A. Mark Osborn

12.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
91 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

A. Mark Osborn is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Mark Osborn has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in A. Mark Osborn's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). A. Mark Osborn is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). A. Mark Osborn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. A. Mark Osborn's co-authors include Cindy J. Smith, Kenneth N. Timmis, Andrew S. Ball, Sonja Oberbeckmann, David B. Nedwell, Edward R. B. Moore, Peter Strike, Liang Dong, Jules Pretty and Jesse P. Harrison and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

A. Mark Osborn

90 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

2007 732 citations James I. Prosser, Brendan J. M. Bohannan et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
An evaluation of terminal‐restriction fragment length polymorphism (T‐RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics

2000 659 citations A. Mark Osborn, Edward R. B. Moore et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →
Soil Type Is the Primary Determinant of the Composition of the Total and Active Bacterial Communities in Arable Soils

2003 644 citations A. Mark Osborn, Andrew S. Ball et al. profile →
Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology

2008 613 citations Cindy J. Smith, A. Mark Osborn FEMS Microbiology Ecology profile →
Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris

2016 421 citations Sonja Oberbeckmann, A. Mark Osborn et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters

2014 403 citations Sonja Oberbeckmann, Gunnar Gerdts et al. FEMS Microbiology Ecology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Mark Osborn

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microbial and Quality Attributes of Beef Steaks under High-CO2 Packaging: Emitter Pads versus Gas Flushing 2024 ·Foods ·Seyed Mohammad Hassan Mortazavi, Mandeep Kaur, Asgar Farahnaky, Peter J. Torley, A. Mark Osborn	1
2	Variation in the Structure and Composition of Bacterial Communities within Drinking Water Fountains in Melbourne, Australia 2022 ·Water ·(unknown), Esmaeil Shahsavari, Arturo Aburto‐Medina, Andrew S. Ball, A. Mark Osborn	2
3	Assessment of the potential use of MALDI-TOF MS for the identification of bacteria associated with chilled vacuum-packaged lamb meat 2021 ·Meat Science ·(unknown), Christopher J. Pillidge, A. Mark Osborn, Peter J. Torley, Mandeep Kaur	12
4	Impact of necrophytoremediation on petroleum hydrocarbon degradation, ecotoxicity and soil bacterial community composition in diesel-contaminated soil 2020 ·Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Eman Koshlaf, Esmaeil Shahsavari, Nagalakshmi Haleyur, A. Mark Osborn, Andrew S. Ball	21
5	Influence of bioaugmentation and biostimulation on PAH degradation in aged contaminated soils: Response and dynamics of the bacterial community 2019 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Nagalakshmi Haleyur, Esmaeil Shahsavari, (unknown), Eman Koshlaf, Vivek B. Ravindran, Paul D. Morrison, A. Mark Osborn, Andrew S. Ball	99
6	Microbes on a Bottle: Substrate, Season and Geography Influence Community Composition of Microbes Colonizing Marine Plastic Debris breakdown → 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·Sonja Oberbeckmann, A. Mark Osborn, Melissa B. Duhaime	421
7	Characterisation of the Physical Composition and Microbial Community Structure of Biofilms within a Model Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution System 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Katherine E. Fish, Richard Collins, Nicola Green, Rebecca Sharpe, Isabel Douterelo, A. Mark Osborn, Joby Boxall	77
8	Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters breakdown → 2014 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Sonja Oberbeckmann, (unknown), Gunnar Gerdts, A. Mark Osborn	403
9	A Review of Indicators of Healthy Agricultural Soils with Pea Footrot Disease Suppression Potentials 2012 ·Sustainable Agriculture Research ·(unknown), A. Mark Osborn	5
10	Bacterial water quality and network hydraulic characteristics: a field study of a small, looped water distribution system using culture-independent molecular methods 2012 ·Journal of Applied Microbiology ·Raju Sekar, Peter Deines, John Machell, A. Mark Osborn, Catherine A. Biggs, Joby Boxall	35
11	Pea footrot disease depends on the combination of pathogenicity genes in Nectria haematococca 2011 ·RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) ·(unknown), A. Mark Osborn	4
12	A potential model for pea footrot disease prediction 2011 ·RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) ·(unknown), A. Mark Osborn	1
13	Molecular prediction of pea footrot disease 2011 ·RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) ·(unknown), A. Mark Osborn	1
14	In Search of Target Gene(s) to Quantify Pea Pathogenic Nectria haematococca in Agricultural Soils 2011 ·RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) ·(unknown), A. Mark Osborn	2
15	Molecular and biochemical characterization of surfactin producing Bacillus species antagonistic to Colletotrichum falcatum Went causing sugarcane red rot 2010 ·African Journal of Microbiology Research ·Muhammad Nadeem Hassan, A. Mark Osborn, Fauzia Yusuf Hafeez	26
16	Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology breakdown → 2008 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Cindy J. Smith, A. Mark Osborn	613
17	Efficacy of intervention strategies for bioremediation of crude oil in marine systems and effects on indigenous hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria 2007 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Boyd A. McKew, Frédéric Coulon, Michail M. Yakimov, Renata Denaro, María Genovese, Cindy J. Smith, A. Mark Osborn, Kenneth N. Timmis, Terry J. McGenity	122
18	The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology breakdown → 2007 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·James I. Prosser, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Thomas P. Curtis, Richard J. Ellis, Mary K. Firestone, Robert P. Freckleton, Jessica L. Green, Laura Green, Ken Killham, Jack J. Lennon, A. Mark Osborn, Martin Solan, Chris Gast, J. Peter W. Young	732
19	[26] Approach to analyze interactions of microorganisms, hydrophobic substrates, and soil colloids leading to formation of composite biofilms, and to study initial events in microbiogeological processes 2001 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Heinrich Lünsdorf, Carsten Strömpl, A. Mark Osborn, Antoni Bennasar-Figueras, Edward R. B. Moore, Wolf‐Rainer Abraham, K. N. Timmis	33
20	Diversity amongst Bacillus merA genes amplified from mercury resistant isolates and directly from mercury polluted soil 1998 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Mark C. Hart, Geoffrey N. Elliott, A. Mark Osborn, Donald A. Ritchie, Peter Strike	19

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