Karen G. Lloyd

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Karen G. Lloyd is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen G. Lloyd has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 33 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Karen G. Lloyd's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (50 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers). Karen G. Lloyd is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (50 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers). Karen G. Lloyd collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Karen G. Lloyd's co-authors include Andreas Teske, Mark A. Lever, Andrew D. Steen, Jennifer F. Biddle, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Daniel B. Albert, Brett J. Baker, L. Lapham, Lindsey Solden and Kelly Wrighton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Karen G. Lloyd

84 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru

2006 548 citations Jennifer F. Biddle, Mark A. Lever et al. profile →
Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

2013 416 citations Karen G. Lloyd, Lars Schreiber et al. Nature profile →
Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea

2020 335 citations Karen G. Lloyd et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen G. Lloyd United States	31	3.2k	2.5k	1.8k	557	538	91	4.6k
Mark A. Lever Switzerland	34	3.3k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	537 1.0×	552 1.0×	90	4.8k
Jennifer F. Biddle United States	29	2.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	380 0.7×	412 0.8×	71	3.5k
Yuki Morono Japan	32	2.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	363 0.7×	406 0.8×	105	3.3k
Beth N. Orcutt United States	30	2.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	871 0.5×	585 1.1×	564 1.0×	69	3.6k
Henrik Sass Germany	37	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	321 0.6×	354 0.7×	66	3.6k
Barry A. Cragg United Kingdom	33	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	764 1.4×	880 1.6×	50	4.5k
R. John Parkes United Kingdom	32	2.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	872 0.5×	540 1.0×	543 1.0×	48	3.7k
Takuro Nunoura Japan	45	4.8k 1.5×	3.1k 1.3×	3.3k 1.8×	616 1.1×	517 1.0×	151	7.5k
Н. В. Пименов Russia	35	2.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	993 0.5×	668 1.2×	562 1.0×	270	4.8k
Fengping Wang China	39	2.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	343 0.6×	334 0.6×	191	5.0k

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Lloyd, Karen G., Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Bing Li, et al.. (2025). Comparative genomics reveals the high diversity and adaptation strategies of Polaromonas from polar environments. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 248–248. 1 indexed citations

Karolytė, Rūta, Peter H. Barry, Rebecca Tyne, et al.. (2025). Examining the Effect of Heat from the Yellowstone Plume on the Release of Helium from the Crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 404. 72–85.

Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A., et al.. (2025). BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria. mBio. 16(11). e0238925–e0238925. 1 indexed citations

Buongiorno, Joy, Andrew D. Steen, Andrey Abramov, et al.. (2024). Depth-specific distribution of bacterial MAGs in permafrost active layer in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard (79°N). Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 47(6). 126544–126544. 1 indexed citations

Basili, Marco, Mayuko Nakagawa, Mustafa Yücel, et al.. (2024). Subsurface microbial community structure shifts along the geological features of the Central American Volcanic Arc. PLoS ONE. 19(11). e0308756–e0308756. 1 indexed citations

Espinoza, Josh L., Allan R. Phillips, Gene S. Tan, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the microbial realm with VEBA 2.0: a modular bioinformatics suite for end-to-end genome-resolved prokaryotic, (micro)eukaryotic and viral multi-omics from either short- or long-read sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(14). e63–e63. 4 indexed citations

Hallsworth, John E., Zulema Udaondo, Carlos Pedrós‐Alió, et al.. (2023). Scientific novelty beyond the experiment. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(6). 1131–1173. 41 indexed citations

Ruff, S. Emil, Isabella Hrabě de Angelis, Jérôme Payet, et al.. (2023). A global atlas of subsurface microbiomes reveals phylogenetic novelty, large scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide. 6. 2 indexed citations

Steen, Andrew D., J. Maarten de Moor, Agostina Chiodi, et al.. (2023). Complex organic matter degradation by secondary consumers in chemolithoautotrophy-based subsurface geothermal ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0281277–e0281277. 8 indexed citations

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Kevorkian, R.T., et al.. (2023). Microbial survival mechanisms within serpentinizing Mariana forearc sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99(2). 3 indexed citations

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Krijgsman, Wout, Iuliana Vasiliev, Anouk Beniest, et al.. (2022). Mediterranean–Black Sea gateway exchange: scientific drilling workshop on the BlackGate project. Scientific Drilling. 31. 93–110. 3 indexed citations

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Onstott, T. C., et al.. (2022). Draft Genome Sequences of 10 Pseudomonas sp. Isolates from the Active Layer of Permafrost in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 11(6). 1 indexed citations

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Buongiorno, Joy, Gerdhard L Jessen, Matthew O. Schrenk, et al.. (2022). Chemolithoautotroph distributions across the subsurface of a convergent margin. The ISME Journal. 17(1). 140–150. 29 indexed citations

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Buongiorno, Joy, Craig W. Herbold, Bela Hausmann, et al.. (2021). Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling. The ISME Journal. 15(11). 3159–3180. 89 indexed citations

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Williams, Daniel E., Elena Spirina, Elizaveta Rivkina, et al.. (2021). Eight Metagenome-Assembled Genomes Provide Evidence for Microbial Adaptation in 20,000- to 1,000,000-Year-Old Siberian Permafrost. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(19). e0097221–e0097221. 23 indexed citations

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Liang, Renxing, Zhou Li, Maggie C. Y. Lau, et al.. (2021). Genomic reconstruction of fossil and living microorganisms in ancient Siberian permafrost. Microbiome. 9(1). 110–110. 22 indexed citations

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Barry, Peter H., Karen G. Lloyd, Donato Giovannelli, et al.. (2018). Chemical and biological carbon sinks in the Costa Rican Forearc: First insights from the Biology Meets Subduction project. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A., Joy Buongiorno, Jordan T. Bird, et al.. (2018). Methanogens in the Antarctic Dry Valley permafrost. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94(8). 17 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Karen G., Lars Schreiber, Dorthe Groth Petersen, et al.. (2013). Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins. Nature. 496(7444). 215–218. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lloyd, Karen G., Jennifer F. Biddle, & Andreas Teske. (2011). Environmental distribution, abundance and activity of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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