Sarah E. Evans

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Sarah E. Evans is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah E. Evans has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Soil Science and 21 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah E. Evans's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (9 papers). Sarah E. Evans is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (9 papers). Sarah E. Evans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Sarah E. Evans's co-authors include Matthew D. Wallenstein, Maren Friesen, Lisa K. Tiemann, Ingrid C. Burke, Steven Allison, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Yang Ouyang, Mark A. Bradford, F. M. Hopkins and William J. Parton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Sarah E. Evans

53 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

2011 1.2k citations Sarah E. Evans, Matthew D. Wallenstein et al. profile →
Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

2013 370 citations Sarah E. Evans, Matthew D. Wallenstein profile →
Effect of nitrogen fertilization on the abundance of nitrogen cycling genes in agricultural soils: A meta-analysis of field studies

2018 317 citations Sarah E. Evans, Maren Friesen et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah E. Evans United States	27	2.3k	2.2k	1.2k	836	625	58	4.7k
Marion Schrumpf Germany	37	2.1k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	551 0.7×	692 1.1×	104	4.5k
Romain L. Barnard France	26	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	687 0.8×	923 1.5×	42	3.9k
Andrew Bissett Australia	41	3.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.7×	413 0.7×	132	5.6k
Egbert Schwartz United States	40	2.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	979 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	324 0.5×	107	4.9k
Kelly S. Ramirez United States	18	2.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	288 0.5×	30	4.8k
Katharina Keiblinger Austria	27	1.8k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	498 0.6×	326 0.5×	90	4.4k
Claudia M. Boot United States	21	1.7k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	769 0.7×	459 0.5×	597 1.0×	38	4.2k
Kristen M. DeAngelis United States	34	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	351 0.6×	70	4.9k
Sven Marhan Germany	46	2.1k 0.9×	3.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	521 0.6×	464 0.7×	124	5.4k
Rebecca L. McCulley United States	33	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	812 1.0×	691 1.1×	95	4.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah E. Evans

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Marquart‐Pyatt, Sandra T., et al.. (2025). Unpacking farmers’ understanding of soil health: Mixed methods show strong convictions, yet management hurdles. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 80(4). 459–475.

Jones, Jennifer, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci, & Sarah E. Evans. (2025). Drought increases microbial allocation to stress tolerance but with few tradeoffs among community-level traits. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 205. 109787–109787. 1 indexed citations

Benucci, Gian Maria Niccolò, et al.. (2025). Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 3 indexed citations

Davidson, Joanne O., et al.. (2025). Reduced soil diazotroph diversity decreases nitrogen fixation rates, but depends on land management. Applied Soil Ecology. 211. 106152–106152. 1 indexed citations

Schulte, Lisa A., et al.. (2024). Neonicotinoid retention and transport in a maize cropping system with contour prairie strips. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 373. 109111–109111.

Osburn, Ernest D., Sara G. Baer, Sarah E. Evans, Steven G. McBride, & Michael S. Strickland. (2024). Effects of experimentally elevated virus abundance on soil carbon cycling across varying ecosystem types. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 198. 109556–109556. 8 indexed citations

Bell‐Dereske, Lukas, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, et al.. (2023). Regional biogeography versus intra-annual dynamics of the root and soil microbiome. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 50–50. 6 indexed citations

White, Richard, et al.. (2023). Genome-Resolved Metagenomics of Nitrogen Transformations in the Switchgrass Rhizosphere Microbiome on Marginal Lands. Agronomy. 13(5). 1294–1294. 4 indexed citations

Logan, Jim, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Kathryn M. Jacobson, et al.. (2022). Accounting for non-rainfall moisture and temperature improves litter decay model performance in a fog-dominated dryland system. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4129–4146.

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Brudvig, Lars A., Nash E. Turley, Lukas Bell‐Dereske, et al.. (2021). Large ecosystem-scale effects of restoration fail to mitigate impacts of land-use legacies in longleaf pine savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 15 indexed citations

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Carboni, Stefano, Sarah E. Evans, K.E. Tanner, et al.. (2021). Are Shell Strength Phenotypic Traits in Mussels Associated with Species Alone?. MDPI (MDPI AG). 1(1). 3–13. 5 indexed citations

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Logan, Jim, Kathryn M. Jacobson, Peter J. Jacobson, & Sarah E. Evans. (2021). Fungal Communities on Standing Litter Are Structured by Moisture Type and Constrain Decomposition in a Hyper-Arid Grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 596517–596517. 18 indexed citations

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Smercina, Darian N., Alan W. Bowsher, Sarah E. Evans, et al.. (2020). Switchgrass Rhizosphere Metabolite Chemistry Driven by Nitrogen Availability. Phytobiomes Journal. 5(1). 88–96. 14 indexed citations

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Evans, Sarah E., Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Kathryn M. Jacobson, & Peter J. Jacobson. (2019). Non-rainfall Moisture: A Key Driver of Microbial Respiration from Standing Litter in Arid, Semiarid, and Mesic Grasslands. Ecosystems. 23(6). 1154–1169. 39 indexed citations

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Hall, Ed K., Emily S. Bernhardt, Raven L. Bier, et al.. (2018). Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit. Nature Microbiology. 3(9). 977–982. 162 indexed citations

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Evans, Sarah E., M. Elias Dueker, Jim Logan, & Kathleen C. Weathers. (2018). The biology of fog: results from coastal Maine and Namib Desert reveal common drivers of fog microbial composition. The Science of The Total Environment. 647. 1547–1556. 42 indexed citations

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Bowsher, Alan W., Sarah E. Evans, Lisa K. Tiemann, & Maren Friesen. (2017). Effects of soil nitrogen availability on rhizodeposition in plants: a review. Plant and Soil. 423(1-2). 59–85. 48 indexed citations

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Jacobson, Kathryn M., Anne van Diepeningen, Sarah E. Evans, et al.. (2015). Non-Rainfall Moisture Activates Fungal Decomposition of Surface Litter in the Namib Sand Sea. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126977–e0126977. 64 indexed citations

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Swart, Peter K., Sarah E. Evans, Thomas R. Capo, & Mark A. Altabet. (2014). The fractionation of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes in macroalgae during the assimilation of nitrate. Biogeosciences. 11(21). 6147–6157. 42 indexed citations

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Evans, Sarah E., et al.. (2007). End-stacking of copper cationic porphyrins on parallel-stranded guanine quadruplexes. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 12(8). 1235–1249. 84 indexed citations

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