Timothy G. Otten

5.0k citations

26 papers · 3.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 18

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 0.1%
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems

Papers in

Environmental Chemistry 24
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics 24
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods 5
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 4
Oceanography 18
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 18

Co-authors: Hans W. Paerl Morgan M. Steffen Steven W. Wilhelm Christopher J. Gobler Matthew J. Harke Susanna A. Wood Raphael M. Kudela Boqiang Qin
Journals: Harmful Algae (6 papers)Microbial Ecology (2 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (2 papers)Environmental Microbiology (2 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States China New Zealand

In The Last Decade

Timothy G. Otten

25 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories log scale

Mitigating the Expansion of Harmful Algal Blooms Across the Freshwater-to-Marine Continuum 2018 · 291 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.

2018 Environmental Science & Technology
2016 Harmful Algae
2013 Microbial Ecology

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Timothy G. Otten

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Timothy G. Otten's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Timothy G. Otten with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Timothy G. Otten more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Timothy G. Otten

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Timothy G. Otten. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Timothy G. Otten. The network helps show where Timothy G. Otten may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Timothy G. Otten, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Timothy G. Otten Line = papers co-authored together Timothy G. Otten links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Assessing Environmental Drivers and Protist Community Dynamics that Shaped the Historic August 2022 Heterosigma akashiwo Bloom in San Francisco Bay, California Estuaries and Coasts ·Tseng‐Yu Lee, L. Carus, David B. Senn, 晶子中野, Xin Ding, 信英伊藤, E. V. Richardson, Timothy G. Otten, Ignacio Provencio, Brian A. Bergamaschi	2025	0
2	Role of benthic overwintering cyanobacteria seed stock on estuarine bloom dynamics Harmful Algae ·Ellen P. Preece, Timothy G. Otten, Ling Cao, Cantika Aurellia Azarine	2025	2
3	Benthic cyanobacterial proliferations drive anatoxin production throughout the Klamath River watershed, California, USA Freshwater Science ·P. R. PUCKETT, Robert O. Hall, Timothy G. Otten, Eun-Jung Noh, Joanna R. Blaszczak, Jacob Kann	2024	2
4	Use of multiple sampling techniques for cyanobacteria and cyanotoxin monitoring in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta under different hydrologic regimes Marine Pollution Bulletin ·Ellen P. Preece, Timothy G. Otten, Ling Cao	2024	6
5	Microcystins in the benthic food-web of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California The Science of The Total Environment ·Ellen P. Preece, Timothy G. Otten, Ling Cao, Raphael M. Kudela	2024	4
6	Comparative genomics of the ADA clade within the Nostocales Harmful Algae ·Theo W. Dreher, Edward W. Davis, Ryan Mueller, Timothy G. Otten	2021	16
7	Molecular and morphological characterization of a novel dihydroanatoxin-a producing Microcoleus species (cyanobacteria) from the Russian River, California, USA Harmful Algae ·Kimberly Y. Conklin, Rosalina Stancheva, Timothy G. Otten, P.J Amaya Pulido, Gregory L. Boyer, Betsy Read, Xiaoyu Zhang, Robert G. Sheath	2020	30
8	A closely-related clade of globally distributed bloom-forming cyanobacteria within the Nostocales Harmful Algae ·Connor Driscoll, Kevin A. Meyer, Sigitas Šulčius, Nathan Brown, Gregory J. Dick, Huansheng Cao, Giedrius Gasiūnas, Albertas Timinskas, Yanbin Yin, Zachary Landry, Timothy G. Otten, Timothy W. Davis, Susan B. Watson, Theo W. Dreher	2018	30
9	In situ ingestion of Microcystis is negatively related to copepod abundance in the upper San Francisco Estuary Limnology and Oceanography ·Kemal Ali Ger, Timothy G. Otten, Rita DuMais, 巻則後藤, Wim Kimmerer	2018	20
10	Towards long-read metagenomics: complete assembly of three novel genomes from bacteria dependent on a diazotrophic cyanobacterium in a freshwater lake co-culture Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Connor Driscoll, Timothy G. Otten, Nathan Brown, Theo W. Dreher	2017	49
11	The molecular ecology of Microcystis sp. blooms in the San Francisco Estuary Environmental Microbiology ·Timothy G. Otten, Hans W. Paerl, Theo W. Dreher, Wim Kimmerer, Alexander E. Parker	2017	42
12	A review of the global ecology, genomics, and biogeography of the toxic cyanobacterium, Microcystis spp. Harmful Algae ·Matthew J. Harke, Morgan M. Steffen, Christopher J. Gobler, Timothy G. Otten, Steven W. Wilhelm, Susanna A. Wood, Hans W. Paerl Hit paper breakdown →	2016	832
13	Elucidation of Taste- and Odor-Producing Bacteria and Toxigenic Cyanobacteria in a Midwestern Drinking Water Supply Reservoir by Shotgun Metagenomic Analysis Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Timothy G. Otten, Jennifer L. Graham, Ted D. Harris, Theo W. Dreher	2016	45
14	Health Effects of Toxic Cyanobacteria in U.S. Drinking and Recreational Waters: Our Current Understanding and Proposed Direction Current Environmental Health Reports ·Timothy G. Otten, Hans W. Paerl	2015	79
15	Duelling ‘CyanoHABs’: unravelling the environmental drivers controlling dominance and succession among diazotrophic and non‐N ₂ ‐fixing harmful cyanobacteria Environmental Microbiology ·Hans W. Paerl, Timothy G. Otten	2015	126
16	Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms: Causes, Consequences, and Controls Microbial Ecology ·Hans W. Paerl, Timothy G. Otten Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1355
17	Blooms Bite the Hand That Feeds Them Science ·Hans W. Paerl, Timothy G. Otten	2013	185
18	Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecophysiology of Toxigenic Microcystis Blooms in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Water Quality Management Environmental Science & Technology ·Timothy G. Otten, Hai Xu, Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu, Hans W. Paerl	2012	198
19	Phylogenetic Inference of Colony Isolates Comprising Seasonal Microcystis Blooms in Lake Taihu, China Microbial Ecology ·Timothy G. Otten, Hans W. Paerl	2011	57
20	Phytoplankton community from Lake Taihu, China, has dissimilar responses to inorganic and organic nutrients Journal of Environmental Sciences ·Xiaodong Wang, Boqiang Qin, Guang Gao, Yongping Wang, Xiangming Tang, Timothy G. Otten	2010	15

About Timothy G. Otten

Timothy G. Otten is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 26 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (24 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers), Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (5 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (4 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (3 papers), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (2 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (3.0k citations), Oceanography (2.1k citations), Ecology (1.4k citations), Water Science and Technology (489 citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (599 citations). Timothy G. Otten has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and New Zealand. Frequent co-authors include Hans W. Paerl, Morgan M. Steffen, Steven W. Wilhelm, Christopher J. Gobler, Matthew J. Harke, Susanna A. Wood, Hans W. Paerl, Raphael M. Kudela, Boqiang Qin and Hai Xu. Their work appears in journals such as Harmful Algae, Microbial Ecology, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Microbiology and The Science of The Total Environment.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact