Alex J. Dumbrell

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alex J. Dumbrell is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex J. Dumbrell has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Plant Science and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alex J. Dumbrell's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (14 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (8 papers). Alex J. Dumbrell is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (14 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (8 papers). Alex J. Dumbrell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Alex J. Dumbrell's co-authors include Thorunn Helgason, Alastair Fitter, Michaela Nelson, Calvin Dytham, Monidipa Dasgupta, David A. Bohan, Corinne Whitby, Graham J. C. Underwood, Boyd A. McKew and Jane K. Hill and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alex J. Dumbrell

83 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring a soil microbial community

2009 672 citations Alex J. Dumbrell, Michaela Nelson et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Distinct seasonal assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi revealed by massively parallel pyrosequencing

2011 381 citations Alex J. Dumbrell, Peter D. Ashton et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex J. Dumbrell United Kingdom	39	1.6k	1.5k	677	649	630	83	4.5k
Andrew Bissett Australia	41	3.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.0×	299 0.4×	273 0.4×	1.5k 2.3×	132	5.6k
Anna Oliver United Kingdom	22	2.0k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	283 0.4×	218 0.3×	1.3k 2.1×	33	3.7k
Thomas Bell United Kingdom	36	2.7k 1.7×	895 0.6×	617 0.9×	231 0.4×	1.9k 3.0×	75	5.5k
Thomas C. Jeffries Australia	26	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	298 0.4×	240 0.4×	1.0k 1.6×	56	4.3k
Jonathan W. Leff United States	27	2.5k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	289 0.4×	464 0.7×	2.2k 3.4×	36	5.8k
Stilianos Louca United States	20	2.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.7×	280 0.4×	257 0.4×	2.2k 3.5×	44	5.8k
Bruce C. Thomson United Kingdom	17	2.6k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	536 0.8×	253 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	20	4.7k
Ben Nichols United Kingdom	12	3.0k 1.9×	1.4k 0.9×	189 0.3×	628 1.0×	3.6k 5.7×	40	7.8k
Nathalie Fromin France	32	1.2k 0.7×	968 0.6×	509 0.8×	287 0.4×	401 0.6×	56	3.0k
Jianjun Wang China	49	4.3k 2.7×	1.9k 1.2×	852 1.3×	259 0.4×	2.3k 3.6×	332	9.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex J. Dumbrell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex J. Dumbrell

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ransome, Emma, Alex J. Dumbrell, Samraat Pawar, et al.. (2025). Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment. Communications Biology. 8(1). 162–162. 3 indexed citations

Hepburn, Leanne J., Martin I. Taylor, Ewan Hunter, et al.. (2024). What makes a habitat a home? Habitat associations of juvenile European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, in estuarine nurseries. Journal of Fish Biology. 105(2). 539–556. 1 indexed citations

Bani, Alessia, Maarten De Brauwer, Matthew J. Struebig, et al.. (2024). Combining environmental DNA and visual surveys can inform conservation planning for coral reefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2307214121–e2307214121. 13 indexed citations

Wilkes, Martin, Marc Naura, Laura K. Allen, et al.. (2021). Defining Recovery Potential in River Restoration: A Biological Data-Driven Approach. Water. 13(23). 3339–3339. 1 indexed citations

Carrivick, Jonathan L., Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié, Verónica Crespo‐Pérez, et al.. (2021). Fungal decomposition of river organic matter accelerated by decreasing glacier cover. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 349–353. 22 indexed citations

Bohmann, Kristine, Vasco Elbrecht, Christian Carøe, et al.. (2021). Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(4). 1231–1246. 83 indexed citations

Razak, Tries B., Chris Roelfsema, Kathryn Markey, et al.. (2021). Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 44. 101731–101731. 6 indexed citations

Francioli, Davide, Sophie Q. van Rijssel, Jasper van Ruijven, et al.. (2020). Plant functional group drives the community structure of saprophytic fungi in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Plant and Soil. 461(1-2). 91–105. 68 indexed citations

Clark, Dave R., et al.. (2019). Are drivers of root-associated fungal community structure context specific?. The ISME Journal. 13(5). 1330–1344. 53 indexed citations

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Underwood, Graham J. C., Christine Michel, Andrea Niemi, et al.. (2019). Organic matter from Arctic sea-ice loss alters bacterial community structure and function. Nature Climate Change. 9(2). 170–176. 52 indexed citations

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Mommer, Liesje, T. E. Anne Cotton, Jos M. Raaijmakers, et al.. (2018). Lost in diversity: the interactions between soil‐borne fungi, biodiversity and plant productivity. New Phytologist. 218(2). 542–553. 165 indexed citations

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Bohan, David A., Corinne Vacher, Alireza Tamaddoni‐Nezhad, et al.. (2017). Next-Generation Global Biomonitoring: Large-scale, Automated Reconstruction of Ecological Networks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32(7). 477–487. 117 indexed citations

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Camp, Emma F., J. Hobbs, Maarten De Brauwer, Alex J. Dumbrell, & David J. Smith. (2016). Cohabitation promotes high diversity of clownfishes in the Coral Triangle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1827). 20160277–20160277. 25 indexed citations

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Low‐Décarie, Étienne, Gregor F. Fussmann, Alex J. Dumbrell, & Graham Bell. (2016). Communities that thrive in extreme conditions captured from a freshwater lake. Biology Letters. 12(9). 20160562–20160562. 14 indexed citations

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Low‐Décarie, Étienne, et al.. (2015). Community rescue in experimental metacommunities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(46). 14307–14312. 54 indexed citations

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Fayle, Tom M., et al.. (2015). Detection of Mitochondrial COII DNA Sequences in Ant Guts as a Method for Assessing Termite Predation by Ants. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122533–e0122533. 7 indexed citations

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Dumbrell, Alex J., Peter D. Ashton, Naveed Aziz, et al.. (2011). Distinct seasonal assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi revealed by massively parallel pyrosequencing. New Phytologist. 190(3). 794–804. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Diachun, Laura L., et al.. (2006). Improving Recruitment into Geriatric Medicine in Canada: Findings and Recommendations from the Geriatric Recruitment Issues Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 54(9). 1453–1462. 32 indexed citations

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Diachun, Laura L., Alex J. Dumbrell, Kerry Byrne, & Jacquelin Esbaugh. (2006). … But Does It Stick? Evaluating the Durability of Improved Knowledge Following an Undergraduate Experiential Geriatrics Learning Session. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 54(4). 696–701. 37 indexed citations

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Wells, Jennie & Alex J. Dumbrell. (2006). Nutrition and aging: assessment and treatment of compromised nutritional status in frail elderly patients. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 1(1). 67–79. 89 indexed citations

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