Paul Carini

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Paul Carini is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Carini has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Paul Carini's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers). Paul Carini is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers). Paul Carini collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Paul Carini's co-authors include Noah Fierer, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Michael S. Strickland, Jonathan W. Leff, J. Cameron Thrash, Alyson E. Santoro, Christopher L. Dupont, Angelicque White, Megan J. Huggett and Michael S. Rappé and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Paul Carini

20 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

  1. Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity
    2016 681 citations Paul Carini, Jonathan W. Leff et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Carini United States 18 1.7k 1.2k 429 353 334 22 2.4k
Angélique Gobet France 21 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 433 1.0× 234 0.7× 311 0.9× 31 2.2k
Beatriz Dı́ez Chile 26 2.2k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 653 1.5× 523 1.5× 229 0.7× 76 3.1k
Anna J. Székely Sweden 20 1.1k 0.7× 590 0.5× 316 0.7× 227 0.6× 230 0.7× 43 1.8k
Rohan Sachdeva United States 17 1.5k 0.9× 991 0.8× 459 1.1× 261 0.7× 178 0.5× 31 1.9k
Ben Temperton United Kingdom 26 2.5k 1.5× 1.8k 1.5× 620 1.4× 370 1.0× 324 1.0× 57 3.5k
Christina Bienhold Germany 18 1.6k 1.0× 814 0.7× 746 1.7× 627 1.8× 260 0.8× 35 2.5k
Kyle R. Frischkorn United States 17 1.3k 0.8× 926 0.8× 304 0.7× 516 1.5× 167 0.5× 23 2.0k
Haiwei Luo Hong Kong 32 2.3k 1.4× 1.8k 1.5× 750 1.7× 416 1.2× 325 1.0× 76 3.3k
Michael S. Schwalbach United States 20 2.8k 1.7× 1.9k 1.6× 1.0k 2.3× 453 1.3× 278 0.8× 21 3.7k
China A. Hanson United States 7 1.6k 0.9× 858 0.7× 214 0.5× 211 0.6× 663 2.0× 8 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Carini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Carini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Carini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Carini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Carini 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 Paul Carini. Paul Carini 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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Snoeyenbos-West, Oona, et al.. (2024). Cultivating efficiency: high-throughput growth analysis of anaerobic bacteria in compact microplate readers. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(5). e0365023–e0365023.
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Orsi, William D., Sergio Vargas, Ömer K. Coskun, et al.. (2021). Genome Evolution in Bacteria Isolated from Million-Year-Old Subseafloor Sediment. mBio. 12(4). e0115021–e0115021. 8 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, et al.. (2020). Microbial Methane From Methylphosphonate Isotopically Records Source. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(1). 23 indexed citations
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Bartelme, Ryan P., Christopher L. Dupont, Josh L. Espinoza, et al.. (2020). Influence of Substrate Concentration on the Culturability of Heterotrophic Soil Microbes Isolated by High-Throughput Dilution-to-Extinction Cultivation. mSphere. 5(1). 32 indexed citations
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Becker, Kevin W., James R. Collins, Bryndan P. Durham, et al.. (2018). Daily changes in phytoplankton lipidomes reveal mechanisms of energy storage in the open ocean. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5179–5179. 63 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, Christopher L. Dupont, & Alyson E. Santoro. (2018). Patterns of thaumarchaeal gene expression in culture and diverse marine environments. Environmental Microbiology. 20(6). 2112–2124. 73 indexed citations
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Brewer, Tess E., Kim M. Handley, Paul Carini, Jack A. Gilbert, & Noah Fierer. (2016). Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus’. Nature Microbiology. 2(2). 16198–16198. 154 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, et al.. (2016). Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity. Nature Microbiology. 2(3). 16242–16242. 681 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smith, Daniel P., Carrie Nicora, Paul Carini, et al.. (2016). Proteome Remodeling in Response to Sulfur Limitation in “ Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique”. mSystems. 1(4). 17 indexed citations
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Orsi, William D., Jason M. Smith, Heather M. Wilcox, et al.. (2015). Ecophysiology of uncultivated marine euryarchaea is linked to particulate organic matter. The ISME Journal. 9(8). 1747–1763. 94 indexed citations
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Santoro, Alyson E., Christopher L. Dupont, Robin Richter, et al.. (2015). Genomic and proteomic characterization of “ Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis”: An ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(4). 1173–1178. 206 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, J. Cameron Thrash, et al.. (2015). SAR11 lipid renovation in response to phosphate starvation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(25). 7767–7772. 76 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, Jeff Morré, Sergio A. Sañudo‐Wilhelmy, et al.. (2014). Discovery of a SAR11 growth requirement for thiamin’s pyrimidine precursor and its distribution in the Sargasso Sea. The ISME Journal. 8(8). 1727–1738. 102 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, et al.. (2014). Methane production by phosphate-starved SAR11 chemoheterotrophic marine bacteria. Nature Communications. 5(1). 124 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, Laura Steindler, Sára Beszteri, & Stephen J. Giovannoni. (2012). Nutrient requirements for growth of the extreme oligotroph ‘ Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique’ HTCC1062 on a defined medium. The ISME Journal. 7(3). 592–602. 175 indexed citations
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Grote, Jana, J. Cameron Thrash, Megan J. Huggett, et al.. (2012). Streamlining and Core Genome Conservation among Highly Divergent Members of the SAR11 Clade. mBio. 3(5). 227 indexed citations
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Thrash, J. Cameron, Alex Boyd, Megan J. Huggett, et al.. (2011). Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 13–13. 121 indexed citations
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Carini, Paul, et al.. (2009). Transcriptional Profiling of Methyltransferase Genes during Growth of Methanosarcina mazei on Trimethylamine. Journal of Bacteriology. 191(16). 5108–5115. 23 indexed citations

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