Urszula Norton

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Urszula Norton is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Urszula Norton has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Soil Science, 22 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Urszula Norton's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (13 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (11 papers). Urszula Norton is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (13 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (11 papers). Urszula Norton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Poland. Urszula Norton's co-authors include John M. Stark, Amy T. Austin, D.A. Ravetta, Laura Yahdjian, Amilcare Porporato, Jayne Belnap, Sean M. Schaeffer, Jay B. Norton, Rajan Ghimire and Peter D. Stahl and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Urszula Norton

43 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems

2004 1.1k citations Amy T. Austin, Laura Yahdjian et al. Oecologia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Urszula Norton United States	17	967	868	759	411	362	46	2.1k
Xiangyin Ni China	26	1.2k 1.3×	781 0.9×	566 0.7×	393 1.0×	379 1.0×	127	2.1k
Ingeborg Callesen Denmark	21	1.4k 1.5×	925 1.1×	593 0.8×	736 1.8×	374 1.0×	38	2.4k
Katja Klumpp France	24	890 0.9×	686 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	250 0.6×	403 1.1×	56	2.3k
Riitta Hyvönen Sweden	20	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	798 1.1×	456 1.1×	391 1.1×	31	2.7k
Douglas Schaefer China	29	819 0.8×	742 0.9×	723 1.0×	494 1.2×	556 1.5×	75	2.5k
Karin Hansen Denmark	21	720 0.7×	589 0.7×	637 0.8×	529 1.3×	489 1.4×	51	1.8k
Marjo Palviainen Finland	27	573 0.6×	849 1.0×	682 0.9×	411 1.0×	317 0.9×	91	2.1k
Xiaoli Fu China	29	1.4k 1.5×	786 0.9×	666 0.9×	519 1.3×	792 2.2×	98	2.6k
Benjamin W. Sullivan United States	22	723 0.7×	611 0.7×	861 1.1×	411 1.0×	294 0.8×	46	1.7k
Eugenio Díaz‐Pinés Germany	26	1.0k 1.1×	604 0.7×	656 0.9×	314 0.8×	205 0.6×	56	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Urszula Norton

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20 of 20 papers shown

Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2025). Stable and Mobile (Water-Extractable) Forms of Organic Matter in High-Latitude Volcanic Soils Under Various Land Use Scenarios in Southeastern Iceland. Agriculture. 15(12). 1255–1255.

Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2024). Improving semi-arid agroecosystem services with cover crop mixes. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0306567–e0306567. 1 indexed citations

Norton, Jay B., et al.. (2024). Sustaining vulnerable agroecosystems with compost: Lasting benefits to soil health and carbon storage in semiarid winter wheat (Triticum aestivum, L.). Applied Soil Ecology. 204. 105716–105716. 2 indexed citations

Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2024). Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Responses to Long-Term Flood Irrigation and Fertilization in High-Elevation Hay Meadows. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 98. 283–292. 1 indexed citations

Tekiela, Daniel R., et al.. (2023). Remote mapping of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula, L.) in Northwestern Colorado. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4.

Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2021). Effects of Garden Amendments on Soil Available Lead and Plant Uptake in a Contaminated Calcareous Soil. Applied Sciences. 11(13). 5777–5777. 6 indexed citations

Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2019). Compost and soil moisture effects on seasonal carbon and nitrogen dynamics, greenhouse gas fluxes and global warming potential of semi-arid soils. International Journal Of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture. 8(S1). 367–376. 16 indexed citations

Rony, Asif Hasan, Lingli Kong, Wenyang Lu, et al.. (2019). Kinetics, thermodynamics, and physical characterization of corn stover (Zea mays) for solar biomass pyrolysis potential analysis. Bioresource Technology. 284. 466–473. 108 indexed citations

Ghimire, Rajan, Jay B. Norton, & Urszula Norton. (2018). Soil organic matter dynamics under irrigated perennial forage–annual crop rotations. Grass and Forage Science. 73(4). 907–917. 6 indexed citations

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Kaur, Gurpreet, Axel García y García, Urszula Norton, Tomas Persson, & T. J. Kelleners. (2015). Effects of Cropping Practices on Water-Use and Water Productivity of Dryland Winter Wheat in the High Plains Ecoregion of Wyoming. Journal of Crop Improvement. 29(5). 491–517. 5 indexed citations

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Norton, Urszula, et al.. (2015). Weed Dynamics during Transition to Conservation Agriculture in Western Kenya Maize Production. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0133976–e0133976. 16 indexed citations

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Bista, Prakriti, Urszula Norton, Rajan Ghimire, & Jay B. Norton. (2015). Greenhouse Gas Fluxes and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Following Single Summer Tillage Event. International Journal of Plant & Soil Science. 6(4). 183–193. 5 indexed citations

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Norton, Urszula, Prakriti Bista, Rajan Ghimire, & Jay B. Norton. (2014). U.S. West: One‐time summer tillage does not negate long‐term benefits of no‐till. Crops & Soils. 47(3). 24–25. 3 indexed citations

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Hurisso, Tunsisa T., Jay B. Norton, & Urszula Norton. (2014). Labile soil organic carbon and nitrogen within a gradient of dryland agricultural land-use intensity in Wyoming, USA. Geoderma. 226-227. 1–7. 18 indexed citations

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Edburg, Steven L., Jeffrey A. Hicke, P. D. Brooks, et al.. (2012). Cascading impacts of bark beetle‐caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 10(8). 416–424. 201 indexed citations

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Norton, Urszula, Peter Saetre, Toby D. Hooker, & John M. Stark. (2012). Vegetation and Moisture Controls on Soil Carbon Mineralization in Semiarid Environments. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 76(3). 1038–1047. 20 indexed citations

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Pendall, Elise, B. E. Ewers, Urszula Norton, et al.. (2010). Impacts of beetle-induced forest mortality on carbon, water and nutrient cycling in the Rocky Mountains. 17–21. 3 indexed citations

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Hooker, Toby D., et al.. (2008). Distribution of ecosystem C and N within contrasting vegetation types in a semiarid rangeland in the Great Basin, USA. Biogeochemistry. 90(3). 291–308. 58 indexed citations

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Horwáth, William R. & Urszula Norton. (2006). Assessing Soil C Sequestration and Nutrient Cycling Under Secondary Wastewater Irrigated Poplar Plantations. 1 indexed citations

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Austin, Amy T., Laura Yahdjian, John M. Stark, et al.. (2004). Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Oecologia. 141(2). 221–235. 1117 indexed citations breakdown →

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