Sergio E. Morales

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Sergio E. Morales is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio E. Morales has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Sergio E. Morales's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Sergio E. Morales is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers). Sergio E. Morales collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Austria. Sergio E. Morales's co-authors include William E. Holben, Chris Greening, Ambarish Biswas, Gregory M. Cook, Matthew C. Taylor, Matthew B. Stott, Federico Baltar, Carlo R. Carere, Colin J. Jackson and Peter C. Fineran and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sergio E. Morales

67 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Genomic and metagenomic surveys of hydrogenase distribution indicate H2 is a widely utilised energy source for microbial growth and survival

2015 459 citations Chris Greening, Ambarish Biswas et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sergio E. Morales	1.6k	1.2k	625	536	434	68	3.1k
Xue Guo	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	348 0.6×	733 1.4×	594 1.4×	96	4.2k
Mary Ann Bruns	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	830 1.3×	580 1.1×	1.0k 2.4×	60	4.6k
Adrian Ho	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	768 1.2×	615 1.1×	343 0.8×	63	2.7k
Jinjun Kan	1.3k 0.8×	681 0.6×	428 0.7×	266 0.5×	408 0.9×	95	2.6k
Kai Feng	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	253 0.4×	765 1.4×	720 1.7×	80	3.5k
Shigeto Otsuka	1.8k 1.1×	617 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	840 1.6×	945 2.2×	79	3.2k
Gavin Lear	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	515 0.8×	391 0.7×	1.3k 3.0×	115	4.8k
Mette M. Svenning	1.3k 0.8×	704 0.6×	863 1.4×	244 0.5×	202 0.5×	76	2.5k
Roberta R. Fulthorpe	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	544 0.9×	593 1.1×	1.5k 3.5×	93	4.9k
Barbara J. Campbell	2.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	815 1.3×	229 0.4×	380 0.9×	60	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio E. Morales

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All Works

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Bhople, Parag, David P. Wall, Karl G. Richards, et al.. (2025). Soil nutrient stoichiometry impacts on soil organic carbon stocks in long-term phosphorus fertilisation experiments. Geoderma. 463. 117538–117538.

Duffy, Grant A., Robert O. Smith, Kim Currie, et al.. (2024). Host dispersal relaxes selective pressures in rafting microbiomes and triggers successional changes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10759–10759. 3 indexed citations

Décima, Moira, Michael R. Stukel, Scott D. Nodder, et al.. (2023). Salp blooms drive strong increases in passive carbon export in the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications. 14(1). 425–425. 32 indexed citations

Lappan, Rachael, Guy Shelley, Zahra F. Islam, et al.. (2023). Molecular hydrogen in seawater supports growth of diverse marine bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 8(4). 581–595. 36 indexed citations

Bakken, Lars R., et al.. (2023). Soil water extract and bacteriome determine N2O emission potential in soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 59(2). 217–232. 9 indexed citations

Weerden, Tony J. van der, et al.. (2021). Elevating soil pH does not reduce N ₂ O emissions from urine deposited onto pastoral soils. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 65(6). 484–506. 3 indexed citations

Currie, Kim, Sergio E. Morales, Laura Steindler, et al.. (2021). Microbial rhodopsins are increasingly favoured over chlorophyll in High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll waters. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 13(3). 401–406. 9 indexed citations

Rex, David, Md Sainur Samad, Karl G. Richards, et al.. (2021). Competition and community succession link N transformation and greenhouse gas emissions in urine patches. The Science of The Total Environment. 779. 146318–146318. 3 indexed citations

Wakelin, Steven A., et al.. (2019). Resolving broad patterns of prokaryotic community structure in New Zealand pasture soils. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 64(2). 143–161. 1 indexed citations

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Gardner, Paul P., Xochitl C. Morgan, Jenny Draper, et al.. (2019). Identifying accurate metagenome and amplicon software via a meta-analysis of sequence to taxonomy benchmarking studies. PeerJ. 7. e6160–e6160. 26 indexed citations

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Wing, Stephen R., et al.. (2019). Depth and location influence prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial community structure in New Zealand fjords. The Science of The Total Environment. 693. 133507–133507. 11 indexed citations

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Peura, Sari, Moritz Buck, Sanni L. Aalto, et al.. (2018). Novel Autotrophic Organisms Contribute Significantly to the Internal Carbon Cycling Potential of a Boreal Lake. mBio. 9(4). 14 indexed citations

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Dickie, Ian A., Stéphane Boyer, Hannah L. Buckley, et al.. (2018). Towards robust and repeatable sampling methods in eDNA‐based studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(5). 940–952. 133 indexed citations

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Samad, Md Sainur, Karl G. Richards, Gary Lanigan, et al.. (2017). Response to nitrogen addition reveals metabolic and ecological strategies of soil bacteria. Molecular Ecology. 26(20). 5500–5514. 26 indexed citations

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Clough, Timothy J., Gary Lanigan, Cecile A. M. de Klein, et al.. (2017). Influence of soil moisture on codenitrification fluxes from a urea-affected pasture soil. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2185–2185. 46 indexed citations

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Samad, Md Sainur, Ambarish Biswas, Lars R. Bakken, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic and functional potential links pH and N2O emissions in pasture soils. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35990–35990. 82 indexed citations

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Greening, Chris, Ambarish Biswas, Carlo R. Carere, et al.. (2015). Genomic and metagenomic surveys of hydrogenase distribution indicate H2 is a widely utilised energy source for microbial growth and survival. The ISME Journal. 10(3). 761–777. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morales, Sergio E. & William E. Holben. (2010). Linking bacterial identities and ecosystem processes: can ‘omic’ analyses be more than the sum of their parts?. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 75(1). 2–16. 76 indexed citations

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Toenjes, Kurt A., et al.. (2004). Analysis of cell-cycle specific localization of the Rdi1p RhoGDI and the structural determinants required for Cdc42p membrane localization and clustering at sites of polarized growth. Current Genetics. 45(6). 339–349. 31 indexed citations

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Morales, Sergio E.. (1988). El metro de Santiago.. Eure-revista Latinoamericana De Estudios Urbano Regionales. 14(42). 1 indexed citations

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