Gordon Webster

7.3k total citations
143 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Gordon Webster is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon Webster has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 39 papers in Plant Science and 37 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gordon Webster's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (29 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). Gordon Webster is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (29 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). Gordon Webster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Gordon Webster's co-authors include Andrew J. Weightman, John C. Fry, Barry A. Cragg, R. John Parkes, James I. Prosser, R. John Parkes, Henrik Sass, T. Martin Embley, Erwan G. Roussel and Bo Barker Jørgensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Gordon Webster

135 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gordon Webster United Kingdom 42 2.4k 2.1k 1.3k 819 726 143 5.3k
David B. Ringelberg United States 37 2.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 562 0.7× 1.1k 1.5× 87 5.5k
Levente Bodrossy Australia 43 2.7k 1.1× 1.6k 0.8× 2.4k 1.8× 836 1.0× 897 1.2× 117 5.5k
William P. Inskeep United States 51 2.2k 0.9× 3.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.5× 1.5k 1.8× 1.8k 2.5× 135 8.1k
Kirsten Küsel Germany 51 3.6k 1.5× 2.6k 1.2× 2.0k 1.5× 709 0.9× 1.3k 1.8× 188 8.2k
Manabu Fukui Japan 35 2.3k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 361 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 172 4.2k
Thomas L. Kieft United States 35 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 996 0.8× 389 0.5× 317 0.4× 89 4.5k
Wilfred F. M. Röling Netherlands 42 2.1k 0.9× 920 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 805 1.0× 2.3k 3.2× 100 5.8k
Jan C. Gottschal Netherlands 37 1.6k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 1.2× 409 0.5× 1.1k 1.6× 106 5.1k
Tillmann Lueders Germany 49 4.0k 1.7× 2.1k 1.0× 2.1k 1.6× 636 0.8× 2.4k 3.3× 97 7.6k
Michael J. Klug United States 42 4.4k 1.8× 2.5k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.0k 1.4× 88 9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Gordon Webster

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gordon Webster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gordon Webster

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Silvester, Reshma, William Bernard Perry, Gordon Webster, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic profiling of hospital wastewater: A comprehensive national scale analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes and opportunistic pathogens. Journal of Infection. 90(6). 106503–106503. 3 indexed citations
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Silvester, Reshma, William Bernard Perry, Gordon Webster, et al.. (2025). Metagenomics unveils the role of hospitals and wastewater treatment plants on the environmental burden of antibiotic resistance genes and opportunistic pathogens. The Science of The Total Environment. 961. 178403–178403. 9 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, et al.. (2024). Wastewater sample storage for physicochemical and microbiological analysis. Journal of Virological Methods. 332. 115063–115063. 3 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, William Bernard Perry, Amy Baldwin, et al.. (2024). National-scale antimicrobial resistance surveillance in wastewater: A comparative analysis of HT qPCR and metagenomic approaches. Water Research. 262. 121989–121989. 21 indexed citations
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Roberts, Mark A., Pallavee Srivastava, Gordon Webster, Andrew J. Weightman, & Devin Sapsford. (2022). Biostimulation of jarosite and iron oxide-bearing mine waste enhances subsequent metal recovery. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 445. 130498–130498. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, C. Hal, Gordon Webster, Alex J. Mullins, et al.. (2021). Kill and cure: genomic phylogeny and bioactivity of Burkholderia gladioli bacteria capable of pathogenic and beneficial lifestyles. Microbial Genomics. 7(1). 32 indexed citations
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Mullins, Alex J., Gordon Webster, Hak Joong Kim, et al.. (2021). Discovery of the Pseudomonas Polyyne Protegencin by a Phylogeny-Guided Study of Polyyne Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Diversity. mBio. 12(4). e0071521–e0071521. 21 indexed citations
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Buongiorno, Joy, Stephanie Turner, Gordon Webster, et al.. (2017). Inter-laboratory quantification of Bacteria and Archaea in deeply buried sediments of the Baltic Sea (IODP Expedition 347). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(3). fix007–fix007. 16 indexed citations
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Roussel, Erwan G., Barry A. Cragg, Gordon Webster, et al.. (2015). Complex coupled metabolic and prokaryotic community responses to increasing temperatures in anaerobic marine sediments: critical temperatures and substrate changes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(8). fiv084–fiv084. 34 indexed citations
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Hu, Xiaojia, Gordon Webster, Lihua Xie, et al.. (2014). A new method for the preservation of axenic fungal cultures. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 99. 81–83. 8 indexed citations
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Gorra, Roberta, Gordon Webster, María Martín, et al.. (2012). Dynamic Microbial Community Associated with Iron–Arsenic Co-Precipitation Products from a Groundwater Storage System in Bangladesh. Microbial Ecology. 64(1). 171–186. 37 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, Clara F., Gordon Webster, Marina R. Cunha, Sébastien Duperron, & Andrew J. Weightman. (2010). Chemosynthetic bacteria found in bivalve species from mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 73(3). no–no. 25 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, Joachim Rinna, Erwan G. Roussel, et al.. (2010). Prokaryotic functional diversity in different biogeochemical depth zones in tidal sediments of  the Severn Estuary, UK, revealed by stable-isotope probing. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 72(2). 179–197. 74 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, Anna Blazejak, Barry A. Cragg, et al.. (2008). Subsurface microbiology and biogeochemistry of a deep, cold‐water carbonate mound from the Porcupine Seabight (IODP Expedition 307). Environmental Microbiology. 11(1). 239–257. 47 indexed citations
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Parkes, R. John, Barry A. Cragg, Natasha Banning, et al.. (2007). Biogeochemistry and biodiversity of methane cycling in subsurface marine sediments (Skagerrak, Denmark). Environmental Microbiology. 9(5). 1146–1161. 126 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, et al.. (2005). Links between ammonia oxidizer species composition, functional diversity and nitrification kinetics in grassland soils. Environmental Microbiology. 7(5). 676–684. 143 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, et al.. (2003). Assessment of bacterial community structure in the deep sub-seafloor biosphere by 16S rDNA-based techniques: a cautionary tale. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 55(1). 155–164. 202 indexed citations
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Webster, Gordon, Vaibhav Jain, M. R. Davey, et al.. (1998). The flavonoid naringenin stimulates the intercellular colonization of wheat roots by Azorhizobium caulinodans. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 4 indexed citations

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