David M. Needham

8.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

David M. Needham is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Needham has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David M. Needham's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). David M. Needham is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers). David M. Needham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. David M. Needham's co-authors include Jed A. Fuhrman, Alma E. Parada, Jacob A. Cram, Rohan Sachdeva, Cheryl‐Emiliane T. Chow, Alexandra Z. Worden, Joshua A. Steele, Lyria Berdjeb, Matthew B. Sullivan and Cristina Howard‐Varona and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David M. Needham

29 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2015 2019 2022 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples
    2015 2.7k citations Alma E. Parada, David M. Needham et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →
  2. Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation
    2015 599 citations Jed A. Fuhrman, Jacob A. Cram et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  3. Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems
    2019 277 citations Amy Zimmerman, Cristina Howard‐Varona et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  4. High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome
    2022 170 citations Wenshan Zheng, Shijie Zhao et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David M. Needham United States 18 3.5k 2.2k 1.1k 768 530 30 5.2k
Mark V. Brown Australia 38 4.0k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 760 1.0× 448 0.8× 66 5.3k
Alma E. Parada United States 14 2.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 744 0.7× 750 1.0× 639 1.2× 18 5.1k
Joshua A. Steele United States 25 3.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 708 0.9× 368 0.7× 63 4.5k
Rex R. Malmstrom United States 41 4.0k 1.2× 3.0k 1.4× 1.4k 1.3× 932 1.2× 474 0.9× 71 5.9k
Eva S. Lindström Sweden 36 4.3k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 587 1.1× 70 5.4k
Barbara J. Campbell United States 30 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 709 0.6× 815 1.1× 380 0.7× 60 4.0k
Jesús M. Arrieta Spain 31 3.6k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 808 1.1× 436 0.8× 63 5.5k
Didier Debroas France 44 4.0k 1.1× 2.4k 1.1× 831 0.8× 875 1.1× 785 1.5× 112 5.4k
Silvia G. Acinas Spain 35 4.3k 1.2× 3.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.3× 801 1.0× 538 1.0× 81 6.0k
Rachel Parsons United States 24 2.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 890 0.8× 446 0.6× 264 0.5× 46 4.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Muschiol, Jan, et al.. (2025). Arctic Ocean virus communities and their seasonality, bipolarity, and prokaryotic associations. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6427–6427.
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Poirier, Camille, David M. Needham, Frederik Schulz, et al.. (2024). Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean. Current Biology. 34(22). R1133–R1134. 1 indexed citations
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Hehenberger, Elisabeth, et al.. (2024). Gradients of bacteria in the oceanic water column reveal finely-resolved vertical distributions. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0298139–e0298139. 2 indexed citations
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Needham, David M., Sebastian Sudek, Nathan K. Truelove, et al.. (2023). Ecological divergence of a mesocosm in an eastern boundary upwelling system assessed with multi-marker environmental DNA metabarcoding. Biogeosciences. 20(7). 1277–1298. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Wenshan, Shijie Zhao, David M. Needham, et al.. (2022). High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome. Science. 376(6597). eabm1483–eabm1483. 170 indexed citations breakdown →
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Needham, David M., Camille Poirier, Charles Bachy, et al.. (2022). The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nature Microbiology. 7(9). 1466–1479. 14 indexed citations
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Bachy, Charles, David M. Needham, María Consuelo Gazitúa, et al.. (2021). Viruses infecting a warm water picoeukaryote shed light on spatial co-occurrence dynamics of marine viruses and their hosts. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3129–3147. 15 indexed citations
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Yeh, Yi‐Chun, Jesse McNichol, David M. Needham, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive single‐PCR 16S and 18S rRNA community analysis validated with mock communities, and estimation of sequencing bias against 18S. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 3240–3250. 53 indexed citations
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Choi, Chang Jae, Valeria Jiménez, David M. Needham, et al.. (2020). Seasonal and Geographical Transitions in Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Community Structure in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 542372–542372. 29 indexed citations
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Zimmerman, Amy, Cristina Howard‐Varona, David M. Needham, et al.. (2019). Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(1). 21–34. 277 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sieradzki, Ella T., J. Cesar Ignacio‐Espinoza, David M. Needham, Erin B. Fichot, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2019). Dynamic marine viral infections and major contribution to photosynthetic processes shown by spatiotemporal picoplankton metatranscriptomes. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1169–1169. 57 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Consarnau, Laura, David M. Needham, Peter Weber, Jed A. Fuhrman, & Xavier Mayali. (2019). Influence of Light on Particulate Organic Matter Utilization by Attached and Free-Living Marine Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1204–1204. 33 indexed citations
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Needham, David M., Camille Poirier, Elisabeth Hehenberger, et al.. (2019). Targeted metagenomic recovery of four divergent viruses reveals shared and distinctive characteristics of giant viruses of marine eukaryotes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1786). 20190086–20190086. 17 indexed citations
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Needham, David M., Erin B. Fichot, Lyria Berdjeb, et al.. (2018). Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high-frequency sampling. The ISME Journal. 12(10). 2417–2432. 58 indexed citations
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Hernando‐Morales, Víctor, Marta M. Varela, David M. Needham, et al.. (2018). Vertical and Seasonal Patterns Control Bacterioplankton Communities at Two Horizontally Coherent Coastal Upwelling Sites off Galicia (NW Spain). Microbial Ecology. 76(4). 866–884. 16 indexed citations
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Berdjeb, Lyria, Alma E. Parada, David M. Needham, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2018). Short-term dynamics and interactions of marine protist communities during the spring–summer transition. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 1907–1917. 77 indexed citations
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Needham, David M. & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2016). Pronounced daily succession of phytoplankton, archaea and bacteria following a spring bloom. Nature Microbiology. 1(4). 16005–16005. 286 indexed citations
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Fuhrman, Jed A., Jacob A. Cram, & David M. Needham. (2015). Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 13(3). 133–146. 599 indexed citations breakdown →
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Parada, Alma E., David M. Needham, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2015). Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples. Environmental Microbiology. 18(5). 1403–1414. 2688 indexed citations breakdown →
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Needham, David M., Cheryl‐Emiliane T. Chow, Jacob A. Cram, et al.. (2013). Short-term observations of marine bacterial and viral communities: patterns, connections and resilience. The ISME Journal. 7(7). 1274–1285. 110 indexed citations

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