Katherine D. McMahon

24.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
161 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Katherine D. McMahon is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine D. McMahon has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Ecology, 61 papers in Molecular Biology and 50 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Katherine D. McMahon's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (88 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (44 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers). Katherine D. McMahon is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (88 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (44 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers). Katherine D. McMahon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Katherine D. McMahon's co-authors include Ryan J. Newton, Stuart E. Jones, Shaomei He, Cristina M. Herren, Stefan Bertilsson, Daniel R. Noguera, Alexander Eiler, Ashley Shade, Eric Auerbach and Lutgarde Raskin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Katherine D. McMahon

159 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

A Guide to the Natural History of Freshwater Lake Bacteria

2011 1.2k citations Ryan J. Newton, Alexander Eiler et al. profile →
Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules

2017 613 citations Christopher E. Lawson, Joshua J. Hamilton et al. profile →
Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities

2006 571 citations Katherine D. McMahon et al. profile →
Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, Brian F. Pfleger et al. profile →
Cohesion: a method for quantifying the connectivity of microbial communities

2017 371 citations Cristina M. Herren, Katherine D. McMahon The ISME Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine D. McMahon United States	62	6.7k	4.5k	4.1k	1.8k	1.6k	161	12.4k
Alexander Loy Austria	59	5.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.6×	5.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	792 0.5×	103	11.8k
Yunfeng Yang China	58	9.7k 1.5×	3.2k 0.7×	6.0k 1.5×	1.4k 0.8×	840 0.5×	223	17.6k
Holger Daims Austria	63	9.2k 1.4×	9.8k 2.2×	4.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	109	17.0k
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Netherlands	70	7.1k 1.1×	7.9k 1.8×	5.7k 1.4×	4.8k 2.7×	967 0.6×	311	20.0k
Mads Albertsen Denmark	44	5.5k 0.8×	6.2k 1.4×	3.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	369 0.2×	97	11.4k
Sara Hallin Sweden	54	7.3k 1.1×	5.1k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	603 0.4×	146	13.5k
Laurent Philippot France	68	10.5k 1.6×	6.0k 1.3×	4.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.8×	596 0.4×	184	21.5k
Hendrikus J. Laanbroek Netherlands	54	5.1k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.4×	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	164	9.2k
Jun Yang China	56	5.2k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	370	12.2k
Kate M. Scow United States	80	6.5k 1.0×	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.0k 1.7×	444 0.3×	247	20.1k

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Zhou, Zhichao, Patricia Q. Tran, Robin R. Rohwer, et al.. (2025). Unravelling viral ecology and evolution over 20 years in a freshwater lake. Nature Microbiology. 10(1). 231–245. 8 indexed citations

Rohwer, Robin R., et al.. (2023). Species invasions shift microbial phenology in a two-decade freshwater time series. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(11). e2211796120–e2211796120. 19 indexed citations

Peterson, Benjamin D., David P. Krabbenhoft, Katherine D. McMahon, et al.. (2023). Environmental formation of methylmercury is controlled by synergy of inorganic mercury bioavailability and microbial mercury‐methylation capacity. Environmental Microbiology. 25(8). 1409–1423. 25 indexed citations

McDaniel, Elizabeth, Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon, et al.. (2022). TbasCO: trait-based comparative ‘omics identifies ecosystem-level and niche-differentiating adaptations of an engineered microbiome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 111–111. 5 indexed citations

Tran, Patricia Q., Peter B. McIntyre, Benjamin M. Kraemer, et al.. (2021). Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika. The ISME Journal. 15(7). 1971–1986. 81 indexed citations

McDaniel, Elizabeth, et al.. (2021). Metabolic Differentiation of Co-occurring Accumulibacter Clades Revealed through Genome-Resolved Metatranscriptomics. mSystems. 6(4). e0047421–e0047421. 20 indexed citations

Berg, Maureen, Danielle Goudeau, Katherine D. McMahon, et al.. (2021). Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions. The ISME Journal. 15(6). 1569–1584. 18 indexed citations

Lawson, Christopher E., Rob M. de Graaf, Tyler B. Jacobson, et al.. (2020). Autotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism of an anammox bacterium revealed by in vivo 13C and 2H metabolic network mapping. The ISME Journal. 15(3). 673–687. 98 indexed citations

Chen, Lin-Xing, Yanlin Zhao, Katherine D. McMahon, et al.. (2019). Wide Distribution of Phage That Infect Freshwater SAR11 Bacteria. mSystems. 4(5). 14 indexed citations

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Pfleger, Brian F., et al.. (2018). Inhibition of Cyanobacterial Growth on a Municipal Wastewater Sidestream Is Impacted by Temperature. mSphere. 3(1). 20 indexed citations

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Garcia, Sarahi L., Moritz Buck, Joshua J. Hamilton, et al.. (2018). Model Communities Hint at Promiscuous Metabolic Linkages between Ubiquitous Free-Living Freshwater Bacteria. mSphere. 3(3). 22 indexed citations

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Linz, Alexandra M., Ashley Shade, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2017). Bacterial Community Composition and Dynamics Spanning Five Years in Freshwater Bog Lakes. mSphere. 2(3). 71 indexed citations

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Herren, Cristina M. & Katherine D. McMahon. (2017). Cohesion: a method for quantifying the connectivity of microbial communities. The ISME Journal. 11(11). 2426–2438. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Camejo, Pamela Y., Jorge Santo Domingo, Katherine D. McMahon, & Daniel R. Noguera. (2017). Genome-Enabled Insights into the Ecophysiology of the Comammox Bacterium “ Candidatus Nitrospira nitrosa”. mSystems. 2(5). 117 indexed citations

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Bendall, Matthew L., Sarah Stevens, Stephanie Malfatti, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide selective sweeps and gene-specific sweeps in natural bacterial populations. The ISME Journal. 10(7). 1589–1601. 160 indexed citations

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Hanson, Paul C., et al.. (2016). Meteorological drivers of hypolimnetic anoxia in a eutrophic, north temperate lake. Ecological Modelling. 343. 39–53. 69 indexed citations

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Eiler, Alexander, Rhiannon Mondav, Lucas Sinclair, et al.. (2016). Tuning fresh: radiation through rewiring of central metabolism in streamlined bacteria. The ISME Journal. 10(8). 1902–1914. 37 indexed citations

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Beversdorf, Lucas J., Todd R. Miller, & Katherine D. McMahon. (2013). The Role of Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacterial Bloom Toxicity in a Temperate, Eutrophic Lake. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56103–e56103. 137 indexed citations

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Kara, Emily L., Paul C. Hanson, Yu Hen Hu, Luke Winslow, & Katherine D. McMahon. (2012). A decade of seasonal dynamics and co-occurrences within freshwater bacterioplankton communities from eutrophic Lake Mendota, WI, USA. The ISME Journal. 7(3). 680–684. 138 indexed citations

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Newton, Ryan J. & Katherine D. McMahon. (2010). Seasonal differences in bacterial community composition following nutrient additions in a eutrophic lake. Environmental Microbiology. 13(4). 887–899. 81 indexed citations

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