Simon Jon McIlroy

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Simon Jon McIlroy is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Jon McIlroy has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Pollution and 29 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Simon Jon McIlroy's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (43 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (43 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers). Simon Jon McIlroy is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (43 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (43 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers). Simon Jon McIlroy collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Denmark and China. Simon Jon McIlroy's co-authors include Per Halkjær Nielsen, Mads Albertsen, Marta Nierychlo, Søren Michael Karst, Robert J. Seviour, Aaron Marc Saunders, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard, Morten Simonsen Dueholm and Mikkel Stokholm-Bjerregaard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Simon Jon McIlroy

74 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

2020 236 citations Andy O Leu, Simon Jon McIlroy et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Jon McIlroy Australia	35	2.5k	1.5k	1.0k	896	857	77	4.0k
Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard Denmark	20	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	657 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	528 0.6×	28	4.3k
Aaron Marc Saunders Denmark	32	3.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	914 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	60	4.7k
Søren Michael Karst Denmark	25	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	583 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	478 0.6×	36	3.5k
Takashi Yamaguchi Japan	36	1.9k 0.8×	892 0.6×	537 0.5×	733 0.8×	818 1.0×	263	4.2k
Marta Nierychlo Denmark	30	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	643 0.6×	558 0.6×	771 0.9×	50	2.8k
Gavin Collins Ireland	37	1.9k 0.8×	887 0.6×	696 0.7×	729 0.8×	548 0.6×	103	3.9k
Laura van Niftrik Netherlands	33	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	357 0.4×	57	4.5k
Guoqiang Zhuang China	41	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	518 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	418 0.5×	182	5.1k
Daan R. Speth Netherlands	25	2.0k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	823 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	332 0.4×	45	4.2k
Ramesh Goel United States	30	1.7k 0.7×	835 0.6×	519 0.5×	446 0.5×	476 0.6×	114	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Jon McIlroy

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Engelberts, J Pamela, Jun Ye, Donovan H. Parks, et al.. (2025). GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridization for strain-level visualization of microbial communities. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Zaugg, Julian, et al.. (2025). Insights Into Phylogeny, Diversity and Functional Potential of Poseidoniales Viruses. Environmental Microbiology. 27(1). e70017–e70017.

Leu, Andy O, Ove Øyås, Ianina Altshuler, et al.. (2025). Protozoal populations drive system-wide variation in the rumen microbiome. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6238–6238. 1 indexed citations

Sternes, Peter R., Ayesha Shah, Natasha A. Koloski, et al.. (2024). The biogeography of the mucosa-associated microbiome in health and disease. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1454910–1454910. 1 indexed citations

Messer, Lauren F., David G. Bourne, Steven J. Robbins, et al.. (2024). A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4 indexed citations

Chuvochina, Maria, et al.. (2024). Machine learning and metagenomics identifies uncharacterized taxa inferred to drive biogeochemical cycles in a subtropical hypereutrophic estuary. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae067–ycae067. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Xueqin, Andy O Leu, Jing Zhao, et al.. (2023). Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6118–6118. 39 indexed citations

Li, Jie, Tao Liu, Simon Jon McIlroy, Gene W. Tyson, & Jianhua Guo. (2023). Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities performing anaerobic ammonium and methane oxidations under different nitrogen loadings. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 39–39. 43 indexed citations

Dong, Hongpo, Simon Jon McIlroy, Sean A. Crowe, et al.. (2022). Expanding the phylogenetic distribution of cytochrome b-containing methanogenic archaea sheds light on the evolution of methanogenesis. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2373–2387. 29 indexed citations

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Leu, Andy O, Simon Jon McIlroy, Jun Ye, et al.. (2020). Lateral Gene Transfer Drives Metabolic Flexibility in the Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaeal Family Methanoperedenaceae. mBio. 11(3). 60 indexed citations

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Fernando, Eustace, Simon Jon McIlroy, Marta Nierychlo, et al.. (2019). Resolving the individual contribution of key microbial populations to enhanced biological phosphorus removal with Raman–FISH. The ISME Journal. 13(8). 1933–1946. 139 indexed citations

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Nierychlo, Marta, et al.. (2018). The morphology and metabolic potential of the Chloroflexi in full-scale activated sludge wastewater treatment plants. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 95(2). 78 indexed citations

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Hao, Liping, Simon Jon McIlroy, Rasmus Hansen Kirkegaard, et al.. (2018). Novel prosthecate bacteria from the candidate phylum Acetothermia. The ISME Journal. 12(9). 2225–2237. 49 indexed citations

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Karst, Søren Michael, Morten Simonsen Dueholm, Simon Jon McIlroy, et al.. (2018). Retrieval of a million high-quality, full-length microbial 16S and 18S rRNA gene sequences without primer bias. Nature Biotechnology. 36(2). 190–195. 131 indexed citations

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Kirkegaard, Rasmus Hansen, Simon Jon McIlroy, Jannie Munk Kristensen, et al.. (2017). The impact of immigration on microbial community composition in full-scale anaerobic digesters. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9343–9343. 110 indexed citations

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McIlroy, Simon Jon, Daniel Tillett, Steve Petrovski, & Robert J. Seviour. (2010). Non‐target sites with single nucleotide insertions or deletions are frequently found in 16S rRNA sequences and can lead to false positives in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Environmental Microbiology. 13(1). 33–47. 24 indexed citations

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McIlroy, Simon Jon, Tadashi Nittami, Elizabeth M. Seviour, & Robert J. Seviour. (2010). Filamentous members of cluster III Defluviicoccus have the in situ phenotype expected of a glycogen-accumulating organism in activated sludge. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 74(1). 248–256. 25 indexed citations

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Nittami, Tadashi, et al.. (2009). Candidatus Monilibacter spp., common bulking filaments in activated sludge, are members of Cluster III Defluviicoccus. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 32(7). 480–489. 39 indexed citations

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McIlroy, Simon Jon, Kate Porter, Robert J. Seviour, & Daniel Tillett. (2009). Extracting nucleic acids from activated sludge which reflect community population diversity. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 96(4). 593–605. 29 indexed citations

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Ahn, Johwan, et al.. (2009). Biomass granulation in an aerobic:anaerobic-enhanced biological phosphorus removal process in a sequencing batch reactor with varying pH. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 36(7). 885–893. 21 indexed citations

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