Joanne Emerson

9.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
56 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Joanne Emerson is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joanne Emerson has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Joanne Emerson's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers). Joanne Emerson is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers). Joanne Emerson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Joanne Emerson's co-authors include William Nelson, Jillian F. Banfield, Simon Roux, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Karla B. Heidelberg, Nicholas Clements, Noah Fierer, Brian C. Thomas, Matthew B. Sullivan and Christine Wiedinmyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Joanne Emerson

55 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Gene-centric metagenomics of the fiber-adherent bovine rumen microbiome reveals forage specific glycoside hydrolases

2009 548 citations Joanne Emerson, William Nelson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Bacterial diversity in the oral cavity of 10 healthy individuals

2010 492 citations Elisabeth M. Bik, Gary C. Armitage et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

2017 335 citations Joanne Emerson, Rachel I. Adams et al. Microbiome profile →
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

2018 293 citations Ben J. Woodcroft, Caitlin M. Singleton et al. profile →
Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing

2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joanne Emerson

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology 2025 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Christina Hazard, Karthik Anantharaman, Luke S. Hillary, Uri Neri, Simon Roux, Gareth Trubl, (unknown), Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Graeme W. Nicol, Joanne Emerson	3
2	Exploring viral particle, soil, and extraction buffer physicochemical characteristics and their impacts on extractable viral communities 2024 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Jane Fudyma, Anneliek M. ter Horst, Christian Santos‐Medellín, Jackson W. Sorensen, Grant Gogul, Luke S. Hillary, (unknown), Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Joanne Emerson	3
3	Viruses of Nitrogen-Fixing Mesorhizobium Bacteria in Globally Distributed Chickpea Root Nodules 2023 ·Phytobiomes Journal ·(unknown), Ella T. Sieradzki, Alex Greenlon, (unknown), Anneliek M. ter Horst, (unknown), Douglas R. Cook, Joanne Emerson	1
4	Dispersal, habitat filtering, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of local and global wetland viral biogeography 2023 ·The ISME Journal ·Anneliek M. ter Horst, Jane Fudyma, (unknown), Joanne Emerson	18
5	Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022 2023 ·Virus Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tingting Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Tarquin Netherway, Ruiqi Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Joanne Emerson, Luke S. Hillary, Ram B. Khadka, Kyle Mason‐Jones, Rumakanta Sapkota, Suvi Sutela, Gareth Trubl, Richard White, Anne Winding, Cátia Carreira	1
6	Experimental evidence for the impact of soil viruses on carbon cycling during surface plant litter decomposition 2022 ·ISME Communications ·Michaeline Albright, La Verne Gallegos‐Graves, Kelli L. Feeser, (unknown), Joanne Emerson, Migun Shakya, John Dunbar	53
7	Substantial differences in soil viral community composition within and among four Northern California habitats 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Ella T. Sieradzki, Anneliek M. ter Horst, Christian Santos‐Medellín, (unknown), (unknown), Joanne Emerson	26
8	Spatial turnover of soil viral populations and genotypes overlain by cohesive responses to moisture in grasslands 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christian Santos‐Medellín, Katerina Estera‐Molina, Mengting Yuan, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone, Joanne Emerson	44
9	RNA Viral Communities Are Structured by Host Plant Phylogeny in Oak and Conifer Leaves 2022 ·Phytobiomes Journal ·Anneliek M. ter Horst, Jane Fudyma, Aurélie Bak, (unknown), Christian Santos‐Medellín, Kristian Stevens, David M. Rizzo, Maher Al Rwahnih, Joanne Emerson	6
10	Predators of Soil Bacteria in Plant and Human Health 2022 ·Phytobiomes Journal ·Samuel J. Martins, Stephen J. Taerum, Lindsay R. Triplett, Joanne Emerson, Inga A. Zasada, (unknown), Jasna Kovač, Kendall Martin, Carolee T. Bull	22
11	Soil pH influences the structure of virus communities at local and global scales 2022 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), Jackson W. Sorensen, Robin L. Walker, Joanne Emerson, Graeme W. Nicol, Christina Hazard	28
12	Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities 2021 ·The ISME Journal ·Christian Santos‐Medellín, Laura Zinke, Anneliek M. ter Horst, Danielle L. Gelardi, Sanjai J. Parikh, Joanne Emerson	113
13	Diverse sediment microbiota shape methane emission temperature sensitivity in Arctic lakes 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Joanne Emerson, R. K. Varner, M. Wik, Donovan H. Parks, Rebecca B. Neumann, Joel E. Johnson, Caitlin M. Singleton, Ben J. Woodcroft, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Patrick Crill, S. R. Saleska, Gene W. Tyson, Virginia I. Rich	29
14	Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing breakdown → 2018 ·mSystems ·Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, Joanne Emerson, Natalie Solonenko, Dean Vik, Lindsey Solden, Jared Ellenbogen, (unknown), Benjamin Bolduc, Ben J. Woodcroft, S. R. Saleska, Gene W. Tyson, Kelly Wrighton, Matthew B. Sullivan, Virginia I. Rich	251
15	Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems breakdown → 2017 ·Microbiome ·Joanne Emerson, Rachel I. Adams, (unknown), Brandon Brooks, David A. Coil, Katherine Dahlhausen, Holly H. Ganz, Erica M. Hartmann, Tiffany Hsu, Nicholas B. Justice, Ivan G. Paulino‐Lima, Julia C. Luongo, Despoina S. Lymperopoulou, Cinta Gómez-Silván, Brooke Rothschild-Mancinelli, Melike Balk, Curtis Huttenhower, Andreas Nocker, Parag Vaishampayan, Lynn J. Rothschild	335
16	Metagenomic and lipid analyses reveal a diel cycle in a hypersaline microbial ecosystem 2015 ·The ISME Journal ·Karen Andrade, (unknown), Karla B. Heidelberg, Joanne Emerson, Luis R. Comolli, Laura Hug, Alexander J. Probst, (unknown), Brian C. Thomas, Christopher S. Miller, Eric E. Allen, John W. Moreau, Jochen J. Brocks, Jillian F. Banfield	27
17	Characterization of eukaryotic microbial diversity in hypersaline Lake Tyrrell, Australia 2013 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Karla B. Heidelberg, William Nelson, Johanna B. Holm, (unknown), Karen Andrade, Joanne Emerson	52
18	Bacterial diversity in the oral cavity of 10 healthy individuals breakdown → 2010 ·The ISME Journal ·Elisabeth M. Bik, (unknown), Gary C. Armitage, Peter M. Loomer, Joanne Emerson, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, William Nelson, Steven R. Gill, Claire M. Fraser, David A. Relman	492
19	Chromosome Evolution in the Thermotogales : Large-Scale Inversions and Strain Diversification of CRISPR Sequences 2006 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Robert T. DeBoy, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Joanne Emerson, William Nelson	50
20	Microbial metagenomics. 2005 ·Genome Biology ·Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Joanne Emerson, William Nelson	6

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