David C. Smith

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

David C. Smith is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David C. Smith has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 20 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David C. Smith's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (29 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (17 papers). David C. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (29 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (17 papers). David C. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. David C. Smith's co-authors include Farooq Azam, Grieg F. Steward, Steven D’Hondt, Meinhard Simon, Alice L. Alldredge, Jens Kallmeyer, R. A. Pockalny, Rishi R. Adhikari, J. Martínez and F Azam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David C. Smith

66 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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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.

Intense hydrolytic enzyme activity on marine aggregates and implications for rapid particle dissolution

1992 796 citations David C. Smith, Meinhard Simon et al. Nature profile →
Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

2012 642 citations Jens Kallmeyer, R. A. Pockalny et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David C. Smith United States	31	3.3k	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	563	67	4.9k
Carol Arnosti United States	41	3.5k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	642 1.1×	119	5.5k
Stefan M. Sievert United States	36	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	460 0.8×	80	4.9k
Gordon T. Taylor United States	39	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	859 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	386 0.7×	114	4.4k
Carl O. Wirsen United States	41	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	537 1.0×	67	5.7k
Yehuda Cohen Israel	37	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	257 0.5×	51	4.8k
Lùbos Polerecký Germany	37	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	981 0.9×	574 1.0×	100	5.2k
Jody W. Deming United States	45	3.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	740 1.3×	114	6.6k
W. J. Wiebe United States	29	3.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.7×	619 1.1×	54	5.9k
Alison E. Murray United States	30	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	271 0.5×	65	4.2k
Anitra E. Ingalls United States	37	3.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	339 0.6×	71	5.2k

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Bessell‐Browne, Pia, André E. Punt, David C. Smith, et al.. (2025). Incorporating Climate Change Impacts Within Harvest Strategies: An Overview of Approaches. Fish and Fisheries. 26(5). 942–956.

Vuillemin, Aurèle, Sergio Vargas, Ömer K. Coskun, et al.. (2020). Atribacteria Reproducing over Millions of Years in the Atlantic Abyssal Subseafloor. mBio. 11(5). 21 indexed citations

Smith, David C., et al.. (2017). Findings from the Great Australian Bight Research Program – an integrated study of environmental, economic and social values. The APPEA Journal. 57(2). 388–392. 12 indexed citations

Ward, Tim, et al.. (2014). INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY: THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SCIENCE PROGRAM. International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings. 2014(1). 2193–2205. 2 indexed citations

Prieto‐Davó, Alejandra, Luis Jesús Villarreal-Gómez, Alan T. Bull, et al.. (2013). Targeted search for actinomycetes from nearshore and deep-sea marine sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 84(3). 510–518. 30 indexed citations

Maranda, Lucie, et al.. (2013). Chlorine dioxide as a treatment for ballast water to control invasive species: Shipboard testing. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 75(1-2). 76–89. 25 indexed citations

Montgomery, Michael T., Thomas J. Boyd, Christopher L. Osburn, & David C. Smith. (2009). PAH mineralization and bacterial organotolerance in surface sediments of the Charleston Harbor estuary. Biodegradation. 21(2). 257–266. 16 indexed citations

Soffientino, Bruno, Arthur J. Spivack, David C. Smith, & Steven D’Hondt. (2009). Hydrogenase Activity in Deeply Buried Sediments of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Geomicrobiology Journal. 26(7). 537–545. 7 indexed citations

D’Hondt, Steven, Lewis J. Abrams, Timothy G. Ferdelman, et al.. (2007). Life in Subseafloor Sediments of the South Pacific Gyre. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Boyd, Thomas J., et al.. (2005). Dissolved Oxygen Saturation Controls PAH Biodegradation in Freshwater Estuary Sediments. Microbial Ecology. 49(2). 226–235. 33 indexed citations

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Soffientino, Bruno, et al.. (2005). A versatile and sensitive tritium-based radioassay for measuring hydrogenase activity in aquatic sediments. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 66(1). 136–146. 7 indexed citations

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Kormas, Konstantinos Ar., David C. Smith, Virginia P. Edgcomb, & Andreas Teske. (2003). Molecular analysis of deep subsurface microbial communities in Nankai Trough sediments (ODP Leg 190, Site 1176). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 45(2). 115–125. 108 indexed citations

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Garrison, David, Marcia M. Gowing, Lisa Campbell, et al.. (2000). Microbial food web structure in the Arabian Sea: a US JGOFS study. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 47(7-8). 1387–1422. 202 indexed citations

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Azam, F, et al.. (1994). Bacteria-organic matter coupling and its significance for oceanic carbon cycling. Microbial Ecology. 28(2). 167–179. 242 indexed citations

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Bäckman, Stina, et al.. (1993). Blooms of sequence-specific culturable bacteria in the sea. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 102(3-4). 161–166. 125 indexed citations

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Smith, David C., Meinhard Simon, Alice L. Alldredge, & Farooq Azam. (1992). Intense hydrolytic enzyme activity on marine aggregates and implications for rapid particle dissolution. Nature. 359(6391). 139–142. 796 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, David C., et al.. (1988). H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal, A Biography. The American Historical Review. 93(3). 706–706. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, David C., et al.. (1982). Salt Marsh Dykes (Dikes) as a Factor in Eastern Maine Agriculture. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 21(4). 219–226. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, David C.. (1979). Tree Rings and Climate. By H. C. Fritts Climates of the States: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Narrative Summaries, and Maps for Each State; with Current Tables of Normals, 1941–1970, Means and Extremes to 1975, and Overview of State Climatologist Programs. Journal of Forest History. 23(4). 202–203. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, David C., et al.. (1976). Factors influencing equilibrium of a model sand beach. 4 indexed citations

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