Sarah M. Owens

18.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
33 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Sarah M. Owens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah M. Owens has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Sarah M. Owens's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Gut microbiota and health (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Sarah M. Owens is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Gut microbiota and health (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Sarah M. Owens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Sarah M. Owens's co-authors include Jack A. Gilbert, Noah Fierer, J. Gregory Caporaso, Rob Knight, Donna Berg-Lyons, James S. Huntley, Markus Bauer, Jason Betley, Louise Fraser and Christian L. Lauber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sarah M. Owens

32 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

2012 6.7k citations J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

2012 1.2k citations Noah Fierer, Sarah M. Owens et al. profile →
The Soil Microbiome Influences Grapevine-Associated Microbiota

2015 704 citations Iratxe Zarraonaindia, Sarah M. Owens et al. profile →
Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment

2014 633 citations Simon Lax, Daniel P. Smith et al. Science profile →
Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

2013 400 citations Noah Fierer, Sarah M. Owens 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
Sarah M. Owens United States	21	4.6k	3.9k	2.0k	1.2k	1.0k	33	10.7k
William A. Walters United States	14	4.6k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	18	10.9k
Tanja Magoč United States	5	5.7k 1.2×	3.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	7	12.1k
Jesse Zaneveld United States	22	7.0k 1.5×	5.0k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	35	14.2k
Benli Chai United States	23	5.4k 1.2×	4.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	723 0.6×	2.6k 2.6×	36	11.6k
Laura Wegener Parfrey Canada	39	8.4k 1.8×	5.2k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	923 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	80	15.8k
Eric W. Triplett United States	64	6.6k 1.4×	5.2k 1.3×	5.1k 2.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	233	15.9k
Yvette M. Piceno United States	39	2.9k 0.6×	3.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	679 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	71	8.4k
Rolf Daniel Germany	66	8.5k 1.8×	6.0k 1.5×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	444	16.8k
Todd Z. DeSantis United States	25	3.0k 0.6×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	727 0.6×	601 0.6×	29	8.1k
N. Larsen Denmark	14	6.7k 1.4×	4.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	460 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	22	12.2k

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Portner, Elan J., et al.. (2024). Using low volume eDNA methods to sample pelagic marine animal assemblages. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0303263–e0303263. 3 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

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

Shibata, Takeo, Mayumi Nakagawa, Hannah Coleman, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of DNA extraction protocols from liquid-based cytology specimens for studying cervical microbiota. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0237556–e0237556. 10 indexed citations

Owens, Sarah M., et al.. (2020). Reducing host DNA contamination in 16S rRNA gene surveys of anthozoan microbiomes using PNA clamps. Coral Reefs. 39(6). 1817–1827. 17 indexed citations

Ahmed, Ishfaq, Badal C. Roy, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2018). Enteric infection coupled with chronic Notch pathway inhibition alters colonic mucus composition leading to dysbiosis, barrier disruption and colitis. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206701–e0206701. 24 indexed citations

Linz, Alexandra M., Ashley Shade, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2017). Bacterial Community Composition and Dynamics Spanning Five Years in Freshwater Bog Lakes. mSphere. 2(3). 71 indexed citations

Flynn, Theodore M., et al.. (2017). Parallelized, Aerobic, Single Carbon-Source Enrichments from Different Natural Environments Contain Divergent Microbial Communities. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 2321–2321. 24 indexed citations

Jackrel, Sara L., Sarah M. Owens, Jack A. Gilbert, & Catherine A. Pfister. (2016). Identifying the plant‐associated microbiome across aquatic and terrestrial environments: the effects of amplification method on taxa discovery. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(5). 931–942. 25 indexed citations

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Howe, Adina, Daina L. Ringus, Ryan J. Williams, et al.. (2015). Divergent responses of viral and bacterial communities in the gut microbiome to dietary disturbances in mice. The ISME Journal. 10(5). 1217–1227. 74 indexed citations

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Gibbons, Sean M., Simon Lax, Tifani W. Eshoo-Anton, et al.. (2015). Athletic equipment microbiota are shaped by interactions with human skin. Microbiome. 3(1). 25–25. 32 indexed citations

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Lax, Simon, Daniel P. Smith, Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell, et al.. (2014). Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment. Science. 345(6200). 1048–1052. 633 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rubin, Benjamin E., Jon G. Sanders, Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell, et al.. (2014). DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure. MicrobiologyOpen. 3(6). 910–921. 80 indexed citations

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Sirová, Dagmara, Jiří Šantrůček, Lubomı́r Adamec, et al.. (2014). Dinitrogen fixation associated with shoots of aquatic carnivorous plants: is it ecologically important?. Annals of Botany. 114(1). 125–133. 17 indexed citations

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Hampton‐Marcell, Jarrad, Iratxe Zarraonaindia, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2014). Understanding Cultivar-Specificity and Soil Determinants of the Cannabis Microbiome. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99641–e99641. 63 indexed citations

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Walsh, Fiona, Daniel P. Smith, Sarah M. Owens, Brion Duffy, & Jürg E. Frey. (2014). Restricted streptomycin use in apple orchards did not adversely alter the soil bacteria communities. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 383–383. 23 indexed citations

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Gibbons, Sean M., Harald Schunck, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2013). Ocean acidification shows negligible impacts on high-latitude bacterial community structure in coastal pelagic mesocosms. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 555–566. 51 indexed citations

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Hampton‐Marcell, Jarrad, et al.. (2013). Preparation and Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Host–Microbe Systems. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 531. 169–185. 12 indexed citations

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Caporaso, J. Gregory, Christian L. Lauber, William A. Walters, et al.. (2012). Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms. The ISME Journal. 6(8). 1621–1624. 6693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amaro, Francisco, Jack A. Gilbert, Sarah M. Owens, W. Trimble, & Howard A. Shuman. (2012). Whole-Genome Sequence of the Human Pathogen Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 12 Strain 570-CO-H. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(6). 1613–1614. 20 indexed citations

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