William R. Wieder

19.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
115 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

William R. Wieder is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Wieder has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Soil Science, 49 papers in Ecology and 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William R. Wieder's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (59 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (39 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (30 papers). William R. Wieder is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (59 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (39 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (30 papers). William R. Wieder collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. William R. Wieder's co-authors include Gordon B. Bonan, Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend, Steven Allison, Mark A. Bradford, A. Stuart Grandy, William K. Smith, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Thomas W. Crowther and Stephen A. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William R. Wieder

113 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling ... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2016 2020 2015 2018 200 400 600
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.

  1. Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes
    2013 738 citations William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
  2. Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change
    2016 616 citations William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
  3. Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity
    2020 591 citations William R. Wieder et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  4. Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability
    2015 544 citations William R. Wieder, Cory C. Cleveland et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  5. Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content
    2018 542 citations Craig Rasmussen, William R. Wieder et al. profile →
  6. Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition
    2015 467 citations William R. Wieder et al. profile →
  7. Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability
    2021 271 citations Sun‐Seon Lee, Axel Timmermann et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →
  8. Moisture-driven divergence in mineral-associated soil carbon persistence
    2023 75 citations Michael Sanclements, William R. Wieder et al. profile →
  9. Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations
    2024 56 citations Katerina Georgiou, Charles D. Koven et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William R. Wieder United States 48 5.5k 4.1k 3.3k 1.7k 1.7k 115 10.3k
Stefano Manzoni Sweden 48 6.5k 1.2× 4.5k 1.1× 4.3k 1.3× 1.7k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 164 12.8k
Guoyi Zhou China 55 5.4k 1.0× 3.6k 0.9× 5.3k 1.6× 1.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 247 11.4k
Frank Hagedorn Switzerland 51 3.8k 0.7× 2.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 181 8.4k
Biao Zhu China 60 7.2k 1.3× 5.6k 1.3× 3.6k 1.1× 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 266 13.3k
Yuanhe Yang China 65 6.6k 1.2× 5.5k 1.3× 3.0k 0.9× 3.0k 1.8× 1.6k 1.0× 185 12.7k
Sara Vicca Belgium 40 3.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 4.5k 1.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 112 9.5k
Lindsey E. Rustad United States 40 3.6k 0.7× 3.0k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 93 8.4k
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum New Zealand 48 4.8k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 5.2k 1.6× 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 135 11.6k
Zhouping Shangguan China 66 8.0k 1.4× 4.5k 1.1× 3.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 336 13.3k
Christine L. Goodale United States 46 3.5k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 3.1k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 3.5k 2.1× 95 9.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William R. Wieder

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Georgiou, Katerina, Denis A. Angers, M. Francesca Cotrufo, et al.. (2025). Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know?. Global Change Biology. 31(5). e70197–e70197. 14 indexed citations
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Bonan, Gordon B., Deborah R. Coen, Adrianna Foster, et al.. (2024). Reimagining Earth in the Earth System. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(8). 7 indexed citations
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Wieder, William R., et al.. (2024). Can models adequately reflect how long-term nitrogen enrichment alters the forest soil carbon cycle?. Biogeosciences. 21(1). 201–221. 1 indexed citations
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Wieder, William R., et al.. (2023). Flexible Foliar Stoichiometry Reduces the Magnitude of the Global Land Carbon Sink. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(21). 5 indexed citations
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Nevison, C. D., Christine L. Goodale, Peter Hess, et al.. (2022). Nitrification and denitrification in the Community Land Model compared with observations at Hubbard Brook Forest. Ecological Applications. 32(4). e2530–e2530. 3 indexed citations
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Koven, Charles D., Vivek K. Arora, Patricia Cadule, et al.. (2022). Multi-century dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios. Earth System Dynamics. 13(2). 885–909. 37 indexed citations
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Bui, Hien X., Axel Timmermann, June‐Yi Lee, et al.. (2022). Summer Midlatitude Stationary Wave Patterns Synchronize Northern Hemisphere Wildfire Occurrence. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(18). 5 indexed citations
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Billings, Sharon, Kate Lajtha, Avni Malhotra, et al.. (2021). Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners. Ecological Applications. 31(3). e02290–e02290. 36 indexed citations
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Koven, Charles D., Vivek K. Arora, Patricia Cadule, et al.. (2021). 23rd Century surprises: Long-term dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 11 indexed citations
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Shi, Zheng, Steven Allison, Yujie He, et al.. (2020). The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements. Nature Geoscience. 13(8). 555–559. 192 indexed citations
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Lin, Xin, et al.. (2020). Leveraging the signature of heterotrophic respiration on atmospheric CO 2 for model benchmarking. Biogeosciences. 17(5). 1293–1308. 11 indexed citations
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Vira, Julius, Peter Hess, Jeff Melkonian, & William R. Wieder. (2020). An improved mechanistic model for ammonia volatilization in Earth system models: Flow of Agricultural Nitrogen version 2 (FANv2). Geoscientific model development. 13(9). 4459–4490. 28 indexed citations
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Vicca, Sara, Benjamin D. Stocker, Sasha C. Reed, et al.. (2018). Using research networks to create the comprehensive datasets needed to assess nutrient availability as a key determinant of terrestrial carbon cycling. Environmental Research Letters. 13(12). 125006–125006. 28 indexed citations
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Cheng, Susan J., Peter Hess, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2018). Decadal impacts of nitrogen additions on temperate forest carbon sinks: A data-model comparison. 4 indexed citations
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Cleveland, Cory C., Philip Taylor, K. Dana Chadwick, et al.. (2015). A comparison of plot‐based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 626–644. 56 indexed citations
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Wieder, William R., et al.. (2015). Using Earth system models and long-term observations to generate ecological hypotheses. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Ying‐Ping, William R. Wieder, Maria C. A. Leite, et al.. (2014). Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition. Biogeosciences. 11(7). 1817–1831. 58 indexed citations
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Wieder, William R., A. Stuart Grandy, Cynthia M. Kallenbach, & Gordon B. Bonan. (2014). Integrating microbial physiology and physio-chemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model. Biogeosciences. 11(14). 3899–3917. 244 indexed citations
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Cusack, Daniela, Sasha C. Reed, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2013). How do Soil Microbial Enzyme Activities Respond to Changes in Temperature, Carbon, and Nutrient Additions across Gradients in Mineralogy and Nutrient Availability?. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Leff, Jonathan, William R. Wieder, Philip G. Taylor, et al.. (2012). Experimental litterfall manipulation drives large and rapid changes in soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest. Global Change Biology. 18(9). 2969–2979. 154 indexed citations

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