Mary Lipton

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Mary Lipton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Lipton has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Spectroscopy and 60 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Mary Lipton's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (54 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (41 papers). Mary Lipton is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (54 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (41 papers). Mary Lipton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Mary Lipton's co-authors include Richard Smith, Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić, Gordon Anderson, Carrie Nicora, Samuel Purvine, Stephen Callister, Joshua Adkins, Yufeng Shen, Kim Hixson and Margaret F. Romine and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Mary Lipton

161 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mary Lipton United States	55	5.3k	3.2k	2.2k	968	964	163	9.5k
Nathan C. VerBerkmoes United States	48	4.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	561 0.6×	986 1.0×	87	7.8k
Robert L. Hettich United States	69	8.5k 1.6×	3.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.8×	1.0k 1.0×	2.7k 2.8×	331	16.0k
Trent R. Northen United States	49	4.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	2.4k 1.1×	198 0.2×	1.2k 1.2×	209	11.0k
Manesh Shah United States	37	2.8k 0.5×	720 0.2×	1.7k 0.8×	395 0.4×	772 0.8×	77	4.9k
Carrie Nicora United States	45	2.9k 0.5×	676 0.2×	1.5k 0.7×	218 0.2×	582 0.6×	143	5.7k
Dörte Becher Germany	60	6.8k 1.3×	836 0.3×	2.9k 1.3×	127 0.1×	662 0.7×	294	11.7k
Samuel Purvine United States	50	4.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	90 0.1×	911 0.9×	138	7.8k
Robert K. Poole United Kingdom	67	8.6k 1.6×	420 0.1×	1.2k 0.6×	960 1.0×	924 1.0×	321	14.6k
Ray Fall United States	63	3.5k 0.7×	985 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	997 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	156	17.7k
Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić United States	61	6.7k 1.3×	6.8k 2.1×	1.0k 0.5×	130 0.1×	1.2k 1.3×	241	12.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary Lipton

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Ojeda, Valle, Sean D. Gallaher, Samuel Purvine, et al.. (2025). Too dim, too bright, and just right: Systems analysis of the Chlamydomonas diurnal program under limiting and excess light. The Plant Cell. 37(6). 2 indexed citations

Liu, Helen W., Patricia Grob, Sean D. Gallaher, et al.. (2025). A distinct LHCI arrangement is recruited to photosystem I in Fe-starved green algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2500621122–e2500621122. 1 indexed citations

Purvine, Samuel, Carrie Nicora, Sean D. Gallaher, et al.. (2024). Iron rescues glucose-mediated photosynthesis repression during lipid accumulation in the green alga Chromochloris zofingiensis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6046–6046. 7 indexed citations

Weitz, Karl, et al.. (2024). Accessing Fungal Contributions to the Birch Effect: Real-Time Respiration from Pore-Scale Microfluidics. Microorganisms. 12(11). 2295–2295.

Bogar, Laura, Andressa M. Venturini, T. Bertie Ansell, et al.. (2024). Ectomycorrhizal fungi alter soil food webs and the functional potential of bacterial communities. mSystems. 9(6). e0036924–e0036924. 7 indexed citations

Borton, Mikayla, Michael Shaffer, David Hoyt, et al.. (2023). Targeted curation of the gut microbial gene content modulating human cardiovascular disease. mBio. 14(5). e0151123–e0151123. 5 indexed citations

Mayali, Xavier, Ty Samo, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, et al.. (2023). Single-cell isotope tracing reveals functional guilds of bacteria associated with the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5642–5642. 15 indexed citations

McDaniel, Elizabeth, Matthew Scarborough, Daniel Mulat, et al.. (2023). Diverse electron carriers drive syntrophic interactions in an enriched anaerobic acetate-oxidizing consortium. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2326–2339. 16 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Ramos, Josué, Mikayla Borton, Bridget B. McGivern, et al.. (2022). Genome-Resolved Metaproteomics Decodes the Microbial and Viral Contributions to Coupled Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in River Sediments. mSystems. 7(4). e0051622–e0051622. 23 indexed citations

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McGivern, Bridget B., Malak Tfaily, Mikayla Borton, et al.. (2021). Decrypting bacterial polyphenol metabolism in an anoxic wetland soil. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2466–2466. 66 indexed citations

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Wilhelm, Roland C., Charles Pepe‐Ranney, Pamela Weisenhorn, Mary Lipton, & Daniel H. Buckley. (2021). Competitive Exclusion and Metabolic Dependency among Microorganisms Structure the Cellulose Economy of an Agricultural Soil. mBio. 12(1). 31 indexed citations

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Gallaher, Sean D., Rory J. Craig, Samuel Purvine, et al.. (2021). Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(7). 32 indexed citations

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Strenkert, Daniela, Stefan Schmollinger, Sean D. Gallaher, et al.. (2019). Multiomics resolution of molecular events during a day in the life of Chlamydomonas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(6). 2374–2383. 109 indexed citations

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Evans, Morgan V., Gordon J. Getzinger, Jenna L. Luek, et al.. (2019). In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing. The ISME Journal. 13(11). 2690–2700. 19 indexed citations

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Ceja-Navarro, Javier A., Ulaş Karaöz, Markus Bill, et al.. (2019). Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle. Nature Microbiology. 4(5). 864–875. 70 indexed citations

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Borton, Mikayla, David Hoyt, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Coupled laboratory and field investigations resolve microbial interactions that underpin persistence in hydraulically fractured shales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(28). E6585–E6594. 61 indexed citations

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Lipton, Mary & Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić. (2009). Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides. Methods in molecular biology. 492. v–v. 17 indexed citations

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Lipton, Mary & Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić. (2009). Mass spectrometry of proteins and peptides : methods and protocols. Humana Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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Kim, Wook, Mark W. Silby, Samuel Purvine, et al.. (2009). Proteomic Detection of Non-Annotated Protein-Coding Genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1. PLoS ONE. 4(12). e8455–e8455. 29 indexed citations

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Smith, Richard, Gordon Anderson, Mary Lipton, et al.. (2002). Review: The Use of Accurate Mass Tags for High-Throughput Microbial Proteomics. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 6(1). 61–90. 54 indexed citations

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