Slava S. Epstein

10.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Slava S. Epstein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Slava S. Epstein has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Slava S. Epstein's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (48 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (23 papers). Slava S. Epstein is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (48 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (23 papers). Slava S. Epstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Slava S. Epstein's co-authors include Kim Lewis, Thorsten Stoeck, Kim Lewis, Sunok Jeon, John Bunge, Gordon T. Taylor, Ekaterina Gavrish, Annette Bollmann, Chesley Leslin and Michael P. Shiaris and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Slava S. Epstein

70 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Isolating "Uncultivable" Microorganisms in Pure Culture in a Simulated Natural Environment

2002 872 citations Kim Lewis, Slava S. Epstein et al. profile →
Use of Ichip for High-Throughput In Situ Cultivation of “Uncultivable” Microbial Species

2010 525 citations Kim Lewis, Slava S. Epstein et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Slava S. Epstein United States	37	3.6k	3.0k	771	673	478	72	6.0k
Irene Wagner‐Döbler Germany	54	4.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	774 1.0×	426 0.6×	434 0.9×	154	8.1k
Marcelino T. Suzuki France	37	4.0k 1.1×	4.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	281 0.4×	785 1.6×	86	8.0k
Wolf‐Rainer Abraham Germany	44	3.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	339 0.4×	858 1.3×	694 1.5×	183	7.4k
Thomas Schweder Germany	42	3.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	831 1.1×	153 0.2×	402 0.8×	137	5.3k
Eric J. Mathur United States	20	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	310 0.4×	190 0.3×	286 0.6×	31	4.5k
Shinichi Sunagawa Switzerland	50	5.7k 1.6×	3.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	320 0.5×	274 0.6×	98	9.8k
J. Grant Burgess United Kingdom	44	2.6k 0.7×	951 0.3×	461 0.6×	580 0.9×	442 0.9×	116	6.3k
Christian Rinke Australia	32	5.4k 1.5×	4.8k 1.6×	498 0.6×	252 0.4×	1.2k 2.6×	53	8.4k
Heinrich Lünsdorf Germany	48	3.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	233 0.3×	302 0.4×	516 1.1×	137	6.9k
Daniel R. Mende Germany	30	5.5k 1.5×	2.9k 1.0×	413 0.5×	283 0.4×	433 0.9×	49	8.6k

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Seo, Eun–Young, Slava S. Epstein, Weiyan Zhang, et al.. (2023). A targeted liquid cultivation method for previously uncultured non-colony forming microbes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1194466–1194466. 4 indexed citations

Acuña, Jacquelinne J., Nitza G. Inostroza, Slava S. Epstein, et al.. (2023). Endophytic bacterial communities in ungerminated and germinated seeds of commercial vegetables. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 19829–19829. 7 indexed citations

Epstein, Slava S., et al.. (2021). CMOS Electrochemical Imaging Arrays for the Detection and Classification of Microorganisms. 1. 1–5. 5 indexed citations

Yuan, Ye, Xiaoping He, Shuaibo Han, et al.. (2018). Gallaecimonas mangrovi sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from mangrove sediment. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 111(10). 1855–1862. 9 indexed citations

Kim, Soohong, Joachim De Jonghe, Anthony Kulesa, et al.. (2017). High-throughput automated microfluidic sample preparation for accurate microbial genomics. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13919–13919. 79 indexed citations

Srinivasan, Sujatha, Matthew M Munch, Maria V. Sizova, et al.. (2016). More Easily Cultivated Than Identified: Classical Isolation With Molecular Identification of Vaginal Bacteria. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 214(suppl 1). S21–S28. 32 indexed citations

Sizova, Maria V., Ashlee M. Earl, Manolito Torralba, et al.. (2015). High-quality draft genome sequences of five anaerobic oral bacteria and description of Peptoanaerobacter stomatis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Peptostreptococcaceae. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 10(1). 37–37. 18 indexed citations

Sizova, Maria V., et al.. (2015). TM7 detection in human microbiome: Are PCR primers and FISH probes specific enough?. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 114. 51–53. 10 indexed citations

Gavrish, Ekaterina, Clarissa S. Sit, Shugeng Cao, et al.. (2014). Lassomycin, a Ribosomally Synthesized Cyclic Peptide, Kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Targeting the ATP-Dependent Protease ClpC1P1P2. Chemistry & Biology. 21(4). 509–518. 315 indexed citations

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Epstein, Slava S., et al.. (2014). Isolation of Microorganisms Using Sub-Micrometer Constrictions. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e101429–e101429. 18 indexed citations

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Spoering, Amy L., et al.. (2012). Microbial Scout Hypothesis and Microbial Discovery. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78(9). 3229–3233. 35 indexed citations

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Vďačný, Peter, William A. Bourland, William D. Orsi, Slava S. Epstein, & Wilhelm Foissner. (2011). Phylogeny and classification of the Litostomatea (Protista, Ciliophora), with emphasis on free-living taxa and the 18S rRNA gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59(2). 510–522. 69 indexed citations

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Vďačný, Peter, William D. Orsi, William A. Bourland, et al.. (2011). Morphological and molecular phylogeny of dileptid and tracheliid ciliates: Resolution at the base of the class Litostomatea (Ciliophora, Rhynchostomatia). European Journal of Protistology. 47(4). 295–313. 39 indexed citations

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D’Onofrio, Anthony, Jason M. Crawford, Eric J. Stewart, et al.. (2010). Siderophores from Neighboring Organisms Promote the Growth of Uncultured Bacteria. Chemistry & Biology. 17(3). 254–264. 340 indexed citations

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Epstein, Slava S.. (2009). Microbial awakenings. Nature. 457(7233). 1083–1083. 125 indexed citations

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Lewis, Kim, Jimmy Orjala, Ron Ortenberg, et al.. (2008). Short Peptide Induces an “Uncultivable” Microorganism To Grow In Vitro. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(15). 4889–4897. 153 indexed citations

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Edgcomb, Virginia P., William Orsi, Chesley Leslin, et al.. (2008). Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Extremophiles. 13(1). 151–167. 73 indexed citations

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Bollmann, Annette, Kim Lewis, & Slava S. Epstein. (2007). Incubation of Environmental Samples in a Diffusion Chamber Increases the Diversity of Recovered Isolates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(20). 6386–6390. 198 indexed citations

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Irigaray, Philippe, J.A. Newby, Richard Clapp, et al.. (2007). Lifestyle-related factors and environmental agents causing cancer: An overview. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 61(10). 640–658. 239 indexed citations

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Hong, Sun Hee, John Bunge, Sunok Jeon, & Slava S. Epstein. (2005). Predicting microbial species richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(1). 117–122. 167 indexed citations

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