Seth G. John

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Seth G. John is a scholar working on Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth G. John has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Oceanography, 47 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 38 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Seth G. John's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (52 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (43 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (27 papers). Seth G. John is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (52 papers), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (43 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (27 papers). Seth G. John collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Seth G. John's co-authors include Tim M. Conway, Edward A. Boyle, Jess F. Adkins, Olivier Rouxel, Nicolas Dauphas, Matthew B. Sullivan, Jessica N. Fitzsimmons, Mak A. Saito, Chris M. Marsay and Alessandro Tagliabue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Seth G. John

109 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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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.

Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seth G. John United States	39	2.1k	1.8k	1.5k	1.4k	982	114	5.4k
Sean A. Crowe Canada	37	1.7k 0.8×	726 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	860 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	121	5.6k
Robert C. Upstill‐Goddard United Kingdom	40	982 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	257 0.3×	79	6.0k
Katrina J. Edwards United States	48	1.9k 0.9×	775 0.4×	2.8k 1.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	113	8.0k
Pieter T. Visscher United States	52	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	3.5k 2.3×	2.3k 1.7×	4.3k 4.4×	147	10.7k
Brandy M. Toner United States	31	1.7k 0.8×	457 0.2×	830 0.5×	329 0.2×	503 0.5×	74	3.7k
Timothy G. Ferdelman Germany	48	996 0.5×	2.4k 1.3×	3.8k 2.5×	1.2k 0.9×	575 0.6×	120	7.9k
Xu Chen China	45	1.1k 0.5×	815 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.7×	3.0k 3.1×	265	7.2k
Gregory J. Dick United States	43	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	3.7k 2.4×	246 0.2×	377 0.4×	115	7.2k
Liudmila S. Shirokova Russia	39	739 0.3×	678 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.6×	265 0.3×	128	3.9k
James P. Cowen United States	32	649 0.3×	967 0.5×	884 0.6×	689 0.5×	361 0.4×	78	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seth G. John

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Sieber, Matthias, Douglas S. Hamilton, Chris M. Marsay, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Natural, Anthropogenic, and Wildfire Sources on Iron and Zinc Aerosols Delivered to the North Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(3). 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Ruifeng, ⎜Zhuoyi Zhu, Jun Zhao, et al.. (2024). Distributions of nutrients, trace metals, phytoplankton composition, and elemental consumption in the Ross and Amundsen Seas. Marine Chemistry. 265-266. 104436–104436. 2 indexed citations

Bian, Xiaopeng, Shun‐Chung Yang, Nicholas J. Hawco, et al.. (2024). A rapid procedure for isotopic purification of copper and nickel from seawater using an automated chromatography system. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1312. 342753–342753. 5 indexed citations

Seelen, Emily, David A. Caron, Mathilde Dugenne, et al.. (2024). Pelagic ecosystem research incubators (PERIcosms): optimized incubation tanks to investigate natural communities under long term, low nutrient, and low metal conditions. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 22(8). 548–571.

John, Seth G., Edward A. Boyle, Brady R. Cunningham, et al.. (2024). Kinetic Isotope Effects During Reduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II): Large Normal and Inverse Isotope Effects for Abiotic Reduction and Smaller Fractionations by Phytoplankton in Culture. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 25(6).

Sieber, Matthias, Xiaopeng Bian, Jong‐Mi Lee, et al.. (2024). Long Distance Transport of Subsurface Sediment‐Derived Iron From Asian to Alaskan Margins in the North Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(20). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Ruifeng, Shun‐Chung Yang, Ziyuan Jiang, et al.. (2023). Iron, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, and their stable isotopes along a salinity gradient in the Pearl River Estuary, southeastern China. Chemical Geology. 645. 121893–121893. 9 indexed citations

Dong, Sijia, et al.. (2023). Constraining CaCO₃ Export and Dissolution With an Ocean Alkalinity Inverse Model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(2). 12 indexed citations

Moffett, James W., et al.. (2023). Toward a Better Understanding of the Global Ocean Copper Distribution and Speciation Through a Data‐Constrained Model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(9). 6 indexed citations

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Durham, Bryndan P., Ryan D. Groussman, Paulina Pinedo‐González, et al.. (2023). Siderophore production and utilization by marine bacteria in the North Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(7). 1636–1653. 23 indexed citations

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Sieber, Matthias, Xiaopeng Bian, Shotaro Takano, et al.. (2023). The Importance of Reversible Scavenging for the Marine Zn Cycle Evidenced by the Distribution of Zinc and Its Isotopes in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(4). 14 indexed citations

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Primeau, François, et al.. (2022). AIBECS.jl: A tool for exploring global marine biogeochemical cycles.. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(69). 3814–3814. 5 indexed citations

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Bian, Xiaopeng, Sarah J. Feakins, Troy Gunderson, et al.. (2021). Delivery of Metals and Dissolved Black Carbon to the Southern California Coastal Ocean via Aerosols and Floodwaters Following the 2017 Thomas Fire. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruifeng, Laramie T. Jensen, Jessica N. Fitzsimmons, et al.. (2021). Iron Isotope Biogeochemical Cycling in the Western Arctic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(11). 12 indexed citations

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Pinedo‐González, Paulina, Seth G. John, Sarah Jackson, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic lead pervasive in Canadian Arctic seawater. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 10 indexed citations

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Hawco, Nicholas J., Fei‐Xue Fu, Nina Yang, David A. Hutchins, & Seth G. John. (2020). Independent iron and light limitation in a low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus from the deep chlorophyll maximum. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 359–362. 17 indexed citations

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Pinedo‐González, Paulina, Nicholas J. Hawco, Randelle M. Bundy, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(45). 27862–27868. 68 indexed citations

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Hawco, Nicholas J., Shun‐Chung Yang, Mathilde Dugenne, et al.. (2020). Metal isotope signatures from lava-seawater interaction during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 282. 340–356. 22 indexed citations

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John, Seth G., et al.. (2016). Zinc and cadmium stable isotopes in the geological record: A case study from the post-snowball Earth Nuccaleena cap dolostone. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 466. 202–208. 66 indexed citations

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Black, J. Roy, Seth G. John, & A. Kavner. (2009). Modeling Large Zinc Isotope Fractionations Associated with Reaction Kinetics. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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