Richard J. Williams

38.7k citations

380 papers · 25.5k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 81

Ecology top 0.1%
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.1%
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
Pollution top 0.05%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.1%

Co-authors: Neo D. Martinez Jennifer A. Dunne Andrew C. JohnsonJ J R Fraústo da SilvaBert L. Vallée Garry D. Cook David M. J. S. Bowman Ross A. Bradstock
Topics: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers)Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (45 papers)Fire effects on ecosystems (41 papers)
Cited by: Nature and Landscape Conservation Pollution Ecological Modeling
Journals: Nature Chemical Reviews Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

Richard J. Williams

375 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance

2002 1.2k citations Jennifer A. Dunne, Richard J. Williams et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size

2002 1.0k citations Jennifer A. Dunne, Richard J. Williams et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Simple rules yield complex food webs

2000 991 citations Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez profile →
The Biological Chemistry of the Elements

2001 794 citations J J R Fraústo da Silva, Richard J. Williams profile →
Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification

2016 718 citations Richard J. Williams et al. profile →
Metalloenzymes: the entatic nature of their active sites.

1968 490 citations Richard J. Williams et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

2015 407 citations Neal J. Enright, David M. J. S. Bowman et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard J. Williams

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season 2022 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Rachael V. Gallagher,Stuart Allen,Berin D. E. Mackenzie,David A. Keith,Rachael H. Nolan,Libby Rumpff,Carl R. Gosper,(unknown),Stephen van Leeuwen,Mark K. J. Ooi,Colin J. Yates,Cory Merow,Richard J. Williams,Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos,Linda J. Beaumont,Tony D. Auld	21
2	Frameworks for identifying priority plants and ecosystems most impacted by major fires 2022 ·Australian Journal of Botany ·Tony D. Auld,David A. Keith,Rachael V. Gallagher,Mark G. Tozer,Mark K. J. Ooi,Tom Le Breton,Stuart Allen,Colin J. Yates,Stephen van Leeuwen,Richard J. Williams,Berin D. E. Mackenzie	11
3	Climatic warming strengthens a positive feedback between alpine shrubs and fire 2017 ·Global Change Biology ·James Camac,Richard J. Williams,(unknown),Ary A. Hoffmann,Peter A. Vesk	47
4	Exploiting monitoring data in environmental exposure modelling and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals 2014 ·Environment International ·Alistair B.A. Boxall,Virginie Keller,Jürg Oliver Straub,Sara C. Monteiro,Richard J. Fussell,Richard J. Williams	75
5	New insights into hydrochemical processes in lowland river systems gained from in situ, high-resolution monitoring 2013 ·Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) ·Andrew J. Wade,Elizabeth J. Palmer‐Felgate,Sarah Halliday,R. A. Skeffington,M. Loewenthal,Helen P. Jarvie,Michael J. Bowes,Gillian M. Greenway,Stephen J. Haswell,(unknown),(unknown),Ahmed M. Fallatah,Colin Neal,Richard J. Williams,E. Gozzard,(unknown)	1
6	Fire regimes and biodiversity in Victoria’s alpine ecosystems 2012 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ·Richard J. Williams,Carl-Henrik Wahren,(unknown),(unknown),Dean Heinze,James Camac	4
7	Integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs 2012 ·Ecology Letters ·Sonia Kéfi,Eric L. Berlow,Evie A. Wieters,Sérgio A. Navarrete,Owen L. Petchey,Spencer A. Wood,Alice Boit,Lucas Joppa,Kevin D. Lafferty,Richard J. Williams,Neo D. Martinez,Bruce A. Menge,Carol A. Blanchette,Alison C. Iles,Ulrich Brose	4
8	More than a meal… integrating non‐feeding interactions into food webs 2012 ·Ecology Letters ·Sonia Kéfi,Eric L. Berlow,Evie A. Wieters,Sérgio A. Navarrete,Owen L. Petchey,Spencer A. Wood,Alice Boit,Lucas Joppa,Kevin D. Lafferty,Richard J. Williams,Neo D. Martinez,Bruce A. Menge,Carol A. Blanchette,Alison C. Iles,Ulrich Brose	262
9	The stress response of three-spined sticklebacks is modified in proportion to effluent exposure downstream of wastewater treatment works 2012 ·Aquatic Toxicology ·T.G. Pottinger,Peter A. Henrys,Richard J. Williams,Peter Matthiessen	36
10	Iron in evolution 2011 ·FEBS Letters ·Richard J. Williams	25
11	Interactions between climate change, fire regimes and biodiversity in Australia - a preliminary assessment 2009 ·eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Richard J. Williams,Ross A. Bradstock,Geoffrey J. Cary,Neal J. Enright,A. Malcolm Gill,(unknown),Chris Lucas,Robert J. Whelan,Alan N. Andersen,David M. J. S. Bowman,(unknown),Garry D. Cook,Kevin Hennessy,Alan York	68
12	Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eric L. Berlow,Jennifer A. Dunne,Neo D. Martinez,Philip B. Stark,Richard J. Williams,Ulrich Brose	248
13	Viewpoint: social and economic dimensions of involving savanna communities in carbon management systems 2005 ·Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia) ·Karen Vella,Richard J. Williams,D.H. Walker,Alex Smajgl,Miko U. F. Kirschbaum,Romy Greiner	5
14	Fire in tropical savannas : the Kapalga experiment 2003 ·DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) ·Alan N. Andersen,Garry D. Cook,Richard J. Williams	89
15	Fire and savanna landscapes in northern Australia: regional lessons and global challenges 2003 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Jeremy Russell‐Smith,Peter Whitehead,Richard J. Williams,Mike Flannigan	18
16	The Problem of Proton Transfer in Membranes 2002 ·Journal of Theoretical Biology ·Richard J. Williams	14
17	Vegetation Change and Ecological Processes in Alpine and Subalpine Sphagnum Bogs of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia 2001 ·Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research ·(unknown),Richard J. Williams,(unknown)	17
18	The Biological Chemistry of the Elementsbreakdown → 2001 ·J J R Fraústo da Silva,Richard J. Williams	794
19	Bringing Chemistry to Life 1999 ·Richard J. Williams,(unknown)	19
20	Structural studies of eukaryotic cytochrome c modified at methionine-65 1981 ·Biochemical Journal ·(unknown),Geoffrey R. Moore,Richard J. Williams,C J A Wallace,(unknown),R. J. F. Nivard,G. I. Tesser	18

About Richard J. Williams

Richard J. Williams is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 380 papers that have together received 25.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (45 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (41 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.2k citations), Pollution (4.5k citations) and Ecological Modeling (1.2k citations). Richard J. Williams has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Neo D. Martinez, Jennifer A. Dunne, Andrew C. Johnson, J J R Fraústo da Silva, Bert L. Vallée, Garry D. Cook, David M. J. S. Bowman, Ross A. Bradstock, Monika D. Jürgens and Ulrich Brose. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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