Katherine S. Dawson

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Katherine S. Dawson is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine S. Dawson has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 14 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Katherine S. Dawson's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Katherine S. Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Katherine S. Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Katherine S. Dawson's co-authors include Jennifer L. Macalady, Victoria J. Orphan, Dariusz Strąpoć, María Mastalerz, Matthew N. Ashby, Courtney Turich, Boris Wawrik, Amy V. Callaghan, Katherine H. Freeman and Alex L. Sessions and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Katherine S. Dawson

23 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Biogeochemistry of Microbial Coal-Bed Methane

2011 360 citations Dariusz Strąpoć, María Mastalerz et al. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine S. Dawson United States	16	603	417	386	297	259	24	1.2k
Irene Schaperdoth United States	15	403 0.7×	496 1.2×	172 0.4×	161 0.5×	326 1.3×	24	1.1k
Susumu Sakata Japan	26	950 1.6×	557 1.3×	618 1.6×	161 0.5×	350 1.4×	80	1.8k
Hideyoshi Yoshioka Japan	19	551 0.9×	349 0.8×	296 0.8×	112 0.4×	235 0.9×	46	1.3k
J. A. Breier United States	22	553 0.9×	884 2.1×	145 0.4×	77 0.3×	450 1.7×	47	1.6k
Luke J. McKay United States	15	459 0.8×	500 1.2×	164 0.4×	44 0.1×	513 2.0×	24	1.2k
S. Emil Ruff United States	20	714 1.2×	701 1.7×	243 0.6×	26 0.1×	342 1.3×	33	1.2k
Rachel L. Simister Canada	22	153 0.3×	502 1.2×	73 0.2×	85 0.3×	281 1.1×	42	1.4k
R. John Parkes United Kingdom	20	828 1.4×	916 2.2×	246 0.6×	47 0.2×	374 1.4×	23	1.8k
N. J. Knab Germany	12	891 1.5×	737 1.8×	278 0.7×	18 0.1×	284 1.1×	13	1.3k
Erwan G. Roussel France	18	630 1.0×	770 1.8×	127 0.3×	20 0.1×	372 1.4×	31	1.1k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dawson, Katherine S., Frank A. Corsetti, Xin‐Yuan Zheng, et al.. (2024). Living to Lithified: Construction and Preservation of Silicified Biomarkers. Geobiology. 22(5). 1–30. 1 indexed citations

Rhodes, Matthew E., et al.. (2023). Establishment of a Halophilic Bloom in a Sterile and Isolated Hypersaline Mesocosm. Microorganisms. 11(12). 2886–2886.

Lloyd, Max K., Elizabeth Trembath‐Reichert, Katherine S. Dawson, et al.. (2021). Methoxyl stable isotopic constraints on the origins and limits of coal-bed methane. Science. 374(6569). 894–897. 39 indexed citations

Goffredi, Shana K., Tilic Ekin, Sean W. Mullin, et al.. (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage. Science Advances. 6(14). eaay8562–eaay8562. 34 indexed citations

Dawson, Katherine S., et al.. (2020). 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Dechlorination is Differentially Enhanced by Dichlorobenzene Amendment in Passaic River, NJ Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(13). 8380–8389. 7 indexed citations

Ward, Lewis M., Shana K. Goffredi, Katherine S. Dawson, et al.. (2018). The gut of the finch: uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch. Microbiome. 6(1). 167–167. 61 indexed citations

Dekas, Anne, David A. Fike, Grayson L. Chadwick, et al.. (2018). Widespread nitrogen fixation in sediments from diverse deep‐sea sites of elevated carbon loading. Environmental Microbiology. 20(12). 4281–4296. 39 indexed citations

Trembath‐Reichert, Elizabeth, Yuki Morono, Akira Ijiri, et al.. (2017). Methyl-compound use and slow growth characterize microbial life in 2-km-deep subseafloor coal and shale beds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(44). E9206–E9215. 80 indexed citations

Smith, Derek A., Alex L. Sessions, Katherine S. Dawson, Nathan F. Dalleska, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2017). Rapid quantification and isotopic analysis of dissolved sulfur species. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 31(9). 791–803. 10 indexed citations

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Glass, Jennifer B., Si Chen, Katherine S. Dawson, et al.. (2017). Trace Metal Imaging of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Methanogenic Archaea at Single-Cell Resolution by Synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging. Geomicrobiology Journal. 35(1). 81–89. 12 indexed citations

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Pasulka, Alexis L., Shana K. Goffredi, Patricia L. Tavormina, et al.. (2017). Colonial Tube-Dwelling Ciliates Influence Methane Cycling and Microbial Diversity within Methane Seep Ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science. 3. 16 indexed citations

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Dawson, Katherine S., Silvan Scheller, Jesse G. Dillon, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2016). Stable Isotope Phenotyping via Cluster Analysis of NanoSIMS Data As a Method for Characterizing Distinct Microbial Ecophysiologies and Sulfur-Cycling in the Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 774–774. 15 indexed citations

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Osburn, Magdalena R., Katherine S. Dawson, Marilyn L. Fogel, & Alex L. Sessions. (2016). Fractionation of Hydrogen Isotopes by Sulfate- and Nitrate-Reducing Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1166–1166. 36 indexed citations

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Maloney, Jillian, B Grupe, Alexis L. Pasulka, et al.. (2015). Transpressional segment boundaries in strike‐slip fault systems offshore southern California: Implications for fluid expulsion and cold seep habitats. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(10). 4080–4088. 13 indexed citations

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Dawson, Katherine S., Magdalena R. Osburn, Alex L. Sessions, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2015). Metabolic associations with archaea drive shifts in hydrogen isotope fractionation in sulfate‐reducing bacterial lipids in cocultures and methane seeps. Geobiology. 13(5). 462–477. 32 indexed citations

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Tavormina, Patricia L., Roland Hatzenpichler, Shawn E. McGlynn, et al.. (2014). Methyloprofundus sedimenti gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate methanotroph from ocean sediment belonging to the ‘deep sea-1’ clade of marine methanotrophs. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 65(Pt_1). 251–259. 62 indexed citations

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Dawson, Katherine S., Irene Schaperdoth, Katherine H. Freeman, & Jennifer L. Macalady. (2013). Anaerobic biodegradation of the isoprenoid biomarkers pristane and phytane. Organic Geochemistry. 65. 118–126. 27 indexed citations

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Dawson, Katherine S., et al.. (2012). Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Analysis of Microbial Consortia from a Biogenic Gas Field in Alaska's Cook Inlet Basin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78(10). 3599–3605. 52 indexed citations

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Jones, Daniel S., Heidi L. Albrecht, Katherine S. Dawson, et al.. (2011). Community genomic analysis of an extremely acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing biofilm. The ISME Journal. 6(1). 158–170. 130 indexed citations

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Strąpoć, Dariusz, María Mastalerz, Katherine S. Dawson, et al.. (2011). Biogeochemistry of Microbial Coal-Bed Methane. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 39(1). 617–656. 360 indexed citations breakdown →

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