Virginia I. Rich

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Virginia I. Rich is a scholar working on Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia I. Rich has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Virginia I. Rich's work include Climate change and permafrost (24 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (23 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Virginia I. Rich is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (24 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (23 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Virginia I. Rich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Australia. Virginia I. Rich's co-authors include S. R. Saleska, Patrick Crill, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, C. K. McCalley, Matthew B. Sullivan, Edward F. DeLong, Gene W. Tyson, Steven Hallam and Tracy J. Mincer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Virginia I. Rich

54 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

3 papers align trajectories

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.

Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior

2006 1.0k citations Virginia I. Rich, Steven Hallam et al. profile →
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

2018 293 citations Ben J. Woodcroft, Caitlin M. Singleton et al. profile →
Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing

2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia I. Rich United States	26	2.8k	1.2k	915	873	449	56	3.7k
Ben J. Woodcroft Australia	30	2.8k 1.0×	2.9k 2.3×	1.1k 1.2×	514 0.6×	217 0.5×	59	5.7k
Jesús M. Arrieta Spain	31	3.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.7×	808 0.9×	340 0.4×	1.7k 3.7×	63	5.5k
David A. Pearce United Kingdom	33	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	269 0.3×	649 0.7×	307 0.7×	130	3.3k
Christina Bienhold Germany	18	1.6k 0.6×	814 0.7×	627 0.7×	328 0.4×	746 1.7×	35	2.5k
Steven J. Blazewicz United States	26	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	624 0.7×	608 0.7×	117 0.3×	47	3.8k
Alison E. Murray United States	30	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	405 0.5×	1.2k 2.6×	65	4.2k
Rex R. Malmstrom United States	41	4.0k 1.5×	3.0k 2.4×	932 1.0×	282 0.3×	1.4k 3.1×	71	5.9k
Stephen B. Pointing Hong Kong	49	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	527 0.6×	731 0.8×	323 0.7×	113	6.8k
Levente Bodrossy Australia	43	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.9×	1.6k 1.8×	296 0.3×	276 0.6×	117	5.5k
Mark V. Brown Australia	38	4.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.8×	760 0.8×	158 0.2×	1.3k 2.8×	66	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Virginia I. Rich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginia I. Rich

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cronin, Dylan, et al.. (2024). Impact of storage and extraction methods on peat soil microbiomes. PeerJ. 12. e18745–e18745.

Sun, Christine, Akbar Adjie Pratama, María Consuelo Gazitúa, et al.. (2024). Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16665–e16665. 4 indexed citations

Ellenbogen, Jared, Mikayla Borton, Bridget B. McGivern, et al.. (2023). Methylotrophy in the Mire: direct and indirect routes for methane production in thawing permafrost. mSystems. 9(1). e0069823–e0069823. 13 indexed citations

Wilson, Rachel, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, Gene W. Tyson, et al.. (2022). Plant organic matter inputs exert a strong control on soil organic matter decomposition in a thawing permafrost peatland. The Science of The Total Environment. 820. 152757–152757. 32 indexed citations

Holmes, M. Elizabeth, Patrick Crill, William C. Burnett, et al.. (2022). Carbon Accumulation, Flux, and Fate in Stordalen Mire, a Permafrost Peatland in Transition. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(1). 29 indexed citations

McCalley, C. K., Suzanne B. Hodgkins, Rachel Wilson, et al.. (2022). Mapping substrate use across a permafrost thaw gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 175. 108809–108809. 13 indexed citations

Emerson, Joanne, R. K. Varner, M. Wik, et al.. (2021). Diverse sediment microbiota shape methane emission temperature sensitivity in Arctic lakes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5815–5815. 29 indexed citations

Roux, Simon, Blair G. Paul, Sarah C. Bagby, et al.. (2021). Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3076–3076. 43 indexed citations

Wilson, Rachel, Kuang‐Yu Chang, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2021). Coupling plant litter quantity to a novel metric for litter quality explains C storage changes in a thawing permafrost peatland. Global Change Biology. 28(3). 950–968. 17 indexed citations

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Bolduc, Benjamin, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, R. K. Varner, et al.. (2020). The IsoGenie database: an interdisciplinary data management solution for ecosystems biology and environmental research. PeerJ. 8. e9467–e9467. 6 indexed citations

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Roux, Simon, Gareth Trubl, Danielle Goudeau, et al.. (2019). Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes. PeerJ. 7. e6902–e6902. 26 indexed citations

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Rey‐Sánchez, Camilo, et al.. (2019). The ratio of methanogens to methanotrophs and water-level dynamics drive methane transfer velocity in a temperate kettle-hole peat bog. Biogeosciences. 16(16). 3207–3231. 25 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Simon Roux, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2019). Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils. PeerJ. 7. e7265–e7265. 43 indexed citations

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Chang, Kuang‐Yu, W. J. Riley, Patrick Crill, et al.. (2019). Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden. The cryosphere. 13(2). 647–663. 22 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mondav, Rhiannon, C. K. McCalley, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, et al.. (2017). Microbial network, phylogenetic diversity and community membership in the active layer across a permafrost thaw gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 19(8). 3201–3218. 51 indexed citations

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Deng, Jia, C. K. McCalley, Steve Frolking, et al.. (2017). Adding stable carbon isotopes improves model representation of the role of microbial communities in peatland methane cycling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(2). 1412–1430. 16 indexed citations

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Angly, Florent, et al.. (2016). Marine microbial communities of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon are influenced by riverine floodwaters and seasonal weather events. PeerJ. 4. e1511–e1511. 59 indexed citations

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Murphy, M. A., Dawson Fairbanks, Jon Chorover, Rachel E. Gallery, & Virginia I. Rich. (2014). Impact of Wildfire on Microbial Biomass in Critical Zone Observatory. AGUFM. 2014.

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Chanton, Jeffrey P., Suzanne B. Hodgkins, William Cooper, et al.. (2014). The Methane to Carbon Dioxide Ratio Produced during Peatland Decomposition and a Simple Approach for Distinguishing This Ratio. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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