William E. Wright

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
142 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

William E. Wright is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Wright has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in William E. Wright's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (13 papers). William E. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (18 papers) and Climate variability and models (13 papers). William E. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Taiwan. William E. Wright's co-authors include Cyllene R. Morris, Kathleen J. Yost, Carin Perkins, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Edward R. Cook, Brendan M. Buckley, Gordon C. Jacoby, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Richard. D. Cohen and Dee W. West and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

William E. Wright

138 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

2010 1.0k citations Edward R. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al. Science profile →
Socioeconomic status and breast cancer incidence in California for different race/ethnic groups

2001 816 citations Kathleen J. Yost, Carin Perkins et al. Cancer Causes & Control profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Wright United States	36	1.8k	1.5k	1.4k	627	606	142	5.9k
Paul J. Villeneuve Canada	58	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	723 1.2×	755 1.2×	284	12.8k
Neil Macdonald United Kingdom	43	2.2k 1.2×	515 0.3×	999 0.7×	743 1.2×	1.0k 1.7×	236	12.0k
R. Rosso Italy	52	3.0k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	3.2k 2.3×	1.1k 1.8×	127 0.2×	253	10.6k
Daniel Martín United Kingdom	46	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	686 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	229 0.4×	255	8.2k
Robert Olson United States	65	977 0.5×	379 0.3×	2.5k 1.8×	886 1.4×	368 0.6×	326	17.2k
Xiping Xu United States	44	379 0.2×	1.8k 1.2×	631 0.5×	936 1.5×	616 1.0×	133	12.4k
Peter Lamb United States	57	1.9k 1.0×	3.4k 2.2×	4.5k 3.3×	648 1.0×	82 0.1×	180	10.6k
Richard H. Moore United States	48	511 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.5k 2.3×	98 0.2×	256	8.0k
Mark S. Goldberg Canada	59	390 0.2×	765 0.5×	708 0.5×	486 0.8×	373 0.6×	163	10.0k
Dongmei Chen China	44	383 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	299 0.5×	569 0.9×	345	9.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William E. Wright

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dwivedi, Ravindra, Christopher J. Eastoe, John F. Knowles, et al.. (2021). An improved practical approach for estimating catchment‐scale response functions through wavelet analysis. Hydrological Processes. 35(3). 2 indexed citations

Szejner, Paul, Soumaya Belmecheri, Flurin Babst, et al.. (2021). Stable isotopes of tree rings reveal seasonal-to-decadal patterns during the emergence of a megadrought in the Southwestern US. Oecologia. 197(4). 1079–1094. 17 indexed citations

Wright, William E., et al.. (2020). High-Quality Global Data Management Framework for Climate: A Collaboration Framework for Assessing, Validating and Sharing Datasets for Climate Monitoring.

Dwivedi, Ravindra, John F. Knowles, Christopher J. Eastoe, et al.. (2020). Ubiquitous Fractal Scaling and Filtering Behavior of Hydrologic Fluxes and Storages from A Mountain Headwater Catchment. Water. 12(2). 613–613. 2 indexed citations

Dwivedi, Ravindra, Christopher J. Eastoe, John F. Knowles, et al.. (2019). Vegetation source water identification using isotopic and hydrometric observations from a subhumid mountain catchment. Ecohydrology. 13(1). 10 indexed citations

Wright, William E., et al.. (2019). The WMO High-Quality Global Data Management Framework for Climate. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10994. 1 indexed citations

Wright, William E., Jorge Ramirez, & Xavier Comas. (2018). Methane Ebullition From Subtropical Peat: Testing an Ebullition Model Reveals the Importance of Pore Structure. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(14). 6992–6999. 9 indexed citations

Whitbourn, L. B., J.F. Huntington, Peter Mason, et al.. (2016). HyLogger-3, a visible to shortwave and thermal infrared reflectance spectrometer system for drill core logging: functional description. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 63(8). 929–940. 71 indexed citations

Wright, William E., et al.. (2015). Dendrochronology and middle Miocene petrified oak: Modern counterparts and interpretation. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 445. 38–49. 4 indexed citations

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Cook, Edward R., Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Brendan M. Buckley, et al.. (2010). Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium. Science. 328(5977). 486–489. 1015 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Ellen T., Alison J. Canchola, Valerie S. Lee, et al.. (2006). Wine and other alcohol consumption and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort. Cancer Causes & Control. 18(1). 91–103. 32 indexed citations

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Rogers, Selwyn O., Robert Wolf, Alan M. Zaslavsky, William E. Wright, & John Z. Ayanian. (2006). Relation of Surgeon and Hospital Volume to Processes and Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer Surgery. Annals of Surgery. 244(6). 1003–1011. 147 indexed citations

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Chiew, Francis H. S., et al.. (2002). EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MAPS FOR AUSTRALIA. 167. 13 indexed citations

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Hisada, Michie, Béa J. van den Berg, Howard D. Strickler, et al.. (2001). Prospective Study of Antibody to Human Papilloma Virus type 16 and Risk of Cervical, Endometrial, and Ovarian Cancers (United States). Cancer Causes & Control. 12(4). 335–341. 25 indexed citations

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Yost, Kathleen J., Carin Perkins, Richard. D. Cohen, Cyllene R. Morris, & William E. Wright. (2001). Socioeconomic status and breast cancer incidence in California for different race/ethnic groups. Cancer Causes & Control. 12(8). 703–711. 816 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morris, Cyllene R., et al.. (2000). Increasing trends in the use of breast-conserving surgery in California. American Journal of Public Health. 90(2). 281–284. 79 indexed citations

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Morris, Cyllene R., et al.. (1999). Sociodemographic factors associated with prostatectomy utilization and concordance with the physician data query for prostate cancer (United States). Cancer Causes & Control. 10(6). 503–511. 47 indexed citations

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Burian, Peter, et al.. (1985). AHY volume 21 Cover and Front matter. Austrian History Yearbook. 21. f1–f6. 1 indexed citations

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Burian, Peter, et al.. (1984). AHY volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front Matter. Austrian History Yearbook. 19(2). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations

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Wright, William E., et al.. (1970). White, red, black. 1 indexed citations

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