Kathleen Pitz

1.2k total citations
20 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Kathleen Pitz is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathleen Pitz has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Kathleen Pitz's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (6 papers). Kathleen Pitz is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (11 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (6 papers). Kathleen Pitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Kathleen Pitz's co-authors include Frank Müller‐Karger, Anni Djurhuus, Mya Breitbart, Enrique Montes, Francisco P. Chávez, Natalie A. Sawaya, Kristine Walz, Ryan P. Kelly, Elizabeth A. Andruszkiewicz and Katherine A. Hubbard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kathleen Pitz

19 papers receiving 559 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kathleen Pitz United States 11 478 332 117 51 38 20 580
Rachele Bernasconi Australia 7 486 1.0× 302 0.9× 92 0.8× 51 1.0× 12 0.3× 9 516
Indranil Mukherjee Czechia 11 213 0.4× 143 0.4× 95 0.8× 51 1.0× 30 0.8× 23 288
Larissa Frühe Germany 7 300 0.6× 218 0.7× 30 0.3× 55 1.1× 12 0.3× 8 371
Sara K. Blinebry United States 6 264 0.6× 123 0.4× 151 1.3× 43 0.8× 40 1.1× 6 341
Keiichi Fukaya Japan 13 265 0.6× 136 0.4× 62 0.5× 50 1.0× 19 0.5× 28 392
Igor Dovgal Ukraine 10 193 0.4× 181 0.5× 179 1.5× 74 1.5× 44 1.2× 74 319
Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo Sweden 6 200 0.4× 72 0.2× 71 0.6× 46 0.9× 41 1.1× 10 267
Lisa Sundqvist Sweden 7 180 0.4× 70 0.2× 166 1.4× 45 0.9× 39 1.0× 9 301
Chuanxin Qin China 12 207 0.4× 72 0.2× 101 0.9× 152 3.0× 7 0.2× 48 373
Heidi Hertler United States 7 235 0.5× 129 0.4× 57 0.5× 44 0.9× 3 0.1× 10 294

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathleen Pitz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Patin, Nastassia, et al.. (2025). Markers or metagenomes: sequencing marine eukaryotic DNA for better biodiversity surveys. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 9. 1 indexed citations
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Pitz, Kathleen, et al.. (2025). Daily microbial rhythms of the surface ocean interrupted by the new moon—a lipidomic study. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf044–ycaf044.
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Zhang, Yanwu, Brian Kieft, Brett Hobson, et al.. (2024). Coordinated and Collaborative Sampling by Two Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 49(4). 1371–1382. 1 indexed citations
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Needham, David M., Sebastian Sudek, Nathan K. Truelove, et al.. (2023). Ecological divergence of a mesocosm in an eastern boundary upwelling system assessed with multi-marker environmental DNA metabarcoding. Biogeosciences. 20(7). 1277–1298. 2 indexed citations
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Truelove, Nathan K., Nastassia Patin, Kathleen Pitz, et al.. (2022). Expanding the temporal and spatial scales of environmental DNA research with autonomous sampling. Environmental DNA. 4(4). 972–984. 34 indexed citations
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Pitz, Kathleen, et al.. (2021). Development of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes to detect and enumerate Gambierdiscus species. Harmful Algae. 101. 101914–101914. 18 indexed citations
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Lamy, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Environmental DNA reveals the fine-grained and hierarchical spatial structure of kelp forest fish communities. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14439–14439. 30 indexed citations
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Meyer, R.M., Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Neil M Davies, et al.. (2021). Toward a Global Public Repository of Community Protocols to Encourage Best Practices in Biomolecular Ocean Observing and Research. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. 14 indexed citations
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Chávez, Francisco P., Kathleen Pitz, Nathan K. Truelove, et al.. (2021). Observing Life in the Sea Using Environmental DNA. Oceanography. 34(2). 102–119. 23 indexed citations
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Djurhuus, Anni, Collin J. Closek, Ryan P. Kelly, et al.. (2020). Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community. Nature Communications. 11(1). 254–254. 212 indexed citations
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Pitz, Kathleen, Shannon B. Johnson, Haibin Zhang, et al.. (2020). Zooplankton biogeographic boundaries in the California Current System as determined from metabarcoding. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0235159–e0235159. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yanwu, Brian Kieft, Brett Hobson, et al.. (2020). Persistent Sampling of Vertically Migrating Biological Layers by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Within the Beam of a Seabed-Mounted Echosounder. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 46(2). 497–508. 10 indexed citations
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Johnson, Winifred M., Harriet Alexander, Raven L. Bier, et al.. (2020). Auxotrophic interactions: a stabilizing attribute of aquatic microbial communities?. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(11). 35 indexed citations
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Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Ward Appeltans, Gabrielle Canonico, et al.. (2019). Building a strategy towards an Omic Biodiversity Observation Network (Omic BON). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations
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Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Felix Janßen, James Macklin, & Kathleen Pitz. (2019). The Global Omics Observatory Network: Shaping standards for long-term molecular observation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 2 indexed citations
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Spanbauer, Trisha, Christian Briseño‐Avena, Kathleen Pitz, & Elizabeth A. Suter. (2019). Salty sensors, fresh ideas: The use of molecular and imaging sensors in understanding plankton dynamics across marine and freshwater ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 5(2). 169–184. 8 indexed citations
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Djurhuus, Anni, Kathleen Pitz, Natalie A. Sawaya, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of marine zooplankton community structure through environmental DNA metabarcoding. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 16(4). 209–221. 124 indexed citations
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Pitz, Kathleen, Collin J. Closek, Anni Djurhuus, et al.. (2017). Rewards and Challenges of eDNA Sequencing with Multiple Genetic Markers for Marine Observation Programs. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 1. e20548–e20548. 2 indexed citations
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Pitz, Kathleen. (2016). Phenotypic diversity within two toxic dinoflagellate genera: environmental and transcriptomic studies of species diversity in Alexandrium and Gambierdiscus. Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community). 1 indexed citations
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Fischer, Alexis D., Emily Moberg, Harriet Alexander, et al.. (2014). Sixty Years of Sverdrup: A Retrospective of Progress in the Study of Phytoplankton Blooms. Oceanography. 27(1). 222–235. 44 indexed citations

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