Alyson E. Santoro

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Alyson E. Santoro is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alyson E. Santoro has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Ecology, 39 papers in Oceanography and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alyson E. Santoro's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (61 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (19 papers). Alyson E. Santoro is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (61 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (19 papers). Alyson E. Santoro collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Alyson E. Santoro's co-authors include Christopher Francis, J. Michael Beman, K. Roberts, Brian B. Oakley, Karen L. Casciotti, Alexandria B. Boehm, Carolyn Buchwald, Matthew R. McIlvin, Christopher L. Dupont and Nicholas R. de Sieyes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alyson E. Santoro

76 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean

2005 2.0k citations Christopher Francis, K. Roberts et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea

2020 335 citations Alyson E. Santoro et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alyson E. Santoro United States	35	4.7k	2.2k	2.0k	1.8k	1.4k	79	6.4k
J. Michael Beman United States	24	4.1k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	32	5.8k
Martin Könneke Germany	28	4.6k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	47	6.2k
Dagmar Woebken Austria	35	3.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	968 0.7×	59	6.6k
Qinglong L. Wu China	44	4.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	190	6.9k
David B. Nedwell United Kingdom	49	3.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	2.5k 1.7×	116	7.3k
Willm Martens‐Habbena United States	24	2.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	908 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	886 0.6×	46	3.9k
Christopher Francis United States	49	7.2k 1.5×	4.7k 2.1×	2.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	100	9.9k
Hannah K. Marchant Germany	27	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	963 0.5×	608 0.3×	909 0.6×	45	4.8k
James B. Cotner United States	46	4.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	3.3k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.9k 2.0×	125	9.2k
Henricus T. S. Boschker Netherlands	41	3.6k 0.8×	621 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	88	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alyson E. Santoro

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Bayer, Barbara, Katharina Kitzinger, Mak A. Saito, et al.. (2025). Minor contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the ocean. Nature Geoscience. 18(11). 1144–1151.

Kramer, Sasha J., Margaret Estapa, Tatiana A. Rynearson, et al.. (2025). Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 1 indexed citations

Bayer, Barbara, Shuting Liu, Katherine Louie, et al.. (2024). Metabolite release by nitrifiers facilitates metabolic interactions in the ocean. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 3 indexed citations

Stephens, Brandon M., Colleen A. Durkin, Margaret Estapa, et al.. (2024). Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 13 indexed citations

Jiménez, Valeria, Sebastian Sudek, Charles Bachy, et al.. (2024). Distinct phytoplankton assemblages underlie hotspots of primary production in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(2). 477–492. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Weiyi, Bess B. Ward, Laura A. Bristow, et al.. (2023). Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean. Earth system science data. 15(11). 5039–5077. 14 indexed citations

Zhao, Liang, Weida Gong, Alessandro Tagliabue, et al.. (2023). Synechococcus nitrogen gene loss in iron-limited ocean regions. ISME Communications. 3(1). 107–107. 3 indexed citations

Łapińska, Urszula, Zehra Kahveci, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, et al.. (2023). Systematic comparison of unilamellar vesicles reveals that archaeal core lipid membranes are more permeable than bacterial membranes. PLoS Biology. 21(4). e3002048–e3002048. 14 indexed citations

Needham, David M., Camille Poirier, Charles Bachy, et al.. (2022). The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nature Microbiology. 7(9). 1466–1479. 14 indexed citations

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Aylward, Frank O. & Alyson E. Santoro. (2020). Heterotrophic Thaumarchaea with Small Genomes Are Widespread in the Dark Ocean. mSystems. 5(3). 47 indexed citations

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Capone, Douglas G., et al.. (2020). Nitrification and nitrous oxide dynamics in the Southern California Bight. Limnology and Oceanography. 66(4). 1099–1112. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Simon, Bonnie X. Chang, Mark J. Warner, et al.. (2020). Global reconstruction reduces the uncertainty of oceanic nitrous oxide emissions and reveals a vigorous seasonal cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(22). 11954–11960. 74 indexed citations

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Santoro, Alyson E., Carolyn Buchwald, Angela N. Knapp, et al.. (2020). Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production in the Offshore Waters of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(2). 40 indexed citations

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Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Elisabeth Hehenberger, Javier del Campo, et al.. (2018). Phylogeny, Evidence for a Cryptic Plastid, and Distribution of Chytriodinium Parasites (Dinophyceae) Infecting Copepods. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66(4). 574–581. 1 indexed citations

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Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Anna Karnkowska, Elisabeth Hehenberger, et al.. (2017). Single cell genomics of uncultured marine alveolates shows paraphyly of basal dinoflagellates. The ISME Journal. 12(1). 304–308. 28 indexed citations

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Apprill, Amy, Laura Weber, & Alyson E. Santoro. (2016). Distinguishing between Microbial Habitats Unravels Ecological Complexity in Coral Microbiomes. mSystems. 1(5). 85 indexed citations

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Orsi, William D., Jason M. Smith, Shuting Liu, et al.. (2016). Diverse, uncultivated bacteria and archaea underlying the cycling of dissolved protein in the ocean. The ISME Journal. 10(9). 2158–2173. 138 indexed citations

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Orsi, William D., Jason M. Smith, Heather M. Wilcox, et al.. (2015). Ecophysiology of uncultivated marine euryarchaea is linked to particulate organic matter. The ISME Journal. 9(8). 1747–1763. 94 indexed citations

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Santoro, Alyson E. & Karen L. Casciotti. (2011). Enrichment and characterization of ammonia-oxidizing archaea from the open ocean: phylogeny, physiology and stable isotope fractionation. The ISME Journal. 5(11). 1796–1808. 157 indexed citations

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Francis, Christopher, K. Roberts, J. Michael Beman, Alyson E. Santoro, & Brian B. Oakley. (2005). Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(41). 14683–14688. 1977 indexed citations breakdown →

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