Mercè Berga

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mercè Berga is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mercè Berga has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Mercè Berga's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers), Gut microbiota and health (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers). Mercè Berga is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers), Gut microbiota and health (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers). Mercè Berga collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Austria. Mercè Berga's co-authors include Silke Langenheder, Anna J. Székely, Thomas M. Schmidt, Helmut Bürgmann, Hannes Peter, Jo Handelsman, Kristin L. Matulich, Jay T. Lennon, Steven Allison and Jennifer B. H. Martiny and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Frontiers in Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Mercè Berga

10 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience

2012 1.2k citations Ashley Shade, Hannes Peter et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mercè Berga Sweden	10	1.1k	637	238	227	213	10	1.7k
Didier L. Baho Sweden	13	869 0.8×	446 0.7×	369 1.6×	199 0.9×	187 0.9×	21	1.7k
Sean Mcnally United States	7	986 0.9×	602 0.9×	206 0.9×	324 1.4×	124 0.6×	9	1.9k
Laura Weber United States	14	1.3k 1.2×	655 1.0×	221 0.9×	422 1.9×	185 0.9×	22	2.2k
Stephen Woodcock Australia	17	1.3k 1.2×	822 1.3×	311 1.3×	361 1.6×	129 0.6×	36	2.2k
Anna J. Székely Sweden	20	1.1k 1.0×	590 0.9×	295 1.2×	316 1.4×	147 0.7×	43	1.8k
David H. Huber United States	10	705 0.6×	497 0.8×	233 1.0×	121 0.5×	179 0.8×	22	1.4k
Lee F. Stanish United States	19	1.8k 1.6×	962 1.5×	160 0.7×	234 1.0×	228 1.1×	34	2.5k
Teresa Bilinski United States	5	1.1k 1.0×	702 1.1×	136 0.6×	127 0.6×	196 0.9×	7	1.5k
Paul Carini United States	18	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.9×	257 1.1×	429 1.9×	198 0.9×	22	2.4k
Joshua Ladau United States	14	1.0k 0.9×	923 1.4×	104 0.4×	119 0.5×	217 1.0×	25	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Mercè Berga

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mercè Berga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mercè Berga

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

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Berga, Mercè, Yinghua Zha, Anna J. Székely, & Silke Langenheder. (2017). Functional and Compositional Stability of Bacterial Metacommunities in Response to Salinity Changes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 948–948. 40 indexed citations

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Comte, Jérôme, Mercè Berga, Ina Severin, Jürg B. Logue, & Eva S. Lindström. (2017). Contribution of different bacterial dispersal sources to lakes: Population and community effects in different seasons. Environmental Microbiology. 19(6). 2391–2404. 37 indexed citations

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Zha, Yinghua, Mercè Berga, Jérôme Comte, & Silke Langenheder. (2016). Effects of Dispersal and Initial Diversity on the Composition and Functional Performance of Bacterial Communities. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155239–e0155239. 23 indexed citations

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Comte, Jérôme, Silke Langenheder, Mercè Berga, & Eva S. Lindström. (2016). Contribution of different dispersal sources to the metabolic response of lake bacterioplankton following a salinity change. Environmental Microbiology. 19(1). 251–260. 22 indexed citations

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Berga, Mercè, et al.. (2014). The spatial structure of bacterial communities is influenced by historical environmental conditions. Ecology. 95(5). 1134–1140. 62 indexed citations

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Berga, Mercè, Örjan Östman, Eva S. Lindström, & Silke Langenheder. (2014). Combined effects of zooplankton grazing and dispersal on the diversity and assembly mechanisms of bacterial metacommunities. Environmental Microbiology. 17(7). 2275–2287. 41 indexed citations

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Berga, Mercè, Anna J. Székely, & Silke Langenheder. (2012). Effects of Disturbance Intensity and Frequency on Bacterial Community Composition and Function. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36959–e36959. 115 indexed citations

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Shade, Ashley, Hannes Peter, Steven Allison, et al.. (2012). Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 1161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Székely, Anna J., Mercè Berga, & Silke Langenheder. (2012). Mechanisms determining the fate of dispersed bacterial communities in new environments. The ISME Journal. 7(1). 61–71. 83 indexed citations

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Langenheder, Silke, Mercè Berga, Örjan Östman, & Anna J. Székely. (2011). Temporal variation of β-diversity and assembly mechanisms in a bacterial metacommunity. The ISME Journal. 6(6). 1107–1114. 116 indexed citations

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