Travis W. Drake

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Travis W. Drake is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis W. Drake has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Travis W. Drake's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (8 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Travis W. Drake is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (8 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Travis W. Drake collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Travis W. Drake's co-authors include Robert G. M. Spencer, Peter A. Raymond, Robert G. Striegl, Diane M. McKnight, Kimberly P. Wickland, Johan Six, David C. Podgorski, Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx and R. M. Holmes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Travis W. Drake

28 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Terrestrial carbon inputs to inland waters: A current synthesis of estimates and uncertainty

2017 458 citations Travis W. Drake, Peter A. Raymond et al. Limnology and Oceanography Letters profile →

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OCEAN

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Marcelo Bernardes Brazil

Kevin C. Petrone Australia

Adam J. Heathcote United States

F. Tamooh Belgium

Rachael Y. Dyda United States

S. M. Stackpoole United States

Miitta Rantakari Finland

Christof Engelhardt Germany

Qingzhen Yao China

Marcelo Bernardes Brazil

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Travis W. Drake

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Bauters, Marijn, Travis W. Drake, Negar Haghipour, et al.. (2025). Rapid soil degradation following deforestation in Eastern Africa.

Zhou, Yongqiang, Ting Zhang, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2025). Terrestrial Organic Matter Inputs Modulate Methane Emissions from a Mega-Reservoir. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(13). 6590–6599. 6 indexed citations

Drake, Travis W., S. Baumgartner, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2024). Agricultural Land‐Use Increases Carbon Yields in Lowland Streams of the Congo Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 2 indexed citations

Qian, Ma, Yongqiang Zhou, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2024). Inflow-modulated inputs of dissolved organic matter fuel carbon dioxide emissions from a large hyper-eutrophic lake. Water Research. 273. 123082–123082. 4 indexed citations

Drake, Travis W., Matti Barthel, S. Baumgartner, et al.. (2023). Hydrology drives export and composition of carbon in a pristine tropical river. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(11). 2476–2491. 8 indexed citations

Kurek, Martin R., Aron Stubbins, Travis W. Drake, et al.. (2022). Organic Molecular Signatures of the Congo River and Comparison to the Amazon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(6). 22 indexed citations

Bauters, Marijn, Ivan A. Janssens, Sebastian Döetterl, et al.. (2022). Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1122–1131. 36 indexed citations

Baumgartner, S., Marijn Bauters, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2021). Stable isotope signatures of soil nitrogen on an environmental–geomorphic gradient within the Congo Basin. SOIL. 7(1). 83–94. 12 indexed citations

Kurek, Martin R., Aron Stubbins, Travis W. Drake, et al.. (2021). Drivers of Organic Molecular Signatures in the Amazon River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(6). 18 indexed citations

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Barthel, Matti, Elizabeth Verhoeven, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, et al.. (2021). In-depth analysis of N2O fluxes in tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin combining isotope and functional gene analysis. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3357–3374. 32 indexed citations

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Baumgartner, S., Matti Barthel, Travis W. Drake, et al.. (2020). Seasonality, drivers, and isotopic composition of soil CO ₂ fluxes from tropical forests of the Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 17(23). 6207–6218. 8 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., Sasha Wagner, Aron Stubbins, et al.. (2020). Du Feu à l'Eau: Source and Flux of Dissolved Black Carbon From the Congo River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34(8). 15 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., Kristof Van Oost, Matti Barthel, et al.. (2019). Mobilization of aged and biolabile soil carbon by tropical deforestation. Nature Geoscience. 12(7). 541–546. 112 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., David C. Podgorski, Bienvenu Jean Dinga, et al.. (2019). Land‐use controls on carbon biogeochemistry in lowland streams of the Congo Basin. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1374–1389. 32 indexed citations

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Bauters, Marijn, Travis W. Drake, Hans Verbeeck, et al.. (2018). High fire-derived nitrogen deposition on central African forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(3). 549–554. 50 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., François Guillemette, Jordon Hemingway, et al.. (2018). The Ephemeral Signature of Permafrost Carbon in an Arctic Fluvial Network. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(5). 1475–1485. 64 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., Suzanne E. Tank, Alexander V. Zhulidov, et al.. (2018). Increasing Alkalinity Export from Large Russian Arctic Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(15). 8302–8308. 80 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., R. M. Holmes, Alexander V. Zhulidov, et al.. (2018). Multidecadal climate‐induced changes in Arctic tundra lake geochemistry and geomorphology. Limnology and Oceanography. 64(S1). 12 indexed citations

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Drake, Travis W., Peter A. Raymond, & Robert G. M. Spencer. (2017). Terrestrial carbon inputs to inland waters: A current synthesis of estimates and uncertainty. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 3(3). 132–142. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wagner, Sasha, Jay A. Brandes, Aleksandar I. Goranov, et al.. (2017). Online quantification and compound‐specific stable isotopic analysis of black carbon in environmental matrices via liquid chromatography‐isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 15(12). 995–1006. 41 indexed citations

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