Rachel J. Whitaker

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Rachel J. Whitaker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel J. Whitaker has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Ecology and 30 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rachel J. Whitaker's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers). Rachel J. Whitaker is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (21 papers). Rachel J. Whitaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Rachel J. Whitaker's co-authors include Dennis W. Grogan, John W. Taylor, Nicole L. Held, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green, Changyi Zhang, David Krause, Michael L. Reno, Jillian F. Banfield and Joshua S. Weitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rachel J. Whitaker

81 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Geographic Barriers Isolate Endemic Populations of Hyperthermophilic Archaea

2003 625 citations Rachel J. Whitaker, Dennis W. Grogan et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel J. Whitaker United States	32	2.6k	2.3k	792	471	318	85	4.2k
Douglas B. Rusch United States	36	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	618 0.8×	398 0.8×	407 1.3×	105	4.4k
Valeria Souza Mexico	38	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	865 1.1×	1.1k 2.3×	329 1.0×	155	4.8k
John C. Detter United States	29	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	441 0.6×	1.1k 2.3×	530 1.7×	60	5.6k
Marcel Huntemann United States	28	3.6k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	334 0.4×	1.1k 2.3×	510 1.6×	93	5.7k
Han Ming Gan Malaysia	32	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	469 0.6×	461 1.0×	101 0.3×	235	4.0k
Georgia Giannoukos United States	21	3.8k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	708 1.5×	184 0.6×	28	6.2k
Kassian Kobert Germany	6	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	664 0.8×	588 1.2×	229 0.7×	10	4.0k
Pierre Peyret France	34	1.9k 0.7×	961 0.4×	298 0.4×	644 1.4×	457 1.4×	91	3.9k
Alberto Pallavicini Italy	43	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	373 0.5×	423 0.9×	172 0.5×	199	5.8k
Gary Xie United States	38	2.0k 0.8×	937 0.4×	368 0.5×	775 1.6×	172 0.5×	95	4.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ganote, Carrie, Lílian Caesar, Danny W. Rice, Rachel J. Whitaker, & Irene L. G. Newton. (2025). Evolutionary trends in Bombella apis CRISPR-Cas systems. mSystems. 10(7). e0016625–e0016625.

Whitaker, Rachel J., et al.. (2025). Host Competitive Asymmetries Accelerate Viral Evolution in a Microbe–Virus Coevolutionary System. Ecology Letters. 28(6). e70153–e70153. 1 indexed citations

Schwarz, Carl J., John G. McMullen, Jennifer A. Lau, et al.. (2025). Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum. mBio. 16(12). e0249725–e0249725.

Rapti, Zoi, et al.. (2024). Phage-mediated resolution of genetic conflict alters the evolutionary trajectory of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lysogens. mSystems. 9(9).

Zeineldin, Mohamed, Moiz Usmani, Antarpreet Jutla, et al.. (2023). Local and Environmental Reservoirs ofSalmonella entericaAfter Hurricane Florence Flooding. GeoHealth. 7(11). e2023GH000877–e2023GH000877. 3 indexed citations

Orazi, Giulia, Alan J. Collins, & Rachel J. Whitaker. (2022). Prediction of Prophages and Their Host Ranges in Pathogenic and Commensal Neisseria Species. mSystems. 7(3). e0008322–e0008322. 12 indexed citations

Whitaker, Rachel J., et al.. (2022). Phage–Antibiotic Synergy Inhibited by Temperate and Chronic Virus Competition. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 84(5). 54–54. 7 indexed citations

Hershey, David M., et al.. (2020). Discovering the Molecular Determinants of Phaeobacter inhibens Susceptibility to Phaeobacter Phage MD18. mSphere. 5(6). 5 indexed citations

Pilosof, Shai, Tong Wang, Ted Kim, et al.. (2020). The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(12). 1650–1660. 23 indexed citations

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Weitz, Joshua S., et al.. (2019). Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency†. Virus Evolution. 5(1). vez006–vez006. 51 indexed citations

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Kim, Ted, et al.. (2019). Lying in Wait: Modeling the Control of Bacterial Infections via Antibiotic-Induced Proviruses. mSystems. 4(5). 4 indexed citations

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Tsai, Chi-Lin, Changyi Zhang, Marta Rodríguez‐Franco, et al.. (2019). The structure of the periplasmic FlaG–FlaF complex and its essential role for archaellar swimming motility. Nature Microbiology. 5(1). 216–225. 27 indexed citations

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Ling, Fangqiong, Rachel J. Whitaker, Mark W. LeChevallier, & Wen‐Tso Liu. (2018). Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation. The ISME Journal. 12(6). 1520–1531. 181 indexed citations

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Campbell, Kate M., Whitney England, R. Anderson, et al.. (2017). Sulfolobus islandicus meta‐populations in Yellowstone National Park hot springs. Environmental Microbiology. 19(6). 2334–2347. 15 indexed citations

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Youngblut, Nicholas D., Joseph S. Wirth, James R. Henriksen, et al.. (2015). Genomic and phenotypic differentiation among Methanosarcina mazei populations from Columbia River sediment. The ISME Journal. 9(10). 2191–2205. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Changyi, et al.. (2013). Augmenting the Genetic Toolbox for Sulfolobus islandicus with a Stringent Positive Selectable Marker for Agmatine Prototrophy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79(18). 5539–5549. 30 indexed citations

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Held, Nicole L., et al.. (2013). Reassortment of CRISPR repeat‐spacer loci in S ulfolobus islandicus . Environmental Microbiology. 15(11). 3065–3076. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Changyi & Rachel J. Whitaker. (2012). A broadly applicable gene knockout system for the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus islandicus based on simvastatin selection. Microbiology. 158(6). 1513–1522. 28 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Rachel J., Dennis W. Grogan, & John W. Taylor. (2003). Geographic Barriers Isolate Endemic Populations of Hyperthermophilic Archaea. Science. 301(5635). 976–978. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kurt, Robert A., et al.. (2000). Spontaneous mammary carcinomas fail to induce an immune response in syngeneic FVBN202 neu transgenic mice. International Journal of Cancer. 87(5). 688–694. 15 indexed citations

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