Robert Danczak

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Robert Danczak is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Danczak has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert Danczak's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (9 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (8 papers). Robert Danczak is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (9 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (8 papers). Robert Danczak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sri Lanka. Robert Danczak's co-authors include Michael J. Wilkins, James Stegen, Rosalie Chu, Sarah Fansler, Malak Tfaily, M. Johnston, William Nelson, Charles T. Resch, David W. Kennedy and Allan Konopka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Danczak

35 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Groundwater–surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover

2016 318 citations James Stegen, James K. Fredrickson et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Danczak United States	16	584	318	315	165	147	35	1.1k
Suzanna L. Bräuer United States	22	839 1.4×	274 0.9×	542 1.7×	178 1.1×	115 0.8×	33	1.4k
Carl‐Eric Wegner Germany	20	609 1.0×	469 1.5×	295 0.9×	177 1.1×	114 0.8×	36	1.2k
Г. А. Дубинина Russia	21	517 0.9×	376 1.2×	231 0.7×	213 1.3×	112 0.8×	63	1.1k
Michael G. LaMontagne United States	15	672 1.2×	200 0.6×	245 0.8×	199 1.2×	106 0.7×	22	1.3k
Tim Richter‐Heitmann Germany	18	613 1.0×	408 1.3×	314 1.0×	123 0.7×	81 0.6×	35	1000
Enrique Llobet-Brossa Germany	8	457 0.8×	253 0.8×	326 1.0×	228 1.4×	70 0.5×	10	996
Emma J. Gagen Australia	20	297 0.5×	260 0.8×	346 1.1×	63 0.4×	124 0.8×	49	1.1k
Jennifer J. Mosher United States	20	345 0.6×	349 1.1×	139 0.4×	142 0.9×	112 0.8×	29	1.0k
Bärbel U. Foesel Germany	19	857 1.5×	555 1.7×	294 0.9×	228 1.4×	85 0.6×	32	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Danczak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Danczak

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

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McClure, Ryan, Albert Rivas‐Ubach, Kim Hixson, et al.. (2025). Multi-omics of a model bacterial consortium deciphers details of chitin decomposition in soil. mBio. 16(7). e0040425–e0040425. 1 indexed citations

Stegen, James, Vanessa Garayburu‐Caruso, Robert Danczak, et al.. (2025). Organic molecules are deterministically assembled in variably inundated river sediments, but drivers remain unclear. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4332–4332. 2 indexed citations

Stegen, James, Vanessa Garayburu‐Caruso, Robert Danczak, et al.. (2024). Data and scripts associated with the manuscript "Organic Molecules are Deterministically Assembled in River Sediments". OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

Choi, Jaewoo, Robert Danczak, Carmen P. Wong, et al.. (2024). Gut enterotype-dependent modulation of gut microbiota and their metabolism in response to xanthohumol supplementation in healthy adults. Gut Microbes. 16(1). 2315633–2315633. 11 indexed citations

Danczak, Robert, Vanessa Garayburu‐Caruso, Lupita Renteria, et al.. (2023). Riverine organic matter functional diversity increases with catchment size. Frontiers in Water. 5. 7 indexed citations

Stegen, James, et al.. (2023). Maximum respiration rates in hyporheic zone sediments are primarily constrained by organic carbon concentration and secondarily by organic matter chemistry. Biogeosciences. 20(14). 2857–2867. 6 indexed citations

Naylor, D. V., Emily Graham, Sneha Couvillion, et al.. (2023). Influence of soil depth, irrigation, and plant genotype on the soil microbiome, metaphenome, and carbon chemistry. mBio. 14(5). e0175823–e0175823. 8 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Ramos, Josué, Angela Oliverio, Mikayla Borton, et al.. (2023). Spatial and temporal metagenomics of river compartments reveals viral community dynamics in an urban impacted stream. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 1199766–1199766. 1 indexed citations

Couvillion, Sneha, Robert Danczak, Xiaoqiong Cao, et al.. (2023). Graphene oxide exposure alters gut microbial community composition and metabolism in an in vitro human model. NanoImpact. 30. 100463–100463. 7 indexed citations

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Roebuck, Alan, Kevin D. Bladon, Emily Graham, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal Controls on the Delivery of Dissolved Organic Matter to Streams Following a Wildfire. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(16). 17 indexed citations

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Nelson, Amelia R., Jason Toyoda, Rosalie Chu, et al.. (2022). Implications of sample treatment on characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 24(5). 773–782. 7 indexed citations

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McClure, Ryan, Robert Danczak, William Nelson, et al.. (2022). Interaction Networks Are Driven by Community-Responsive Phenotypes in a Chitin-Degrading Consortium of Soil Microbes. mSystems. 7(5). e0037222–e0037222. 23 indexed citations

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Sengupta, Aditi, Sarah Fansler, Rosalie Chu, et al.. (2021). Disturbance triggers non-linear microbe–environment feedbacks. Biogeosciences. 18(16). 4773–4789. 5 indexed citations

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Danczak, Robert, Amy Goldman, Rosalie Chu, et al.. (2021). Ecological theory applied to environmental metabolomes reveals compositional divergence despite conserved molecular properties. The Science of The Total Environment. 788. 147409–147409. 22 indexed citations

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Garayburu‐Caruso, Vanessa, Robert Danczak, James Stegen, et al.. (2020). Using Community Science to Reveal the Global Chemogeography of River Metabolomes. Metabolites. 10(12). 518–518. 26 indexed citations

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Danczak, Robert, Rebecca A. Daly, Mikayla Borton, et al.. (2020). Ecological Assembly Processes Are Coordinated between Bacterial and Viral Communities in Fractured Shale Ecosystems. mSystems. 5(2). 22 indexed citations

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Danczak, Robert, Rosalie Chu, Sarah Fansler, et al.. (2020). Using metacommunity ecology to understand environmental metabolomes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6369–6369. 95 indexed citations

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Danczak, Robert, et al.. (2019). Capability for arsenic mobilization in groundwater is distributed across broad phylogenetic lineages. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221694–e0221694. 12 indexed citations

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Danczak, Robert, et al.. (2016). Snowmelt Induced Hydrologic Perturbations Drive Dynamic Microbiological and Geochemical Behaviors across a Shallow Riparian Aquifer. Frontiers in Earth Science. 4. 21 indexed citations

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Stegen, James, James K. Fredrickson, Michael J. Wilkins, et al.. (2016). Groundwater–surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11237–11237. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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