Rachel Poretsky

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Rachel Poretsky is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Poretsky has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Rachel Poretsky's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (6 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Rachel Poretsky is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (6 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers). Rachel Poretsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Switzerland. Rachel Poretsky's co-authors include Mary Ann Moran, Despina Tsementzi, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Shulei Sun, Chengwei Luo, Anne Dekas, Victoria J. Orphan, Ian Hewson and Jonathan P. Zehr and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Poretsky

37 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Strengths and Limitations of 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing in Revealing Temporal Microbial Community Dynamics

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Poretsky United States	21	1.3k	1.2k	409	366	252	38	2.2k
Weipeng Zhang China	32	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	232 0.6×	480 1.3×	198 0.8×	101	3.0k
Johannes Alneberg Sweden	13	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	293 0.7×	122 0.3×	415 1.6×	18	2.4k
Huiluo Cao Hong Kong	27	1.1k 0.8×	698 0.6×	751 1.8×	173 0.5×	298 1.2×	67	1.8k
Itziar Lekunberri Spain	20	953 0.7×	501 0.4×	455 1.1×	496 1.4×	168 0.7×	28	1.5k
Rebecca J. Case Canada	21	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	142 0.3×	564 1.5×	162 0.6×	48	2.6k
Edward Kirton United States	6	1.5k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	437 1.1×	111 0.3×	372 1.5×	7	3.2k
Ruth‐Anne Sandaa Norway	28	2.0k 1.5×	792 0.7×	377 0.9×	525 1.4×	270 1.1×	64	2.8k
François Thomas France	24	1.2k 0.9×	971 0.8×	393 1.0×	607 1.7×	271 1.1×	49	2.7k
Niels Kroer Denmark	24	1.2k 0.9×	705 0.6×	587 1.4×	405 1.1×	173 0.7×	38	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel Poretsky

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Poretsky, Rachel, Michael Schoeny, Erin Newcomer, et al.. (2025). Establishing a Practical Approach to Sewer Monitoring for Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Organisms at Healthcare Facilities. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 233(1). 38–48.

Wang, Michael, Prashant Kalvapalle, Michael Nute, et al.. (2024). Multiplexed Detection, Partitioning, and Persistence of Wild-Type and Vaccine Strains of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Viruses in Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(50). 21930–21941. 9 indexed citations

Tiwari, Anuj, Sarah M. Owens, Charlie Catlett, et al.. (2024). A modeling pipeline to relate municipal wastewater surveillance and regional public health data. Water Research. 252. 121178–121178. 2 indexed citations

DeJonge, Peter M., Janna L. Kerins, Rachel Poretsky, et al.. (2024). Using wastewater surveillance for mpox as a complement to traditional case-based reporting – Chicago, March–June 2023. Environment International. 190. 108749–108749. 4 indexed citations

Feng, Shuchen, Sarah M. Owens, Abhilasha Shrestha, et al.. (2023). Intensity of sample processing methods impacts wastewater SARS-CoV-2 whole genome amplicon sequencing outcomes. The Science of The Total Environment. 876. 162572–162572. 14 indexed citations

Yüce, Deniz, Kelley Bemis, Stephanie Gretsch, et al.. (2023). Correlation of wastewater surveillance data with traditional influenza surveillance measures in Cook County, Illinois, October 2022–April 2023. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169551–169551. 7 indexed citations

Wells, George, et al.. (2022). Reduction and discharge of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Chicago-area water reclamation plants. PubMed. 3. xtac015–xtac015. 6 indexed citations

Chaudhary, Adit, Sarah L. Turner, & Rachel Poretsky. (2021). Bacterioplankton respond with similar transcriptional activity to allochthonous dissolved organic matter in coastal and offshore Lake Michigan. Limnology and Oceanography. 66(8). 3162–3175. 3 indexed citations

Petrovich, Morgan, Sarah Ben Maamar, Erica M. Hartmann, et al.. (2019). Viral composition and context in metagenomes from biofilm and suspended growth municipal wastewater treatment plants. Microbial Biotechnology. 12(6). 1324–1336. 24 indexed citations

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Ciesielski, Mark, et al.. (2019). Ultraviolet disinfection impacts the microbial community composition and function of treated wastewater effluent and the receiving urban river. PeerJ. 7. e7455–e7455. 22 indexed citations

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Petrovich, Morgan, James S. Griffin, Maryam Elfeki, et al.. (2018). Antibiotic resistance genes show enhanced mobilization through suspended growth and biofilm-based wastewater treatment processes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94(5). 38 indexed citations

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Poretsky, Rachel, et al.. (2016). Soil bacterial community and functional shifts in response to altered snowpack in moist acidic tundra of northern Alaska. SOIL. 2(3). 459–474. 22 indexed citations

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Poretsky, Rachel, et al.. (2016). Soil bacterial community and functional shifts in response to thermal insulation in moist acidic tundra of Northern Alaska. 3 indexed citations

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Vila‐Costa, Maria, Johanna M. Rinta‐Kanto, Shulei Sun, et al.. (2010). Transcriptomic analysis of a marine bacterial community enriched with dimethylsulfoniopropionate. The ISME Journal. 4(11). 1410–1420. 53 indexed citations

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Hewson, Ian, Rachel Poretsky, H. James Tripp, Joseph P. Montoya, & Jonathan P. Zehr. (2010). Spatial patterns and light‐driven variation of microbial population gene expression in surface waters of the oligotrophic open ocean. Environmental Microbiology. 12(7). 1940–1956. 36 indexed citations

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Dekas, Anne, Rachel Poretsky, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2009). Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia. Science. 326(5951). 422–426. 252 indexed citations

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Hewson, Ian, Rachel Poretsky, Roxanne A. Beinart, et al.. (2009). In situ transcriptomic analysis of the globally important keystone N2-fixing taxon Crocosphaera watsonii. The ISME Journal. 3(5). 618–631. 54 indexed citations

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Poretsky, Rachel, Shulei Sun, Xiaozhen Mou, & Mary Ann Moran. (2009). Transporter genes expressed by coastal bacterioplankton in response to dissolved organic carbon. Environmental Microbiology. 12(3). 616–627. 181 indexed citations

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Poretsky, Rachel, Scott Gifford, Johanna M. Rinta‐Kanto, Maria Vila‐Costa, & Mary Ann Moran. (2009). Analyzing Gene Expression from Marine Microbial Communities using Environmental Transcriptomics. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Poretsky, Rachel, Nasreen Bano, Alison Buchan, et al.. (2005). Analysis of Microbial Gene Transcripts in Environmental Samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(7). 4121–4126. 139 indexed citations

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