Forest Rohwer

44.7k total citations · 14 hit papers
216 papers, 25.8k citations indexed

About

Forest Rohwer is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Forest Rohwer has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 25.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Ecology, 80 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Forest Rohwer's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (82 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (64 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers). Forest Rohwer is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (82 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (64 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (57 papers). Forest Rohwer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Forest Rohwer's co-authors include Mya Breitbart, Robert A. Edwards, Nancy­ Knowlton­, Matthew Haynes, Farooq Azam, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Peter Salamon, Florent Angly, Linda Wegley and Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Forest Rohwer

212 papers receiving 25.2k citations

Hit Papers

Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2010 2006 2002 2008 250 500 750
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. Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria
    2002 941 citations Forest Rohwer, Nancy­ Knowlton­ et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series profile →
  2. Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers
    2010 855 citations Matthew Haynes, Nicole Hanson et al. profile →
  3. The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions
    2006 709 citations Florent Angly, Ben Felts et al. PLoS Biology profile →
  4. Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities
    2002 700 citations Mya Breitbart, Peter Salamon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands
    2008 671 citations Forest Rohwer, Nancy­ Knowlton­ et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  6. Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non–host-derived immunity
    2013 660 citations Mike Furlan, Peter Salamon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. RNA Viral Community in Human Feces: Prevalence of Plant Pathogenic Viruses
    2005 592 citations Mya Breitbart, Forest Rohwer et al. PLoS Biology profile →
  8. Here a virus, there a virus, everywhere the same virus?
    2005 590 citations Mya Breitbart, Forest Rohwer profile →
  9. Viral metagenomics
    2005 587 citations Robert A. Edwards, Forest Rohwer profile →
  10. Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces
    2003 549 citations Mya Breitbart, Ben Felts et al. profile →
  11. Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes
    2009 449 citations Matthew Haynes, Mya Breitbart et al. profile →
  12. Viruses manipulate the marine environment
    2009 438 citations Forest Rohwer et al. profile →
  13. Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery
    2012 419 citations John L. Mokili, Forest Rohwer et al. profile →
  14. Bacteriophage Transcytosis Provides a Mechanism To Cross Epithelial Cell Layers
    2017 264 citations Barbara Bailey, Antoni Luque et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Forest Rohwer United States 83 19.1k 10.0k 4.0k 3.6k 3.3k 216 25.8k
Robert A. Edwards United States 69 14.9k 0.8× 15.7k 1.6× 4.5k 1.1× 1.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.8× 219 30.0k
Donovan H. Parks Australia 43 19.8k 1.0× 23.5k 2.4× 5.4k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 66 44.2k
Stéphane Guindon France 21 10.0k 0.5× 16.3k 1.6× 8.8k 2.2× 2.4k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 39 39.8k
Mitchell L. Sogin United States 90 15.6k 0.8× 23.0k 2.3× 2.7k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 213 39.0k
Olivier Gascuel France 35 11.1k 0.6× 21.0k 2.1× 10.8k 2.7× 2.5k 0.7× 4.0k 1.2× 136 46.4k
Christopher Quince United Kingdom 54 14.0k 0.7× 17.1k 1.7× 4.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.4× 2.2k 0.7× 111 34.5k
Aaron E. Darling Australia 39 9.6k 0.5× 15.2k 1.5× 8.0k 2.0× 2.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 101 34.1k
Bùi Quang Minh Austria 32 12.9k 0.7× 22.1k 2.2× 11.7k 2.9× 2.9k 0.8× 4.7k 1.4× 78 52.1k
Curtis A. Suttle Canada 67 15.1k 0.8× 4.7k 0.5× 4.5k 1.1× 2.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 194 17.5k
Arndt von Haeseler Austria 58 13.8k 0.7× 28.4k 2.8× 13.2k 3.3× 3.1k 0.9× 5.2k 1.6× 192 61.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Forest Rohwer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Forest Rohwer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Forest Rohwer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Forest Rohwer 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 Forest Rohwer. Forest Rohwer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barno, Adam R., Kevin Green, Forest Rohwer, & Cynthia B. Silveira. (2024). Snow viruses and their implications on red snow algal blooms. mSystems. 9(5). e0008324–e0008324. 1 indexed citations
