (2014). A Coupled Geochemical and Biogeochemical Approach to Characterize the Bioreactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter From a Headwater Stream. ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University). 1 indexed citations

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Sleighter, Rachel L., et al.. (2013). Characterization of dissolved organic matter from a Greenland ice core by nanospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Journal of Glaciology. 59(214). 225–232. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinhe, Beena Thomas, Rakesh Sachdeva, et al.. (2006). Mechanism of arylating quinone toxicity involving Michael adduct formation and induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(10). 3604–3609. 148 indexed citations

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Schobert, Harold H., et al.. (1992). Thermal decomposition studies of jet fuel components : n-Butylbenzene and t-butylbenzene. Preprints - American Chemical Society. Division of Petroleum Chemistry. 37(2). 505–513. 3 indexed citations

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