David Bass

24.5k citations

248 papers · 12.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Ecology top 0.1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Parasitology top 0.5%
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics

Papers in

Ecology 110
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 43
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 43
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions 21
Parasitology 25
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics 20

Co-authors: Thomas A. Richards Grant D. Stentiford Meredith D. M. Jones Thomas Cavalier‐Smith Charles E. McCall Michael C. Seeds Pamela Szejda Thorsten Stoeck
Journals: Protist (13 papers)Journal of Clinical Investigation (9 papers)The ISME Journal (7 papers)The Journal of Immunology (7 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

David Bass

234 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories log scale

Microsporidia: a new taxonomic, evolutionary, and ecological synthesis 2022 · 91 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Trends in Parasitology
2020 Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
2019 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2010 Molecular Ecology

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by David Bass

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of David Bass's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David Bass with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David Bass more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by David Bass

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Bass. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David Bass. The network helps show where David Bass may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Bass, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with David Bass Line = papers co-authored together David Bass links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Diversity and antimicrobial resistance among bacterial isolates from finfish aquaculture in Thailand BMC Veterinary Research ·Partho Pratim Debnath, René Pérennec, Athina Papadopoulou, Nicola M. Coyle, Craig Baker‐Austin, Ronny van Aerle, David Bass, Charles R. Tyler, Channarong Rodkhum	2025	0
2	Comparative analysis of the temporal abundance of the epiphytic pest, Melanothamnus thailandicus, affecting farmed Kappaphycus striatus: Visual and molecular detection approaches Journal of Applied Phycology ·Joseph P. Faisan, Berta Arsénio Silva, Maria Rovilla J. Luhan, Yue Wen-pin, RASMAWATI RASMAWATI, Janina Brakel, Juliet Brodie, Georgia M. Ward, David Bass, Stuart Ross, Grant D. Stentiford, Claire M. M. Gachon, Anicia Q. Hurtado	2025	0
3	Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria BMC Biology ·Patricija Hribar Boštjančič, Ioana Onut Brännström, Hilmi Akmal, Hana Pecková, Lin Shao-yuan, Chantelle Hooper, Astrid S. Holzer, David Bass, Fabien Burki	2024	2
4	A Mitosome With Distinct Metabolism in the Uncultured Protist ParasiteParamikrocytos canceri(Rhizaria, Ascetosporea) Genome Biology and Evolution ·Ioana Onut Brännström, Courtney W. Stairs, 敬和田, Patricija Hribar Boštjančič, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Patrick J. Keeling, David Bass, Fabien Burki	2023	5
5	Relationships between pond water and tilapia skin microbiomes in aquaculture ponds in Malawi Aquaculture ·Ting Peng, Vanessa J. Lynn, Dominique L. Chaput, David Bass, А С Королев, Joseph Nagoli, Jérôme Delamare‐Deboutteville, Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan, Jo Cable, Ben Temperton, Charles R. Tyler	2022	22
6	Pathogens co-transported with invasive non-native aquatic species: implications for risk analysis and legislation NeoBiota ·Rachel Foster, E. J. Peeler, Jamie Bojko, Paul F. Clark, David Morritt, Helen E. Roy, Paul Stebbing, Hannah J. Tidbury, Louisa E. Wood, David Bass	2021	18
7	Pathogens co-transported with invasive non-native aquatic species: implications for risk analysis and legislation NeoBiota ·Rachel Foster, E. J. Peeler, Jamie Bojko, Paul F. Clark, David Morritt, Helen E. Roy, Paul Stebbing, Hannah J. Tidbury, Louisa E. Wood, David Bass	2021	3
8	Txikispora philomaios n. sp., n. g., a micro‐eukaryotic pathogen of amphipods, reveals parasitism and hidden diversity in Class Filasterea Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·J. Ridgeon, H. Canpinar, Rachel Foster, Stuart Ross, Martin Carr, Georgia M. Ward, Ronny van Aerle, Ionan Marigómez, Michelle M. Leger, Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo, Stephen W. Feist, David Bass	2021	5
