Thomas Bell
Impact in
- Ecology top 0.5%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
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- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Papers in
- Ecology 42
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 34
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology 4
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- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 17
- Co-authors
- Kevin R. Foster (1 shared paper)Andrew K. Lilley (3 shared papers)Jonathan A. Newman (3 shared papers)Robert Iwan Griffiths (6 shared papers)Damian William Rivett (8 shared papers)Owen T. Lewis (3 shared papers)Sarah L. Turner (1 shared paper)Bernard W. Silverman (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- The ISME Journal (6 papers)Nature Communications (6 papers)Ecology Letters (5 papers)FEMS Microbiology Ecology (4 papers)Environmental Microbiology (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomCanadaSwitzerland
In The Last Decade
Thomas Bell
79 papers receiving 6.6k citations
Thomas Bell's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 127
- Ecology 2.6k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 1.1k
- Soil Science 989
- Pollution 466
- Environmental Chemistry 307
Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Bell
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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Bell
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Thomas Bell, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 81 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 785 |
| 2 | The bacterial biogeography of British soils Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 761 |
| 3 | Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 560 |
| 4 | 2006 | 420 | |
| 5 | 2012 | 360 | |
| 6 | 2010 | 212 | |
| 7 | 2005 | 205 | |
| 8 | 2018 | 203 | |
| 9 | 2019 | 191 | |
| 10 | 2010 | 177 | |
| 11 | 2001 | 173 | |
| 12 | 2007 | 172 | |
| 13 | 2010 | 132 | |
| 14 | 2020 | 128 | |
| 15 | 2014 | 123 | |
| 16 | 2006 | 105 | |
| 17 | 2016 | 93 | |
| 18 | 2016 | 88 | |
| 19 | 2009 | 83 | |
| 20 | 2019 | 83 |
About Thomas Bell
Thomas Bell is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Genetics and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 81 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (4 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (4 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (3 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.1k citations), Soil Science (989 citations), Pollution (466 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (307 citations). Thomas Bell has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Kevin R. Foster, Andrew K. Lilley, Jonathan A. Newman, Robert Iwan Griffiths, Damian William Rivett, Owen T. Lewis, Sarah L. Turner, Bernard W. Silverman, Robert P. Freckleton and Andrew Steven Whiteley. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Nature Communications, Ecology Letters, FEMS Microbiology Ecology and Environmental Microbiology.
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