Special Topic: Oil Spills> Top 20 Authors

Published September 2010

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A bird stained with fuel oil sits on the shore near Russia's southern port of Kavkaz, November 12, 2007. Russian authorities launched a major rescue operation at the northern mouth of the Black Sea on Monday to save missing seamen and contain environmental damage after a storm sank at least four ships and split open a small oil tanker. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin.
REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

The themes of spill effects, remediation methods, and petroleum microbiology carry over into the author lists. The most heavily cited authors are those working in petroleum microbiology and bioremediation, such as Derek Lovley's group at the University of Massachusetts, Shigeaki Harayama of Japan's University of Chuo, Rosa Margesin and Franz Schinner of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, Charles Greer of Canada's National Research Council, and Josef Zeyer and Martin Schroth at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Chemists and ecologists who study the spills themselves as well as their environmental effects are also quite prominent on the authors lists, most notably, Kenneth Lee from Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, NOAA's Stan Rice, Christopher Reddy from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Joan Albaiges from the CSIC in Spain, and Jeffrey Short, formerly of NOAA and current Pacific Science Director for the non-profit organization Oceana.

 

Citations
   

Rank Author Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 Lovley, DR 1,258 21 59.90
2 Nevin, KP 702 9 78.00
3 Harayama, S 470 13 36.15
4 Margesin, R
Special Topics Interview 		461 14 32.93
5 Schinner, F 418 9 46.44
6 Lee, K 379 48 7.90
7 Reddy, CM
Special Topics Interview 		372 23 16.17
8 Rice, SD
Special Topics Interview 		368 18 20.44
9 Greer, CW
Special Topics Interview 		354 12 29.50
10 Zeyer, J 346 22 15.73
11 Short, JW 313 17 18.41
12 Ward, OP 307 9 34.11
13 Schroth, MH 305 18 16.94
14 Watanabe, K 305 12 25.42
15 Coates, JD 289 5 57.80
16 Van Hamme, JD 289 7 41.29
17 Esler, D 277 12 23.08
18 Whyte, LG 264 6 44.00
19 Albaiges, J
Special Topics Interview 		260 24 10.83
20 Syutsubo, K 254 5 50.80

Papers
   

Rank Author Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 Lee, K 379 48 7.90
2 Huang, GH 220 47 4.68
3 Venosa, AD 124 28 4.43
4 Snape, I
Special Topics Interview 		233 26 8.96
5 Albaiges, J
Special Topics Interview 		260 24 10.83
6 Reddy, CM
Special Topics Interview 		372 23 16.17
7 Zeyer, J 346 22 15.73
8 Lovley, DR 1,258 21 59.90
9 Delille, D 191 18 10.61
10 DelValls, TA 84 18 4.67
11 Liu, X 34 18 1.89
12 Rice, SD
Special Topics INterview 		368 18 20.44
13 Schroth, MH 305 18 16.94
14 Bayona, JM 212 17 12.47
15 Boehm, PD 195 17 11.47
16 Page, DS 211 17 12.41
17 Pelletier, E 147 17 8.65
18 Prince, RC 153 17 9.00
19 Coulon, F 151 16 9.44
20 Riba, I 51 16 3.19

Cites Per Paper (>= 8 paper threshold)
   

Rank Author Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 Nevin, KP 702 9 78.00
2 Lovley, DR 1,258 21 59.90
3 Schinner, F 418 9 46.44
4 Harayama, S 470 13 36.15
5 Ward, OP 307 9 34.11
6 Margesin, R
Special Topics Interview 		461 14 32.93
7 Greer, CW
Special Topics Interview 		354 12 29.50
8 Bodkin, JL 226 8 28.25
9 Xu, L 220 8 27.50
10 Watanabe, K 305 12 25.42
11 Esler, D 277 12 23.08
12 Takada, H 249 11 22.64
13 Blundell, GM 202 9 22.44
14 Jewett, SC 241 11 21.91
15 Dean, TA 231 11 21.00
16 Meckenstock, RU 252 12 21.00
17 Law, RJ 188 9 20.89
18 Golyshin, PN 164 8 20.50
19 Rice, SD
Special Topics INterview 		368 18 20.44
20 Zakaria, MP 161 8 20.13

About The Authors


The resulting database contained 14,166 authors. Ranked by three separate measures: citations, papers, and citations per paper. Source dates: 2000-June 30, 2010 (third bimonthly period 2010). *Unless otherwise specified, all rankings have a >= 5 paper threshold for all measures.

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