9	pr2‐primers: An 18S rRNA primer database for protists Molecular Ecology Resources ·Daniel Vaulot, Stefan Geisen, Frédéric Mahé, David Bass	2021	82
10	A New Family of DNA Viruses Causing Disease in Crustaceans from Diverse Aquatic Biomes mBio ·Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Donald C. Behringer, Jamie Bojko, Natalya Yutin, Abigail S. Clark, Kelly S. Bateman, Ronny van Aerle, David Bass, Rose Kerr, Eugene V. Koonin, Grant D. Stentiford, Thomas B. Waltzek	2020	45
11	Diagnosis and prevalence of two new species of haplosporidians infecting shore crabsCarcinus maenas:Haplosporidium carcinin. sp., andH. crancn. sp. Parasitology ·Charlotte E. Davies, David Bass, Georgia M. Ward, Frederico M. Batista, Zs. Szabó, Jessica Thomas, Kelly S. Bateman, Stephen W. Feist, Christopher J. Coates, Andrew F. Rowley	2020	11
12	Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens Nature Food ·Grant D. Stentiford, Ian J. Bateman, Steve Hinchliffe, David Bass, Rachel Hartnell, Eduarda M. Santos, Michelle Devlin, Stephen W. Feist, Nick Taylor, David W. Verner–Jeffreys, Ronny van Aerle, E. J. Peeler, Wendy Higman, Michal Šilar, Lian, Donald C. Behringer, Ioanna Katsiadaki, Halley E. Froehlich, Charles R. Tyler	2020	176
13	A Novel RNA Virus, Macrobrachium rosenbergii Golda Virus (MrGV), Linked to Mass Mortalities of the Larval Giant Freshwater Prawn in Bangladesh Viruses ·Chantelle Hooper, Partho Pratim Debnath, 池田正明, Ronny van Aerle, Kelly S. Bateman, Zahra Mardanshahi, Muhammad Meezanur Rahman, Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan, Jong-Gyeong Kim, Stuart Ross, Grant D. Stentiford, David J. Currie, David Bass	2020	17
14	Long‐read metabarcoding of the eukaryotic rDNA operon to phylogenetically and taxonomically resolve environmental diversity Molecular Ecology Resources ·Mahwash Jamy, Rachel Foster, Pierre Barbera, Lucas Czech, Alexey M. Kozlov, Alexandros Stamatakis, Gary D. Bending, Sally Hilton, David Bass, Fabien Burki	2019	79
15	Spatial and temporal axes impact ecology of the gut microbiome in juvenile European lobster ( Homarus gammarus ) The ISME Journal ·Corey C. Holt, Mark van der Giezen, Carly L. Daniels, Grant D. Stentiford, David Bass	2019	41
16	Consistent patterns of high alpha and low beta diversity in tropical parasitic and free‐living protists Molecular Ecology ·Guillaume Lentendu, Frédéric Mahé, David Bass, Sonja Rueckert, Thorsten Stoeck, Micah Dunthorn	2018	36
17	Rhizarian ‘Novel Clade 10’ Revealed as Abundant and Diverse Planktonic and Terrestrial Flagellates, including Aquavolon n. gen. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·David Bass, Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Rachel Foster, Patricia Dyal, Jan Janouškovec, Patrick J. Keeling, Michelle Gardner, Sigrid Neuhauser, Hanna Hartikainen, Adam Lemmon, Cédric Berney	2018	18
18	Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·David Bass, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith	2004	190
19	Radiospongilla Crateriformis (Porifera, Spongillidae) In The West Indies And Taxonomic Notes Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·David Bass	1998	12
20	1-O-Alkyl-sn-glyceryl-3-phosphorylcholines: a novel class of neutrophil stimulants. PubMed ·Joseph T. O’Flaherty, Robert L. Wykle, Craig H. Miller, J. C. Lewis, Moseley Waite, David Bass, Charles E. McCall, L. DeChatelet	1981	208

About David Bass

David Bass is a scholar working on Ecology, Parasitology, Immunology, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology, having authored 248 papers that have together received 12.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (58 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (43 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (43 papers), Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (27 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (21 papers), Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics (20 papers), Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (18 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (5.1k citations), Parasitology (742 citations), Immunology (2.4k citations), Aquatic Science (677 citations) and Endocrinology (454 citations). David Bass has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Thomas A. Richards, Grant D. Stentiford, Meredith D. M. Jones, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Charles E. McCall, Michael C. Seeds, Pamela Szejda, Thorsten Stoeck, Richard Christen and Markus E. Nebel. Their work appears in journals such as Protist, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The ISME Journal, The Journal of Immunology and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact