William A. Rutherford

616 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 417 citations indexed

About

William A. Rutherford is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Rutherford has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 417 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William A. Rutherford's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (2 papers). William A. Rutherford is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (2 papers). William A. Rutherford collaborates with scholars based in United States. William A. Rutherford's co-authors include Scott Ferrenberg, Sasha C. Reed, Natasha MacBean, D. J. Moore, Mallory L. Barnes, Stefanie Herrmann, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman and A. M. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Scientific Reports and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

William A. Rutherford

8 papers receiving 413 citations

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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.

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

2019 274 citations William K. Smith, Matthew P. Dannenberg et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William A. Rutherford United States	5	219	182	102	70	69	9	417
Jiu-Ying Pei China	9	332 1.5×	291 1.6×	43 0.4×	98 1.4×	49 0.7×	16	557
Khishigbayar Jamiyansharav United States	6	257 1.2×	112 0.6×	76 0.7×	85 1.2×	40 0.6×	7	431
Katharine I. Predick United States	8	214 1.0×	213 1.2×	44 0.4×	150 2.1×	25 0.4×	9	400
P. Escribano Spain	6	161 0.7×	111 0.6×	81 0.8×	46 0.7×	30 0.4×	9	342
Susan M. Lutz United States	8	185 0.8×	158 0.9×	39 0.4×	59 0.8×	23 0.3×	9	364
Ryan Boynton United States	9	280 1.3×	173 1.0×	62 0.6×	157 2.2×	68 1.0×	17	493
Mingxing Zhong China	12	190 0.9×	141 0.8×	69 0.7×	87 1.2×	17 0.2×	22	432
Huicheul Jung South Korea	10	153 0.7×	98 0.5×	57 0.6×	64 0.9×	60 0.9×	33	370
Junbin Zhao China	13	274 1.3×	220 1.2×	37 0.4×	70 1.0×	58 0.8×	36	513

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William A. Rutherford

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Spaeth, Kenneth E., et al.. (2025). Preferred nectar sources for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) along the Great Plains migration pathway. Ecosphere. 16(2).

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Spaeth, Kenneth E., Mark A. Weltz, Jiaguo Qi, et al.. (2024). Rangeland Resource Assessment in the Aqmola Region of Kazakhstan. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 98. 389–398. 1 indexed citations

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Spaeth, Kenneth E., William A. Rutherford, C. Jason Williams, et al.. (2024). Insights from the USDA Grazing Land National Resources Inventory and field studies. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 79(3). 1 indexed citations

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Williams, C. Jason, et al.. (2023). Modeling Earthen Treatments for Climate Change Effects. Heritage. 6(5). 4214–4226. 4 indexed citations

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Gherardi, Laureano, et al.. (2022). Woody‐plant encroachment: Precipitation, herbivory, and grass‐competition interact to affect shrub recruitment. Ecological Applications. 32(3). e2536–e2536. 20 indexed citations

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Rutherford, William A. & Steven R. Archer. (2022). Trait responses of a grassland shrub invader to altered moisture regimes. Plant and Soil. 482(1-2). 141–161. 2 indexed citations

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Chuckran, Peter F., Jeffrey Propster, William A. Rutherford, et al.. (2022). Edaphic controls on genome size and GC content of bacteria in soil microbial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 178. 108935–108935. 24 indexed citations

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Smith, William K., Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, et al.. (2019). Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233. 111401–111401. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rutherford, William A., T. H. Painter, Scott Ferrenberg, et al.. (2017). Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44188–44188. 91 indexed citations

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