Jacob A. Cram

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Jacob A. Cram is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob A. Cram has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Oceanography and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jacob A. Cram's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (10 papers). Jacob A. Cram is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (10 papers). Jacob A. Cram collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Jacob A. Cram's co-authors include Jed A. Fuhrman, David M. Needham, Fengzhu Sun, Rohan Sachdeva, Alma E. Parada, Joshua A. Steele, Cheryl‐Emiliane T. Chow, Thomas Weber, Shirley Leung and Curtis Deutsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Jacob A. Cram

32 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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. Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation
    2015 599 citations Jed A. Fuhrman, Jacob A. Cram et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  2. Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision
    2016 542 citations Sophie Weiss, Will Van Treuren et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacob A. Cram United States 16 1.6k 1.1k 746 305 183 35 2.5k
Manuel Martínez‐García Spain 29 2.2k 1.4× 1.6k 1.4× 460 0.6× 425 1.4× 242 1.3× 67 2.9k
Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka Germany 23 1.0k 0.7× 715 0.6× 442 0.6× 347 1.1× 170 0.9× 44 1.8k
Steven J. Biller United States 24 1.9k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 664 0.9× 250 0.8× 323 1.8× 44 2.9k
Manuel Kleiner United States 29 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 440 0.6× 150 0.5× 285 1.6× 77 2.5k
Gary R. LeCleir United States 21 1.5k 1.0× 856 0.8× 848 1.1× 602 2.0× 189 1.0× 34 2.5k
Brandon K. Swan United States 24 2.2k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 656 0.9× 658 2.2× 178 1.0× 37 2.7k
Angélique Gobet France 21 1.5k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 433 0.6× 234 0.8× 311 1.7× 31 2.2k
Rohan Sachdeva United States 17 1.5k 1.0× 991 0.9× 459 0.6× 261 0.9× 178 1.0× 31 1.9k
Christina Bienhold Germany 18 1.6k 1.0× 814 0.7× 746 1.0× 627 2.1× 260 1.4× 35 2.5k
Karla B. Heidelberg United States 28 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 541 0.7× 273 0.9× 184 1.0× 43 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacob A. Cram

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob A. Cram

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fuchsman, Clara A., Megan Duffy, Jacob A. Cram, et al.. (2025). Contributions of Vertically Migrating Metazoans to Sinking and Suspended Particulate Matter Fuel N2 Production in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(3). 1 indexed citations
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Fuchsman, Clara A., et al.. (2025). Quantitative microbial taxonomy across particle size, depth, and oxygen concentration. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1552305–1552305.
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Fuchsman, Clara A., et al.. (2023). Associations between picocyanobacterial ecotypes and cyanophage host genes across ocean basins and depth. PeerJ. 11. e14924–e14924. 5 indexed citations
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Klepac‐Ceraj, Vanja, F. Parkes Weber, Arkadiy I. Garber, et al.. (2022). Deep photoautotrophic prokaryotes contribute substantially to carbon dynamics in oxygen‐deficient waters in a permanently redox‐stratified freshwater lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(1). 232–247. 4 indexed citations
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Cram, Jacob A., Clara A. Fuchsman, Megan Duffy, et al.. (2021). Slow Particle Remineralization, Rather Than Suppressed Disaggregation, Drives Efficient Flux Transfer Through the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(1). 15 indexed citations
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Leung, Shirley, Thomas Weber, Jacob A. Cram, & Curtis Deutsch. (2021). Variable particle size distributions reduce the sensitivity of global export flux to climate change. Biogeosciences. 18(1). 229–250. 12 indexed citations
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Ai, Dongmei, et al.. (2019). Explore mediated co-varying dynamics in microbial community using integrated local similarity and liquid association analysis. BMC Genomics. 20(S2). 185–185. 11 indexed citations
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Cram, Jacob A., Andrew Fioré-Gartland, Sujatha Srinivasan, et al.. (2019). Human gut microbiota is associated with HIV-reactive immunoglobulin at baseline and following HIV vaccination. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0225622–e0225622. 16 indexed citations
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Needham, David M., Erin B. Fichot, Lyria Berdjeb, et al.. (2018). Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high-frequency sampling. The ISME Journal. 12(10). 2417–2432. 58 indexed citations
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Hernando‐Morales, Víctor, Marta M. Varela, David M. Needham, et al.. (2018). Vertical and Seasonal Patterns Control Bacterioplankton Communities at Two Horizontally Coherent Coastal Upwelling Sites off Galicia (NW Spain). Microbial Ecology. 76(4). 866–884. 16 indexed citations
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Cram, Jacob A., et al.. (2017). Utilizing gnotobiotic models to inform the role of the microbiome in vaccine response heterogeneity. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 13(1). 1–8. 10 indexed citations
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Weiss, Sophie, Will Van Treuren, Catherine Lozupone, et al.. (2016). Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision. The ISME Journal. 10(7). 1669–1681. 542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fuhrman, Jed A., Jacob A. Cram, & David M. Needham. (2015). Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 13(3). 133–146. 599 indexed citations breakdown →
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Needham, David M., Cheryl‐Emiliane T. Chow, Jacob A. Cram, et al.. (2013). Short-term observations of marine bacterial and viral communities: patterns, connections and resilience. The ISME Journal. 7(7). 1274–1285. 110 indexed citations
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Steele, Joshua A., Jacob A. Cram, Zoë G. Cardon, et al.. (2011). Extended local similarity analysis (eLSA) of microbial community and other time series data with replicates. BMC Systems Biology. 5(S2). S15–S15. 194 indexed citations
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Cram, Jacob A., et al.. (2011). Accurate Genome Relative Abundance Estimation Based on Shotgun Metagenomic Reads. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e27992–e27992. 78 indexed citations

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