Rhonda Morales

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Rhonda Morales is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rhonda Morales has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Oceanography, 10 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Rhonda Morales's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (5 papers). Rhonda Morales is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (10 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (5 papers). Rhonda Morales collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Rhonda Morales's co-authors include E. Virginia Armbrust, Chris Berthiaume, Micaela S. Parker, Bryndan P. Durham, Laura T. Carlson, Katherine R. Heal, Anitra E. Ingalls, Robert M. Morris, Vaughn Iverson and Mary Ann Moran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rhonda Morales

16 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria

2015 788 citations Shady A. Amin, Bryndan P. Durham et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rhonda Morales United States	12	1.3k	874	829	289	258	17	1.8k
Bryndan P. Durham United States	16	1.5k 1.2×	862 1.0×	850 1.0×	281 1.0×	310 1.2×	22	2.0k
Chris Berthiaume United States	11	1.2k 1.0×	802 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	300 1.0×	237 0.9×	13	2.1k
Woongghi Shin South Korea	25	1.0k 0.8×	579 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	164 0.6×	301 1.2×	74	1.6k
Sung‐Ho Kang South Korea	27	903 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	323 0.4×	105 0.4×	265 1.0×	104	2.0k
Anneliese Ernst Germany	26	943 0.7×	484 0.6×	970 1.2×	588 2.0×	491 1.9×	46	1.9k
Martin T. Croft United Kingdom	8	906 0.7×	616 0.7×	945 1.1×	777 2.7×	287 1.1×	8	2.2k
Christophe Six France	27	1.1k 0.9×	997 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	549 1.9×	266 1.0×	42	2.0k
Sophie Mazard United Kingdom	14	1.4k 1.1×	840 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	218 0.8×	298 1.2×	20	1.9k
Sónia Cruz Portugal	23	397 0.3×	912 1.0×	354 0.4×	455 1.6×	202 0.8×	61	1.5k
Wenche Eikrem Norway	25	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	127 0.4×	512 2.0×	52	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rhonda Morales

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

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17 of 17 papers shown

Coesel, Sacha, et al.. (2026). Picophytoplankton implicated in productivity and biogeochemistry in the North Pacific Transition Zone. mSystems. 11(2). e0080125–e0080125.

Creveld, Shiri Graff van, et al.. (2022). Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. The ISME Journal. 16(12). 2741–2751. 14 indexed citations

Creveld, Shiri Graff van, et al.. (2022). Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

Coesel, Sacha, Bryndan P. Durham, Ryan D. Groussman, et al.. (2021). Diel transcriptional oscillations of light-sensitive regulatory elements in open-ocean eukaryotic plankton communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 29 indexed citations

Morales, Rhonda, et al.. (2021). Simons Collaborative Marine Atlas Project (Simons CMAP ): An open‐source portal to share, visualize, and analyze ocean data. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 19(7). 488–496. 14 indexed citations

Durham, Bryndan P., Angela K. Boysen, Laura T. Carlson, et al.. (2019). Sulfonate-based networks between eukaryotic phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the surface ocean. Nature Microbiology. 4(10). 1706–1715. 101 indexed citations

Koester, Julie A., Chris Berthiaume, Naozumi Hiranuma, et al.. (2018). Sexual ancestors generated an obligate asexual and globally dispersed clone within the model diatom species Thalassiosira pseudonana. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10492–10492. 10 indexed citations

Hennon, Gwenn M. M., Rhonda Morales, Joseph A. Needoba, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of Teleaulax-like cryptophytes during the decline of a red water bloom in the Columbia River Estuary. Journal of Plankton Research. 39(4). 589–599. 10 indexed citations

Turner, Jeffrey W., Chris Berthiaume, Rhonda Morales, E. Virginia Armbrust, & Mark S. Strom. (2016). Genomic evidence of adaptive evolution in emergent Vibrio parahaemolyticus ecotypes. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 4. 5 indexed citations

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Amin, Shady A., Bryndan P. Durham, Laura T. Carlson, et al.. (2015). Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. Nature. 522(7554). 98–101. 788 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hennon, Gwenn M. M., J. R. Ashworth, Ryan D. Groussman, et al.. (2015). Diatom acclimation to elevated CO2 via cAMP signalling and coordinated gene expression. Nature Climate Change. 5(8). 761–765. 74 indexed citations

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Bender, Sara J., Colleen A. Durkin, Chris Berthiaume, Rhonda Morales, & E. Virginia Armbrust. (2014). Transcriptional responses of three model diatoms to nitrate limitation of growth. Frontiers in Marine Science. 1. 93 indexed citations

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Hennon, Gwenn M. M., et al.. (2013). Acclimation conditions modify physiological response of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana to elevated CO₂ concentrations in a nitrate‐limited chemostat. Journal of Phycology. 50(2). 243–253. 43 indexed citations

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Iverson, Vaughn, Robert M. Morris, Christian D. Frazar, et al.. (2012). Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota. Science. 335(6068). 587–590. 331 indexed citations

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Marchetti, Adrian, David M. Schruth, Colleen A. Durkin, et al.. (2012). Comparative metatranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(6). E317–25. 224 indexed citations

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Durkin, Colleen A., Adrian Marchetti, Sara J. Bender, et al.. (2012). Frustule‐related gene transcription and the influence of diatom community composition on silica precipitation in an iron‐limited environment. Limnology and Oceanography. 57(6). 1619–1633. 30 indexed citations

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Ribalet, François, Adrian Marchetti, Katherine A. Hubbard, et al.. (2010). Unveiling a phytoplankton hotspot at a narrow boundary between coastal and offshore waters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(38). 16571–16576. 76 indexed citations

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