Meghan Chafee

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 986 citations indexed

About

Meghan Chafee is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Meghan Chafee has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 986 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Meghan Chafee's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (5 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Meghan Chafee is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (5 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Meghan Chafee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Meghan Chafee's co-authors include Hanno Teeling, A. Murat Eren, Rudolf Amann, Sheri L. Simmons, Loïs Maignien, Gunnar Gerdts, Emelia DeForce, Karen Krüger, Antje Wichels and Judith Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Meghan Chafee

12 papers receiving 984 citations

Hit Papers

Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during co... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms
    2016 345 citations Hanno Teeling, Bernhard M. Fuchs et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Meghan Chafee United States 9 645 363 304 198 154 15 986
Silke Van den Wyngaert Germany 14 575 0.9× 446 1.2× 157 0.5× 209 1.1× 115 0.7× 28 908
Irene Forn Spain 18 1.1k 1.7× 872 2.4× 483 1.6× 170 0.9× 120 0.8× 28 1.4k
Diane Y. Kim United States 10 979 1.5× 739 2.0× 303 1.0× 118 0.6× 112 0.7× 13 1.3k
Tina Schleicher Germany 8 304 0.5× 364 1.0× 129 0.4× 154 0.8× 110 0.7× 11 820
Gisèle Bronner France 17 728 1.1× 632 1.7× 148 0.5× 267 1.3× 155 1.0× 26 1.1k
Cristina M. Herren United States 9 440 0.7× 253 0.7× 76 0.3× 207 1.0× 76 0.5× 12 793
Anders K. Krabberød Norway 15 591 0.9× 521 1.4× 204 0.7× 119 0.6× 71 0.5× 33 835
Asunción Lago‐Lestón Mexico 20 530 0.8× 353 1.0× 325 1.1× 92 0.5× 39 0.3× 45 1.2k
Evelyne Brambilla Germany 13 673 1.0× 539 1.5× 119 0.4× 114 0.6× 206 1.3× 14 1.1k
Akinori Yabuki Japan 22 776 1.2× 1.1k 2.9× 186 0.6× 99 0.5× 55 0.4× 66 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Meghan Chafee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meghan Chafee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Meghan Chafee. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Meghan Chafee. The network helps show where Meghan Chafee may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meghan Chafee

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Bryant, Jessica A., Timothy J. Straub, Darrell S. Pardi, et al.. (2025). Comparability of Gastrointestinal Microbiome and Bile Acid Profiles in Patients With First or Multiply Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 232(5). e733–e740.
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Peled, Jonathan U., Doris M. Ponce, Satyajit Kosuri, et al.. (2025). Exploratory analyses of immune reconstitution biomarkers from a Ph1b study of an investigational, oral, live biotherapeutic, SER-155, in adult allo-HCT.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 43(16_suppl). 6554–6554.
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Krüger, Karen, Meghan Chafee, Ben Francis, et al.. (2019). In marine Bacteroidetes the bulk of glycan degradation during algae blooms is mediated by few clades using a restricted set of genes. The ISME Journal. 13(11). 2800–2816. 133 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, et al.. (2017). Recurrent patterns of microdiversity in a temperate coastal marine environment. The ISME Journal. 12(1). 237–252. 113 indexed citations
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Hahnke, Richard L., Meghan Chafee, Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka, et al.. (2016). Genomic and physiological analyses of ‘ Reinekea forsetii ’ reveal a versatile opportunistic lifestyle during spring algae blooms. Environmental Microbiology. 19(3). 1209–1221. 11 indexed citations
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Teeling, Hanno, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Christin Bennke, et al.. (2016). Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms. eLife. 5. e11888–e11888. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lucas, Judith, Antje Wichels, Hanno Teeling, et al.. (2015). Annual dynamics of North Sea bacterioplankton: seasonal variability superimposes short-term variation. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(9). fiv099–fiv099. 55 indexed citations
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Maignien, Loïs, Emelia DeForce, Meghan Chafee, A. Murat Eren, & Sheri L. Simmons. (2014). Ecological Succession and Stochastic Variation in the Assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana Phyllosphere Communities. mBio. 5(1). e00682–13. 208 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan, Loïs Maignien, & Sheri L. Simmons. (2014). The effects of variable sample biomass on comparative metagenomics. Environmental Microbiology. 17(7). 2239–2253. 23 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan, Victor T. Schmidt, John H. Chen, et al.. (2010). Decoupling of Host–Symbiont–Phage Coadaptations Following Transfer Between Insect Species. Genetics. 187(1). 203–215. 40 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan, Daniel J. Funk, R. G. Harrison, & Seth R. Bordenstein. (2009). Lateral Phage Transfer in Obligate Intracellular Bacteria (Wolbachia): Verification from Natural Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(3). 501–505. 53 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan. (2008). A GENETIC MARKER FOR COASTAL DIATOMS BASED ON PSBA. 1 indexed citations

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