Luke J. McKay

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Luke J. McKay is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke J. McKay has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Luke J. McKay's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers). Luke J. McKay is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers). Luke J. McKay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Luke J. McKay's co-authors include Andreas Teske, William P. Inskeep, Mensur Dlakić, Matthew W. Fields, Tingting Yang, Daniel B. Albert, Howard P. Mendlovitz, Tony Gutiérrez, Barbara J. MacGregor and Daniel Hoer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luke J. McKay

22 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases

2021 239 citations Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luke J. McKay United States	15	513	500	459	317	164	24	1.2k
Takeshi Terada Japan	16	278 0.5×	560 1.1×	420 0.9×	257 0.8×	74 0.5×	28	1.0k
Olivier Nercessian France	16	472 0.9×	646 1.3×	412 0.9×	215 0.7×	96 0.6×	20	1.1k
Verona Vandieken Germany	19	288 0.6×	655 1.3×	487 1.1×	162 0.5×	80 0.5×	27	1.1k
Dorthe Groth Petersen Denmark	14	378 0.7×	917 1.8×	586 1.3×	320 1.0×	64 0.4×	14	1.4k
Dimitri V. Meier Germany	16	348 0.7×	728 1.5×	418 0.9×	120 0.4×	68 0.4×	27	1.1k
Miho Hirai Japan	22	583 1.1×	992 2.0×	579 1.3×	192 0.6×	62 0.4×	49	1.5k
S. Emil Ruff United States	20	342 0.7×	701 1.4×	714 1.6×	113 0.4×	243 1.5×	33	1.2k
Viola Krukenberg United States	12	439 0.9×	607 1.2×	670 1.5×	153 0.5×	215 1.3×	15	1.3k
Tatsunori Nakagawa Japan	22	511 1.0×	861 1.7×	443 1.0×	466 1.5×	44 0.3×	34	1.3k
Laurent M.A.A. Toffin France	19	351 0.7×	550 1.1×	490 1.1×	70 0.2×	137 0.8×	30	1.0k

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Inskeep, William P., Zackary J. Jay, Luke J. McKay, & Mensur Dlakić. (2025). Respiratory processes of early-evolved hyperthermophiles in sulfidic and low-oxygen geothermal microbial communities. Nature Communications. 16(1). 277–277. 2 indexed citations

Teske, Andreas, Barbara J. MacGregor, Luke J. McKay, et al.. (2023). Thermal Selection of Microbial Communities and Preservation of Microbial Function in Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(3). e0001823–e0001823. 4 indexed citations

Smith, Heidi J., Elliott P. Barnhart, Luke J. McKay, et al.. (2022). Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low- and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 8(1). 7–7. 19 indexed citations

Altae-Tran, Han, Soumya Kannan, F. Esra Demircioglu, et al.. (2021). The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases. Science. 374(6563). 57–65. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

McKay, Luke J., Heidi J. Smith, Elliott P. Barnhart, et al.. (2021). Activity-based, genome-resolved metagenomics uncovers key populations and pathways involved in subsurface conversions of coal to methane. The ISME Journal. 16(4). 915–926. 29 indexed citations

McKay, Luke J., Olivia D. Nigro, Mensur Dlakić, et al.. (2021). Sulfur cycling and host-virus interactions in Aquificales-dominated biofilms from Yellowstone’s hottest ecosystems. The ISME Journal. 16(3). 842–855. 12 indexed citations

McKay, Luke J., et al.. (2021). Draft Genome Sequence of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus WHS, a Thermophilic Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen from Washburn Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, USA. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 10(5). 6 indexed citations

Ramírez, Gustavo A., Luke J. McKay, Matthew W. Fields, et al.. (2020). The Guaymas Basin Subseafloor Sedimentary Archaeome Reflects Complex Environmental Histories. iScience. 23(9). 101459–101459. 16 indexed citations

Borrel, Guillaume, Panagiotis S. Adam, Luke J. McKay, et al.. (2019). Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 603–613. 156 indexed citations

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McKay, Luke J., Mensur Dlakić, Matthew W. Fields, et al.. (2019). Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 614–622. 88 indexed citations

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McKay, Luke J.. (2019). MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF A MANMADE OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND A NATURAL, HYDROTHERMAL OIL SEEP IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

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Teske, Andreas, Luke J. McKay, Ana Christina Ravelo, et al.. (2019). Characteristics and Evolution of sill-driven off-axis hydrothermalism in Guaymas Basin – the Ringvent site. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13847–13847. 34 indexed citations

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McKay, Luke J., Roland Hatzenpichler, William P. Inskeep, & Matthew W. Fields. (2017). Occurrence and expression of novel methyl-coenzyme M reductase gene (mcrA) variants in hot spring sediments. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7252–7252. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Tingting, Kelly E. Speare, Luke J. McKay, et al.. (2016). Distinct Bacterial Communities in Surficial Seafloor Sediments Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1384–1384. 33 indexed citations

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Buckley, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Biogeochemical and Microbial Survey of Gravity Cores from the Guaymas Basin and Sonora Margin. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 3 indexed citations

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McKay, Luke J., Howard P. Mendlovitz, Douglas E. LaRowe, et al.. (2015). Thermal and geochemical influences on microbial biogeography in the hydrothermal sediments of G uaymas B asin, G ulf of C alifornia. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 8(1). 150–161. 56 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Tony, David Berry, Tingting Yang, et al.. (2013). Role of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides (EPS) in the Fate of the Oil Released during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67717–e67717. 136 indexed citations

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Ziervogel, Kai, et al.. (2012). Microbial Activities and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in Oil-Contaminated Surface Seawater from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34816–e34816. 114 indexed citations

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Diercks, Arne R., et al.. (2010). The Discovery of Deep Oil Plumes at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site (Invited). AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Diercks, Arne R., Vernon Asper, R.C. Highsmith, et al.. (2010). NIUST - Deepwater horizon oil spill response cruise. Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi). 1–7. 14 indexed citations

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