Michael S. Rappé

14.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
75 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Michael S. Rappé is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael S. Rappé has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michael S. Rappé's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (63 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (25 papers). Michael S. Rappé is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (63 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (36 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (25 papers). Michael S. Rappé collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Michael S. Rappé's co-authors include Stephen J. Giovannoni, Kevin L. Vergin, Stephanie A. Connon, Robert M. Morris, Marcelino T. Suzuki, Eric J. Mathur, Craig A. Carlson, Jay M. Short, Sean P. Jungbluth and H. James Tripp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael S. Rappé

74 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Uncultured Microbial Majority 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2002 2005 2002 2009 400 800 1.2k
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. The Uncultured Microbial Majority
    2003 1.4k citations Michael S. Rappé, Stephen J. Giovannoni profile →
  2. SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities
    2002 862 citations Michael S. Rappé, Kevin L. Vergin et al. profile →
  3. Genome Streamlining in a Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacterium
    2005 849 citations Stephen J. Giovannoni, H. James Tripp et al. Science profile →
  4. Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade
    2002 699 citations Michael S. Rappé, Kevin L. Vergin et al. profile →
  5. Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity
    2009 595 citations Michael S. Rappé et al. profile →
  6. Cultivating the uncultured
    2002 534 citations Michael S. Rappé, Eric J. Mathur et al. profile →
  7. Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes
    2018 353 citations Tom O. Delmont, Özcan C. Esen et al. profile →
  8. Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle
    2018 295 citations Karthik Anantharaman, Bela Hausmann et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers

Michael S. Rappé
Julie A. Huber United States
Steven Hallam Canada
Klaus Jürgens Germany
Anna‐Louise Reysenbach United States
Emilio O. Casamayor Spain
Ramūnas Stepanauskas United States
Martin W. Hahn Austria
S. Craig Cary New Zealand
Jarone Pinhassi Sweden
Thorsten Brinkhoff Germany
Julie A. Huber United States
Michael S. Rappé
Citations per year, relative to Michael S. Rappé Michael S. Rappé (= 1×) peers Julie A. Huber

Countries citing papers authored by Michael S. Rappé

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael S. Rappé

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael S. Rappé

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rii, Yoshimi M., et al.. (2025). Seasonal and spatial transitions in phytoplankton assemblages spanning estuarine to open ocean waters of the tropical Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(6). 1693–1708. 2 indexed citations
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Freel, Kelle C., et al.. (2025). New SAR11 isolate genomes and global marine metagenomes resolve ecologically relevant units within the Pelagibacterales. Nature Communications. 17(1). 328–328. 1 indexed citations
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Freel, Kelle C., et al.. (2025). Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 1 indexed citations
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Freel, Kelle C., et al.. (2024). Isolate-anchored comparisons reveal evolutionary and functional differentiation across SAR86 marine bacteria. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 2 indexed citations
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Kiefl, Evan, Özcan C. Esen, Samuel Miller, et al.. (2023). Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution. Science Advances. 9(8). eabq4632–eabq4632. 13 indexed citations
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Brown, Julia M., et al.. (2023). Life strategies for Aminicenantia in subseafloor oceanic crust. The ISME Journal. 17(9). 1406–1415. 5 indexed citations
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Lanclos, V. Celeste, Michael W. Henson, Chuankai Cheng, et al.. (2021). Ecophysiology of the Cosmopolitan OM252 Bacterioplankton ( Gammaproteobacteria ). mSystems. 6(3). 101128msystems0027621–101128msystems0027621. 11 indexed citations
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Freel, Kelle C., et al.. (2020). Isolation of SAR11 Marine Bacteria from Cryopreserved Seawater. mSystems. 5(6). 9 indexed citations
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Boyd, Joel A., Sean P. Jungbluth, Andy O Leu, et al.. (2019). Divergent methyl-coenzyme M reductase genes in a deep-subseafloor Archaeoglobi. The ISME Journal. 13(5). 1269–1279. 51 indexed citations
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Delmont, Tom O., Evan Kiefl, Özcan C. Esen, et al.. (2019). Single-amino acid variants reveal evolutionary processes that shape the biogeography of a global SAR11 subclade. eLife. 8. 80 indexed citations
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Anantharaman, Karthik, Bela Hausmann, Sean P. Jungbluth, et al.. (2018). Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1715–1728. 295 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chuvochina, Maria, Christian Rinke, Donovan H. Parks, et al.. (2018). The importance of designating type material for uncultured taxa. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 42(1). 15–21. 76 indexed citations
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Nigro, Olivia D., Sean P. Jungbluth, Huei‐Ting Lin, et al.. (2017). Viruses in the Oceanic Basement. mBio. 8(2). 50 indexed citations
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Jungbluth, Sean P., Jan P. Amend, & Michael S. Rappé. (2017). Metagenome sequencing and 98 microbial genomes from Juan de Fuca Ridge flank subsurface fluids. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170037–170037. 67 indexed citations
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Jungbluth, Sean P., Tijana Glavina Del Rio, Susannah G. Tringe, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, & Michael S. Rappé. (2017). Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ. 5. e3134–e3134. 26 indexed citations
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Jungbluth, Sean P., Robert M. Bowers, Huei‐Ting Lin, James P. Cowen, & Michael S. Rappé. (2016). Novel microbial assemblages inhabiting crustal fluids within mid-ocean ridge flank subsurface basalt. The ISME Journal. 10(8). 2033–2047. 51 indexed citations
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Salerno, Jennifer L., Brian W. Bowen, & Michael S. Rappé. (2016). Biogeography of planktonic and coral-associated microorganisms across the Hawaiian Archipelago. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(8). fiw109–fiw109. 12 indexed citations
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Cowen, James P., E. J. Olson, Marvin D. Lilley, et al.. (2014). Dissolved hydrogen and methane in the oceanic basaltic biosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 405. 62–73. 37 indexed citations
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Rappé, Michael S.. (2013). Stabilizing the foundation of the house that ‘omics builds: the evolving value of cultured isolates to marine microbiology. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 16(5). 618–624. 12 indexed citations
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Giovannoni, Stephen J., H. James Tripp, Scott A. Givan, et al.. (2005). Genome Streamlining in a Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacterium. Science. 309(5738). 1242–1245. 849 indexed citations breakdown →

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