Nicole S. Webster

23.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Nicole S. Webster is a scholar working on Ecology, Biotechnology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole S. Webster has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Ecology, 110 papers in Biotechnology and 56 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Nicole S. Webster's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (119 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (110 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (52 papers). Nicole S. Webster is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (119 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (110 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (52 papers). Nicole S. Webster collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Nicole S. Webster's co-authors include Michael W. Taylor, David G. Bourne, Andrew P. Negri, Russell T. Hill, Torsten Thomas, Steve Whalan, Emmanuelle S. Botté, Kathleen M. Morrow, James J. Bell and Bettina Glasl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nicole S. Webster

174 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

2016 537 citations David G. Bourne, Nicole S. Webster et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole S. Webster Australia	57	6.7k	5.4k	2.6k	2.6k	2.3k	178	11.1k
Ute Hentschel Germany	64	3.9k 0.6×	7.4k 1.4×	725 0.3×	2.4k 0.9×	5.3k 2.3×	204	13.2k
Russell T. Hill United States	50	2.5k 0.4×	2.6k 0.5×	558 0.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	134	6.9k
David G. Bourne Australia	62	11.2k 1.7×	2.1k 0.4×	5.5k 2.1×	3.8k 1.5×	257 0.1×	207	13.9k
Suhelen Egan Australia	39	1.9k 0.3×	981 0.2×	1.3k 0.5×	573 0.2×	655 0.3×	105	4.8k
Margo G. Haygood United States	43	1.3k 0.2×	1.6k 0.3×	542 0.2×	308 0.1×	1.8k 0.8×	90	5.1k
Ricardo Calado Portugal	46	3.3k 0.5×	601 0.1×	1.7k 0.6×	507 0.2×	249 0.1×	290	6.9k
Suzanne T. Williams United Kingdom	47	3.3k 0.5×	674 0.1×	2.1k 0.8×	195 0.1×	1.6k 0.7×	172	8.9k
Newton C. M. Gomes Portugal	45	2.6k 0.4×	861 0.2×	491 0.2×	878 0.3×	357 0.2×	172	6.1k
Thorsten Brinkhoff Germany	46	4.6k 0.7×	447 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	473 0.2×	374 0.2×	116	6.7k
Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera Spain	69	11.1k 1.7×	793 0.1×	1.5k 0.6×	510 0.2×	363 0.2×	252	17.7k

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O’Brien, Paul A., Sara C. Bell, Laura Rix, et al.. (2025). Light and dark biofilm adaptation impacts larval settlement in diverse coral species. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations

Montoya, José M., et al.. (2024). A mechanistic framework for complex microbe-host symbioses. Trends in Microbiology. 33(1). 96–111. 5 indexed citations

Song, Weizhi, Marwan E. Majzoub, Xiaoyuan Feng, et al.. (2024). Decoupling of strain- and intrastrain-level interactions of microbiomes in a sponge holobiont. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8205–8205. 3 indexed citations

Wemheuer, Bernd, Weizhi Song, Holly Bennett, et al.. (2023). Functional characterization and taxonomic classification of novel gammaproteobacterial diversity in sponges. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 46(2). 126401–126401. 5 indexed citations

Vanwonterghem, Inka, Emmanuelle S. Botté, Carly J. Randall, et al.. (2023). Linking differences in microbial network structure with changes in coral larval settlement. ISME Communications. 3(1). 114–114. 9 indexed citations

Rix, Laura, Michelle Achlatis, Jeremy Bougoure, et al.. (2021). Subcellular view of host–microbiome nutrient exchange in sponges: insights into the ecological success of an early metazoan–microbe symbiosis. Microbiome. 9(1). 44–44. 35 indexed citations

Glasl, Bettina, Tânia Aires, Ester Á. Serrão, et al.. (2021). Microbial Surface Biofilm Responds to the Growth-Reproduction-Senescence Cycle of the Dominant Coral Reef Macroalgae Sargassum spp.. Life. 11(11). 1199–1199. 7 indexed citations

Nguyen, Mary, Bernd Wemheuer, Patrick W. Laffy, Nicole S. Webster, & Torsten Thomas. (2021). Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges. PeerJ. 9. e10715–e10715. 11 indexed citations

Glasl, Bettina, Steven J. Robbins, Pedro R. Frade, et al.. (2020). Comparative genome-centric analysis reveals seasonal variation in the function of coral reef microbiomes. The ISME Journal. 14(6). 1435–1450. 56 indexed citations

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Glasl, Bettina, Aschwin H. Engelen, Ester Á. Serrão, et al.. (2020). Microbiome dynamics in the tissue and mucus of acroporid corals differ in relation to host and environmental parameters. PeerJ. 8. e9644–e9644. 37 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weipeng, Wei Ding, Yong‐Xin Li, et al.. (2019). Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential. Nature Communications. 10(1). 517–517. 129 indexed citations

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Glasl, Bettina, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the effect of host-genotype and environment on the microbiome of the coral Acropora tenuis. PeerJ. 7. e6377–e6377. 52 indexed citations

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Glasl, Bettina, David G. Bourne, Pedro R. Frade, et al.. (2019). Microbial indicators of environmental perturbations in coral reef ecosystems. Microbiome. 7(1). 94–94. 153 indexed citations

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Ramsby, Blake D., Mia O. Hoogenboom, Steve Whalan, & Nicole S. Webster. (2018). Elevated seawater temperature disrupts the microbiome of an ecologically important bioeroding sponge. Molecular Ecology. 27(8). 2124–2137. 51 indexed citations

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Ramsby, Blake D., Mia O. Hoogenboom, Hillary A. Smith, Steve Whalan, & Nicole S. Webster. (2018). The bioeroding sponge Cliona orientalis will not tolerate future projected ocean warming. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8302–8302. 18 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., et al.. (2018). Elucidating the sponge stress response; lipids and fatty acids can facilitate survival under future climate scenarios. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 3130–3144. 37 indexed citations

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Ramsby, Blake D., Mia O. Hoogenboom, Steve Whalan, Nicole S. Webster, & Angus Thompson. (2017). A decadal analysis of bioeroding sponge cover on the inshore Great Barrier Reef. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2706–2706. 18 indexed citations

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Webster, Nicole S. & Torsten Thomas. (2016). The Sponge Hologenome. mBio. 7(2). e00135–16. 246 indexed citations

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Webster, Nicole S., et al.. (2016). Using a thermistor flowmeter with attached video camera for monitoring sponge excurrent speed and oscular behaviour. PeerJ. 4. e2761–e2761. 34 indexed citations

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Tout, Jessica, Nachshon Siboni, Lauren F. Messer, et al.. (2015). Increased seawater temperature increases the abundance and alters the structure of natural Vibrio populations associated with the coral Pocillopora damicornis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 112 indexed citations

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