Steven Allison

40.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
176 papers, 23.4k citations indexed

About

Steven Allison is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Allison has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 23.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Ecology, 76 papers in Soil Science and 48 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Steven Allison's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (76 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (26 papers). Steven Allison is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (76 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (66 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (26 papers). Steven Allison collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Steven Allison's co-authors include Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Kathleen K. Treseder, Peter M. Vitousek, Mark A. Bradford, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Adam C. Martiny, Donovan P. German, John F. Carpenter, William R. Wieder and Gordon B. Bonan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Steven Allison

174 papers receiving 22.9k citations

Hit Papers

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial commu... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2008 2010 2012 2004 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities
    2008 2.2k citations Steven Allison, Jennifer B. H. Martiny profile →
  2. Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology
    2010 1.2k citations Steven Allison et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  3. Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience
    2012 1.2k citations Steven Allison, Jennifer B. H. Martiny et al. profile →
  4. Responses of extracellular enzymes to simple and complex nutrient inputs
    2004 962 citations Steven Allison et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
  5. Optimization of hydrolytic and oxidative enzyme methods for ecosystem studies
    2011 960 citations Donovan P. German, Michael Weintraub et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
  6. Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes
    2013 738 citations William R. Wieder, Steven Allison et al. profile →
  7. Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change
    2019 708 citations Ashish A. Malik, Jennifer B. H. Martiny et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  8. Drivers of bacterial β-diversity depend on spatial scale
    2011 640 citations Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Steven Allison et al. profile →
  9. Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations
    2013 608 citations James T. Randerson, Steven Allison et al. profile →
  10. Warming and drying suppress microbial activity and carbon cycling in boreal forest soils
    2008 508 citations Steven Allison, Kathleen K. Treseder Global Change Biology profile →
  11. Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change
    2012 361 citations Steven Allison, Claudia Weihe et al. profile →
  12. Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes
    2023 81 citations Steven Allison, Jennifer B. H. Martiny et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven Allison United States 73 10.9k 10.6k 5.5k 4.8k 3.0k 176 23.4k
Andreas Richter Austria 83 12.3k 1.1× 12.3k 1.2× 8.1k 1.5× 3.9k 0.8× 4.7k 1.6× 289 27.8k
Matthew D. Wallenstein United States 58 9.6k 0.9× 11.6k 1.1× 4.5k 0.8× 2.4k 0.5× 3.4k 1.1× 94 19.7k
Mary K. Firestone United States 83 12.0k 1.1× 11.7k 1.1× 8.5k 1.6× 4.4k 0.9× 5.5k 1.8× 194 26.8k
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo Spain 72 9.3k 0.9× 8.4k 0.8× 7.1k 1.3× 3.7k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 369 21.9k
Brajesh K. Singh Australia 80 10.3k 0.9× 8.6k 0.8× 12.5k 2.3× 5.8k 1.2× 2.3k 0.8× 355 29.8k
Michael Schloter Germany 79 8.0k 0.7× 7.7k 0.7× 7.8k 1.4× 4.0k 0.8× 3.0k 1.0× 474 22.5k
Kathleen K. Treseder United States 71 7.8k 0.7× 9.7k 0.9× 9.2k 1.7× 1.8k 0.4× 2.2k 0.7× 148 20.5k
Christian L. Lauber United States 26 11.0k 1.0× 7.7k 0.7× 5.6k 1.0× 7.4k 1.6× 2.2k 0.7× 28 22.9k
Joshua P. Schimel United States 85 15.4k 1.4× 18.4k 1.7× 6.2k 1.1× 2.8k 0.6× 5.9k 2.0× 190 32.8k
Zhihong Xu China 73 4.4k 0.4× 7.6k 0.7× 8.0k 1.5× 4.4k 0.9× 2.4k 0.8× 612 20.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Allison

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Allison

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Allison. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Allison 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 Steven Allison. Steven Allison is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Malik, Ashish A., Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Paul O. Sheridan, et al.. (2024). Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 5 indexed citations
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Ciais, Philippe, et al.. (2024). Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change. Ecology Letters. 27(10). e14530–e14530. 3 indexed citations
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Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc, Steven Allison, Alexander W. Cheesman, et al.. (2024). Drivers of wood decay in tropical ecosystems: Termites versus microbes along spatial, temporal and experimental precipitation gradients. Functional Ecology. 38(3). 546–559. 7 indexed citations
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Allison, Steven, et al.. (2024). From Ridge 2 Reef: An interdisciplinary model for training the next generation of environmental problem solvers. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0314755–e0314755. 1 indexed citations
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Allison, Steven, Andrew B. Davies, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, et al.. (2024). The challenge of estimating global termite methane emissions. Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17390–e17390. 1 indexed citations
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Flores‐Moreno, Habacuc, Alexander W. Cheesman, Rebecca Clement, et al.. (2023). Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna. Journal of Ecology. 111(5). 982–993. 13 indexed citations
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Martiny, Jennifer B. H., Adam C. Martiny, Eoin Brodie, et al.. (2023). Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change. Ecology Letters. 26(S1). S81–S90. 43 indexed citations
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Weihe, Claudia, et al.. (2022). Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 172. 108761–108761. 33 indexed citations
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Alster, Charlotte J., Steven Allison, & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2022). Trait relationships of fungal decomposers in response to drought using a dual field and laboratory approach. Ecosphere. 13(6). 3 indexed citations
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Alster, Charlotte J., Steven Allison, Nels G. Johnson, Sydney I. Glassman, & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2021). Phenotypic plasticity of fungal traits in response to moisture and temperature. ISME Communications. 1(1). 43–43. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Bin & Steven Allison. (2021). Drought legacies mediated by trait trade‐offs in soil microbiomes. Ecosphere. 12(6). 28 indexed citations
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Alster, Charlotte J., Joseph C. von Fischer, Steven Allison, & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2020). Embracing a new paradigm for temperature sensitivity of soil microbes. Global Change Biology. 26(6). 3221–3229. 62 indexed citations
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Shi, Zheng, Steven Allison, Yujie He, et al.. (2020). The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements. Nature Geoscience. 13(8). 555–559. 192 indexed citations
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Alster, Charlotte J., Steven Allison, & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2020). Carbon budgets for soil and plants respond to long-term warming in an Alaskan boreal forest. Biogeochemistry. 150(3). 345–353. 11 indexed citations
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Saleska, S. R., et al.. (2019). Implications of Microbial Trait Evolution For Soil Carbon-Climate Feedbacks At Local And Global Scales. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Bin & Steven Allison. (2019). Emergent properties of organic matter decomposition by soil enzymes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 136. 107522–107522. 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Bin, Paul E. Brewer, Herman H. Shugart, Manuel Lerdau, & Steven Allison. (2018). Soil aggregates as biogeochemical reactors and implications for soil–atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases—A concept. Global Change Biology. 25(2). 373–385. 94 indexed citations
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Curran, Monique P, et al.. (2013). The temperature response of fungal enzyme kinetics. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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German, Donovan P., et al.. (2011). The M ichaelis– M enten kinetics of soil extracellular enzymes in response to temperature: a cross‐latitudinal study. Global Change Biology. 18(4). 1468–1479. 295 indexed citations
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Sinsabaugh, Robert L., Christian L. Lauber, Michael Weintraub, et al.. (2008). Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale. University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester). 5 indexed citations

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