Robert B. Cook

7.6k citations

160 papers · 3.4k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 28

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 1%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Geochemistry and Petrology top 1%
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Papers in ⓘ

Geochemistry and Petrology 51
- Mineralogy and Gemology Studies 39
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry 7
Geophysics 32
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis 31

Co-authors: Yaxing Wei (15 shared papers)Michele Thornton (5 shared papers)D. W. Schindler (3 shared papers)Peter Thornton (3 shared papers)Ranjeet Devarakonda (5 shared papers)Benjamin Mayer (2 shared papers)B. Bolin (3 shared papers)Carol A. Kelly (2 shared papers)
Journals: Rocks & Minerals (77 papers)Eos (3 papers)Water Resources Research (3 papers)Limnology and Oceanography (3 papers)Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Canada

In The Last Decade

Robert B. Cook

133 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3 2016 · 337 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics

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1	Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics ·Peter Thornton, Michele Thornton, Benjamin Mayer, Yaxing Wei, Ranjeet Devarakonda, Russell S. Vose, Robert B. Cook Hit paper breakdown →	2016	337
2	Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics ·Peter Thornton, Michele Thornton, Benjamin Mayer, Nate Wilhelmi, Yaxing Wei, Ranjeet Devarakonda, Robert B. Cook	2014	319
3	Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network Remote Sensing of Environment ·Alessandro Cescatti, Barbara Marcolla, S. K. Santhana Vannan, Jerry Pan, Miguel O. Román, Xiaoyuan Yang, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Cook, B. E. Law, Gioṙgio Matteucci, Mirco Migliavacca, Eddy Moors, Andrew D. Richardson, G. Seufert, Crystal Schaaf	2012	244
4	The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data Geoscientific model development ·Yaxing Wei, S. Liu, D. N. Huntzinger, A. M. Michalak, Nicolas Viovy, W. M. Post, Christopher R. Schwalm, Kevin Schaefer, A. R. Jacobson, Chaoqun Lü, Hanqin Tian, Daniel Ricciuto, Robert B. Cook, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi	2014	202
5	The Major Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology ·H. G. Miller, B. Bolin, Robert B. Cook	1985	194
6	Experimental Acidification of Lake 223, Experimental Lakes Area: Background Data and the First Three Years of Acidification Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ·D. W. Schindler, R. Wagemann, Robert B. Cook, T. Ruszczynski, J. Prokopowich	1980	166
7	Mechanisms of hydrogen ion neutralization in an experimentally acidified lake Limnology and Oceanography ·Robert B. Cook, Carol A. Kelly, D. W. Schindler, Michael A. Turner	1986	151
8	The potential importance of bacterial processes in regulating rate of lake acidification1,2 Limnology and Oceanography ·Carol A. Kelly, John W. M. Rudd, Robert B. Cook, D. W. Schindler	1982	135
9	Effect of mining and related activities on the sediment trace element geochemistry of lake coeur D'Alene, idaho, USA. Part I: Surface sediments Hydrological Processes ·Arthur J. Horowitz, Kent A. Elrick, Robert B. Cook	1993	113
10	Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory‐based data Global Change Biology ·Daniel J. Hayes, David P. Turner, G. Stinson, A. David McGuire, Yaxing Wei, Tristram O. West, Linda S. Heath, B. de Jong, B.G. McConkey, Richard A. Birdsey, Werner A. Kurz, A. R. Jacobson, D. N. Huntzinger, Yude Pan, W. M. Post, Robert B. Cook	2011	105
11	Participatory design of DataONE—Enabling cyberinfrastructure for the biological and environmental sciences Ecological Informatics ·William K. Michener, Suzie Allard, Amber E Budden, Robert B. Cook, Kimberly Douglass, Mike Frame, Steve Kelling, Rebecca Koskela, Carol Tenopir, Dave Vieglais	2011	97
12	Influence of aqueous aluminium and organic acids on measurement of acid neutralizing capacity in surface waters Nature ·Timothy J. Sullivan, Charles T. Driscoll, Steven A. Gherini, Ronald K. Munson, Robert B. Cook, Donald F. Charles, Christian P. Yatsko	1989	73
13	Stable Isotopes of Oxygen and Natural and Fallout Radionuclides Used for Tracing Runoff During Snowmelt in an Arctic Watershed Water Resources Research ·Lee W. Cooper, Curtis R. Olsen, D. Kip Solomon, I.L. Larsen, Robert B. Cook, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier	1991	72
14	The Unified North American Soil Map and its implication on the soil organic carbon stock in North America Biogeosciences ·S. Liu, Yaxing Wei, W. M. Post, Robert B. Cook, Kevin Schaefer, Michele Thornton	2013	59
15	Geochemistry of biogenic pyrite and ferromanganese coatings from a small watershed: A bacterial connection? Geomicrobiology Journal ·James A. Saunders, Mason A. Pritchett, Robert B. Cook	1997	58
16	The structure, stratigraphy, tectonostratigraphy, and evolution of the southernmost part of the Appalachian Orogen USGS professional paper ·Michael Higgins, R.L. Atkins, Thomas J. Crawford, Ralph F. Crawford, Rebekah Brooks, Robert B. Cook	1988	54
17	Assessment of biases in MODIS surface reflectance due to Lambertian approximation Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yujie Wang, Alexei Lyapustin, J. L. Privette, Robert B. Cook, Suresh K. SanthanaVannan, Éric Vermote, Crystal Schaaf	2010	51
18	Effect of mining and related activities on the sediment trace element geochemistry of Lake Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, USA part II: Subsurface sediments Hydrological Processes ·Arthur J. Horowitz, Kent A. Elrick, John A. Robbins, Robert B. Cook	1995	45
19	Ecological risk assessment in a large river-reservoir: 1. Introduction and background Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ·Robert B. Cook, Glenn W. Suter, E. Riley Sain	1999	39
20	Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate Model Comparison IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ·Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Yaxing Wei, Robert B. Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva	2015	39

About Robert B. Cook

Robert B. Cook is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics, Archeology, Information Systems and Management and Ecological Modeling, having authored 160 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Mineralogy and Gemology Studies (39 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (35 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (31 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers), Research Data Management Practices (10 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (10 papers), Data Quality and Management (7 papers) and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (803 citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (431 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.1k citations), Ecological Modeling (226 citations) and Water Science and Technology (525 citations). Robert B. Cook has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Yaxing Wei, Michele Thornton, D. W. Schindler, Peter Thornton, Ranjeet Devarakonda, Benjamin Mayer, B. Bolin, Carol A. Kelly, H. G. Miller and Arthur J. Horowitz. Their work appears in journals such as Rocks & Minerals, Eos, Water Resources Research, Limnology and Oceanography and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

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