Peter D. Steinberg

33.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
227 papers, 21.1k citations indexed

About

Peter D. Steinberg is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter D. Steinberg has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 21.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Oceanography, 113 papers in Ecology and 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Peter D. Steinberg's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (143 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (96 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (60 papers). Peter D. Steinberg is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (143 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (96 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (60 papers). Peter D. Steinberg collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Singapore and United States. Peter D. Steinberg's co-authors include Staffan Kjelleberg, Rocky de Nys, Stuart A. Rice, Jost Wingender, Ulrich Szewzyk, Hans‐Curt Flemming, Torsten Thomas, Michael Givskov, Alexandra H. Campbell and Ezequiel M. Marzinelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter D. Steinberg

227 papers receiving 20.4k 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.

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

2016 4.1k citations Peter D. Steinberg, Staffan Kjelleberg et al. profile →
Should we stay or should we go: mechanisms and ecological consequences for biofilm dispersal

2011 627 citations Peter D. Steinberg, Staffan Kjelleberg et al. profile →
Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species

2011 597 citations Peter D. Steinberg, Doug Rusch et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Eukaryotic interference with homoserine lactone-mediated prokaryotic signalling

1996 585 citations Peter D. Steinberg, Staffan Kjelleberg et al. profile →
The seaweed holobiont: understanding seaweed–bacteria interactions

2012 484 citations Suhelen Egan, Peter D. Steinberg et al. profile →
Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp

2016 347 citations Adriana Vergés, Christopher Doropoulos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

2023 149 citations Aaron M. Eger, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli et al. Nature Communications profile →
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions

2022 102 citations Aaron M. Eger, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter D. Steinberg	8.3k	8.3k	5.9k	3.3k	2.3k	227	21.1k
Pei‐Yuan Qian	7.3k 0.9×	6.7k 0.8×	5.2k 0.9×	5.4k 1.6×	6.8k 3.0×	623	23.8k
Rocky de Nys	2.9k 0.4×	4.4k 0.5×	3.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	3.1k 1.4×	261	16.7k
Staffan Kjelleberg	10.9k 1.3×	3.9k 0.5×	20.3k 3.4×	1.7k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	395	39.0k
Eugene Rosenberg	9.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.3×	6.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.4×	562 0.2×	269	22.5k
Farooq Azam	17.3k 2.1×	13.9k 1.7×	5.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	275 0.1×	220	26.3k
Gerard Muyzer	16.6k 2.0×	3.8k 0.5×	10.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.3×	441 0.2×	290	36.2k
Torsten Thomas	5.4k 0.6×	2.3k 0.3×	4.1k 0.7×	718 0.2×	405 0.2×	204	12.0k
Edward F. DeLong	25.5k 3.1×	7.8k 0.9×	18.2k 3.1×	2.7k 0.8×	448 0.2×	238	38.8k
Wolfgang Ludwig	23.1k 2.8×	4.7k 0.6×	22.9k 3.9×	2.0k 0.6×	398 0.2×	311	50.1k
Dirk de Beer	7.5k 0.9×	4.5k 0.5×	3.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	455 0.2×	307	17.7k

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Vergés, Adriana, Sandra C. Straub, Alexandra H. Campbell, et al.. (2024). Effect of marine heatwaves and warming on kelp microbiota influence trophic interactions. Molecular Ecology. 33(5). e17267–e17267. 9 indexed citations

Doane, Michael P., Martin Ostrowski, Mark V. Brown, et al.. (2023). Defining marine bacterioplankton community assembly rules by contrasting the importance of environmental determinants and biotic interactions. Environmental Microbiology. 25(6). 1084–1098. 6 indexed citations

Eger, Aaron M., Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, et al.. (2023). The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1894–1894. 149 indexed citations breakdown →

Vranken, Sofie, et al.. (2023). Host genotype and microbiome associations in co‐occurring clonal and non‐clonal kelp, Ecklonia radiata. Molecular Ecology. 32(16). 4584–4598. 4 indexed citations

Wood, Georgina, Kimberley A. Lema, Mariana Mayer‐Pinto, et al.. (2023). Effect of seaweed canopy disturbance on understory microbial communities on rocky shores. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations

Pettersen, Amanda K., Melinda A. Coleman, Guillaume Latombe, et al.. (2022). Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(8). 1556–1570. 4 indexed citations

Wood, Georgina, Peter D. Steinberg, Alexandra H. Campbell, et al.. (2022). Host genetics, phenotype and geography structure the microbiome of a foundational seaweed. Molecular Ecology. 31(7). 2189–2206. 26 indexed citations

McLellan, Sandra L., Peter D. Steinberg, Jaimie Potts, et al.. (2021). A weight-of-evidence approach for identifying potential sources of untreated sewage inputs into a complex urbanized catchment. Environmental Pollution. 275. 116575–116575. 6 indexed citations

Wood, Georgina, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Alexandra H. Campbell, et al.. (2021). Genomic vulnerability of a dominant seaweed points to future‐proofing pathways for Australia's underwater forests. Global Change Biology. 27(10). 2200–2212. 39 indexed citations

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Pettersen, Amanda K., Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Peter D. Steinberg, & Melinda A. Coleman. (2021). Impact of marine protected areas on temporal stability of fish species diversity. Conservation Biology. 36(2). e13815–e13815. 24 indexed citations

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Vergés, Adriana, Alexandra H. Campbell, Georgina Wood, et al.. (2020). Operation Crayweed: Ecological and sociocultural aspects of restoring Sydney’s underwater forests. Ecological Management & Restoration. 21(2). 74–85. 22 indexed citations

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Wood, Georgina, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Adriana Vergés, et al.. (2020). Using genomics to design and evaluate the performance of underwater forest restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(10). 1988–1998. 28 indexed citations

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McGeoch, Mélodie A., Guillaume Latombe, Nigel R. Andrew, et al.. (2019). Measuring continuous compositional change using decline and decay in zeta diversity. Ecology. 100(11). e02832–e02832. 87 indexed citations

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Dafforn, Katherine A., Rohan B. H. Williams, Jaimie Potts, et al.. (2018). Using meta‐omics of contaminated sediments to monitor changes in pathways relevant to climate regulation. Environmental Microbiology. 21(1). 389–401. 30 indexed citations

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Vergés, Adriana, Christopher Doropoulos, Hamish A. Malcolm, et al.. (2016). Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13791–13796. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marshall, Dustin J. & Peter D. Steinberg. (2014). Larval size and age affect colonization in a marine invertebrate. Journal of Experimental Biology. 217(22). 3981–3987. 11 indexed citations

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Thomas, Torsten, Doug Rusch, Matthew Z. DeMaere, et al.. (2010). Functional genomic signatures of sponge bacteria reveal unique and shared features of symbiosis. The ISME Journal. 4(12). 1557–1567. 207 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jane E. & Peter D. Steinberg. (2002). Reproductive cycle of the sea urchin Holopneustes purpurascens (Temnopleuridae: Echinodermata). Marine Biology. 140(3). 519–532. 27 indexed citations

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Estes, James A. & Peter D. Steinberg. (1989). Response to Domning. Paleobiology. 15(1). 57–60. 8 indexed citations

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Estes, James A. & Peter D. Steinberg. (1988). Predation, herbivory, and kelp evolution. Paleobiology. 14(1). 19–36. 164 indexed citations

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