Robert M. Morris

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Robert M. Morris is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert M. Morris has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Robert M. Morris's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Robert M. Morris is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Robert M. Morris collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Japan. Robert M. Morris's co-authors include Stephen J. Giovannoni, Kevin L. Vergin, Craig A. Carlson, Michael S. Rappé, Stephanie A. Connon, Christian D. Frazar, Jang‐Cheon Cho, E. Virginia Armbrust, Rhonda Morales and Ruth E. Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Robert M. Morris

35 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities

2002 862 citations Robert M. Morris, Michael S. Rappé et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert M. Morris	2.6k	1.7k	1.0k	590	484	36	3.2k
Stephanie A. Connon	2.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	651 0.6×	661 1.1×	303 0.6×	28	3.2k
Hanno Teeling	3.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	929 1.6×	389 0.8×	55	4.7k
Shalabh Sharma	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	802 0.8×	352 0.6×	317 0.7×	81	2.6k
H. James Tripp	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	461 0.8×	237 0.5×	35	3.7k
Nicole Poulton	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	961 0.9×	612 1.0×	197 0.4×	50	3.1k
Frederica W. Valois	1.5k 0.6×	603 0.4×	938 0.9×	464 0.8×	630 1.3×	15	2.7k
Yoshihiko Sako	2.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.8k 3.0×	451 0.9×	159	4.4k
Haiwei Luo	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	750 0.7×	416 0.7×	291 0.6×	76	3.3k
Katherine R. Heal	1.2k 0.4×	701 0.4×	624 0.6×	279 0.5×	198 0.4×	23	1.8k
Laura Alonso‐Sáez	2.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	765 1.3×	300 0.6×	64	3.7k

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Fuchsman, Clara A., et al.. (2025). Marine Community Metabolomes in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone Reveal Glycine Betaine as a Metabolic Link Between Prochlorococcus and SAR11. Environmental Microbiology. 27(8). e70119–e70119. 1 indexed citations

Mino, Sayaka, Yasunori Ichihashi, Robert M. Morris, et al.. (2024). Time course transcriptomic profiling suggests Crp/Fnr transcriptional regulation of nosZ gene in a N2O-reducing thermophile. iScience. 27(11). 111074–111074. 1 indexed citations

Mattes, Timothy E., et al.. (2022). Two Metatranscriptomic Profiles through Low-Dissolved-Oxygen Waters (DO, 0 to 33 µM) in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 11(2). e0120121–e0120121. 5 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

Saito, Mak A., Erin M. Bertrand, Megan Duffy, et al.. (2019). Progress and Challenges in Ocean Metaproteomics and Proposed Best Practices for Data Sharing. Journal of Proteome Research. 18(4). 1461–1476. 52 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiaowei, et al.. (2019). Morphological Plasticity in a Sulfur-Oxidizing Marine Bacterium from the SUP05 Clade Enhances Dark Carbon Fixation. mBio. 10(3). 24 indexed citations

Chang, Bonnie X., et al.. (2016). Cultivation of a chemoautotroph from the SUP05 clade of marine bacteria that produces nitrite and consumes ammonium. The ISME Journal. 11(1). 263–271. 73 indexed citations

Morris, Robert M., et al.. (2015). Genome Sequence of “ Candidatus Thioglobus autotrophica” Strain EF1, a Chemoautotroph from the SUP05 Clade of Marine Gammaproteobacteria. Genome Announcements. 3(5). 19 indexed citations

Mattes, Timothy E., Brook L. Nunn, G. Proskurowski, et al.. (2013). Sulfur oxidizers dominate carbon fixation at a biogeochemical hot spot in the dark ocean. The ISME Journal. 7(12). 2349–2360. 58 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M. & Brook L. Nunn. (2013). Sample Preparation and Processing for Planktonic Microbial Community Proteomics. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 531. 271–287. 5 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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Morris, Robert M., Christian D. Frazar, & Craig A. Carlson. (2012). Basin‐scale patterns in the abundance of SAR11 subclades, marine Actinobacteria (OM1), members of the Roseobacter clade and OCS116 in the South Atlantic. Environmental Microbiology. 14(5). 1133–1144. 71 indexed citations

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Thrash, J. Cameron, Jang‐Cheon Cho, Kevin L. Vergin, Robert M. Morris, & Stephen J. Giovannoni. (2010). Genome Sequence of Lentisphaera araneosa HTCC2155 ^T , the Type Species of the Order Lentisphaerales in the Phylum Lentisphaerae. Journal of Bacteriology. 192(11). 2938–2939. 25 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M., Brook L. Nunn, Christian D. Frazar, et al.. (2010). Comparative metaproteomics reveals ocean-scale shifts in microbial nutrient utilization and energy transduction. The ISME Journal. 4(5). 673–685. 193 indexed citations

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Cho, Jang‐Cheon, Martha Stapels, Robert M. Morris, et al.. (2007). Polyphyletic photosynthetic reaction centre genes in oligotrophic marine Gammaproteobacteria. Environmental Microbiology. 9(6). 1456–1463. 61 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M.. (2006). Environmental Genomics: Exploring Ecological Sequence Space. Current Biology. 16(13). R499–R501. 6 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M., et al.. (2006). Transcription and mass‐spectroscopic proteomic studies of electron transport oxidoreductases in Dehalococcoides ethenogenes. Environmental Microbiology. 8(9). 1499–1509. 62 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M., Krista Longnecker, & Stephen J. Giovannoni. (2006). Pirellula and OM43 are among the dominant lineages identified in an Oregon coast diatom bloom. Environmental Microbiology. 8(8). 1361–1370. 146 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M., Kevin L. Vergin, Jang‐Cheon Cho, et al.. (2005). Temporal and spatial response of bacterioplankton lineages to annual convective overturn at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site. Limnology and Oceanography. 50(5). 1687–1696. 206 indexed citations

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Morris, Robert M., Michael S. Rappé, Stephanie A. Connon, et al.. (2002). SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities. Nature. 420(6917). 806–810. 862 indexed citations breakdown →

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