Spencer Diamond

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Spencer Diamond is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer Diamond has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Spencer Diamond's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Spencer Diamond is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (15 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Spencer Diamond collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Spencer Diamond's co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Susan S. Golden, Benjamin E. Rubin, Brian C. Thomas, Cristina N. Butterfield, N. Louise Glass, Matthew R. Olm, Chaoguang Tian and David Welkie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Spencer Diamond

30 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis

2018 304 citations Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Spencer Diamond et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Spencer Diamond United States	22	1.2k	572	398	323	183	34	1.9k
Jasmyn Pangilinan United States	15	655 0.5×	394 0.7×	388 1.0×	241 0.7×	95 0.5×	26	1.5k
Micheline Vandenbol Belgium	27	1.2k 1.0×	392 0.7×	528 1.3×	46 0.1×	93 0.5×	80	2.1k
Lawrence B. Smart United States	34	1.2k 1.0×	184 0.3×	1.7k 4.2×	165 0.5×	210 1.1×	114	3.3k
Gerardo Toledo United States	16	696 0.6×	726 1.3×	329 0.8×	41 0.1×	95 0.5×	27	1.4k
Hans C. Bernstein United States	22	1.0k 0.8×	521 0.9×	168 0.4×	232 0.7×	21 0.1×	56	1.7k
Birgit Voigt Germany	26	1.8k 1.5×	502 0.9×	648 1.6×	77 0.2×	150 0.8×	62	2.9k
Yuu Hirose Japan	22	1.3k 1.1×	360 0.6×	683 1.7×	489 1.5×	18 0.1×	86	2.1k
Louis S. Tisa United States	34	1.1k 0.9×	396 0.7×	1.7k 4.3×	56 0.2×	98 0.5×	153	3.4k
Tamotsu Hoshino Japan	29	1.5k 1.2×	832 1.5×	515 1.3×	93 0.3×	86 0.5×	158	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Spencer Diamond

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Spencer Diamond

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Spencer Diamond. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Spencer Diamond based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Spencer Diamond. Spencer Diamond is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Kust, Andreja, et al.. (2025). Model cyanobacterial consortia reveal a consistent core microbiome independent of inoculation source or cyanobacterial host species. The ISME Journal. 19(1).

Zhang, Pengfan, Breanna M. Roque, Nicole Shapiro, et al.. (2025). Red seaweed supplementation suppresses methanogenesis in the rumen, revealing potentially advantageous traits among hydrogenotrophic bacteria. Microbiome. 13(1). 231–231.

Sachdeva, Rohan, Karthik Anantharaman, Shufei Lei, et al.. (2024). Diverse microbiome functions, limited temporal variation and substantial genomic conservation within sedimentary and granite rock deep underground research laboratories. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 105–105.

Yee, Mon Oo, Spencer Diamond, Peter Andeer, et al.. (2023). Fine scale sampling reveals early differentiation of rhizosphere microbiome from bulk soil in young Brachypodium plant roots. ISME Communications. 3(1). 54–54. 24 indexed citations

Huddy, Robert J., Rohan Sachdeva, Shufei Lei, et al.. (2023). Vitamin interdependencies predicted by metagenomics-informed network analyses and validated in microbial community microcosms. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4768–4768. 18 indexed citations

Lou, Yue Clare, Matthew R. Olm, Jacob West-Roberts, et al.. (2023). Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data. Microbiome. 11(1). 36–36. 15 indexed citations

Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Spencer Diamond, Basem Al-Shayeb, Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2022). A widely distributed genus of soil Acidobacteria genomically enriched in biosynthetic gene clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 70–70. 18 indexed citations

Diamond, Spencer, Adi Lavy, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2022). Soils and sediments host Thermoplasmata archaea encoding novel copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs). The ISME Journal. 16(5). 1348–1362. 25 indexed citations

Carnevali, Paula B. Matheus, Adi Lavy, Alex D. Thomas, et al.. (2021). Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale. Microbiome. 9(1). 121–121. 19 indexed citations

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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Matthew R. Olm, Spencer Diamond, Keith Bouma‐Gregson, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2020). Soil bacterial populations are shaped by recombination and gene-specific selection across a grassland meadow. The ISME Journal. 14(7). 1834–1846. 51 indexed citations

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Desmarais, John J., Avi I. Flamholz, Cecilia Blikstad, et al.. (2019). DABs are inorganic carbon pumps found throughout prokaryotic phyla. Nature Microbiology. 4(12). 2204–2215. 48 indexed citations

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Diamond, Spencer, Peter Andeer, Li Zhou, et al.. (2019). Mediterranean grassland soil C–N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms. Nature Microbiology. 4(8). 1356–1367. 145 indexed citations

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Welkie, David, Benjamin E. Rubin, Yong‐Gang Chang, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide fitness assessment during diurnal growth reveals an expanded role of the cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(30). E7174–E7183. 48 indexed citations

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Rubin, Benjamin E., TuAnh N. Huynh, David Welkie, et al.. (2018). High-throughput interaction screens illuminate the role of c-di-AMP in cyanobacterial nighttime survival. PLoS Genetics. 14(4). e1007301–e1007301. 34 indexed citations

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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Spencer Diamond, Cristina N. Butterfield, Brian C. Thomas, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2018). Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis. Nature. 558(7710). 440–444. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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Welkie, David, Benjamin E. Rubin, Spencer Diamond, et al.. (2018). A Hard Day’s Night: Cyanobacteria in Diel Cycles. Trends in Microbiology. 27(3). 231–242. 84 indexed citations

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Couso, Inmaculada, Bradley S. Evans, Yu Liu, et al.. (2016). Synergism between Inositol Polyphosphates and TOR Kinase Signaling in Nutrient Sensing, Growth Control, and Lipid Metabolism in Chlamydomonas. The Plant Cell. 28(9). 2026–2042. 80 indexed citations

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Broddrick, Jared T., Benjamin E. Rubin, David Welkie, et al.. (2016). Unique attributes of cyanobacterial metabolism revealed by improved genome-scale metabolic modeling and essential gene analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(51). 95 indexed citations

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Shultzaberger, Ryan K., Joseph S. Boyd, Spencer Diamond, Ralph J. Greenspan, & Susan S. Golden. (2015). Giving Time Purpose: The Synechococcus elongatus Clock in a Broader Network Context. Annual Review of Genetics. 49(1). 485–505. 26 indexed citations

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Fleißner, André, Spencer Diamond, & N. Louise Glass. (2008). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae PRM1 Homolog in Neurospora crassa Is Involved in Vegetative and Sexual Cell Fusion Events but Also Has Postfertilization Functions. Genetics. 181(2). 497–510. 53 indexed citations

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