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Salamon, Peter, Bjarne Andresen, James Nulton, Ty N. F. Roach, & Forest Rohwer. (2023). More Stages Decrease Dissipation in Irreversible Step Processes. Entropy. 25(3). 539–539. 1 indexed citations
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Silveira, Cynthia B., Antoni Luque, Andreas F. Haas, et al.. (2023). Viral predation pressure on coral reefs. BMC Biology. 21(1). 77–77. 7 indexed citations
4.
Silveira, Cynthia B., Ana G. Cobián-Güemes, Carla Uranga, et al.. (2021). Multi-Omics Study of Keystone Species in a Cystic Fibrosis Microbiome. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 12050–12050. 17 indexed citations
5.
George, Emma E., Barbara Bailey, Clinton B. Edwards, et al.. (2021). Space-filling and benthic competition on coral reefs. PeerJ. 9. e11213–e11213. 10 indexed citations
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Rojas, María Isabel, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, Katelyn McNair, et al.. (2020). A Distinct Contractile Injection System Gene Cluster Found in a Majority of Healthy Adult Human Microbiomes. mSystems. 5(4). 9 indexed citations
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Fridman, Svetlana, José Flores‐Uribe, Shirley Larom, et al.. (2017). A myovirus encoding both photosystem I and II proteins enhances cyclic electron flow in infected Prochlorococcus cells. Nature Microbiology. 2(10). 1350–1357. 63 indexed citations
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Roach, Ty N. F., James Nulton, Paolo Sibani, Forest Rohwer, & Peter Salamon. (2017). Entropy in the Tangled Nature Model of Evolution. Entropy. 19(5). 192–192. 15 indexed citations
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Lim, Yan Wei, Matthew Haynes, Mike Furlan, et al.. (2014). Purifying the Impure: Sequencing Metagenomes and Metatranscriptomes from Complex Animal-associated Samples. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 21 indexed citations
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Mokili, John L., Bas E. Dutilh, Yan Wei Lim, et al.. (2013). Identification of a Novel Human Papillomavirus by Metagenomic Analysis of Samples from Patients with Febrile Respiratory Illness. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58404–e58404. 53 indexed citations
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Frank, Jeremy A., Don Lorimer, Merry Youle, et al.. (2013). Structure and function of a cyanophage-encoded peptide deformylase. The ISME Journal. 7(6). 1150–1160. 25 indexed citations
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Conrad, Douglas, Matthew Haynes, Peter Salamon, et al.. (2013). Cystic Fibrosis Therapy: A Community Ecology Perspective. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 48(2). 150–156. 78 indexed citations
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Willner, Dana, Matthew Haynes, Mike Furlan, et al.. (2011). Case Studies of the Spatial Heterogeneity of DNA Viruses in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 46(2). 127–131. 79 indexed citations
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Zawada, David G., Forest Rohwer, & Lawrence R. Frank. (2006). Scalability of Coral Rugosity From Microns to Centimeters. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Angly, Florent, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2006). The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions. PLoS Biology. 4(11). e368–e368. 709 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kline, David I., et al.. (2006). Role of elevated organic carbon levels and microbial activity in coral mortality. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 314. 119–125. 214 indexed citations
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Lindell, Debbie, Matthew B. Sullivan, Zackary I. Johnson, et al.. (2004). Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(30). 11013–11018. 397 indexed citations
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Sano, Emiko, et al.. (2004). Movement of Viruses between Biomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(10). 5842–5846. 120 indexed citations
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Wegley, Linda, Yanan Yu, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2004). Coral-associated Archaea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 273. 89–96. 114 indexed citations
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Paul, John H., Matthew B. Sullivan, Anca M. Segall, & Forest Rohwer. (2002). Marine phage genomics. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 133(4). 463–476. 75 indexed citations

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