Linda Wegley

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Linda Wegley is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Linda Wegley has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Linda Wegley's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers). Linda Wegley is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers). Linda Wegley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and France. Linda Wegley's co-authors include Forest Rohwer, Mya Breitbart, Matthew Haynes, Robert A. Edwards, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Hong Liu, Martin O. Saar, E. Calvin Alexander and Scott C. Alexander and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Linda Wegley

12 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes

2009 449 citations Rebecca Vega Thurber, Matthew Haynes et al. Nature Protocols profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Linda Wegley United States	11	1.9k	729	423	403	295	12	2.3k
Victor Seguritan United States	11	1.7k 0.9×	821 1.1×	385 0.9×	346 0.9×	251 0.9×	11	2.1k
Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito United States	10	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	312 0.7×	177 0.4×	256 0.9×	12	2.2k
Bénédicte Lafay France	22	942 0.5×	996 1.4×	207 0.5×	325 0.8×	445 1.5×	34	2.5k
Ruth‐Anne Sandaa Norway	28	2.0k 1.0×	792 1.1×	525 1.2×	282 0.7×	537 1.8×	64	2.8k
Merry Youle United States	15	1.4k 0.7×	782 1.1×	228 0.5×	176 0.4×	296 1.0×	17	1.9k
Leah Reshef Israel	18	1.2k 0.6×	732 1.0×	537 1.3×	510 1.3×	75 0.3×	37	2.4k
Amy M. Chan Canada	21	2.7k 1.4×	1.5k 2.1×	505 1.2×	255 0.6×	1.1k 3.9×	38	3.8k
Karla B. Heidelberg United States	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	541 1.3×	237 0.6×	184 0.6×	43	2.5k
Rui Zhang China	28	1.8k 0.9×	772 1.1×	238 0.6×	192 0.5×	381 1.3×	151	2.6k
Yvan Bettarel France	26	1.4k 0.7×	361 0.5×	268 0.6×	304 0.8×	241 0.8×	60	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Linda Wegley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Linda Wegley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Linda Wegley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Linda Wegley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Linda Wegley 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 Linda Wegley. Linda Wegley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Thurber, Rebecca Vega, Matthew Haynes, Mya Breitbart, Linda Wegley, & Forest Rohwer. (2009). Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes. Nature Protocols. 4(4). 470–483. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thurber, Rebecca L. Vega, Katie L. Barott, Hong Liu, et al.. (2008). Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(47). 18413–18418. 161 indexed citations

3.

Dinsdale, Elizabeth A., Olga Pantos, Steven Smriga, et al.. (2008). Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands. PLoS ONE. 3(2). e1584–e1584. 321 indexed citations

4.

Wegley, Linda, Robert A. Edwards, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Hong Liu, & Forest Rohwer. (2007). Metagenomic analysis of the microbial community associated with the coral Porites astreoides. Environmental Microbiology. 9(11). 2707–2719. 415 indexed citations

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Beman, J. Michael, K. Roberts, Linda Wegley, Forest Rohwer, & Christopher Francis. (2007). Distribution and Diversity of Archaeal Ammonia Monooxygenase Genes Associated with Corals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(17). 5642–5647. 96 indexed citations

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Edwards, Robert A., Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Linda Wegley, et al.. (2006). Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology. BMC Genomics. 7(1). 57–57. 336 indexed citations

7.

Wegley, Linda, et al.. (2006). Rapid estimation of microbial numbers in water using bulk fluorescence. Environmental Microbiology. 8(10). 1775–1782. 10 indexed citations

8.

Sano, Emiko, et al.. (2004). Movement of Viruses between Biomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(10). 5842–5846. 120 indexed citations

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Wegley, Linda, Yanan Yu, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2004). Coral-associated Archaea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 273. 89–96. 114 indexed citations

10.

Casas, Veronica, David I. Kline, Linda Wegley, et al.. (2004). Widespread association of a Rickettsiales ‐like bacterium with reef‐building corals. Environmental Microbiology. 6(11). 1137–1148. 72 indexed citations

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Breitbart, Mya, et al.. (2004). Phage Community Dynamics in Hot Springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(3). 1633–1640. 118 indexed citations

12.

Mosier-Boss, P.A., Stephen H. Lieberman, J. M. Andrews, et al.. (2003). Use of Fluorescently Labeled Phage in the Detection and Identification of Bacterial Species. Applied Spectroscopy. 57(9). 1138–1144. 66 indexed citations

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