Neil Gray

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Neil Gray is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Gray has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Neil Gray's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers). Neil Gray is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers). Neil Gray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Neil Gray's co-authors include Ian M. Head, Steve Larter, Angela Sherry, D. M. Jones, Carolyn M. Aitken, Keith Scott, Bruce E. Logan, Arlene K. Rowan, Jennifer J. Adams and Jan Dolfing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Neil Gray

76 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs

2007 543 citations D. M. Jones, Ian M. Head et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Neil Gray	1.2k	1.0k	931	718	670	77	3.7k
Lisa M. Gieg	1.8k 1.5×	809 0.8×	878 0.9×	464 0.6×	611 0.9×	82	3.7k
Tommy J. Phelps	670 0.5×	930 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	1.4k 2.0×	1.0k 1.5×	121	5.6k
Jan Kuever	761 0.6×	2.0k 1.9×	1.3k 1.4×	609 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	61	4.3k
Sara Kleindienst	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	482 0.7×	570 0.9×	65	3.1k
Albert D. Venosa	3.2k 2.6×	777 0.8×	458 0.5×	494 0.7×	359 0.5×	159	4.6k
Denise M. Akob	530 0.4×	693 0.7×	802 0.9×	582 0.8×	353 0.5×	69	2.9k
Hiroyuki Imachi	1.6k 1.3×	2.5k 2.4×	1.9k 2.0×	773 1.1×	1.8k 2.7×	110	5.5k
Romy Chakraborty	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	570 0.6×	622 0.9×	878 1.3×	77	3.9k
Н. В. Пименов	606 0.5×	2.1k 2.1×	2.5k 2.7×	337 0.5×	993 1.5×	270	4.8k
Marc Mußmann	831 0.7×	2.9k 2.8×	1.4k 1.6×	536 0.7×	1.5k 2.2×	53	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Neil Gray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neil Gray

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Gray

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baptista, Joana de C., et al.. (2022). Bacterial communities in soils as indicators of the potential of syenite as an agromineral. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira. 57. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Sichu, Pengfei Sun, Guangbin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Contribution of periphytic biofilm of paddy soils to carbon dioxide fixation and methane emissions. The Innovation. 3(1). 100192–100192. 39 indexed citations

Sherry, Angela, et al.. (2020). An Unexpectedly Broad Thermal and Salinity-Tolerant Estuarine Methanogen Community. Microorganisms. 8(10). 1467–1467. 4 indexed citations

Fuller, Adam J., Peter Leary, Neil Gray, et al.. (2020). Organic complexation of U(VI) in reducing soils at a natural analogue site: Implications for uranium transport. Chemosphere. 254. 126859–126859. 46 indexed citations

Sano, Naoko, Cees van der Land, Anders J. Barlow, et al.. (2019). Combining thermal hydrolysis and methylation-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to characterise complex organic assemblages in geological material. MethodsX. 6. 2646–2655.

McCann, Clare M., Matthew J. Wade, Neil Gray, et al.. (2016). Microbial Communities in a High Arctic Polar Desert Landscape. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 419–419. 36 indexed citations

Gray, Christopher, et al.. (2016). Evaluating an anaerobic digestion (AD) feedstock derived from a novel non-source segregated municipal solid waste (MSW) product. Waste Management. 59. 149–159. 22 indexed citations

Johnson, Karen L., Elisa López‐Capél, Caroline L. Peacock, et al.. (2015). Towards a mechanistic understanding of carbon stabilization in manganese oxides. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7628–7628. 131 indexed citations

McCann, Clare M., Neil Gray, Janette Tourney, et al.. (2015). Remediation of a historically Pb contaminated soil using a model natural Mn oxide waste. Chemosphere. 138. 211–217. 28 indexed citations

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Fru, Ernest Chi, Neil Gray, Clare M. McCann, et al.. (2011). Effects of copper mineralogy and methanobactin on cell growth and sMMO activity in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Biogeosciences. 8(10). 2887–2894. 20 indexed citations

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Gray, Neil, Angela Sherry, R. J. Grant, et al.. (2011). The quantitative significance of Syntrophaceae and syntrophic partnerships in methanogenic degradation of crude oil alkanes. Environmental Microbiology. 13(11). 2957–2975. 191 indexed citations

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Westerholm, Maria, Jan Dolfing, Angela Sherry, et al.. (2011). Quantification of syntrophic acetate‐oxidizing microbial communities in biogas processes. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(4). 500–505. 115 indexed citations

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Head, Ian M., et al.. (2010). Hydrocarbon activation under sulfate-reducing and methanogenic conditions proceeds by different mechanisms.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14884. 6 indexed citations

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Dolfing, Jan, et al.. (2009). The thermodynamic landscape of methanogenic PAH degradation. Microbial Biotechnology. 2(5). 566–574. 43 indexed citations

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Zegeye, Asfaw, Sharhabil Musa Yahaya, Claire I. Fialips, et al.. (2008). Application Of Bacterial Iron Reduction For The Removal Of Iron Impurities From Industrial Silica Sand And Kaolin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Gray, Neil, et al.. (2007). The biogeographical distribution of closely related freshwater sediment bacteria is determined by environmental selection. The ISME Journal. 1(7). 596–605. 13 indexed citations

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Jones, D. M., Ian M. Head, Neil Gray, et al.. (2007). Crude-oil biodegradation via methanogenesis in subsurface petroleum reservoirs. Nature. 451(7175). 176–180. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Logan, Bruce E., et al.. (2005). Electricity generation from cysteine in a microbial fuel cell. Water Research. 39(5). 942–952. 395 indexed citations

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Gray, Neil, J. N. S. Matthews, & Ian M. Head. (2005). A stable isotope titration method to determine the contribution of acetate disproportionation and carbon dioxide reduction to methanogenesis. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 65(1). 180–186. 1 indexed citations

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Sheppard, Samuel K., Neil Gray, Ian M. Head, & David Lloyd. (2004). The impact of sludge amendment on gas dynamics in an upland soil: monitored by membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Bioresource Technology. 96(10). 1103–1115. 10 indexed citations

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