Jay McCarren

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jay McCarren is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jay McCarren has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jay McCarren's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (4 papers). Jay McCarren is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (4 papers). Jay McCarren collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and France. Jay McCarren's co-authors include Edward F. DeLong, Bianca Brahamsha, Yanmei Shi, Daniel J. Repeta, Rex R. Malmstrom, Curtis R. Young, Sallie W. Chisholm, Jamie W. Becker, Miriam Land and John Waterbury and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Jay McCarren

13 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The genome of a motile marine Synechococcus

2003 518 citations Brian Palenik, Bianca Brahamsha et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jay McCarren United States	11	811	715	414	179	132	13	1.2k
Ruben Valas United States	12	625 0.8×	760 1.1×	258 0.6×	194 1.1×	95 0.7×	13	1.3k
Shinya Yoshikawa Japan	20	358 0.4×	477 0.7×	276 0.7×	148 0.8×	85 0.6×	56	1.2k
Christian G. Klatt United States	15	755 0.9×	776 1.1×	100 0.2×	112 0.6×	135 1.0×	20	1.2k
Jesús Díez Spain	18	530 0.7×	650 0.9×	327 0.8×	279 1.6×	94 0.7×	53	1.1k
Marcus Tank United States	19	465 0.6×	622 0.9×	78 0.2×	113 0.6×	116 0.9×	36	941
Tina C. Summerfield New Zealand	19	360 0.4×	754 1.1×	152 0.4×	427 2.4×	116 0.9×	59	1.2k
Rakefet Schwarz Israel	24	486 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	277 0.7×	721 4.0×	252 1.9×	47	1.7k
Ana Valladares Spain	22	638 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	189 0.5×	554 3.1×	172 1.3×	37	1.4k
Kaori Ohki Japan	23	593 0.7×	668 0.9×	801 1.9×	445 2.5×	174 1.3×	62	1.5k
Isabelle Mary France	18	981 1.2×	648 0.9×	527 1.3×	115 0.6×	306 2.3×	26	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jay McCarren

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

Echenique‐Subiabre, Isidora, Sara L. Jackrel, Jay McCarren, et al.. (2025). Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(3). e0205524–e0205524. 2 indexed citations

Schwartz, Ariel, et al.. (2018). Complete Genome Sequence of the Model Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis gaditana CCMP1894. Genome Announcements. 6(7). 18 indexed citations

Wang, Yingjun, Fedor I. Kuzminov, W. Marcus Lambert, et al.. (2018). Unrestrained markerless trait stacking in Nannochloropsis gaditana through combined genome editing and marker recycling technologies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(30). E7015–E7022. 64 indexed citations

Shi, Yanmei, Jay McCarren, & Edward F. DeLong. (2011). Transcriptional responses of surface water marine microbial assemblages to deep‐sea water amendment. Environmental Microbiology. 14(1). 191–206. 63 indexed citations

McCarren, Jay, Jamie W. Becker, Daniel J. Repeta, et al.. (2010). Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(38). 16420–16427. 330 indexed citations

McCarren, Jay & Bianca Brahamsha. (2008). Swimming Motility Mutants of Marine Synechococcus Affected in Production and Localization of the S-Layer Protein SwmA. Journal of Bacteriology. 191(3). 1111–1114. 11 indexed citations

Zehr, Jonathan P., et al.. (2007). Low genomic diversity in tropical oceanic N ₂ -fixing cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(45). 17807–17812. 62 indexed citations

McCarren, Jay & Edward F. DeLong. (2007). Proteorhodopsin photosystem gene clusters exhibit co‐evolutionary trends and shared ancestry among diverse marine microbial phyla. Environmental Microbiology. 9(4). 846–858. 83 indexed citations

McCarren, Jay & Bianca Brahamsha. (2006). SwmB, a 1.12-Megadalton Protein That Is Required for Nonflagellar Swimming Motility in Synechococcus. Journal of Bacteriology. 189(3). 1158–1162. 27 indexed citations

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McCarren, Jay. (2005). Microscopic, genetic, and biochemical characterization of non-flagellar swimming motility in marine cyanobacteria. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations

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McCarren, Jay & Bianca Brahamsha. (2005). Transposon Mutagenesis in a Marine Synechococcus Strain: Isolation of Swimming Motility Mutants. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(13). 4457–4462. 23 indexed citations

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McCarren, Jay, John Heuser, Robyn Roth, et al.. (2004). Inactivation of swmA Results in the Loss of an Outer Cell Layer in a Swimming Synechococcus Strain. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(1). 224–230. 43 indexed citations

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Palenik, Brian, Bianca Brahamsha, Frank W. Larimer, et al.. (2003). The genome of a motile marine Synechococcus. Nature. 424(6952). 1037–1042. 518 indexed citations breakdown →

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