Robert W. Howarth

69.7k citations

208 papers · 49.6k indexed · 22 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 0.01%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
Oceanography top 0.01%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems

Papers in

Environmental Chemistry 99
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 79
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics 36
Oceanography 83
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 67
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 23

Co-authors: Roxanne Marino Sybil P. Seitzinger Gene E. Likens Andrew N. Sharpley John D. Aber David W. Schindler William H. Schlesinger N. F. Caraco
Journals: Biogeochemistry (34 papers)Limnology and Oceanography (26 papers)Science (6 papers)Ecological Applications (5 papers)Energy Science & Engineering (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Sweden

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Howarth

205 papers receiving 46.8k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

How green is blue hydrogen? 2021 · 570 citations

What are hit papers?

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

it has ≥500 total citations;
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.

2021 Energy Science & Engineering
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Nature
2011 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2009 Science
2008 Harmful Algae
2006 Limnology and Oceanography
2006 Limnology and Oceanography
2004 Biogeochemistry
2003 BioScience
2002 Estuaries
2002 Biogeochemistry
2001 Science
2000 Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University)
1999 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1998 Ecological Applications
1997 Ecological Applications
1996 Biogeochemistry
1991 Biogeochemistry
1988 Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
1988 Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
1985 Science

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	The greenhouse gas footprint of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exported from the United States Energy Science & Engineering ·Robert W. Howarth	2024	15
2	County, subregional and regional phosphorus data derived from the net anthropogenic nitrogen/phosphorus inputs (NANI/NAPI) toolbox SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Dennis P. Swaney, Robert W. Howarth	2019	6
3	Is Shale Gas a Major Driver of Recent Increase in Global Atmospheric Methane? Robert W. Howarth	2019	5
4	Ideas and perspectives: is shale gas a major driver of recent increase in global atmospheric methane? Biogeosciences ·Robert W. Howarth	2019	72
5	Is Natural Gas a Bridge Fuel AGUFM ·Robert W. Howarth	2018	0
6	Reducing agricultural nutrient surpluses in a large catchment – Links to livestock density The Science of The Total Environment ·Annika Svanbäck, Michelle L. McCrackin, Dennis P. Swaney, Manasa Bharadwaj, Bo G. Gustafsson, Robert W. Howarth, Christoph Humborg	2018	110
7	Influence of rapid rural-urban population migration on riverine nitrogen pollution: perspective from ammonia-nitrogen Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Wangshou Zhang, Dennis P. Swaney, Bongghi Hong, Robert W. Howarth, Xuyong Li	2017	33
8	Anthropogenic point and non-point nitrogen inputs into Huai River Basin and their impacts on riverine ammonia-nitrogen flux Wangshou Zhang, Dennis P. Swaney, Xiuyan Li, Bongghi Hong, Robert W. Howarth, Shijie Ding	2015	1
9	Anthropogenic point-source and non-point-source nitrogen inputs into Huai River basin and their impacts on riverine ammonia–nitrogen flux Biogeosciences ·Wangshou Zhang, Dennis P. Swaney, Xiuyan Li, Bongghi Hong, Robert W. Howarth, Shijie Ding	2015	50
10	Assessing global land use : balancing consumption with sustainable supply Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute) ·Stefan Bringezu, Helmut Schütz, Walter Pengue, Meghan O’Brien, Fernando García, Ralph Sims, Robert W. Howarth, Lea Kauppi, Mark Swilling, Jeffrey E. Herrick	2014	97
11	Enhanced N input to Lake Dianchi Basin from 1980 to 2010: Drivers and consequences The Science of The Total Environment ·Wei Gao, Robert W. Howarth, Dennis P. Swaney, Bongghi Hong, Christine Anne George	2014	73
12	Estimating net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs (NANI) in the Lake Dianchi basin of China Biogeosciences ·Wei Gao, Robert W. Howarth, Bongghi Hong, Dennis P. Swaney, Hu Guo	2014	48
13	Hydrocarbon Development from Shale: A Set of Important, Unsolved Problems AGUFM ·A.R. Ingraffea, Gabriel Victor Pina Rodrigues, Robert W. Howarth, Anna B. Wilson, Peter H. Doe, Theo Colborn, Felix Gani Harris	2013	1
14	Nitrogen fluxes from the landscape are controlled by net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs and by climate Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·Robert W. Howarth, Dennis P. Swaney, Gilles Billen, Josette Garnier, Bongghi Hong, Christoph Humborg, Penny J Johnes, Carl‐Magnus Mörth, Roxanne Marino	2011	279
15	Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife Ecological Applications ·Pieter T. J. Johnson, Alan R. Townsend, Cory C. Cleveland, Patricia M. Glibert, Robert W. Howarth, Valerie J. McKenzie, Eliška Rejmánková, Mary H. Ward	2010	201
16	Introduction : biofuels and the environment in the 21st century Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute) ·Robert W. Howarth, Stefan Bringezu, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Renee Santoro, 李铭, Osvaldo E. Sala	2009	7
17	The development of policy approaches for reducing nitrogen pollution to coastal waters of the USA Science in China Series C Life Sciences ·Robert W. Howarth	2005	14
18	Effects of Varying Salinity on Phytoplankton Growth in a Low-Salinity Coastal Pond Under Two Nutrient Conditions Biological Bulletin ·Solmaz Abedinzadeh, Carolyn F. Weber, 郭松克, Eric A. Davidson, Gabrielle Tomasky, Robert W. Howarth	2002	21
19	Effects of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Loading on Riverine Nitrogen Export in the Northeastern USA AGUSM ·Elizabeth W. Boyer, Christine L. Goodale, Robert W. Howarth	2001	2
20	Soil-plant interactions in a neotropical mangrove forest: iron, phosphorus and sulfur dynamics Oecologia ·Ruth E. Sherman, Timothy J. Fahey, Robert W. Howarth	1998	143

About Robert W. Howarth

Robert W. Howarth is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 208 papers that have together received 49.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (79 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (67 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (36 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (28 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (23 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (19 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (18.7k citations), Oceanography (10.7k citations), Soil Science (8.2k citations), Geochemistry and Petrology (4.6k citations) and Ecology (16.8k citations). Robert W. Howarth has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Roxanne Marino, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Gene E. Likens, Andrew N. Sharpley, John D. Aber, David W. Schindler, William H. Schlesinger, N. F. Caraco, David L. Correll and Stephen R. Carpenter. Their work appears in journals such as Biogeochemistry, Limnology and Oceanography, Science, Ecological Applications and Energy Science & Engineering.

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