Rainer M. W. Amon

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Rainer M. W. Amon is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer M. W. Amon has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Oceanography, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rainer M. W. Amon's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (31 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers). Rainer M. W. Amon is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (31 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers). Rainer M. W. Amon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Russia. Rainer M. W. Amon's co-authors include Ronald Benner, Sally A. Walker, Colin A. Stedmon, Patrick Louchouarn, Karl Kaiser, B. Meon, Aaron Rinehart, Stephen P. Opsahl, Shuiwang Duan and Bryan C. Benitez-Nelson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rainer M. W. Amon

55 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Bacterial utilization of different size classes of dissolved organic matter

1996 837 citations Rainer M. W. Amon, Ronald Benner Limnology and Oceanography profile →

Peers

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Peter J. Hernes United States

Robert C. Upstill‐Goddard United Kingdom

Kedong Yin China

Gwo‐Ching Gong Taiwan

V. V. S. S. Sarma India

Christopher L. Osburn United States

Miguel A. Goñi United States

Steve E. Fitzwater United States

Steven E. Lohrenz United States

Frank Wenzhöfer Germany

Peter J. Hernes United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer M. W. Amon

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Amon, Rainer M. W., José Ochoa, Julio Candela, et al.. (2023). Ventilation of the deep Gulf of Mexico and potential insights to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Science Advances. 9(11). eade1685–eade1685. 3 indexed citations

Amon, Rainer M. W., Karl Kaiser, Ronald Benner, et al.. (2022). Spatial Complexity in Dissolved Organic Matter and Trace Elements Driven by Hydrography and Freshwater Input Across the Arctic Ocean During 2015 Arctic GEOTRACES Expeditions. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(11). 11 indexed citations

Anis, Ayal, Dapeng Li, Mikhail Korets, et al.. (2022). Estimation of gas exchange coefficients from observations on the Yenisei River, Russia. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 20(12). 781–788. 1 indexed citations

Stedmon, Colin A., Rainer M. W. Amon, Dorothea Bauch, et al.. (2021). Insights Into Water Mass Origins in the Central Arctic Ocean From In‐Situ Dissolved Organic Matter Fluorescence. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(7). 18 indexed citations

Amon, Rainer M. W., Ronald Benner, Karl Kaiser, et al.. (2021). Insights into the origins, molecular characteristics and distribution of iron-binding ligands in the Arctic Ocean. Marine Chemistry. 231. 103936–103936. 16 indexed citations

Anis, Ayal, et al.. (2020). Turbulent Mixing in a Loop Current Eddy From Glider‐Based Microstructure Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(14). 10 indexed citations

Prokushkin, Anatoly, et al.. (2018). Sources of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Rivers of the Yenisei River Basin. Doklady Earth Sciences. 480(2). 763–766. 7 indexed citations

Kaiser, Karl, et al.. (2017). Origins and transformations of dissolved organic matter in large Arctic rivers. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13064–13064. 84 indexed citations

Duan, Shuiwang, Rainer M. W. Amon, & Robin Brınkmeyer. (2014). Tracing sources of organic matter in adjacent urban streams having different degrees of channel modification. The Science of The Total Environment. 485-486. 252–262. 27 indexed citations

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Crespo‐Medina, Melitza, Christof Meile, Kimberley S. Hunter, et al.. (2014). The rise and fall of methanotrophy following a deepwater oil-well blowout. Nature Geoscience. 7(6). 423–427. 94 indexed citations

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Brınkmeyer, Robin, et al.. (2014). Distribution and persistence of Escherichia coli and Enterococci in stream bed and bank sediments from two urban streams in Houston, TX. The Science of The Total Environment. 502. 650–658. 42 indexed citations

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Benner, Ronald & Rainer M. W. Amon. (2014). The Size-Reactivity Continuum of Major Bioelements in the Ocean. Annual Review of Marine Science. 7(1). 185–205. 287 indexed citations

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Fichot, Cédric G., Karl Kaiser, Stanford B. Hooker, et al.. (2013). Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1053–1053. 198 indexed citations

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Walker, Sally A., Rainer M. W. Amon, & Colin A. Stedmon. (2013). Variations in high‐latitude riverine fluorescent dissolved organic matter: A comparison of large Arctic rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 118(4). 1689–1702. 142 indexed citations

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Crump, Byron C., Bruce J. Peterson, Peter A. Raymond, et al.. (2009). Circumpolar synchrony in big river bacterioplankton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(50). 21208–21212. 132 indexed citations

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Benner, Ronald, Bryan C. Benitez-Nelson, Karl Kaiser, & Rainer M. W. Amon. (2004). Export of young terrigenous dissolved organic carbon from rivers to the Arctic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 31(5). 178 indexed citations

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Amon, Rainer M. W.. (2002). The Biogeochemistry Of Dissolved Organic Matter In Aquatic Ecosystems - An Overview. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 4 indexed citations

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Louchouarn, Patrick, Ronald Benner, Stephen P. Opsahl, & Rainer M. W. Amon. (2000). Abundance, Distribution, and Cycling of Dissolved Terrigenous Organic Matter in the Arctic Ocean.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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Pakulski, J. Dean, Ronald Benner, Terry E. Whitledge, et al.. (2000). Microbial Metabolism and Nutrient Cycling in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Plumes. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 50(2). 173–184. 84 indexed citations

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Amon, Rainer M. W. & Ronald Benner. (1996). Bacterial utilization of different size classes of dissolved organic matter. Limnology and Oceanography. 41(1). 41–51. 837 indexed citations breakdown →

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