Wilfred Otten

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Wilfred Otten is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilfred Otten has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Soil Science, 30 papers in Plant Science and 21 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wilfred Otten's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Wilfred Otten is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers). Wilfred Otten collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Wilfred Otten's co-authors include Philippe C. Baveye, Christopher A. Gilligan, Simona Hapca, Ruth E. Falconer, Alasdair Houston, Edward J. Feil, Chris D. Thomas, Davey L. Jones, Paul Cross and Nick Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wilfred Otten

87 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wilfred Otten United Kingdom	38	1.0k	1.0k	766	728	574	88	4.0k
David R. Lapen Canada	44	570 0.5×	884 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	452 0.6×	1.8k 3.2×	186	6.4k
Per‐Erik Jansson Sweden	49	2.1k 2.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	198 0.3×	271	9.2k
Arnaud Dechesne Denmark	32	410 0.4×	443 0.4×	1.4k 1.8×	189 0.3×	1.6k 2.8×	81	3.5k
Gang Wang China	47	1.1k 1.0×	797 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	191 0.3×	1.3k 2.3×	284	7.2k
R. L. Desjardins Canada	55	1.4k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	2.7k 3.5×	702 1.0×	525 0.9×	260	10.5k
Andrey Guber United States	35	549 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	631 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	255 0.4×	114	3.8k
Jong‐Hwan Lim South Korea	31	1.5k 1.4×	270 0.3×	1.5k 2.0×	88 0.1×	192 0.3×	216	9.2k
Tim J. Daniell United Kingdom	41	3.3k 3.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	142 0.2×	546 1.0×	107	5.7k
Guanghua Wang China	44	2.6k 2.5×	2.3k 2.3×	2.3k 2.9×	140 0.2×	756 1.3×	282	7.7k
Yanni Sun China	34	1.5k 1.4×	852 0.8×	2.4k 3.1×	101 0.1×	673 1.2×	151	7.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wilfred Otten

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Gascó, Gabriel, et al.. (2024). Correction to: Pyrolysis or hydrothermal carbonisation for anaerobic-digested sewage sludge? A comparison of pyrochar and hydrochar stucture and stability. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 14(23). 29317–29319. 1 indexed citations

Gascó, Gabriel, et al.. (2023). Pyrolysis or hydrothermal carbonisation for anaerobic-digested sewage sludge? A comparison of pyrochar and hydrochar structure and stability. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 14(23). 29303–29316. 4 indexed citations

Hallett, Paul D., María Susana Marín, Gary D. Bending, et al.. (2022). Building soil sustainability from root–soil interface traits. Trends in Plant Science. 27(7). 688–698. 43 indexed citations

Vogel, Hans J., María Balseiro‐Romero, Alexandra Kravchenko, et al.. (2021). A holistic perspective on soil architecture is needed as a key to soil functions. European Journal of Soil Science. 73(1). 91 indexed citations

Otten, Wilfred, et al.. (2020). Influence of soil structure on the spread of Pseudomonas fluorescens in soil at microscale. European Journal of Soil Science. 72(1). 141–153. 29 indexed citations

Hirsch, P. R., et al.. (2020). Development of a defined compost system for the study of plant-microbe interactions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7521–7521. 15 indexed citations

Portell, Xavier, Carol Verheecke‐Vaessen, Ángel Medina, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Study of F. graminearum Colonisation of Stored Wheat: Post-Harvest Growth Patterns, Dry Matter Losses and Mycotoxin Contamination. Microorganisms. 8(8). 1170–1170. 10 indexed citations

Portell, Xavier, Valérie Pot, Patricia Garnier, Wilfred Otten, & Philippe C. Baveye. (2018). Microscale Heterogeneity of the Spatial Distribution of Organic Matter Can Promote Bacterial Biodiversity in Soils: Insights From Computer Simulations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1583–1583. 56 indexed citations

Baveye, Philippe C., Wilfred Otten, Alexandra Kravchenko, et al.. (2018). Emergent Properties of Microbial Activity in Heterogeneous Soil Microenvironments: Different Research Approaches Are Slowly Converging, Yet Major Challenges Remain. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1929–1929. 177 indexed citations

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Falconer, Ruth E., et al.. (2015). Microscale Heterogeneity Explains Experimental Variability and Non-Linearity in Soil Organic Matter Mineralisation. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0123774–e0123774. 49 indexed citations

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Hapca, Simona, Philippe C. Baveye, Clare Wilson, R. M. Lark, & Wilfred Otten. (2015). Three-Dimensional Mapping of Soil Chemical Characteristics at Micrometric Scale by Combining 2D SEM-EDX Data and 3D X-Ray CT Images. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0137205–e0137205. 49 indexed citations

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Monga, Olivier, Patricia Garnier, Valérie Pot, et al.. (2014). Simulating microbial degradation of organic matter in a simple porous system using the 3-D diffusion-based model MOSAIC. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2201–2209. 33 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Reche, Francisco J., S. N. Taraskin, Wilfred Otten, et al.. (2012). Prominent Effect of Soil Network Heterogeneity on Microbial Invasion. Physical Review Letters. 109(9). 98102–98102. 31 indexed citations

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Neri, Franco Maria, Francisco J. Pérez‐Reche, S. N. Taraskin, et al.. (2011). The Effect of Heterogeneity on Invasion in Spatial Epidemics: From Theory to Experimental Evidence in a Model System. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(9). e1002174–e1002174. 26 indexed citations

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Kravchenko, Alexandra, Ruth E. Falconer, D. V. Grinev, & Wilfred Otten. (2010). Fungal colonization in soils with different management histories: modeling growth in three-dimensional pore volumes. Ecological Applications. 21(4). 1202–1210. 38 indexed citations

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Pajor, R, Ruth E. Falconer, Simona Hapca, & Wilfred Otten. (2010). Modelling and quantifying the effect of heterogeneity in soil physical conditions on fungal growth. Biogeosciences. 7(11). 3731–3740. 54 indexed citations

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Falconer, Ruth E., et al.. (2009). Modelling fungal growth in heterogeneous soil: analyses of the effect of soil physical structure on fungal community dynamics. EGUGA. 2145. 1 indexed citations

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Jeger, M. J., et al.. (2008). A fungal growth model fitted to carbon‐limited dynamics of Rhizoctonia solani. New Phytologist. 178(3). 625–633. 19 indexed citations

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Otten, Wilfred, D. J. Bailey, & Christopher A. Gilligan. (2004). Empirical evidence of spatial thresholds to control invasion of fungal parasites and saprotrophs. New Phytologist. 163(1). 125–132. 58 indexed citations

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Young, Iain M., et al.. (2003). Effect of bulk density on the spatial organisation of the fungus Rhizoctonia solani in soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 44(1). 45–56. 103 indexed citations

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