Kevin K. Newsham

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Kevin K. Newsham is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin K. Newsham has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 37 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kevin K. Newsham's work include Polar Research and Ecology (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (35 papers). Kevin K. Newsham is often cited by papers focused on Polar Research and Ecology (62 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (35 papers). Kevin K. Newsham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Chile. Kevin K. Newsham's co-authors include Andrew R. Watkinson, Alastair Fitter, D. J. Read, Rebecca Upson, K.E. Giller, G. Cadisch, David A. Pearce, A. H. Fitter, P. D. Bridge and Andrew McLeod and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Kevin K. Newsham

109 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

A meta‐analysis of plant responses to dark septate root endophytes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin K. Newsham United Kingdom	38	3.0k	2.6k	1.8k	935	880	109	6.0k
Clare H. Robinson United Kingdom	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	500 0.5×	680 0.8×	71	4.6k
Jeff R. Powell Australia	42	4.0k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	571 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	168	6.6k
Takashi Osono Japan	38	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	858 1.0×	145	4.4k
D. Jean Lodge United States	35	2.6k 0.9×	949 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	494 0.6×	121	4.7k
Karina E. Clemmensen Sweden	26	3.8k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	817 0.9×	1.6k 1.9×	64	6.0k
Rebecca L. McCulley United States	33	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	980 0.5×	291 0.3×	2.2k 2.5×	95	4.9k
Thomas A. Kursar United States	48	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.9k 1.6×	816 0.9×	260 0.3×	104	7.4k
Philippe Lemanceau France	44	5.7k 1.9×	3.0k 1.2×	737 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	2.3k 2.6×	74	9.4k
Hiroshi Takeda Japan	42	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	614 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	215	5.5k
Cameron Wagg Switzerland	36	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	398 0.4×	2.5k 2.8×	70	7.1k

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Varliero, Gilda, Pedro H. Lebre, Byron J. Adams, et al.. (2024). Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica. Microbiome. 12(1). 9–9. 19 indexed citations

Acuña‐Rodríguez, Ian S., Kevin K. Newsham, Peter Convey, et al.. (2023). The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 188. 109249–109249. 2 indexed citations

Ballesteros, Gabriel, Kevin K. Newsham, Ian S. Acuña‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2023). Extreme environments as sources of fungal endophytes mitigating climate change impacts on crops in Mediterranean‐type ecosystems. Plants People Planet. 6(1). 148–161. 12 indexed citations

Molina‐Montenegro, Marco A., Gabriel Ballesteros, Ian S. Acuña‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2023). The “Trojan horse” strategy: Seed fungal endophyte symbiosis helps to explain the invasion success of the grass, Poa annua, in Maritime Antarctica. Diversity and Distributions. 29(11). 1432–1444. 2 indexed citations

Newsham, Kevin K., Elisabeth M. Biersma, Bo Elberling, et al.. (2022). Rapid Response to Experimental Warming of a Microbial Community Inhabiting High Arctic Patterned Ground Soil. Biology. 11(12). 1819–1819. 6 indexed citations

Kerfahi, Dorsaf, Kevin K. Newsham, Ke Dong, et al.. (2022). Enduring legacy of coal mining on the fungal community in a High Arctic soil after five decades. Pedosphere. 32(5). 698–706. 2 indexed citations

Waschulin, Valentin, Chiara Borsetto, Robert James, et al.. (2021). Biosynthetic potential of uncultured Antarctic soil bacteria revealed through long-read metagenomic sequencing. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 101–111. 81 indexed citations

Newsham, Kevin K.. (2021). Fine hyphal coils in the liverwort Cephaloziella varians increase in frequency in response to experimental warming in maritime Antarctica. Mycorrhiza. 31(4). 519–525. 2 indexed citations

Acuña‐Rodríguez, Ian S., Kevin K. Newsham, Pedro E. Gundel, Cristian Torres‐Díaz, & Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro. (2020). Functional roles of microbial symbionts in plant cold tolerance. Ecology Letters. 23(6). 1034–1048. 85 indexed citations

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Biersma, Elisabeth M., Cristian Torres‐Díaz, Marco A. Molina‐Montenegro, et al.. (2020). Multiple late‐Pleistocene colonisation events of the Antarctic pearlwortColobanthus quitensis(Caryophyllaceae) reveal the recent arrival of native Antarctic vascular flora. Journal of Biogeography. 47(8). 1663–1673. 25 indexed citations

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Newsham, Kevin K., Filipa Cox, Chester J. Sands, et al.. (2020). A Previously Undescribed Helotialean Fungus That Is Superabundant in Soil Under Maritime Antarctic Higher Plants. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 615608–615608. 4 indexed citations

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Dennis, Paul G., Kevin K. Newsham, Steven Rushton, Anthony G. O’Donnell, & D. W. Hopkins. (2019). Soil bacterial diversity is positively associated with air temperature in the maritime Antarctic. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2686–2686. 39 indexed citations

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Cox, Filipa, Kevin K. Newsham, Roland Bol, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, & Clare H. Robinson. (2016). Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic. Ecology Letters. 19(5). 528–536. 80 indexed citations

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Sun, Benhua, Paul G. Dennis, Kevin K. Newsham, D. W. Hopkins, & Paul D. Hallett. (2016). Gelifluction and Thixotropy of Maritime Antarctic Soils: Small-Scale Measurements with a Rotational Rheometer. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 28(1). 314–321. 3 indexed citations

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Hill, Paul W., Richard S. Quilliam, Thomas H. DeLuca, et al.. (2011). Acquisition and Assimilation of Nitrogen as Peptide-Bound and D-Enantiomers of Amino Acids by Wheat. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e19220–e19220. 97 indexed citations

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Hill, Paul W., Mark Farrell, Paula Roberts, et al.. (2011). Soil- and enantiomer-specific metabolism of amino acids and their peptides by Antarctic soil microorganisms. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43(12). 2410–2416. 35 indexed citations

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Newsham, Kevin K.. (2010). Structural changes to a mycothallus along a latitudinal transect through the maritime and sub-Antarctic. Mycorrhiza. 21(3). 231–236. 4 indexed citations

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Newsham, Kevin K., et al.. (2007). Survival of antarctic soil metazoans at -80 degree C for six years.. PubMed. 27(5). 291–4. 18 indexed citations

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Newsham, Kevin K., A. H. Fitter, & Andrew R. Watkinson. (1995). Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Protect an Annual Grass from Root Pathogenic Fungi in the Field. Journal of Ecology. 83(6). 991–991. 337 indexed citations

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Newsham, Kevin K., Alastair Fitter, & Andrew R. Watkinson. (1995). Rhizosphere and root-infecting fungi and the design of ecological field experiments. Oecologia. 102(2). 230–237. 17 indexed citations

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