Doug Rusch

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Doug Rusch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Doug Rusch has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Doug Rusch's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Doug Rusch is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers). Doug Rusch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Singapore. Doug Rusch's co-authors include Staffan Kjelleberg, Torsten Thomas, Peter D. Steinberg, Catherine Burke, Todd Blevins, Haixu Tang, Craig S. Pikaard, Ram Podicheti, Michelle Marasco and Vibhor Mishra and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Cell and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Doug Rusch

11 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species

2011 597 citations Catherine Burke, Peter D. Steinberg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Doug Rusch United States	9	760	667	352	265	246	11	1.5k
Salim Bougouffa Saudi Arabia	24	745 1.0×	892 1.3×	241 0.7×	287 1.1×	118 0.5×	46	1.7k
Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra Germany	19	1.1k 1.4×	987 1.5×	190 0.5×	347 1.3×	411 1.7×	34	1.9k
Kevin Penn United States	13	883 1.2×	920 1.4×	219 0.6×	170 0.6×	423 1.7×	16	1.7k
Patrick Schwientek United States	21	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.7×	200 0.6×	157 0.6×	172 0.7×	26	1.9k
Laura Steindler Israel	24	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	212 0.6×	378 1.4×	289 1.2×	49	2.2k
Matthias Wietz Germany	19	641 0.8×	718 1.1×	84 0.2×	354 1.3×	251 1.0×	43	1.4k
Sebastian Sudek United States	22	1.2k 1.6×	782 1.2×	187 0.5×	390 1.5×	653 2.7×	30	1.9k
Matthew Z. DeMaere Australia	22	1.3k 1.7×	1.6k 2.3×	205 0.6×	395 1.5×	118 0.5×	38	2.5k
Ka‐Lai Pang Taiwan	27	655 0.9×	718 1.1×	1.0k 2.9×	324 1.2×	403 1.6×	98	2.3k
Г. М. Фролова Russia	23	1.1k 1.4×	990 1.5×	121 0.3×	103 0.4×	104 0.4×	63	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Doug Rusch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Doug Rusch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Doug Rusch. 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 Doug Rusch. The network helps show where Doug Rusch may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doug Rusch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Doug Rusch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Doug Rusch based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Doug Rusch. Doug Rusch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Tang, Jessica, Ali Özeş, Aaron Buechlein, et al.. (2018). Epigenetic Targeting of Adipocytes Inhibits High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion. Molecular Cancer Research. 16(8). 1226–1240. 19 indexed citations

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Blevins, Todd, Ram Podicheti, Vibhor Mishra, et al.. (2015). Identification of Pol IV and RDR2-dependent precursors of 24 nt siRNAs guiding de novo DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. eLife. 4. e09591–e09591. 189 indexed citations

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Blevins, Todd, Frédéric Pontvianne, Ross Cocklin, et al.. (2014). A Two-Step Process for Epigenetic Inheritance in Arabidopsis. Molecular Cell. 54(1). 30–42. 80 indexed citations

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Garrity, George M, Jillian F. Banfield, Jonathan A. Eisen, et al.. (2013). Prokaryotic Super Program Advisory Committee DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, March 27, 2013. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 8(3). 561–570. 7 indexed citations

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Steinberg, Peter D., et al.. (2012). Community Structure and Functional Gene Profile of Bacteria on Healthy and Diseased Thalli of the Red Seaweed Delisea pulchra. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e50854–e50854. 67 indexed citations

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Allen, Lisa Zeigler, Eric E. Allen, Jonathan H. Badger, et al.. (2012). Influence of nutrients and currents on the genomic composition of microbes across an upwelling mosaic. The ISME Journal. 6(7). 1403–1414. 93 indexed citations

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Kozubal, Mark A., Margaret F. Romine, Ryan deM. Jennings, et al.. (2012). Geoarchaeota: a new candidate phylum in the Archaea from high-temperature acidic iron mats in Yellowstone National Park. The ISME Journal. 7(3). 622–634. 74 indexed citations

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Burke, Catherine, Peter D. Steinberg, Doug Rusch, Staffan Kjelleberg, & Torsten Thomas. (2011). Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(34). 14288–14293. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thomas, Torsten, Doug Rusch, Matthew Z. DeMaere, et al.. (2010). Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis. The ISME Journal. 4(12). 1557–1567. 207 indexed citations

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Ли, Бо, Daniel Sher, Libusha Kelly, et al.. (2010). Catalytic promiscuity in the biosynthesis of cyclic peptide secondary metabolites in planktonic marine cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(23). 10430–10435. 207 indexed citations

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Mele, Pauline M., Timothy Sawbridge, Helen L. Hayden, et al.. (2010). How does surface soil geomorphology and land-use influence the soil microbial ecosystems in south eastern Australia? Insights gained from DNA sequencing of the soil metagenome.. 12–15. 2 indexed citations

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