Daniel S. Read

7.1k citations

103 papers · 5.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 38

Impact in

Ecology top 0.5%
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Pollution top 1%
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Papers in

Ecology 39
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 23
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 22
Pollution 19
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution 8
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts 8

Co-authors: William O. C. Symondson (4 shared papers)R. Andrew King (2 shared papers)Michael Traugott (1 shared paper)Michael J. Bowes (18 shared papers)Hyun Soon Gweon (16 shared papers)Anna Oliver (5 shared papers)Lori Lawson Handley (7 shared papers)Bernd Hänfling (7 shared papers)
Journals: The Science of The Total Environment (13 papers)Water Research (7 papers)Environmental DNA (5 papers)The ISME Journal (4 papers)Molecular Ecology (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

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Daniel S. Read

95 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Daniel S. Read's Hit Papers

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Environmental DNA metabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods 2016 · 457 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2016 Molecular Ecology

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1	INVITED REVIEW: Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA‐based approaches Molecular Ecology ·R. Andrew King, Daniel S. Read, Michael Traugott, William O. C. Symondson	2008	568
2	Environmental DNA metabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods Molecular Ecology ·Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Christoph Hahn, Jianlong Li, Paul C. Nichols, Rosetta C. Blackman, Anna Oliver Hit paper breakdown →	2016	457
3	PIPITS : an automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the I llumina sequencing platform Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Hyun Soon Gweon, Anna Oliver, Joanne E. Taylor, Tim Booth, Melanie Gibbs, Daniel S. Read, Robert Iwan Griffiths, Karsten Schönrogge	2015	267
4	Catchment-scale biogeography of riverine bacterioplankton The ISME Journal ·Daniel S. Read, Hyun Soon Gweon, Michael J. Bowes, Lindsay K. Newbold, Dawn Field, Mark Bailey, Robert Iwan Griffiths	2014	220
5	Prospects and challenges of environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring in freshwater ponds Hydrobiologia ·Lynsey R. Harper, Andrew S. Buxton, Helen C. Rees, Kat Bruce, Rein Brys, David Halfmaerten, Daniel S. Read, Hayley V. Watson	2018	193
6	Comparison of long-read sequencing technologies in the hybrid assembly of complex bacterial genomes Microbial Genomics ·Nicola De Maio, Liam P. Shaw, Alasdair Thomas Macadam Hubbard, Sophie A. George, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Jeremy Swann, Ryan R. Wick, Manal AbuOun	2019	179
7	Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales Environmental Science & Technology ·Andrew Charles Johnson, Hollie L. Ball, Richard Kynaston Cross, Alice A. Horton, Monika D. Jürgens, Daniel S. Read, Jes Vollertsen, Claus Svendsen	2020	165
8	Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples Environmental Pollution ·Alice A. Horton, Richard Kynaston Cross, Daniel S. Read, Monika D. Jürgens, Hollie L. Ball, Claus Svendsen, Jes Vollertsen, Andrew Charles Johnson	2020	148
9	Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum Environmental Microbiology ·Hyun Soon Gweon, Michael J. Bowes, Heather L. Moorhouse, Anna Oliver, Mark Bailey, Michael C. Acreman, Daniel S. Read	2020	136
10	The effect of anthropogenic arsenic contamination on the earthworm microbiome Environmental Microbiology ·Daniel Antony Pass, Andrew John Morgan, Daniel S. Read, Dawn Field, Andrew J. Weightman, Peter Kille	2014	128
11	Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake Environmental DNA ·Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Ian J. Winfield, Helen S. Kimbell, Harriet F. Johnson, Jianlong Li, Christoph Hahn, Rosetta C. Blackman	2019	125
12	Spatial and temporal changes in chlorophyll-a concentrations in the River Thames basin, UK: Are phosphorus concentrations beginning to limit phytoplankton biomass? The Science of The Total Environment ·Michael J. Bowes, Emma Gozzard, Andrew Charles Johnson, Peter Scarlett, C. Roberts, Daniel S. Read, Linda K. Armstrong, Sarah A. Harman	2012	112
13	Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals Biological Conservation ·Lynsey R. Harper, Lori Lawson Handley, Angus I. Carpenter, Muhammad Nur Azam Ghazali, Cristina Di Muri, Callum J. Macgregor, Thomas W. Logan, Alan Law	2019	112
14	Molecular detection of predation by soil micro‐arthropods on nematodes Molecular Ecology ·Daniel S. Read, Samuel Keir Sheppard, Michael W. Bruford, D. M. Glen, William O. C. Symondson	2006	100
15	Soil pH effects on the interactions between dissolved zinc, non-nano- and nano-ZnO with soil bacterial communities Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Daniel S. Read, Marianne Matzke, Hyun Soon Gweon, Lindsay K. Newbold, Laura Roverskov Heggelund, María Díez Ortiz, Elma Lahive, David J. Spurgeon	2015	95
16	Online fluorescence spectroscopy for the real-time evaluation of the microbial quality of drinking water Water Research ·James Sorensen, Matthew Ascott, Daren C. Gooddy, Dan J. Lapworth, Daniel S. Read, Cathy M. Rushworth, J. Bucknall, Kipkemoi Herbert	2018	95
17	The effect of filtration method on the efficiency of environmental DNA capture and quantification via metabarcoding Molecular Ecology Resources ·Jianlong Li, Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Bernd Hänfling	2018	90
18	Systematic review of wastewater surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in human populations Environment International ·Kevin Chau, Leanne Barker, E.P. Budgell, K.D. Vihta, Natalie F. Sims, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, Eli Harriss, Derrick W. Crook	2022	87
19	Impacts of climate change, land-use change and phosphorus reduction on phytoplankton in the River Thames (UK) The Science of The Total Environment ·Gianbattista Bussi, P. G. Whitehead, Michael J. Bowes, Daniel S. Read, Christel Prudhomme, Simon Dadson	2016	86
20	The impact of sequencing depth on the inferred taxonomic composition and AMR gene content of metagenomic samples Environmental Microbiome ·Hyun Soon Gweon, Liam P. Shaw, Jeremy Swann, Nicola De Maio, Manal AbuOun, René Niehus, Alasdair Thomas Macadam Hubbard, Mark Bailey	2019	84

About Daniel S. Read

Daniel S. Read is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Water Science and Technology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 103 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (23 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (11 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (11 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Fecal contamination and water quality (9 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.3k citations), Pollution (950 citations), Waste Management and Disposal (504 citations), Ecological Modeling (220 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (489 citations). Daniel S. Read has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include William O. C. Symondson, R. Andrew King, Michael Traugott, Michael J. Bowes, Hyun Soon Gweon, Anna Oliver, Lori Lawson Handley, Bernd Hänfling, Jianlong Li and Mark Bailey. Their work appears in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research, Environmental DNA, The ISME Journal and Molecular Ecology.

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