M. Catherine Aime

20.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
257 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

M. Catherine Aime is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Catherine Aime has authored 257 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 218 papers in Plant Science, 177 papers in Cell Biology and 143 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in M. Catherine Aime's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (177 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (142 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (121 papers). M. Catherine Aime is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (177 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (142 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (121 papers). M. Catherine Aime collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. M. Catherine Aime's co-authors include Terry W. Henkel, Wilbert Phillips‐Mora, Stephen A. Rehner, Francisco Posada, Fernando E. Vega, Rytas Vilgalys, Matthew E. Smith, Francisco Infante, Alistair R. McTaggart and Orson K. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

M. Catherine Aime

237 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

  1. One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics
    2002 584 citations M. Catherine Aime et al. profile →
  2. Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens
    2016 377 citations Toby Spribille, Veera Tuovinen et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. Catherine Aime United States 38 5.0k 3.3k 2.4k 1.8k 1.1k 257 6.5k
A. Elizabeth Arnold United States 51 8.5k 1.7× 7.4k 2.3× 1.9k 0.8× 5.5k 3.1× 1.1k 1.1× 155 12.6k
Fernando E. Vega United States 41 3.4k 0.7× 995 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 995 0.6× 4.1k 3.8× 162 6.4k
Jean‐Marc Moncalvo Canada 38 4.6k 0.9× 2.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 642 0.6× 86 5.5k
Amy Y. Rossman United States 45 6.5k 1.3× 6.1k 1.8× 2.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 661 0.6× 190 8.1k
T. C. Harrington United States 50 3.6k 0.7× 3.7k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 984 0.6× 3.0k 2.8× 195 7.6k
Bernard Slippers South Africa 53 7.6k 1.5× 7.6k 2.3× 3.4k 1.4× 1.9k 1.1× 1.9k 1.8× 286 10.8k
Franz Oberwinkler Germany 50 7.2k 1.4× 4.2k 1.3× 3.6k 1.5× 2.3k 1.3× 958 0.9× 310 8.8k
R. C. Ploetz United States 43 5.8k 1.2× 4.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.4× 318 0.2× 1.3k 1.2× 186 7.6k
Ignazio Carbone United States 43 6.8k 1.4× 5.8k 1.7× 2.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 357 0.3× 100 8.4k
Paul Bayman Puerto Rico 32 2.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 784 0.3× 1.4k 0.8× 411 0.4× 80 3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Catherine Aime

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Raudabaugh, Daniel B. & M. Catherine Aime. (2024). A Survey of Bacteria and Fungi Associated with Leaves, Rhizophylls, and Vesicles of the Carnivorous Plant Genlisea hispidula (Lentibulariaceae). Diversity. 16(2). 77–77. 1 indexed citations
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Aime, M. Catherine, et al.. (2024). Moniliophthora perniciosa in Angola, Africa—the First Record in the Eastern Hemisphere. Plant Disease. 108(5). 1152–1156. 1 indexed citations
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Henkel, Terry W., et al.. (2024). New Cortinariaceae species associated with Dicymbe, Aldina , and Pakaraimaea in Guyana. Mycologia. 116(5). 848–864. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Donald D., et al.. (2023). First Report of Puccinia lagenophorae on Senecio vulgaris in Pennsylvania. Plant Disease. 107(8). 2542–2542. 1 indexed citations
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Boshoff, Willem H. P., Alan R. Wood, Botma Visser, et al.. (2022). The life cycle of Puccinia digitariae on Digitaria eriantha and Solanum species in South Africa. Mycologia. 114(2). 319–336. 1 indexed citations
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Aime, M. Catherine, et al.. (2022). New records and data on rust fungi (Pucciniales, Basidiomycota) in Benin. Phytotaxa. 548(2). 127–145. 2 indexed citations
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Rhiney, Kevon, Zack Guido, Chris Knudson, et al.. (2021). Epidemics and the future of coffee production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 42 indexed citations
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Boekhout, Teun, M. Catherine Aime, Dominik Begerow, et al.. (2021). The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks. Fungal Diversity. 109(1). 27–55. 39 indexed citations
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Aime, M. Catherine, et al.. (2020). Two new species and a new record of Crepidotus (Agaricomycetes) from India. Australian Systematic Botany. 33(4). 380–391. 4 indexed citations
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Laraba, Imane, Hye-Seon Kim, Robert H. Proctor, et al.. (2019). Fusarium xyrophilum, sp. nov., a member of the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex recovered from pseudoflowers on yellow-eyed grass (Xyris spp.) from Guyana. Mycologia. 112(1). 39–51. 11 indexed citations
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Kijpornyongpan, Teeratas, Héctor Urbina, Sung‐Oui Suh, et al.. (2018). TheSuhomycesclade: from single isolate to multiple species to disintegrating sex loci. FEMS Yeast Research. 19(2). 11 indexed citations
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Urbina, Héctor, et al.. (2018). Xylaria karyophthora : a new seed-inhabiting fungus of Greenheart from Guyana. Mycologia. 110(2). 434–447. 18 indexed citations
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Spribille, Toby, Veera Tuovinen, Philipp Resl, et al.. (2016). Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens. Science. 353(6298). 488–492. 377 indexed citations breakdown →
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Toome, Merje, Robert W. Roberson, & M. Catherine Aime. (2013). Meredithblackwellia eburnea gen. et sp. nov., Kriegeriaceae fam. nov. and Kriegeriales ord. nov.—toward resolving higher-level classification in Microbotryomycetes. Mycologia. 105(2). 486–495. 33 indexed citations
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Vega, Fernando E., Francisco Posada, M. Catherine Aime, Stephen W. Peterson, & Stephen A. Rehner. (2008). Fungal endophytes in green coffee seeds. Mycosystema. 13 indexed citations
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Deadman, M. L., et al.. (2006). First report of the rust Melampsora euphorbiae on Euphorbia heterophylla in Oman.. Journal of Plant Pathology. 88(2). 3 indexed citations
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Chlebicki, Andrzej & M. Catherine Aime. (2006). New distribution and host records for Puccinia atrofusca and other Notable Puccinia species (UREDINALES) from Central Asia. Polish Botanical Journal. 51(1). 87–91. 1 indexed citations

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