Steven W. Wilhelm

21.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
216 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Steven W. Wilhelm is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven W. Wilhelm has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Ecology, 86 papers in Oceanography and 80 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Steven W. Wilhelm's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (108 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (86 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (76 papers). Steven W. Wilhelm is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (108 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (86 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (76 papers). Steven W. Wilhelm collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Steven W. Wilhelm's co-authors include Curtis A. Suttle, Gregory L. Boyer, Morgan M. Steffen, Hans W. Paerl, Charles G. Trick, Johanna M. Rinta‐Kanto, Markus G. Weinbauer, Christopher J. Gobler, Joshua S. Weitz and Feng Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Steven W. Wilhelm

212 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

2010 1.3k citations Gerhard J. Herndl, Dennis A. Hansell et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Viruses and Nutrient Cycles in the Sea

1999 901 citations Steven W. Wilhelm, Curtis A. Suttle BioScience profile →
A review of the global ecology, genomics, and biogeography of the toxic cyanobacterium, Microcystis spp.

2016 832 citations Morgan M. Steffen, Steven W. Wilhelm et al. profile →
It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

2016 551 citations Steven W. Wilhelm et al. profile →
The re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia

2016 448 citations Gregory L. Boyer, Morgan M. Steffen et al. profile →

Peers

Steven W. Wilhelm

ECOLO

OCEAN

John Beardall Australia

Wim Vyverman Belgium

Hans‐Peter Grossart Germany

Stuart E. Jones United States

Christopher J. Gobler United States

JoAnn M. Burkholder United States

Warwick F. Vincent Canada

James B. Cotner United States

Emilio O. Casamayor Spain

Roberto Danovaro Italy

John Beardall Australia

Steven W. Wilhelm

5.2k ×0.6

ECOLO

9.8k ×1.8

OCEAN

3.4k ×0.6

3.0k ×1.4

866 ×0.6

Citations per year, relative to Steven W. Wilhelm Steven W. Wilhelm (= 1×) peers John Beardall

Countries citing papers authored by Steven W. Wilhelm

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven W. Wilhelm

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven W. Wilhelm

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gilbert, Naomi E., Gary R. LeCleir, Helena L. Pound, et al.. (2025). Seasonal enhancement of the viral shunt catalyzes a subsurface oxygen maximum in the Sargasso Sea. Nature Communications. 17(1). 352–352.

Gilbert, Naomi E., Thijs Frenken, Robbie M. Martin, et al.. (2024). Declines in ice cover are accompanied by light limitation responses and community change in freshwater diatoms. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 7 indexed citations

Liao, Hanpeng, Chen Liu, Shungui Zhou, et al.. (2024). Prophage-encoded antibiotic resistance genes are enriched in human-impacted environments. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8315–8315. 36 indexed citations

McKay, R. Michael L., et al.. (2024). Metatranscriptomic analysis reveals dissimilarity in viral community activity between an ice-free and ice-covered winter in Lake Erie. mSystems. 9(7). e0075324–e0075324.

Wilhelm, Steven W., et al.. (2024). Mobilome impacts on physiology in the widely used non-toxic mutant Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806 ΔmcyB and toxic wildtype. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 922–922. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Robbie M., Helena L. Pound, Justin D. Chaffin, et al.. (2023). Sulfolipid substitution ratios of Microcystis aeruginosa and planktonic communities as an indicator of phosphorus limitation in Lake Erie. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(5). 1117–1131. 4 indexed citations

Wieczynski, Daniel J., Stefan Geisen, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, et al.. (2023). Viral infections likely mediate microbial controls on ecosystem responses to global warming. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99(3). 12 indexed citations

Hellweger, Ferdi L., Robbie M. Martin, Falk Eigemann, et al.. (2022). Models predict planned phosphorus load reduction will make Lake Erie more toxic. Science. 376(6596). 1001–1005. 83 indexed citations

Barnard, Malcolm A., Justin D. Chaffin, Gregory L. Boyer, et al.. (2021). Roles of Nutrient Limitation on Western Lake Erie CyanoHAB Toxin Production. Toxins. 13(1). 47–47. 29 indexed citations

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Krausfeldt, Lauren E., Abigail T. Farmer, Hector F. Castro, et al.. (2020). Nitrogen flux into metabolites and microcystins changes in response to different nitrogen sources in Microcystis aeruginosa NIES ‐843. Environmental Microbiology. 22(6). 2419–2431. 20 indexed citations

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Gann, Eric R., et al.. (2020). Influence of light on the infection of Aureococcus anophagefferens CCMP 1984 by a “giant virus”. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226758–e0226758. 14 indexed citations

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Krausfeldt, Lauren E., Morgan M. Steffen, R. Michael L. McKay, et al.. (2019). Insight Into the Molecular Mechanisms for Microcystin Biodegradation in Lake Erie and Lake Taihu. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2741–2741. 25 indexed citations

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Stough, Joshua M. A., Max Kolton, Joel E. Kostka, et al.. (2018). Diversity of Active Viral Infections within the Sphagnum Microbiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(23). 20 indexed citations

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Wilhelm, Steven W., Jordan T. Bird, Tian Chen, et al.. (2017). A Student’s Guide to Giant Viruses Infecting Small Eukaryotes: From Acanthamoeba to Zooxanthellae. Viruses. 9(3). 46–46. 36 indexed citations

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Villarino, Nicolás F., Gary R. LeCleir, Joshua E. Denny, et al.. (2016). Composition of the gut microbiota modulates the severity of malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(8). 2235–2240. 198 indexed citations

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Weitz, Joshua S., Charles A. Stock, Steven W. Wilhelm, et al.. (2015). A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes. The ISME Journal. 9(6). 1352–1364. 177 indexed citations

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Zhu, Guangwei, et al.. (2014). [Source analysis of urea-N in Lake Taihu during summer].. PubMed. 35(7). 2547–56. 7 indexed citations

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Herndl, Gerhard J., Dennis A. Hansell, Ronald Benner, et al.. (2010). The microbial carbon pump in the ocean. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 8. 3 indexed citations

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Kudo, Isao, et al.. (2009). The response of the virus community to a mesoscale iron fertilization in the sub-Arctic Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research. 56. 3 indexed citations

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Wilhelm, Steven W. & Curtis A. Suttle. (1999). Viruses and Nutrient Cycles in the Sea. BioScience. 49(10). 781–788. 901 indexed citations breakdown →

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