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Jessica N. Fitzsimmons

Jessica N. Fitzsimmons

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
34
Citations
4072
World Ranking
9472
National Ranking
3395

Jessica N. Fitzsimmons publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jessica N. Fitzsimmons sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 89 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jessica N. Fitzsimmons D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jessica N. Fitzsimmons sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jessica N. Fitzsimmons is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable subfields including Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology.

The scientist's work spans a range of main topics, such as Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Heavy Metals in the Environment.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts

Collaborative efforts are marked by repeated coauthorship with several researchers, including Nathan T. Lanning, Tim M. Conway, Seth G. John, Phoebe J. Lam, and Robert M. Sherrell.

Representative recent papers include:

  • "The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Assessment of the stability, sorption, and exchangeability of marine dissolved and colloidal metals," 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • "A comparison of marine Fe and Mn cycling: U.S. GEOTRACES GN01 Western Arctic case study," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes," 2022, Annual Review of Marine Science

Best Publications

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Iron persistence in a distal hydrothermal plume supported by dissolved-particulate exchange

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Seth G. John;Seth G. John;Christopher M. Marsay;Christopher M. Marsay;Colleen L. Hoffman

  • Siderophore-based microbial adaptations to iron scarcity across the eastern Pacific Ocean.

    Rene M. Boiteau;Daniel R. Mende;Nicholas J. Hawco;Nicholas J. Hawco;Matthew R. McIlvin

  • Distal transport of dissolved hydrothermal iron in the deep South Pacific Ocean.

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Edward A. Boyle;William J. Jenkins

  • Analysis of trace metals (Cu, Cd, Pb, and Fe) in seawater using single batch nitrilotriacetate resin extraction and isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Jong-Mi Lee;Edward A. Boyle;Yolanda Echegoyen-Sanz;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons

  • An overview of dissolved Fe and Mn distributions during the 2010-2011 U.S. GEOTRACES north Atlantic cruises: GEOTRACES GA03

    Mariko Hatta;Chris I. Measures;Jingfeng Wu;Saeed Roshan

  • Coordinated regulation of growth, activity and transcription in natural populations of the unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera

    Samuel T. Wilson;Frank O. Aylward;Frank O. Aylward;Francois Ribalet;Benedetto Barone

  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;Lauren E. Kipp;Lauren E. Kipp;Laramie T. Jensen;Jessica S. Dabrowski

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Partitioning of dissolved iron and iron isotopes into soluble and colloidal phases along the GA03 GEOTRACES North Atlantic Transect

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Gonzalo G. Carrasco;Jingfeng Wu;Saeed Roshan

  • Detection of iron ligands in seawater and marine cyanobacteria cultures by high-performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.

    Rene M. Boiteau;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Daniel J. Repeta;Edward A. Boyle

  • Elevated trace metal content of prokaryotic communities associated with marine oxygen deficient zones

    Daniel C. Ohnemus;Sara Rauschenberg;Gregory A. Cutter;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons

  • Daily to decadal variability of size-fractionated iron and iron-binding ligands at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station ALOHA

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Christopher T. Hayes;Sherain N. Al-Subiai;Sherain N. Al-Subiai;Ruifeng Zhang;Ruifeng Zhang

  • Thorium isotopes tracing the iron cycle at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station ALOHA

    Christopher T. Hayes;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Edward A. Boyle;David McGee

  • Arctic deep-water ferromanganese-oxide deposits reflect the unique characteristics of the Arctic Ocean

    James R. Hein;Natalia Konstantinova;Mariah Mikesell;Kira Mizell

  • Controls on dissolved and particulate iron distributions in surface waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula shelf

    Amber L. Annett;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Marie J.M. Séguret;Maria Lagerström

  • The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling

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  • Dissolved iron in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Ruifeng Zhang;Edward A. Boyle

  • Patterns of iron and siderophore distributions across the California Current System

    Rene M. Boiteau;Rene M. Boiteau;Rene M. Boiteau;Claire P. Till;Claire P. Till;Tyler H. Coale;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons

  • Dissolved Al in the zonal N Atlantic section of the US GEOTRACES 2010/2011 cruises and the importance of hydrothermal inputs

    Christopher I. Measures;Mariko Hatta;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Peter L. Morton

  • A “shallow bathtub ring” of local sedimentary iron input maintains the Palmer Deep biological hotspot on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf

    Robert M. Sherrell;Amber L. Annett;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Vincent J. Roccanova

  • Tactical Release of a Sexually-Selected Pheromone in a Swordtail Fish

    Gil G. Rosenthal;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Kristina U. Woods;Gabriele Gerlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Sherrell
Robert M. Sherrell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seth G. John
Seth G. John University of Southern California
William M. Landing
William M. Landing Florida State University
Phoebe J. Lam
Phoebe J. Lam University of California, Santa Cruz
Christopher I. Measures
Christopher I. Measures University of Hawaii at Manoa
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Jingfeng Wu
Jingfeng Wu University of Miami

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