Peter Deines

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Deines is a scholar working on Ecology, Geophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Deines has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Geophysics and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Peter Deines's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (27 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (20 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (17 papers). Peter Deines is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (27 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (20 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (17 papers). Peter Deines collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Peter Deines's co-authors include Russell S. Harmon, Donald Langmuir, J. W. Harris, J. J. Gurney, Michael W. Taylor, David P. Gold, Jeff W. Harris, Rachel L. Simister, Jonathan Grey and Thomas Chacko and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Deines

87 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Stable carbon isotope ratios and the existence of a gas phase in the evolution of carbonate ground waters

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Deines United States	41	2.7k	1.1k	789	769	719	89	5.8k
Robert J. Newton United Kingdom	47	1.7k 0.6×	938 0.9×	1.9k 2.4×	2.0k 2.6×	3.6k 5.0×	174	7.4k
John Cliff United States	36	1.5k 0.6×	556 0.5×	387 0.5×	492 0.6×	522 0.7×	91	4.3k
T. C. Onstott United States	56	2.6k 1.0×	3.1k 2.8×	1.8k 2.2×	1.2k 1.5×	726 1.0×	228	10.9k
Graham A. Logan Australia	37	691 0.3×	912 0.8×	1.5k 1.9×	739 1.0×	2.0k 2.8×	72	5.3k
Jan Jehlička Czechia	39	569 0.2×	489 0.4×	187 0.2×	630 0.8×	342 0.5×	169	5.1k
Volker Thiel Germany	40	337 0.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 2.1×	451 0.6×	1.5k 2.1×	125	5.9k
Olivier Braissant Switzerland	33	276 0.1×	847 0.8×	608 0.8×	640 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	112	5.4k
Alan W. Decho United States	51	386 0.1×	2.5k 2.3×	973 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	2.3k 3.2×	114	10.7k
Kenneth H. Williams United States	55	1.2k 0.5×	4.1k 3.7×	672 0.9×	1.6k 2.1×	124 0.2×	252	11.3k
Pieter T. Visscher United States	52	761 0.3×	3.5k 3.2×	2.3k 2.9×	1.8k 2.4×	4.3k 6.0×	147	10.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Deines

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Deines

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Deines

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

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Lachnit, Tim, et al.. (2025). Nutrition-induced changes in the microbiota can cause dysbiosis and disease development. mBio. 16(4). e0384324–e0384324. 1 indexed citations

Schulenburg, Hinrich, et al.. (2023). Meet the Metaorganism: A web‐based learning app for undergraduate and graduate biology students. BioEssays. 45(10). e2300043–e2300043. 1 indexed citations

Hammerschmidt, Katrin, et al.. (2021). Enhancing Microbial Pollutant Degradation by Integrating Eco-Evolutionary Principles with Environmental Biotechnology. Trends in Microbiology. 29(10). 908–918. 65 indexed citations

Deines, Peter, Katrin Hammerschmidt, & Thomas C. G. Bosch. (2020). Microbial Species Coexistence Depends on the Host Environment. mBio. 11(4). 25 indexed citations

Lange, Janina, Γεώργιος Μαρίνος, Peter Deines, et al.. (2019). Advancing Our Functional Understanding of Host–Microbiota Interactions: A Need for New Types of Studies. BioEssays. 42(2). e1900211–e1900211. 6 indexed citations

Deines, Peter, Tim Lachnit, & Thomas C. G. Bosch. (2017). Competing forces maintain the Hydra metaorganism. Immunological Reviews. 279(1). 123–136. 20 indexed citations

Douterelo, Isabel, Joby Boxall, Peter Deines, et al.. (2014). Methodological approaches for studying the microbial ecology of drinking water distribution systems. Water Research. 65. 134–156. 197 indexed citations

Waite, David W., Peter Deines, & Michael W. Taylor. (2013). Quantifying the impact of storage procedures for faecal bacteriotherapy in the critically endangered New Zealand Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Zoo Biology. 32(6). 620–625. 19 indexed citations

Sekar, Raju, Peter Deines, John Machell, et al.. (2012). Bacterial water quality and network hydraulic characteristics: a field study of a small, looped water distribution system using culture-independent molecular methods. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 112(6). 1220–1234. 35 indexed citations

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Dhami, Manpreet K., Adrian Turner, Peter Deines, Jacqueline R. Beggs, & Michael W. Taylor. (2012). Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of a bacterial symbiosis in the ecologically important scale insect family Coelostomidiidae. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 81(3). 537–546. 19 indexed citations

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Jakobsen, P., Jörn P. Scharsack, Katrin Hammerschmidt, et al.. (2011). In vitro transition of Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) from coracidium to procercoid and from procercoid to plerocercoid. Experimental Parasitology. 130(3). 267–273. 14 indexed citations

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Hammerschmidt, Katrin, Peter Deines, Alastair J. Wilson, & Jens Rolff. (2011). Quantitative genetics of immunity and life history under different photoperiods. Heredity. 108(5). 569–576. 9 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Susanne, Peter Deines, Faris Behnam, Michael Wagner, & Michael W. Taylor. (2011). Chloroflexi bacteria are more diverse, abundant, and similar in high than in low microbial abundance sponges. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 78(3). 497–510. 64 indexed citations

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Deines, Peter, Raju Sekar, Stewart Husband, et al.. (2010). A new coupon design for simultaneous analysis of in situ microbial biofilm formation and community structure in drinking water distribution systems. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 87(2). 749–756. 62 indexed citations

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Deines, Peter, Raju Sekar, Henriette Stokbro Jensen, et al.. (2010). MUWS (Microbiology in Urban Water Systems) – an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 91–99. 3 indexed citations

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Deines, Peter, Paul L. E. Bodelier, & Gundula Eller. (2007). Methane‐derived carbon flows through methane‐oxidizing bacteria to higher trophic levels in aquatic systems. Environmental Microbiology. 9(5). 1126–1134. 79 indexed citations

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Matz, Carsten, et al.. (2002). Phenotypic variation in Pseudomonas sp. CM10 determines microcolony formation and survival under protozoan grazing. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 39(1). 57–65. 38 indexed citations

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Gurney, J. J., et al.. (1995). The carbon isotopic composition of harzburgitic, lherzolitic, websteritic and eclogitic paragenesis diamonds from Southern Africa; a comparison of genetic models. South African Journal of Geology. 98(2). 119–125. 8 indexed citations

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Snyder, G. A., Eric A. Jerde, L. A. Taylor, et al.. (1993). Primary differentiation in the early Earth: Nd and Sr isotopic evidence from diamondiferous eclogites for both old depleted and old enriched mantle, Yakutia, Siberia. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1321. 2 indexed citations

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Deines, Peter. (1985). Identification of /sup 13/C depleted mantle carbon in diamonds from the Roberts Victor Kimberlite, South Africa. Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States). 17. 2 indexed citations

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