Hilary G. Morrison

22.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
132 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Hilary G. Morrison is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Hilary G. Morrison has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Hilary G. Morrison's work include Gut microbiota and health (40 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (39 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers). Hilary G. Morrison is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (40 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (39 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers). Hilary G. Morrison collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Hilary G. Morrison's co-authors include Mitchell L. Sogin, Susan M. Huse, David B. Mark Welch, Julie A. Huber, A. Murat Eren, Joseph H. Vineis, Jesús M. Arrieta, Gerhard J. Herndl, Tom O. Delmont and Özcan C. Esen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hilary G. Morrison

131 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

Microbial diversity in th... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2015 2010 2007 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”
    2006 2.7k citations Mitchell L. Sogin, Hilary G. Morrison et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Anvi’o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data
    2015 1.2k citations A. Murat Eren, Özcan C. Esen et al. PeerJ profile →
  3. Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering
    2010 1.1k citations Susan M. Huse, Hilary G. Morrison et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →
  4. Accuracy and quality of massively parallel DNA pyrosequencing
    2007 989 citations Susan M. Huse, Hilary G. Morrison et al. profile →
  5. Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere
    2007 698 citations Hilary G. Morrison, Susan M. Huse et al. Science profile →
  6. Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data
    2013 480 citations A. Murat Eren, Loïs Maignien et al. profile →
  7. Minimum entropy decomposition: Unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences
    2014 406 citations A. Murat Eren, Hilary G. Morrison 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
Hilary G. Morrison United States 53 8.6k 6.2k 1.4k 1.3k 1.3k 132 15.3k
Laura Wegener Parfrey Canada 39 8.4k 1.0× 5.2k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 783 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 80 15.8k
Matthias Horn Austria 57 7.7k 0.9× 4.9k 0.8× 941 0.7× 800 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 157 16.7k
Jason W. Sahl United States 32 8.5k 1.0× 7.5k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 2.3k 1.8× 122 20.1k
Ian T. Paulsen Australia 82 11.5k 1.3× 4.6k 0.7× 2.0k 1.5× 769 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 312 22.7k
Donna Berg-Lyons United States 14 8.9k 1.0× 6.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 2.2k 1.7× 14 19.7k
Andrew Han United States 13 10.4k 1.2× 6.9k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 1.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.5× 18 22.7k
Todd Z. DeSantis United States 29 11.5k 1.3× 6.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.4× 1.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.5× 52 21.6k
Tomáš Flouri United Kingdom 21 7.5k 0.9× 5.5k 0.9× 905 0.7× 708 0.5× 873 0.7× 64 16.5k
Courtney J. Robinson United States 8 7.9k 0.9× 7.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 2.2k 1.7× 9 18.0k
N. Larsen Denmark 14 6.7k 0.8× 4.2k 0.7× 835 0.6× 953 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 22 12.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vineis, Joseph H., William S. Reznikoff, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos, et al.. (2024). A novel conjugative transposon carrying an autonomously amplified plasmid. mBio. 15(2). e0278723–e0278723. 1 indexed citations
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Brock, Marcus T., Hilary G. Morrison, Loïs Maignien, & Cynthia Weinig. (2024). Impacts of sample handling and storage conditions on archiving physiologically active soil microbial communities. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 371. 3 indexed citations
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Ruff, S. Emil, Isabella Hrabě de Angelis, Jérôme Payet, et al.. (2023). A global atlas of subsurface microbiomes reveals phylogenetic novelty, large scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide. 6. 2 indexed citations
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Gui, Jiang, Anne G. Hoen, Hilary G. Morrison, et al.. (2022). The relationship between the gut microbiome and the risk of respiratory infections among newborns. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 87–87. 13 indexed citations
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Trigodet, Florian, Karen Lolans, Emily C. Fogarty, et al.. (2022). High molecular weight DNA extraction strategies for long‐read sequencing of complex metagenomes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(5). 1786–1802. 32 indexed citations
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Morrison, Hilary G., Aschwin H. Engelen, Ester Á. Serrão, et al.. (2021). The microbiome of the habitat‐forming brown alga Fucus vesiculosus (Phaeophyceae) has similar cross‐Atlantic structure that reflects past and present drivers1. Journal of Phycology. 57(6). 1681–1698. 23 indexed citations
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Weaver, Amy, Marcus T. Brock, Gordon Custer, et al.. (2021). Time outweighs the effect of host developmental stage on microbial community composition. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(9). 15 indexed citations
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Morrison, Hilary G., et al.. (2020). Bacterial Communities Show Algal Host (Fucus spp.)/Zone Differentiation Across the Stress Gradient of the Intertidal Zone. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 563118–563118. 20 indexed citations
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Morrison, Hilary G., et al.. (2018). A common garden experiment with Porphyra umbilicalis (Rhodophyta) evaluates methods to study spatial differences in the macroalgal microbiome. Journal of Phycology. 54(5). 653–664. 13 indexed citations
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Frère, Laura, Loïs Maignien, Morgane Chalopin, et al.. (2018). Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size. Environmental Pollution. 242(Pt A). 614–625. 335 indexed citations
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Eren, A. Murat, Özcan C. Esen, Christopher Quince, et al.. (2015). Anvi’o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data. PeerJ. 3. e1319–e1319. 1168 indexed citations breakdown →
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Newton, Ryan J., et al.. (2013). Shifts in the Microbial Community Composition of Gulf Coast Beaches Following Beach Oiling. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74265–e74265. 68 indexed citations
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Newton, Ryan J., Melinda J. Bootsma, Hilary G. Morrison, Mitchell L. Sogin, & Sandra L. McLellan. (2013). A Microbial Signature Approach to Identify Fecal Pollution in the Waters Off an Urbanized Coast of Lake Michigan. Microbial Ecology. 65(4). 1011–1023. 183 indexed citations
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Goetz, Giles, S. M. Huse, Hilary G. Morrison, et al.. (2012). Acinetobacter , Aeromonas and Trichococcus populations dominate the microbial community within urban sewer infrastructure. Environmental Microbiology. 14(9). 2538–2552. 149 indexed citations
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Keeling, Patrick J., Nicolas Corradi, Hilary G. Morrison, et al.. (2010). The Reduced Genome of the Parasitic Microsporidian Enterocytozoon bieneusi Lacks Genes for Core Carbon Metabolism. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2. 304–309. 97 indexed citations
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Turanov, Anton A., Alexey V. Lobanov, Dmitri E. Fomenko, et al.. (2009). Genetic Code Supports Targeted Insertion of Two Amino Acids by One Codon. Science. 323(5911). 259–261. 96 indexed citations
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Nixon, Julie, Amy Wang, Hilary G. Morrison, et al.. (2002). A spliceosomal intron in Giardia lamblia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3701–3705. 125 indexed citations
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Arkhipova, Irina R. & Hilary G. Morrison. (2001). Three retrotransposon families in the genome of Giardia lamblia : Two telomeric, one dead. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(25). 14497–14502. 75 indexed citations
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McArthur, Andrew G., Hilary G. Morrison, Julie Nixon, et al.. (2000). TheGiardiagenome project database. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 189(2). 271–273. 144 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Frank, Hilary G. Morrison, Michael G. Murray, Paul D. Rennert, & Ronald C. Desrosiers. (1994). SIVmac Expressing Hybrid Envelope Proteins Containing HIV-1 V3 and/or C4 Sequences Is Not Competent for Replication. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 10(3). 309–313. 8 indexed citations

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