Alain Isabwe

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alain Isabwe is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Isabwe has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alain Isabwe's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (7 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Alain Isabwe is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (7 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Alain Isabwe collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Alain Isabwe's co-authors include Huihuang Chen, Jun Yang, Kexin Ren, Weidong Chen, Min Liu, Jun R. Yang, Lemian Liu, Yongming Wang, Xiaoqing Yu and Hong Lv and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Alain Isabwe

21 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons

2019 605 citations Weidong Chen, Kexin Ren et al. Microbiome profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Isabwe China	15	1.1k	484	379	333	308	21	1.6k
Mia M. Bengtsson Germany	20	1.3k 1.3×	558 1.2×	451 1.2×	577 1.7×	389 1.3×	36	2.2k
Jun R. Yang China	11	953 0.9×	442 0.9×	491 1.3×	449 1.3×	186 0.6×	18	1.3k
Haibo Jiang China	24	520 0.5×	405 0.8×	313 0.8×	303 0.9×	133 0.4×	107	1.7k
Christian Baranyi Austria	16	1.2k 1.2×	465 1.0×	641 1.7×	215 0.6×	201 0.7×	25	1.8k
Jin Zeng China	29	1.6k 1.5×	723 1.5×	495 1.3×	547 1.6×	651 2.1×	110	2.2k
Robert Danczak United States	16	584 0.6×	318 0.7×	315 0.8×	141 0.4×	165 0.5×	35	1.1k
Ze Ren China	21	708 0.7×	231 0.5×	201 0.5×	116 0.3×	168 0.5×	73	1.2k
Dan He China	25	1.1k 1.0×	531 1.1×	252 0.7×	134 0.4×	251 0.8×	49	1.9k
Peng Xing China	28	1.4k 1.3×	638 1.3×	1.1k 3.0×	974 2.9×	309 1.0×	122	2.6k
Anthony A. Chariton Australia	26	1.2k 1.1×	567 1.2×	217 0.6×	217 0.7×	523 1.7×	81	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Isabwe

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20 of 20 papers shown

Isabwe, Alain, Timothy J. Maguire, Craig A. Stow, & Casey M. Godwin. (2025). Lake Erie summer chlorophyll phenology: a Bayesian additive regression trees comparison of growth and decay phases. Water Research. 282. 123770–123770. 1 indexed citations

Maguire, Timothy J., Alain Isabwe, Craig A. Stow, & Casey M. Godwin. (2024). Defining algal bloom phenology in Lake Erie. Harmful Algae. 139. 102731–102731. 3 indexed citations

Isabwe, Alain, et al.. (2024). Distribution patterns of soil bacteria, fungi, and protists emerge from distinct assembly processes across subcommunities. Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). e11672–e11672. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Chenshuo, Lijuan Li, Shu‐Yi‐Dan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Phagotrophic protists preserve antibiotic-resistant opportunistic human pathogens in the vegetable phyllosphere. ISME Communications. 3(1). 94–94. 12 indexed citations

Zhu, Li, Alain Isabwe, Xin Ke, et al.. (2023). The Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on Collembola in Urban Soils and Associated Recovery Using Biochar Remediation: A Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3077–3077. 20 indexed citations

Isabwe, Alain, et al.. (2022). Spatial assortment of soil organisms supports the size-plasticity hypothesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 102–102. 19 indexed citations

Isabwe, Alain, Jun R. Yang, Yongming Wang, et al.. (2022). Riverine bacterioplankton and phytoplankton assembly along an environmental gradient induced by urbanization. Limnology and Oceanography. 67(9). 1943–1958. 41 indexed citations

Manirakiza, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Exploring microbial diversity and ecological function of epiphytic and surface sediment biofilm communities in a shallow tropical lake. The Science of The Total Environment. 808. 151821–151821. 38 indexed citations

Kurban, Alishir, Alain Isabwe, Richard Mind’je, et al.. (2021). Spatio-seasonal variation of water quality influenced by land use and land cover in Lake Muhazi. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 17376–17376. 39 indexed citations

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Chen, Huihuang, Mamun Abdullah Al, Jean Claude Ndayishimiye, et al.. (2021). Urbanization reduces resource use efficiency of phytoplankton community by altering the environment and decreasing biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 112. 140–151. 82 indexed citations

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Peng, Feng, Yunyan Guo, Alain Isabwe, et al.. (2020). Urbanization drives riverine bacterial antibiotic resistome more than taxonomic community at watershed scale. Environment International. 137. 105524–105524. 117 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaoqing, Jun R. Yang, Huihuang Chen, Alain Isabwe, & Jun Yang. (2020). On the use of chemotaxonomy, a phytoplankton identification and quantification method based on pigment for quick surveys of subtropical reservoirs. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(3). 3544–3555. 10 indexed citations

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Peng, Feng, Alain Isabwe, Yunyan Guo, Huihuang Chen, & Jun Yang. (2019). An extensively shared antibiotic resistome among four seasons suggests management prioritization in a subtropical riverine ecosystem. The Science of The Total Environment. 673. 533–540. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Weidong, Kexin Ren, Alain Isabwe, et al.. (2019). Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons. Microbiome. 7(1). 138–138. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Gui‐Feng, Zhijun Shen, Juan Chen, et al.. (2018). Spartina alterniflora invasion alters soil bacterial communities and enhances soil N2O emissions by stimulating soil denitrification in mangrove wetland. The Science of The Total Environment. 653. 231–240. 159 indexed citations

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Isabwe, Alain, et al.. (2018). Community assembly processes underlying phytoplankton and bacterioplankton across a hydrologic change in a human-impacted river. The Science of The Total Environment. 630. 658–667. 139 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenjing, Yuanyuan Mo, Jun Yang, et al.. (2018). Genetic diversity pattern of microeukaryotic communities and its relationship with the environment based on PCR-DGGE and T-RFLP techniques in Dongshan Bay, southeast China. Continental Shelf Research. 164. 1–9. 14 indexed citations

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Ndayisaba, Felix, Hao Guo, Alain Isabwe, et al.. (2017). Inter-Annual Vegetation Changes in Response to Climate Variability in Rwanda. Journal of Environmental Protection. 8(4). 464–481. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Jun R., Hong Lv, Alain Isabwe, et al.. (2017). Disturbance-induced phytoplankton regime shifts and recovery of cyanobacteria dominance in two subtropical reservoirs. Water Research. 120. 52–63. 184 indexed citations

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Karamage, Fidele, et al.. (2017). Soil Erosion Risk Assessment in Uganda. Forests. 8(2). 52–52. 73 indexed citations

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