Ben Temperton

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Temperton is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Temperton has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Ben Temperton's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers). Ben Temperton is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers). Ben Temperton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Ben Temperton's co-authors include Stephen J. Giovannoni, J. Cameron Thrash, Jack A. Gilbert, Ian Joint, Dawn Field, Paul J. Somerfield, Susan M. Huse, J. Gregory Caporaso, Lars Steinbrück and Joshua A. Steele and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ben Temperton

52 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2014 250 500 750
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.

  1. Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics
    2011 791 citations Jack A. Gilbert, Ben Temperton et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  2. Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology
    2014 550 citations Stephen J. Giovannoni, J. Cameron Thrash et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Temperton United Kingdom 26 2.5k 1.8k 620 370 324 57 3.5k
Haiwei Luo Hong Kong 32 2.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 750 1.2× 416 1.1× 325 1.0× 76 3.3k
Jang‐Cheon Cho South Korea 37 3.4k 1.4× 3.0k 1.7× 669 1.1× 486 1.3× 422 1.3× 224 5.1k
Manuel Martínez‐García Spain 29 2.2k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 460 0.7× 425 1.1× 242 0.7× 67 2.9k
Giulio Petroni Italy 37 2.2k 0.9× 2.5k 1.4× 318 0.5× 327 0.9× 398 1.2× 142 3.7k
Ruth‐Anne Sandaa Norway 28 2.0k 0.8× 792 0.4× 525 0.8× 270 0.7× 537 1.7× 64 2.8k
Maureen L. Coleman United States 28 3.4k 1.4× 2.6k 1.4× 705 1.1× 432 1.2× 531 1.6× 36 4.4k
Alison Buchan United States 29 3.9k 1.5× 2.2k 1.2× 1.4k 2.3× 565 1.5× 579 1.8× 62 5.1k
Steven J. Biller United States 24 1.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 664 1.1× 250 0.7× 323 1.0× 44 2.9k
Weipeng Zhang China 32 1.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 480 0.8× 198 0.5× 224 0.7× 101 3.0k
Jörn Petersen Germany 28 1.6k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 356 0.6× 121 0.3× 338 1.0× 80 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Temperton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Temperton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Temperton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Temperton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Temperton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Temperton. Ben Temperton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Bolaños, Luis M., Craig A. Carlson, Ruth Curry, et al.. (2025). Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean. mSystems. 11(2). e0154025–e0154025.
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Porter, Steven L., et al.. (2025). Eliminating the type I restriction endonuclease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 for optimized phage isolation. Microbiology. 171(11). 1 indexed citations
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Chaput, Dominique L., Ashley Bell, Ben Temperton, et al.. (2025). Seasonal dynamics and factors shaping microbiomes in freshwater finfish earthen aquaculture ponds in Bangladesh. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 38–38. 1 indexed citations
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Bell, Ashley, et al.. (2024). Influence of host phylogeny and water physicochemistry on microbial assemblages of the fish skin microbiome. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(3). 7 indexed citations
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Warwick-Dugdale, Joanna, Funing Tian, Michelle L. Michelsen, et al.. (2024). Long-read powered viral metagenomics in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4089–4089. 8 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Julie, Robyn Manley, Karen Moore, et al.. (2024). The Citizen Phage Library: Rapid Isolation of Phages for the Treatment of Antibiotic Resistant Infections in the UK. Microorganisms. 12(2). 253–253. 7 indexed citations
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Bell, Ashley, Kelly Thornber, Dominique L. Chaput, et al.. (2023). Metagenomic assessment of the diversity and ubiquity of antimicrobial resistance genes in Bangladeshi aquaculture ponds. Aquaculture Reports. 29. 101462–101462. 19 indexed citations
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Bolaños, Luis M., et al.. (2023). Novel pelagiphage isolate Polarivirus skadi is a polar specialist that dominates SAR11-associated bacteriophage communities at high latitudes. The ISME Journal. 17(10). 1660–1670. 11 indexed citations
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Chaput, Dominique L., David Bass, Joseph Nagoli, et al.. (2022). Relationships between pond water and tilapia skin microbiomes in aquaculture ponds in Malawi. Aquaculture. 558. 738367–738367. 22 indexed citations
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Bolaños, Luis M., Karen Tait, Paul J. Somerfield, et al.. (2022). Influence of short and long term processes on SAR11 communities in open ocean and coastal systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 116–116. 16 indexed citations
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Gregory, Ann, Zhi-Ping Zhong, Benjamin Bolduc, et al.. (2022). MetaPop: a pipeline for macro- and microdiversity analyses and visualization of microbial and viral metagenome-derived populations. Microbiome. 10(1). 49–49. 29 indexed citations
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Michelsen, Michelle L., et al.. (2021). Efficient dilution-to-extinction isolation of novel virus–host model systems for fastidious heterotrophic bacteria. The ISME Journal. 15(6). 1585–1598. 32 indexed citations
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Henson, Michael W., et al.. (2020). Expanding the Diversity of Bacterioplankton Isolates and Modeling Isolation Efficacy with Large-Scale Dilution-to-Extinction Cultivation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(17). 33 indexed citations
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Henson, Michael W., et al.. (2020). Complete Genome Sequence of Marinobacterium sp. Strain LSUCC0821, Isolated from the Coastal Gulf of Mexico. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(49).
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Vergin, Kevin L., Bánk Beszteri, Adam Monier, et al.. (2013). High-resolution SAR11 ecotype dynamics at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site by phylogenetic placement of pyrosequences. The ISME Journal. 7(7). 1322–1332. 145 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanlin, Ben Temperton, J. Cameron Thrash, et al.. (2013). Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean. Nature. 494(7437). 357–360. 253 indexed citations
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Temperton, Ben, Dawn Field, Anna Oliver, et al.. (2009). Bias in assessments of marine microbial biodiversity in fosmid libraries as evaluated by pyrosequencing. The ISME Journal. 3(7). 792–796. 33 indexed citations

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