Amy Apprill

13.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Amy Apprill is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Apprill has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Oceanography and 18 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Amy Apprill's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (72 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (29 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (24 papers). Amy Apprill is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (72 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (29 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (24 papers). Amy Apprill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Cuba and U.S. Virgin Islands. Amy Apprill's co-authors include Laura Weber, Sean Mcnally, Rachel Parsons, Matthew J. Neave, Christian R. Voolstra, Janet Jansson, J. Gregory Caporaso, Donna Berg-Lyons, Greg Humphrey and Gail Ackermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Amy Apprill

94 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Minor revision to V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection of SAR11 bacterioplankton

2015 1.7k citations Amy Apprill, Laura Weber et al. profile →
Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys

2015 1.6k citations Amy Apprill et al. mSystems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Apprill United States	32	4.2k	1.7k	1.7k	923	678	95	6.6k
Ariel Kushmaro Israel	44	3.1k 0.7×	997 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	559 0.8×	159	6.3k
Justin R. Seymour Australia	43	4.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	716 0.8×	951 1.4×	184	7.0k
Raquel S. Peixoto Brazil	43	2.8k 0.7×	809 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	605 0.7×	405 0.6×	158	5.7k
Torsten Thomas Australia	61	5.4k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	4.1k 2.4×	1.1k 1.2×	718 1.1×	204	12.0k
Rebecca Vega Thurber United States	27	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	929 1.0×	739 1.1×	57	4.8k
Rebecca L. Vega Thurber United States	16	2.8k 0.7×	646 0.4×	4.2k 2.5×	833 0.9×	350 0.5×	21	8.4k
Russell T. Hill United States	50	2.5k 0.6×	558 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	389 0.6×	134	6.9k
Jesse Zaneveld United States	22	5.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	7.0k 4.1×	994 1.1×	670 1.0×	35	14.2k
Ian Hewson United States	39	5.3k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	312 0.3×	430 0.6×	100	6.8k
Colleen M. Cavanaugh United States	45	4.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.7×	2.7k 1.6×	684 0.7×	1.6k 2.4×	102	8.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Apprill

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Brandt, Marilyn E., et al.. (2025). Machine learning reveals distinct gene expression signatures across tissue states in stony coral tissue loss disease. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 241993–241993. 1 indexed citations

Weiß, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides. Royal Society Open Science. 11(3). 231514–231514. 6 indexed citations

Becker, Cynthia C., et al.. (2024). Benzoyl Chloride Derivatization Advances the Quantification of Dissolved Polar Metabolites on Coral Reefs. Journal of Proteome Research. 23(6). 2041–2053. 2 indexed citations

Voolstra, Christian R., et al.. (2024). Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life. Annual Review of Marine Science. 17(1). 193–226. 6 indexed citations

Armenteros, Maickel, et al.. (2024). Coral Reef Water Microbial Communities of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. Microorganisms. 12(9). 1822–1822. 1 indexed citations

Easson, Cole, et al.. (2024). Sponge-derived matter is assimilated by coral holobionts. Communications Biology. 7(1). 146–146. 2 indexed citations

Armenteros, Maickel, et al.. (2024). Cryptofaunal communities are influenced by benthic cover and fish abundance in a large Caribbean coral reef system. Coral Reefs. 43(6). 1731–1748.

Becker, Cynthia C., Laura Weber, Brian Zgliczynski, et al.. (2023). Microorganisms and dissolved metabolites distinguish Florida's Coral Reef habitats. PNAS Nexus. 2(9). pgad287–pgad287. 14 indexed citations

Meiling, Sonora S., Tyler B. Smith, Amy Apprill, et al.. (2023). Stony coral tissue loss disease induces transcriptional signatures of in situ degradation of dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2915–2915. 23 indexed citations

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Apprill, Amy, et al.. (2023). Ramicrusta invasive alga causes mortality in Caribbean coral larvae. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 3 indexed citations

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Apprill, Amy, Yogesh Girdhar, T. Aran Mooney, et al.. (2023). Toward a New Era of Coral Reef Monitoring. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(13). 5117–5124. 19 indexed citations

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Brown, A. L., Koty Sharp, & Amy Apprill. (2022). Reshuffling of the Coral Microbiome during Dormancy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(23). e0139122–e0139122. 3 indexed citations

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Weber, Laura, et al.. (2022). Benthic exometabolites and their ecological significance on threatened Caribbean coral reefs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 101–101. 13 indexed citations

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Apprill, Amy, Carolyn A. Miller, Jana M. U’Ren, et al.. (2020). Marine mammal skin microbiotas are influenced by host phylogeny. Royal Society Open Science. 7(5). 192046–192046. 21 indexed citations

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Bierlich, K. C., Carolyn A. Miller, Emelia DeForce, et al.. (2018). Temporal and Regional Variability in the Skin Microbiome of Humpback Whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(5). 40 indexed citations

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Lillis, Ashlee, et al.. (2018). Multiscale spatio-temporal patterns of boat noise on U.S. Virgin Island coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 136. 282–290. 25 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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Furby, Kathryn A., Amy Apprill, J. Cervino, Justin E. Ossolinski, & Konrad A Hughen. (2014). Incidence of lesions on Fungiidae corals in the eastern Red Sea is related to water temperature and coastal pollution. Marine Environmental Research. 98. 29–38. 21 indexed citations

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Selph, Karen E., C. I. Measures, Matthew T. Brown, & Amy Apprill. (2006). The Influence of Shelf-Derived Iron on Phytoplankton Growth Dynamics in the Drake Passage, Antarctica. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Lance, Veronica P., M. R. Hiscock, Anna K. Hilting, et al.. (2002). Primary Productivity and Size-Fraction Shifts During an in situ Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX).. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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