K. Eric Wommack

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

K. Eric Wommack is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Eric Wommack has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in K. Eric Wommack's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers). K. Eric Wommack is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers). K. Eric Wommack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. K. Eric Wommack's co-authors include Rita R. Colwell, Kurt E. Williamson, Mark Radosevich, Jacques Ravel, Shawn W. Polson, Russell T. Hill, Jaysheel Bhavsar, Danielle M. Winget, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann and Rebekah R. Helton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

K. Eric Wommack

87 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Virioplankton: Viruses in Aquatic Ecosystems

2000 1.6k citations K. Eric Wommack et al. profile →
Viruses in Soil Ecosystems: An Unknown Quantity Within an Unexplored Territory

2017 265 citations Kurt E. Williamson, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Eric Wommack United States	44	6.1k	2.5k	2.0k	951	743	87	7.7k
Bas E. Dutilh Netherlands	45	4.0k 0.7×	4.5k 1.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	490 0.7×	145	8.6k
Alla Lapidus United States	53	4.0k 0.7×	7.1k 2.9×	2.2k 1.1×	715 0.8×	683 0.9×	150	12.9k
Luis M. Rodriguez‐R United States	32	3.7k 0.6×	4.6k 1.8×	1.3k 0.6×	406 0.4×	528 0.7×	77	8.0k
Patrick Chain United States	56	4.4k 0.7×	5.2k 2.1×	1.9k 0.9×	447 0.5×	563 0.8×	225	11.5k
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh United States	36	3.8k 0.6×	3.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	716 0.8×	483 0.7×	71	5.9k
Natalya Yutin United States	43	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	677 0.7×	887 1.2×	66	6.0k
Daniel R. Mende Germany	30	2.9k 0.5×	5.5k 2.2×	1.4k 0.7×	610 0.6×	361 0.5×	49	8.6k
John H. Paul United States	48	4.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	667 0.3×	626 0.7×	424 0.6×	124	6.9k
Matthew Haynes United States	28	3.4k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	865 0.4×	905 1.0×	366 0.5×	41	5.7k
Gordon D. Pusch United States	17	2.8k 0.5×	5.0k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	517 0.5×	814 1.1×	22	7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by K. Eric Wommack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Eric Wommack

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Ferrell, Barbra D., et al.. (2025). Fine-tuning protein language models unlocks the potential of underrepresented viral proteomes. PeerJ. 13. e19919–e19919. 3 indexed citations

Ferrell, Barbra D., et al.. (2023). Spontaneously Produced Lysogenic Phages Are an Important Component of the Soybean Bradyrhizobium Mobilome. mBio. 14(2). e0029523–e0029523. 5 indexed citations

Wu, Lingyi, Ryan M. Moore, Ana Martins, et al.. (2023). Ubiquitous, B12-dependent virioplankton utilizing ribonucleotide-triphosphate reductase demonstrate interseasonal dynamics and associate with a diverse range of bacterial hosts in the pelagic ocean. ISME Communications. 3(1). 108–108. 2 indexed citations

Ferrell, Barbra D., Ryan M. Moore, Delphis F. Levia, et al.. (2021). Assessing the efficacy of eDNA metabarcoding for measuring microbial biodiversity within forest ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 1629–1629. 22 indexed citations

Roy, Krishnakali, Dhritiman Ghosh, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, et al.. (2020). Temporal Dynamics of Soil Virus and Bacterial Populations in Agricultural and Early Plant Successional Soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1494–1494. 45 indexed citations

Moore, Ryan M., et al.. (2020). Iroki: automatic customization and visualization of phylogenetic trees. PeerJ. 8. e8584–e8584. 64 indexed citations

Nasko, Daniel J., Jessica Chopyk, Eric G. Sakowski, et al.. (2018). Family A DNA Polymerase Phylogeny Uncovers Diversity and Replication Gene Organization in the Virioplankton. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 3053–3053. 17 indexed citations

Marine, Rachel L., et al.. (2017). Novel chaperonins are prevalent in the virioplankton and demonstrate links to viral biology and ecology. The ISME Journal. 11(11). 2479–2491. 18 indexed citations

Sonderegger, Derek L., Corina P. D. Brussaard, Alison Buchan, et al.. (2016). Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances. Nature Microbiology. 1(3). 15024–15024. 218 indexed citations

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Chopyk, Jessica, Ryan M. Moore, Zachary R. Stromberg, et al.. (2016). Presence of pathogenic Escherichia coli is correlated with bacterial community diversity and composition on pre-harvest cattle hides. Microbiome. 4(1). 9–9. 18 indexed citations

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Weitz, Joshua S., Charles A. Stock, Steven W. Wilhelm, et al.. (2015). A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes. The ISME Journal. 9(6). 1352–1364. 177 indexed citations

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Labonté, Jessica, Erin K. Field, Maggie C. Y. Lau, et al.. (2015). Single cell genomics indicates horizontal gene transfer and viral infections in a deep subsurface Firmicutes population. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 349–349. 50 indexed citations

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Marine, Rachel L., et al.. (2014). Caught in the middle with multiple displacement amplification: the myth of pooling for avoiding multiple displacement amplification bias in a metagenome. Microbiome. 2(1). 3–3. 84 indexed citations

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Lee, Charles K., Craig W. Herbold, Shawn W. Polson, et al.. (2012). Groundtruthing Next-Gen Sequencing for Microbial Ecology–Biases and Errors in Community Structure Estimates from PCR Amplicon Pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e44224–e44224. 150 indexed citations

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Mailloux, Brian J., Michael E. Bishop, Hailiang Dong, et al.. (2012). A carbon free filter for collection of large volume samples of cellular biomass from oligotrophic waters. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 90(3). 145–151. 5 indexed citations

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Wommack, K. Eric, Jaysheel Bhavsar, Shawn W. Polson, et al.. (2012). VIROME: a standard operating procedure for analysis of viral metagenome sequences. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 6(3). 427–439. 132 indexed citations

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Dumas, Michaël, Shawn W. Polson, Jacques Ravel, et al.. (2011). Impacts of Poultry House Environment on Poultry Litter Bacterial Community Composition. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24785–e24785. 82 indexed citations

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Eissler, Yoanna, Kui Wang, Feng Chen, K. Eric Wommack, & D. Wayne Coats. (2009). ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LYTIC CYCLE OF AN INTRANUCLEAR VIRUS INFECTING THE DIATOM CHAETOCEROS CF. WIGHAMII(BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) FROM CHESAPEAKE BAY, USA¹. Journal of Phycology. 45(4). 787–797. 22 indexed citations

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Williamson, Shannon J., S. Craig Cary, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2008). Lysogenic virus–host interactions predominate at deep-sea diffuse-flow hydrothermal vents. The ISME Journal. 2(11). 1112–1121. 100 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2008). Cultivation-Based Assessment of Lysogeny Among Soil Bacteria. Microbial Ecology. 56(3). 437–447. 40 indexed citations

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