David M. Ward

16.6k citations
144 papers · 11.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 63

Impact in

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 90
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 12
    • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 17

David M. Ward

140 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis profiles of 16S rRNA-defined populations inhabiting a hot spring microbial mat community 1996 · 742 citations
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Peers

David M. Ward
Comparison fields: 5 of 186
  • Ecology 6.4k
  • Environmental Chemistry 2.0k
  • Pollution 1.6k
  • Oceanography 1.3k
  • Molecular Biology 5.1k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 20251
2 20230
3 202313
4 20233
5 20229
6 201538
7 201346
8 201170
9 2008226
10 2007156
11 2007273
12 200770
13 2006159
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Microbial diversity in hot spring cyanobacterial mats: pattern and prediction
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15 200499
16 200169
17 199614
18 199094
19 19909
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16S rRNA sequences reveal numerous uncultured microorganisms in a natural community
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About David M. Ward

David M. Ward is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Molecular Biology and Pollution, having authored 144 papers that have together received 11.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (90 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (50 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (33 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (17 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (16 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (12 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (9 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (6.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.0k citations), Pollution (1.6k citations), Oceanography (1.3k citations) and Molecular Biology (5.1k citations). David M. Ward has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Mary M. Bateson, Michael J. Ferris, Roland Weller, Gerard Muyzer, Niels Peter Revsbech, R. Thane Papke, Donald A. Bryant, William P. Inskeep, Michael Kühl and Niels B. Ramsing. Their work appears in journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Frontiers in Microbiology, The ISME Journal, Environmental Microbiology and Systematic and Applied Microbiology.

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