Kerry Whittaker

836 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 536 citations indexed

About

Kerry Whittaker is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kerry Whittaker has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 536 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Oceanography and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kerry Whittaker's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (5 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers). Kerry Whittaker is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (5 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers). Kerry Whittaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and New Zealand. Kerry Whittaker's co-authors include Tatiana A. Rynearson, David A. Hutchins, Kendra Hayashi, Uta Passow, Robert F. Strzepek, Fei‐Xue Fu, Philip W. Boyd, Zhangxi Hu, Mridul K. Thomas and Evelyn Armstrong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and mBio.

In The Last Decade

Kerry Whittaker

11 papers receiving 529 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.

Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

2013 342 citations Philip W. Boyd, Tatiana A. Rynearson et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

Kerry Whittaker

OCEAN

ECOLO

MB

GPC

EC

Elizabeth L. Harvey United States

Tamara Rodríguez‐Ramos Spain

José‐Manuel Fortuño Spain

Isamu Wakana Japan

Marina Pančić Denmark

Néstor Arandia‐Gorostidi Spain

Maria Lorena Longhi Canada

M.-J. Chrétiennot-Dinet France

Paolo Simonelli Norway

Anissa Souissi France

Elizabeth L. Harvey United States

Kerry Whittaker

352 ×1.1

OCEAN

299 ×1.2

ECOLO

151 ×1.7

MB

78 ×1.0

GPC

117 ×1.7

EC

Citations per year, relative to Kerry Whittaker Kerry Whittaker (= 1×) peers Elizabeth L. Harvey

Countries citing papers authored by Kerry Whittaker

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kerry Whittaker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kerry Whittaker. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kerry Whittaker. The network helps show where Kerry Whittaker may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kerry Whittaker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kerry Whittaker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kerry Whittaker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kerry Whittaker. Kerry Whittaker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Whittaker, Kerry, et al.. (2023). The Early Microbial Colonizers of a Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga. mBio. 14(1). e0331322–e0331322. 11 indexed citations

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Whittaker, Kerry, et al.. (2022). Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton community structure and drivers of variance as revealed by DNA metabarcoding analysis. PeerJ. 10. e12835–e12835. 1 indexed citations

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Thibaut, Thierry, Didier Aurelle, Aurélie Blanfuné, et al.. (2021). Consistent genetic divergence observed among pelagic Sargassum morphotypes in the western North Atlantic. Marine Ecology. 43(1). 25 indexed citations

4.

Whittaker, Kerry, et al.. (2021). Host genotype structures the microbiome of a globally dispersed marine phytoplankton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(48). 31 indexed citations

5.

Garvin, J. B., et al.. (2020). Exploring the human-nature dynamics of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, Earth's newest landmass. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 401. 106902–106902. 8 indexed citations

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Govindarajan, Annette F., et al.. (2019). The distribution and mitochondrial genotype of the hydroid Aglaophenia latecarinata is correlated with its pelagic Sargassum substrate type in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic Ocean. PeerJ. 7. e7814–e7814. 16 indexed citations

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Whittaker, Kerry, et al.. (2018). Status Review Report of the Taiwanese Humpback Dolphin Sousa chinensis taiwanensis. 2 indexed citations

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Whittaker, Kerry & Tatiana A. Rynearson. (2017). Evidence for environmental and ecological selection in a microbe with no geographic limits to gene flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(10). 2651–2656. 59 indexed citations

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Whittaker, Kerry. (2014). Endangered Species Act status review report for the coelacanth : Latimeria chalumnae. 1 indexed citations

10.

Boyd, Philip W., Tatiana A. Rynearson, Evelyn Armstrong, et al.. (2013). Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63091–e63091. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whittaker, Kerry, et al.. (2012). Molecular subdivision of the marine diatom Thalassiosira rotulain relation to geographic distribution, genome size, and physiology. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 209–209. 40 indexed citations

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