Heather Fullerton

858 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 645 citations indexed

About

Heather Fullerton is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Fullerton has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 645 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Pollution and 5 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Heather Fullerton's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Heather Fullerton is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Heather Fullerton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Heather Fullerton's co-authors include C.L. Moyer, Stephen H. Zinder, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Lorenz Adrian, Frank E. Löffler, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Jochen A. Müller, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Jun Yan and Alfred M. Spormann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Heather Fullerton

17 papers receiving 638 citations

Hit Papers

Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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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. Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi
    2012 444 citations Frank E. Löffler, Jun Yan et al. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heather Fullerton United States 10 322 316 166 152 136 19 645
Brett R. Baldwin United States 14 515 1.6× 269 0.9× 124 0.7× 226 1.5× 134 1.0× 20 736
Dora Ogles United States 12 303 0.9× 141 0.4× 57 0.3× 138 0.9× 125 0.9× 20 444
G. Todd Townsend United States 12 389 1.2× 102 0.3× 89 0.5× 128 0.8× 96 0.7× 12 568
Geert Cremers Netherlands 14 212 0.7× 310 1.0× 231 1.4× 58 0.4× 105 0.8× 27 692
Yiran Dong China 15 123 0.4× 117 0.4× 120 0.7× 94 0.6× 187 1.4× 39 655
Ramsunder Iyer United States 9 142 0.4× 150 0.5× 88 0.5× 86 0.6× 72 0.5× 11 389
Jessica R. Hanson United States 5 324 1.0× 159 0.5× 166 1.0× 104 0.7× 62 0.5× 6 526
Jasperien de Weert Netherlands 10 271 0.8× 96 0.3× 45 0.3× 181 1.2× 61 0.4× 12 422
Sinéad M. Ní Chadhain United States 11 359 1.1× 300 0.9× 224 1.3× 287 1.9× 39 0.3× 16 827
Nidal Abu Laban Germany 9 270 0.8× 147 0.5× 129 0.8× 79 0.5× 85 0.6× 11 459

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Fullerton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Fullerton

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2024). The presence of ampicillin-resistant coliforms in urban floodwaters of a coastal city in the southeastern United States. Frontiers in Water. 6. 1 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2024). Seafloor incubation experiments at deep-sea hydrothermal vents reveal distinct biogeographic signatures of autotrophic communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(2). 4 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2024). Microbial metabolic potential of hydrothermal vent chimneys along the submarine ring of fire. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1399422–1399422. 1 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2022). Resistance on the rise: Assessment of antibiotic-resistant indicator organisms in Shem Creek, Charleston, South Carolina. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100063–100063. 1 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2022). Unexpected diversity found within benthic microbial mats at hydrothermal springs in Crater Lake, Oregon. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 876044–876044. 3 indexed citations
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Spalding, Heather L., et al.. (2021). Microbiota-Macroalgal Relationships at a Hawaiian Intertidal Bench Are Influenced by Macroalgal Phyla and Associated Thallus Complexity. mSphere. 6(5). e0066521–e0066521. 10 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2017). Hidden diversity revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics of iron-oxidizing microbial mats from Lō’ihi Seamount, Hawai’i. The ISME Journal. 11(8). 1900–1914. 27 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2017). Community Structure of Lithotrophically-Driven Hydrothermal Microbial Mats from the Mariana Arc and Back-Arc. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1578–1578. 18 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather & C.L. Moyer. (2016). Comparative Single-Cell Genomics of Chloroflexi from the Okinawa Trough Deep-Subsurface Biosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82(10). 3000–3008. 51 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2015). Biogeography and evolution of Thermococcus isolates from hydrothermal vent systems of the Pacific. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 968–968. 16 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Mariprofundus ferrooxydans Strain JV-1, Isolated from Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. Genome Announcements. 3(5). 4 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2015). Quantitative PCR Analysis of Functional Genes in Iron-Rich Microbial Mats at an Active Hydrothermal Vent System (Lō'ihi Seamount, Hawai'i). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81(9). 2976–2984. 21 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2014). Isolation of an aerobic vinyl chloride oxidizer from anaerobic groundwater. Biodegradation. 25(6). 893–901. 19 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2013). qPCR analysis of carbon, nitrogen, and arsenic cycling in Zetaproteobacteria-dominated microbial mats. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Heather, et al.. (2013). Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethene Coupled to Sulfate Reduction in Microcosms and Enrichment Cultures. Environmental Science & Technology. 47(21). 12374–12381. 12 indexed citations
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Löffler, Frank E., Jun Yan, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, et al.. (2012). Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 63(Pt_2). 625–635. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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