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

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.

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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joanne Emerson United States	30	2.3k	2.1k	913	481	410	56	4.9k
Erick Cardenas United States	18	2.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.4×	817 0.9×	407 0.8×	543 1.3×	28	6.4k
Louise Fraser United Kingdom	6	2.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.6×	942 1.0×	367 0.8×	543 1.3×	10	7.5k
Anna Klindworth Germany	7	2.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	675 0.7×	336 0.7×	564 1.4×	9	6.6k
Moriya Ohkuma Japan	55	2.2k 1.0×	4.4k 2.0×	1.6k 1.8×	349 0.7×	517 1.3×	458	11.2k
Jason Betley United Kingdom	12	2.5k 1.1×	3.6k 1.7×	982 1.1×	387 0.8×	547 1.3×	16	7.9k
Mark Rojas United States	11	2.8k 1.2×	4.6k 2.2×	870 1.0×	448 0.9×	604 1.5×	15	8.9k
Markus Bauer Austria	6	2.2k 1.0×	3.2k 1.5×	924 1.0×	364 0.8×	534 1.3×	9	6.9k
Rebecca L. Vega Thurber United States	16	2.8k 1.2×	4.2k 2.0×	781 0.9×	312 0.6×	348 0.8×	21	8.4k
Ruth A. Schmitz Germany	47	2.4k 1.0×	3.9k 1.8×	548 0.6×	223 0.5×	615 1.5×	180	7.4k
Daniel Dalevi United States	15	3.0k 1.3×	5.1k 2.4×	969 1.1×	405 0.8×	636 1.6×	27	9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Joanne Emerson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joanne Emerson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joanne Emerson

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All Works

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Hazard, Christina, Karthik Anantharaman, Luke S. Hillary, et al.. (2025). Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 205. 109780–109780. 3 indexed citations

Fudyma, Jane, Anneliek M. ter Horst, Christian Santos‐Medellín, et al.. (2024). Exploring viral particle, soil, and extraction buffer physicochemical characteristics and their impacts on extractable viral communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 194. 109419–109419. 3 indexed citations

Sieradzki, Ella T., et al.. (2023). Viruses of Nitrogen-Fixing Mesorhizobium Bacteria in Globally Distributed Chickpea Root Nodules. Phytobiomes Journal. 8(2). 216–222. 1 indexed citations

Horst, Anneliek M. ter, et al.. (2023). Dispersal, habitat filtering, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of local and global wetland viral biogeography. The ISME Journal. 17(11). 2079–2089. 18 indexed citations

Chen, Tingting, Tarquin Netherway, Ruiqi Wang, et al.. (2023). Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022. Virus Research. 331. 199121–199121. 1 indexed citations

Albright, Michaeline, La Verne Gallegos‐Graves, Kelli L. Feeser, et al.. (2022). Experimental evidence for the impact of soil viruses on carbon cycling during surface plant litter decomposition. ISME Communications. 2(1). 24–24. 53 indexed citations

Sieradzki, Ella T., et al.. (2022). Substantial differences in soil viral community composition within and among four Northern California habitats. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 100–100. 26 indexed citations

Santos‐Medellín, Christian, Katerina Estera‐Molina, Mengting Yuan, et al.. (2022). Spatial turnover of soil viral populations and genotypes overlain by cohesive responses to moisture in grasslands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(45). e2209132119–e2209132119. 44 indexed citations

Horst, Anneliek M. ter, Jane Fudyma, Aurélie Bak, et al.. (2022). RNA Viral Communities Are Structured by Host Plant Phylogeny in Oak and Conifer Leaves. Phytobiomes Journal. 7(2). 288–296. 6 indexed citations

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Martins, Samuel J., Stephen J. Taerum, Lindsay R. Triplett, et al.. (2022). Predators of Soil Bacteria in Plant and Human Health. Phytobiomes Journal. 6(3). 184–200. 22 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Jackson W., et al.. (2022). Soil pH influences the structure of virus communities at local and global scales. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108569–108569. 28 indexed citations

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Santos‐Medellín, Christian, Laura Zinke, Anneliek M. ter Horst, et al.. (2021). Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities. The ISME Journal. 15(7). 1956–1970. 113 indexed citations

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Emerson, Joanne, R. K. Varner, M. Wik, et al.. (2021). Diverse sediment microbiota shape methane emission temperature sensitivity in Arctic lakes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5815–5815. 29 indexed citations

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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Emerson, Joanne, Rachel I. Adams, Brandon Brooks, et al.. (2017). Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems. Microbiome. 5(1). 86–86. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Andrade, Karen, Karla B. Heidelberg, Joanne Emerson, et al.. (2015). Metagenomic and lipid analyses reveal a diel cycle in a hypersaline microbial ecosystem. The ISME Journal. 9(12). 2697–2711. 27 indexed citations

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Heidelberg, Karla B., et al.. (2013). Characterization of eukaryotic microbial diversity in hypersaline Lake Tyrrell, Australia. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 115–115. 52 indexed citations

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Bik, Elisabeth M., Gary C. Armitage, Peter M. Loomer, et al.. (2010). Bacterial diversity in the oral cavity of 10 healthy individuals. The ISME Journal. 4(8). 962–974. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeBoy, Robert T., Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Joanne Emerson, & William Nelson. (2006). Chromosome Evolution in the Thermotogales : Large-Scale Inversions and Strain Diversification of CRISPR Sequences. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(7). 2364–2374. 50 indexed citations

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Mongodin, Emmanuel F., Joanne Emerson, & William Nelson. (2005). Microbial metagenomics.. Genome Biology. 6(10). 347–347. 6 indexed citations

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