Phyllis Lam

6.9k citations

40 papers · 5.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Pollution top 0.2%
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Papers in ⓘ

Pollution 22
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 21
Oceanography 19
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 15
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 7

Co-authors: Marcel M. M. Kuypers (23 shared papers)Gaute Lavik (13 shared papers)Marlene Mark Jensen (7 shared papers)Rudolf Amann (5 shared papers)Mike S. M. Jetten (4 shared papers)Dagmar Woebken (4 shared papers)Carsten J. Schubert (5 shared papers)Bo Thamdrup (2 shared papers)
Journals: Environmental Microbiology (6 papers)The ISME Journal (6 papers)FEMS Microbiology Ecology (3 papers)Limnology and Oceanography (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Phyllis Lam

39 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones 2010 · 502 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Annual Review of Marine Science
2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Phyllis Lam, Gaute Lavik, Marlene Mark Jensen, Jack van de Vossenberg, Markus Schmid, Dagmar Woebken, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Rudolf Amann, Mike S. M. Jetten, Marcel M. M. Kuypers Hit paper breakdown →	2009	609
2	Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones Annual Review of Marine Science ·Phyllis Lam, Marcel M. M. Kuypers Hit paper breakdown →	2010	502
3	Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Phyllis Lam, Marlene Mark Jensen, Gaute Lavik, Daniel F. McGinnis, Beat Müller, Carsten J. Schubert, Rudolf Amann, Bo Thamdrup, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2007	468
4	Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone Limnology and Oceanography ·M. Robert Hamersley, Gaute Lavik, Dagmar Woebken, Jayne E. Rattray, Phyllis Lam, Ellen C. Hopmans, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Siegfried Krüger, Michelle Graco, Dimitri Gutiérrez, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2007	293
5	Nitrogen cycling driven by organic matter export in the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone Nature Geoscience ·Tim Kalvelage, Gaute Lavik, Phyllis Lam, Sergio Contreras, Lionel Arteaga, Carolin R. Löscher, Andreas Oschlies, Aurélien Paulmier, Lothar Stramma, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2013	282
6	Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs Nature ·Gaute Lavik, Torben Stührmann, Volker Brüchert, Anja K. van der Plas, Volker Mohrholz, Phyllis Lam, Marc Mußmann, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, U. Lass, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2008	269
7	Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a tropical freshwater system (Lake Tanganyika) Environmental Microbiology ·Carsten J. Schubert, Edith Durisch‐Kaiser, Bernhard Wehrli, Bo Thamdrup, Phyllis Lam, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2006	258
8	Nitrite oxidation in the Namibian oxygen minimum zone The ISME Journal ·Jessika Füssel, Phyllis Lam, Gaute Lavik, Marlene Mark Jensen, Moritz Holtappels, Marcel Günter, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2011	227
9	Oxygen Sensitivity of Anammox and Coupled N-Cycle Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones PLoS ONE ·Tim Kalvelage, Marlene Mark Jensen, Sergio Contreras, Niels Peter Revsbech, Phyllis Lam, Marcel Günter, Julie LaRoche, Gaute Lavik, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2011	225
10	A microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones Environmental Microbiology ·Dagmar Woebken, Phyllis Lam, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, S.W.A. Naqvi, Boran Kartal, Marc Strous, Mike S. M. Jetten, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann	2008	211
11	Fluids from Aging Ocean Crust That Support Microbial Life Science ·James P. Cowen, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Fabien Kenig, H. Paul Johnson, D. A. Butterfield, Michael S. Rappé, M. Hutnak, Phyllis Lam	2003	198
12	Intensive nitrogen loss over the Omani Shelf due to anammox coupled with dissimilatory nitrite reduction to ammonium The ISME Journal ·Marlene Mark Jensen, Phyllis Lam, Niels Peter Revsbech, Birgit Nagel, Birgit Gaye, Mike S. M. Jetten, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2011	189
13	Heterotrophic organisms dominate nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific Gyre The ISME Journal ·Hannah Halm, Phyllis Lam, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Gaute Lavik, Thorsten Dittmar, Julie LaRoche, Steven D’Hondt, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2011	160
14	Environmental detection of octahaem cytochrome c hydroxylamine/hydrazine oxidoreductase genes of aerobic and anaerobic ammonium‐oxidizing bacteria Environmental Microbiology ·Markus Schmid, Alan B. Hooper, Martin G. Klotz, Dagmar Woebken, Phyllis Lam, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Andreas Pommerening‐Roeser, Huub J. M. Op den Camp, Mike S. M. Jetten	2008	157
15	Methane oxidation coupled to oxygenic photosynthesis in anoxic waters The ISME Journal ·Jana Milucka, Mathias K. Kirf, Lu Lu, Andreas Krupke, Phyllis Lam, Sten Littmann, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Carsten J. Schubert	2015	118
16	Co‐occurrence of denitrification and nitrogen fixation in a meromictic lake, Lake Cadagno (Switzerland) Environmental Microbiology ·Hannah Halm, Niculina Musat, Phyllis Lam, Rebecca Langlois, Florin Musat, Sandro Peduzzi, Gaute Lavik, Carsten J. Schubert, Baerbel Sinha, Julie LaRoche, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2009	88
17	Origin and fate of the secondary nitrite maximum in the Arabian Sea Biogeosciences ·Phyllis Lam, Marlene Mark Jensen, Annette Kock, Karsten Lettmann, Yves Plancherel, G. Lavik, H. W. Bange, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2011	82
18	Co‐occurrence of denitrification and nitrogen fixation in a meromictic lake, Lake Cadagno (Switzerland) Environmental Microbiology ·Hannah Halm, Niculina Musat, Phyllis Lam, Rebecca Langlois, Florin Musat, Sandro Peduzzi, Gaute Lavik, Carsten J. Schubert, Baerbel Sinha, Julie LaRoche, Marcel M. M. Kuypers	2009	75
19	Adaptability as the key to success for the ubiquitous marine nitrite oxidizer Nitrococcus Science Advances ·Jessika Füssel, Sebastian Lücker, Pelin Yilmaz, Boris Nowka, Maartje A. H. J. van Kessel, Patric Bourceau, Philipp F. Hach, Sten Littmann, Jasmine S. Berg, Eva Spieck, Holger Daims, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Phyllis Lam	2017	71
20	Autotrophic ammonia oxidation in a deep-sea hydrothermal plume FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Phyllis Lam, James P. Cowen, Ronald D. Jones	2003	71

About Phyllis Lam

Phyllis Lam is a scholar working on Pollution, Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, having authored 40 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (32 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (21 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (7 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (5 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (4 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (2.3k citations), Oceanography (2.2k citations), Ecology (3.3k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.1k citations) and Geochemistry and Petrology (279 citations). Phyllis Lam has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Gaute Lavik, Marlene Mark Jensen, Rudolf Amann, Mike S. M. Jetten, Dagmar Woebken, Carsten J. Schubert, Bo Thamdrup, Dimitri Gutiérrez and Markus Schmid. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Microbiology, The ISME Journal, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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