Merry Youle

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Merry Youle is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Merry Youle has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Merry Youle's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (4 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 papers). Merry Youle is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (4 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 papers). Merry Youle collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Germany. Merry Youle's co-authors include Forest Rohwer, Jeremy J. Barr, Peter Salamon, Mike Furlan, Roland Wolkowicz, Kelly S. Doran, Marcella L. Erb, Andrew S. Cutting, Aleksandr Stotland and Joe Pogliano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Merry Youle

17 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non–host-derive... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 200 400 600
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. Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non–host-derived immunity
    2013 660 citations Jeremy J. Barr, Mike Furlan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Merry Youle United States 15 1.4k 782 318 296 238 17 1.9k
Joy Yang United States 7 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 213 0.7× 158 0.5× 302 1.3× 9 2.2k
Joseph J. Gillespie United States 34 510 0.4× 1000 1.3× 518 1.6× 400 1.4× 124 0.5× 65 3.7k
Kathryn M. Kauffman United States 17 1.0k 0.7× 914 1.2× 738 2.3× 216 0.7× 110 0.5× 24 2.3k
Savannah E. Sanchez United States 8 682 0.5× 418 0.5× 221 0.7× 150 0.5× 104 0.4× 15 1.0k
Andrey V. Letarov Russia 22 2.1k 1.5× 1.1k 1.3× 383 1.2× 455 1.5× 141 0.6× 76 2.4k
Vincent P. Richards United States 25 290 0.2× 673 0.9× 222 0.7× 72 0.2× 374 1.6× 57 2.2k
Claudia Wylezich Germany 24 742 0.5× 884 1.1× 712 2.2× 129 0.4× 100 0.4× 70 1.9k
David Fritz United States 22 224 0.2× 512 0.7× 316 1.0× 150 0.5× 602 2.5× 46 1.8k
Sébastien Boutin Germany 27 361 0.3× 932 1.2× 235 0.7× 390 1.3× 205 0.9× 112 3.3k
Jeffrey L. Stott United States 30 565 0.4× 210 0.3× 565 1.8× 101 0.3× 240 1.0× 120 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Merry Youle

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Fields of papers citing papers by Merry Youle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Merry Youle. 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 Merry Youle. The network helps show where Merry Youle may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Merry Youle

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Güemes, Ana Georgina Cobián, Merry Youle, Adrian Cantu, et al.. (2016). Viruses as Winners in the Game of Life. Annual Review of Virology. 3(1). 197–214. 207 indexed citations
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Barr, Jeremy J., Sam Kassegne, Natasha Bonilla, et al.. (2015). Subdiffusive motion of bacteriophage in mucosal surfaces increases the frequency of bacterial encounters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(44). 13675–13680. 149 indexed citations
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Kelly, Linda Wegley, Gareth J. Williams, Katie L. Barott, et al.. (2014). Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(28). 10227–10232. 168 indexed citations
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Frank, Jeremy A., Don Lorimer, Merry Youle, et al.. (2013). Structure and function of a cyanophage-encoded peptide deformylase. The ISME Journal. 7(6). 1150–1160. 25 indexed citations
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Conrad, Douglas, Matthew Haynes, Peter Salamon, et al.. (2013). Cystic Fibrosis Therapy: A Community Ecology Perspective. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 48(2). 150–156. 78 indexed citations
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Barr, Jeremy J., Merry Youle, & Forest Rohwer. (2013). Innate and acquired bacteriophage-mediated immunity. PubMed. 3(3). e25857–e25857. 61 indexed citations
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Barr, Jeremy J., Mike Furlan, Katrine Whiteson, et al.. (2013). Bacteriophage adhered to mucus provide a novel mucosal immune system (P3166). The Journal of Immunology. 190(Supplement_1). 61.8–61.8. 2 indexed citations
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Gordon, Jeffrey I., Merry Youle, Nancy­ Knowlton­, Forest Rohwer, & David A. Relman. (2013). Superorganisms and Holobionts. Microbe Magazine. 8(4). 152–153. 55 indexed citations
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Barr, Jeremy J., Mike Furlan, Katrine Whiteson, et al.. (2013). Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non–host-derived immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(26). 10771–10776. 660 indexed citations breakdown →
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Youle, Merry, Forest Rohwer, Apollo Stacy, et al.. (2012). The Microbial Olympics. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10(8). 583–588. 13 indexed citations
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Somera, Tracey, James Nulton, Katie L. Barott, et al.. (2012). Assessing Coral Reefs on a Pacific-Wide Scale Using the Microbialization Score. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e43233–e43233. 64 indexed citations
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Lim, Yan Wei, Robert Schmieder, Matthew Haynes, et al.. (2012). Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics: Windows on CF-associated viral and microbial communities. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. 12(2). 154–164. 121 indexed citations
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Willner, Dana, Matthew Haynes, Mike Furlan, et al.. (2011). Case Studies of the Spatial Heterogeneity of DNA Viruses in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 46(2). 127–131. 79 indexed citations
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Barott, Katie L., Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller, Merry Youle, et al.. (2011). Microbial to reef scale interactions between the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis and benthic algae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1733). 1655–1664. 110 indexed citations
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Rohwer, Forest & Merry Youle. (2011). Consider something viral in your research. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 9(5). 308–309. 21 indexed citations
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Rohwer, Forest, et al.. (2010). Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas. 29 indexed citations
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Angly, Florent, Merry Youle, Bahador Nosrat, et al.. (2009). Genomic analysis of multiple Roseophage SIO1 strains. Environmental Microbiology. 11(11). 2863–2873. 54 indexed citations

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