Kurt E. Williamson

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kurt E. Williamson is a scholar working on Ecology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt E. Williamson has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Infectious Diseases and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kurt E. Williamson's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Kurt E. Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Kurt E. Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Kurt E. Williamson's co-authors include K. Eric Wommack, Mark Radosevich, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, Shellie R. Bench, Dhritiman Ghosh, Rebekah R. Helton, David W. Smith, Danielle M. Winget, Shannon J. Williamson and Krishnakali Roy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemistry of Materials and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Kurt E. Williamson

23 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Viruses in Soil Ecosystems: An Unknown Quantity Within an Unexplored Territory

2017 265 citations Kurt E. Williamson, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann et al. Annual Review of Virology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt E. Williamson United States	18	1.3k	534	415	294	267	23	1.6k
Akbar Adjie Pratama Netherlands	10	914 0.7×	384 0.7×	514 1.2×	155 0.5×	195 0.7×	15	1.2k
Olivier Zablocki United States	15	1.3k 1.0×	509 1.0×	738 1.8×	185 0.6×	268 1.0×	22	1.8k
Natalie Solonenko United States	17	1.2k 0.9×	461 0.9×	504 1.2×	203 0.7×	161 0.6×	25	1.3k
Cristina Howard‐Varona United States	13	1.2k 0.9×	344 0.6×	534 1.3×	176 0.6×	156 0.6×	19	1.3k
Ho Bin Jang South Korea	22	1.6k 1.2×	521 1.0×	971 2.3×	318 1.1×	246 0.9×	50	2.4k
David VanInsberghe United States	15	528 0.4×	362 0.7×	407 1.0×	77 0.3×	213 0.8×	24	1.2k
Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta United States	6	612 0.5×	212 0.4×	378 0.9×	99 0.3×	145 0.5×	8	839
Merry Youle United States	15	1.4k 1.0×	296 0.6×	782 1.9×	123 0.4×	318 1.2×	17	1.9k
Vincent Ramisse France	11	503 0.4×	135 0.3×	706 1.7×	150 0.5×	96 0.4×	20	1.2k
Adrien Rieux France	19	220 0.2×	512 1.0×	379 0.9×	226 0.8×	265 1.0×	49	1.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2023). Understanding Viral Impacts in Soil Microbial Ecology Through the Persistence and Decay of Infectious Bacteriophages. Current Microbiology. 80(9). 276–276. 6 indexed citations

Hogg, Graham D., et al.. (2023). Seasonal trends in lysogeny in an Appalachian oak-hickory forest soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(1). e0140823–e0140823. 3 indexed citations

Kan, Jinjun, et al.. (2019). Widespread cryptic viral infections in lotic biofilms. Biofilm. 2. 100016–100016. 4 indexed citations

Williamson, Kurt E., Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, K. Eric Wommack, & Mark Radosevich. (2017). Viruses in Soil Ecosystems: An Unknown Quantity Within an Unexplored Territory. Annual Review of Virology. 4(1). 201–219. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2014). Stormwater runoff drives viral community composition changes in inland freshwaters. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 105–105. 27 indexed citations

Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2013). Estimates of viral abundance in soils are strongly influenced by extraction and enumeration methods. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 49(7). 857–869. 57 indexed citations

Furlong, Kevin P., et al.. (2013). Applications and limitations of tea extract as a virucidal agent to assess the role of phage predation in soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 50(2). 263–274. 20 indexed citations

Williamson, Kurt E., Rebekah R. Helton, & K. Eric Wommack. (2011). Bias in bacteriophage morphological classification by transmission electron microscopy due to breakage or loss of tail structures. Microscopy Research and Technique. 75(4). 452–457. 12 indexed citations

Williamson, Kurt E., Sharath Srinivasiah, & K. Eric Wommack. (2011). Viruses in Soil Ecosystems. 2 indexed citations

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Winget, Danielle M., Rebekah R. Helton, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2011). Repeating patterns of virioplankton production within an estuarine ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(28). 11506–11511. 49 indexed citations

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Wommack, K. Eric, Kurt E. Williamson, Rebekah R. Helton, Shellie R. Bench, & Danielle M. Winget. (2009). Methods for the Isolation of Viruses from Environmental Samples. Methods in molecular biology. 501. 3–14. 54 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Dhritiman, Krishnakali Roy, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2009). Acyl-Homoserine Lactones Can Induce Virus Production in Lysogenic Bacteria: an Alternative Paradigm for Prophage Induction. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75(22). 7142–7152. 97 indexed citations

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Williamson, Shannon J., S. Craig Cary, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2008). Lysogenic virus–host interactions predominate at deep-sea diffuse-flow hydrothermal vents. The ISME Journal. 2(11). 1112–1121. 100 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2008). Cultivation-Based Assessment of Lysogeny Among Soil Bacteria. Microbial Ecology. 56(3). 437–447. 40 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Dhritiman, Krishnakali Roy, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2007). Prevalence of Lysogeny among Soil Bacteria and Presence of 16S rRNA and trzN Genes in Viral-Community DNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(2). 495–502. 102 indexed citations

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Bench, Shellie R., Thomas E. Hanson, Kurt E. Williamson, et al.. (2007). Metagenomic Characterization of Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(23). 7629–7641. 136 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kurt E., et al.. (2006). NORTH AMERICAN ELK BUGLE VOCALIZATIONS: MALE AND FEMALE BUGLE CALL STRUCTURE AND CONTEXT. Journal of Mammalogy. 87(6). 1072–1077. 56 indexed citations

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Hewson, Ian, Danielle M. Winget, Kurt E. Williamson, Jed A. Fuhrman, & K. Eric Wommack. (2006). Viral and bacterial assemblage covariance in oligotrophic waters of the West Florida Shelf (Gulf of Mexico). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 86(3). 591–603. 26 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kurt E., Mark Radosevich, & K. Eric Wommack. (2005). Abundance and Diversity of Viruses in Six Delaware Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(6). 3119–3125. 204 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kurt E., K. Eric Wommack, & Mark Radosevich. (2003). Sampling Natural Viral Communities from Soil for Culture-Independent Analyses. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69(11). 6628–6633. 120 indexed citations

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