Peter D. Countway

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Peter D. Countway is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter D. Countway has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Peter D. Countway's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (20 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (13 papers). Peter D. Countway is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (27 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (20 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (13 papers). Peter D. Countway collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and New Zealand. Peter D. Countway's co-authors include David A. Caron, Adriane C. Jones, Rebecca J. Gast, Astrid Schnetzer, Diane Y. Kim, Julie M. Rose, Stefanie Moorthi, Patrick D. Vigil, Mark R. Dennett and Jed A. Fuhrman and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography and The ISME Journal.

In The Last Decade

Peter D. Countway

32 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages

2011 515 citations Joshua A. Steele, Peter D. Countway et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter D. Countway United States	21	1.8k	1.4k	672	286	116	32	2.2k
Hans‐Werner Breiner Germany	16	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	436 0.6×	230 0.8×	189 1.6×	22	2.1k
Ludwig Jardillier France	24	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	776 1.2×	229 0.8×	158 1.4×	36	2.0k
Cécile Lepère France	21	1.2k 0.7×	934 0.6×	363 0.5×	131 0.5×	98 0.8×	33	1.4k
Meredith D. M. Jones United Kingdom	8	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	380 0.6×	125 0.4×	503 4.3×	8	2.2k
Kuidong Xu China	20	1.3k 0.7×	922 0.6×	586 0.9×	333 1.2×	92 0.8×	171	1.6k
Brandon K. Swan United States	24	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	656 1.0×	658 2.3×	178 1.5×	37	2.7k
Maria Pachiadaki United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	961 0.7×	563 0.8×	490 1.7×	101 0.9×	55	2.0k
Rohan Sachdeva United States	17	1.5k 0.9×	991 0.7×	459 0.7×	261 0.9×	178 1.5×	31	1.9k
Diane Y. Kim United States	10	979 0.5×	739 0.5×	303 0.5×	112 0.4×	118 1.0×	13	1.3k
Seung Yeo Moon‐van der Staay Netherlands	15	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	543 0.8×	218 0.8×	85 0.7×	18	1.8k

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Hart, Samuel F. M., et al.. (2022). Survival and Detection of Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia from the Soft-Shell Clam Mya arenaria (MarBTN) in Seawater. Pathogens. 11(3). 283–283. 15 indexed citations

Record, Nicholas R., et al.. (2021). Rise of the rare biosphere. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 9(1). 4 indexed citations

Pasulka, Alexis L., Sarah K. Hu, Peter D. Countway, et al.. (2019). SSU‐rRNA Gene Sequencing Survey of Benthic Microbial Eukaryotes from Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Vent. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66(4). 637–653. 20 indexed citations

Caron, David A., Paige Connell, Rebecca A. Schaffner, et al.. (2017). Planktonic food web structure at a coastal time-series site: I. Partitioning of microbial abundances and carbon biomass. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 121. 14–29. 25 indexed citations

Hu, Sarah K., Zhenfeng Liu, Alle A.Y. Lie, et al.. (2015). Estimating Protistan Diversity Using High‐Throughput Sequencing. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 62(5). 688–693. 45 indexed citations

Howard, Meredith D.A., Adriane C. Jones, Astrid Schnetzer, et al.. (2012). QUANTITATIVE REAL‐TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR COCHLODINIUM FULVESCENS (DINOPHYCEAE), A HARMFUL DINOFLAGELLATE FROM CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATERS¹. Journal of Phycology. 48(2). 384–393. 23 indexed citations

Kim, Diane Y., et al.. (2012). A combined sequence-based and fragment-based characterization of microbial eukaryote assemblages provides taxonomic context for the Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) method. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 91(3). 527–536. 10 indexed citations

Kim, Diane Y., Peter D. Countway, Rebecca J. Gast, & David A. Caron. (2011). Rapid Shifts in the Structure and Composition of a Protistan Assemblage During Bottle Incubations Affect Estimates of Total Protistan Species Richness. Microbial Ecology. 62(2). 383–398. 20 indexed citations

Caron, David A., Peter D. Countway, Adriane C. Jones, Diane Y. Kim, & Astrid Schnetzer. (2011). Marine Protistan Diversity. Annual Review of Marine Science. 4(1). 467–493. 249 indexed citations

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Steele, Joshua A., Peter D. Countway, Patrick D. Vigil, et al.. (2011). Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages. The ISME Journal. 5(9). 1414–1425. 515 indexed citations breakdown →

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Garneau, Marie‐Ève, Astrid Schnetzer, Peter D. Countway, et al.. (2011). Examination of the Seasonal Dynamics of the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella at Redondo Beach, California, by Quantitative PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77(21). 7669–7680. 42 indexed citations

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Schnetzer, Astrid, Stefanie Moorthi, Peter D. Countway, et al.. (2010). Depth matters: Microbial eukaryote diversity and community structure in the eastern North Pacific revealed through environmental gene libraries. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 58(1). 16–26. 54 indexed citations

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Gilg, Ilana C., Linda Amaral‐Zettler, Peter D. Countway, et al.. (2009). Phylogenetic Affiliations of Mesopelagic Acantharia and Acantharian-like Environmental 18S rRNA Genes off the Southern California Coast. Protist. 161(2). 197–211. 25 indexed citations

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Caron, David A., Peter D. Countway, Rebecca J. Gast, et al.. (2009). Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75(18). 5797–5808. 157 indexed citations

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Rose, Julie M., Neil M. Vora, Peter D. Countway, Rebecca J. Gast, & David A. Caron. (2008). Effects of temperature on growth rate and gross growth efficiency of an Antarctic bacterivorous protist. The ISME Journal. 3(2). 252–260. 30 indexed citations

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Countway, Peter D., et al.. (2007). Distinct protistan assemblages characterize the euphotic zone and deep sea (2500 m) of the western North Atlantic (Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream). Environmental Microbiology. 9(5). 1219–1232. 134 indexed citations

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Moorthi, Stefanie, Peter D. Countway, Beth Stauffer, & David A. Caron. (2006). Use of Quantitative Real-Time PCR to Investigate the Dynamics of the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum. Microbial Ecology. 52(1). 136–150. 53 indexed citations

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Countway, Peter D. & David A. Caron. (2006). Abundance and Distribution of Ostreococcus sp. in the San Pedro Channel, California, as Revealed by Quantitative PCR. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(4). 2496–2506. 81 indexed citations

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Countway, Peter D., et al.. (2005). Protistan Diversity Estimates Based on 18S rDNA from Seawater Incubations in the Western North Atlantic¹. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 52(2). 95–106. 173 indexed citations

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Caron, David A., Peter D. Countway, & Mark V. Brown. (2004). The Growing Contributions of Molecular Biology and Immunology to Protistan Ecology: Molecular Signatures as Ecological Tools¹. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 51(1). 38–48. 57 indexed citations

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