R. Michael L. McKay

14.0k total citations
144 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

R. Michael L. McKay is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Michael L. McKay has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Oceanography, 61 papers in Ecology and 51 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R. Michael L. McKay's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (41 papers). R. Michael L. McKay is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (64 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (41 papers). R. Michael L. McKay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. R. Michael L. McKay's co-authors include George S. Bullerjahn, Richard J. Geider, Philip W. Boyd, Steven W. Wilhelm, Sarah P. Gibbs, Julie La Roche, Julie LaRoche, Timothy W. Davis, Xiaoming Qin and Richard A. Bourbonniere and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

R. Michael L. McKay

137 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. Michael L. McKay United States 39 2.3k 2.0k 1.7k 1.1k 492 144 4.8k
Charles G. Trick Canada 35 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 791 0.7× 468 1.0× 89 4.9k
Ilana Berman‐Frank Israel 40 3.5k 1.5× 2.9k 1.4× 1.0k 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 704 1.4× 116 5.6k
James L. Pinckney United States 46 3.9k 1.7× 3.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 537 0.5× 256 0.5× 118 6.7k
George S. Bullerjahn United States 33 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 361 0.7× 120 3.2k
Mark L. Wells United States 39 3.2k 1.4× 1.3k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 674 0.6× 697 1.4× 84 5.8k
William P. Cochlan United States 32 5.1k 2.2× 2.4k 1.2× 3.5k 2.0× 771 0.7× 297 0.6× 55 7.3k
Larry E. Brand United States 33 3.2k 1.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 750 0.7× 441 0.9× 57 5.5k
E. Walter Helbling Argentina 41 3.6k 1.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 421 0.4× 1.3k 2.6× 130 5.9k
Patrick J. Neale United States 40 3.3k 1.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 587 0.5× 894 1.8× 117 5.1k
Nicholas A. Welschmeyer United States 32 5.1k 2.2× 3.3k 1.6× 1.4k 0.8× 734 0.7× 490 1.0× 40 6.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. Michael L. McKay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Michael L. McKay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of R. Michael L. McKay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of R. Michael L. McKay 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 R. Michael L. McKay. R. Michael L. McKay 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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Mercier, Élisabeth, Edgard M. Mejia, Lawrence Goodridge, et al.. (2026). Wastewater surveillance to track a generational scale outbreak of measles in Ontario, Canada, February - November, 2025. medRxiv.
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Bullerjahn, George S., et al.. (2025). Microbial communities associated with sympagic and planktonic habitats during a polar vortex influencing the North American Great Lakes Basin. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 14(12). e0093225–e0093225.
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Manuel, Douglas G., Ivan Lee, Mathew Thomson, et al.. (2024). Wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Short-term projection (forecasting), smoothing and outlier identification using Bayesian smoothing. The Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174937–174937.
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Gilbert, Naomi E., Thijs Frenken, Robbie M. Martin, et al.. (2024). Declines in ice cover are accompanied by light limitation responses and community change in freshwater diatoms. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 7 indexed citations
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Sherman, David H., et al.. (2024). Molecular investigation of harmful cyanobacteria reveals hidden risks and niche partitioning in Kenyan Lakes. Harmful Algae. 140. 102757–102757.
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Martin, Robbie M., Helena L. Pound, Justin D. Chaffin, et al.. (2023). Sulfolipid substitution ratios of Microcystis aeruginosa and planktonic communities as an indicator of phosphorus limitation in Lake Erie. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(5). 1117–1131. 4 indexed citations
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Ng, Kenneth, et al.. (2023). Actionable wastewater surveillance: application to a university residence hall during the transition between Delta and Omicron resurgences of COVID-19. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1139423–1139423. 9 indexed citations
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Krausfeldt, Lauren E., Morgan M. Steffen, R. Michael L. McKay, et al.. (2019). Insight Into the Molecular Mechanisms for Microcystin Biodegradation in Lake Erie and Lake Taihu. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2741–2741. 25 indexed citations
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Bullerjahn, George S., et al.. (2018). Nitrogen cycling in Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie: oscillations between strong and weak export and implications for harmful algal blooms. Biogeosciences. 15(9). 2891–2907. 38 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Payel, Elizabeth A. Olmsted‐Davis, Fengan Yu, et al.. (2016). Environmental Pseudomonads Inhibit Cystic Fibrosis Patient-Derived Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83(2). 48 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Koji, Jun Nishioka, Masahito Shigemitsu, et al.. (2014). Spatial variability in iron nutritional status of large diatoms in the Sea of Okhotsk with special reference to the Amur River discharge. Biogeosciences. 11(9). 2503–2517. 24 indexed citations
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Reponen, Tiina, Sang‐Oh Lee, Sergey A. Grinshpun, Evan C. Johnson, & R. Michael L. McKay. (2010). Effect of Fit Testing on the Protection Offered by N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators Against Fine Particles in a Laboratory Setting. The Annals of Occupational Hygiene. 55(3). 264–271. 44 indexed citations
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Leong, Trevor, Martin Borg, & R. Michael L. McKay. (2004). Clinical and Cellular Radiosensitivity in Inherited Human Syndromes. Clinical Oncology. 16(3). 206–209. 16 indexed citations
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Qin, Xiaoming, et al.. (2003). Physiological and biochemical response of freshwater cryptomonads (Cryptophyceae) to Fe deficiency. Journal of Basic Microbiology. 43(2). 121–130. 4 indexed citations
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McKay, R. Michael L.. (1991). Composition and function of the pyrenoids of algal chloroplasts. eScholarship@McGill (McGill). 1 indexed citations
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McKay, R. Michael L.. (1957). Violet root rot on Douglas fir and Pinus contorta.. Irish forestry. 1 indexed citations
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McKay, R. Michael L., et al.. (1955). A further note on group dying of Sitka spruce and Rhizina inflata.. Irish forestry. 2 indexed citations
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McKay, R. Michael L., et al.. (1951). Observations on plant diseases in 1951.. 48. 184–192. 2 indexed citations

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