Tamar Barkay

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
130 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Tamar Barkay is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Tamar Barkay has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 45 papers in Ecology and 36 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Tamar Barkay's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (91 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (32 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (25 papers). Tamar Barkay is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (91 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (32 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (25 papers). Tamar Barkay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Tamar Barkay's co-authors include Susan M. Miller, Anne O. Summers, Ralph R. Turner, Joel D. Blum, K. Kritee, Andrew Ogram, Gary S. Sayler, John R. Reinfelder, Eric S. Boyd and Mark A. Gillman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Tamar Barkay

130 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

Bacterial mercury resistance from atoms to ecosystems

2003 772 citations Tamar Barkay et al. profile →
The extraction and purification of microbial DNA from sediments

1987 530 citations Tamar Barkay et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Expanded Diversity and Phylogeny of mer Genes Broadens Mercury Resistance Paradigms and Reveals an Origin for MerA Among Thermophilic Archaea 2021 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·(unknown), Tamar Barkay, Eric S. Boyd	58
2	Tagging the vanA gene in wastewater microbial communities for cell sorting and taxonomy of vanA carrying cells 2020 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Sara Gallego, Tamar Barkay, Nicole Fahrenfeld	5
3	Genome-facilitated discovery of RND efflux pump-mediated resistance to cephalosporins in Vibrio spp. isolated from the mummichog fish gut 2019 ·Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance ·(unknown), Sylvie Nazaret, Tamar Barkay	10
4	Effect of salinity on mercury methylating benthic microbes and their activities in Great Salt Lake, Utah 2017 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Eric S. Boyd, Ri-Qing Yu, Tamar Barkay, Trinity L. Hamilton, Bonnie K. Baxter, David L. Naftz, Mark Marvin-DiPasquale	36
5	Microbes in mercury-enriched geothermal springs in western North America 2016 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Gill G. Geesey, Tamar Barkay, (unknown)	16
6	Impact of mercury on denitrification and denitrifying microbial communities in nitrate enrichments of subsurface sediments 2012 ·Biodegradation ·Yanping Wang, Heather A. Wiatrowski, (unknown), Chu‐Ching Lin, L. Y. Young, Lee J. Kerkhof, Nathan Yee, Tamar Barkay	20
7	Environmental Conditions Constrain the Distribution and Diversity of Archaeal merA in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A. 2011 ·Microbial Ecology ·Yanping Wang, Eric S. Boyd, (unknown), Patricia Lu‐Irving, David P. Krabbenhoft, (unknown), John Dighton, Gill G. Geesey, Tamar Barkay	34
8	Diversity and characterization of mercury-resistant bacteria in snow, freshwater and sea-ice brine from the High Arctic 2010 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Annette K. Møller, Tamar Barkay, Waleed Abu Al‐Soud, Søren J. Sørensen, Henrik Skov, Niels Kroer	65
9	Growth responses to and accumulation of mercury by ectomycorrhizal fungi 2010 ·Fungal Biology ·(unknown), John Dighton, Tamar Barkay	31
10	Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera 2009 ·INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ·Melitza Crespo‐Medina, Aspassia D. Chatziefthimiou, (unknown), Ileana Pérez‐Rodríguez, Tamar Barkay, Richard A. Lutz, Valentin Starovoytov, Costantino Vetriani	32
11	Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems 2008 ·The ISME Journal ·(unknown), Gazalah Sabehi, Itai Sharon, Karl‐Paul Witzel, Matthias Labrenz, Klaus Jürgens, Tamar Barkay, Maayke Stomp, Jef Huisman, Oded Béjà	89
12	Potential for Mercury Reduction by Microbes in the High Arctic 2007 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Alexandre J. Poulain, Sinéad M. Ní Chadhain, Parisa A. Ariya, Marc Amyot, Édenise Garcia, Peter G. C. Campbell, Gerben J. Zylstra, Tamar Barkay	78
13	Analysis of mercuric reductase ( merA ) gene diversity in an anaerobic mercury‐contaminated sediment enrichment 2006 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Sinéad M. Ní Chadhain, Jeffra K. Schaefer, (unknown), Gerben J. Zylstra, Tamar Barkay	61
14	Mercury (micro)biogeochemistry in polar environments 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Tamar Barkay, Alexandre J. Poulain	43
15	Microbial Transformations of Mercury: Potentials, Challenges, and Achievements in Controlling Mercury Toxicity in the Environment 2005 ·Advances in applied microbiology ·Tamar Barkay, Irene Wagner‐Döbler	238
16	Horizontal gene flow in microbial communities 2005 ·Tamar Barkay, Barth F. Smets	10
17	Microbial transformations in the mercury geochemical cycle 2005 ·GeCAS ·Tamar Barkay, Jeffra K. Schaefer, Alexandre J. Poulain, Marc Amyot	6
18	Utilization of phenoxyacetic acid, by strains using either the ortho or meta cleavage of catechol during phenol degradation, after conjugal transfer of tfdA , the gene encoding a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase 1999 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Julia R. de Lipthay, Tamar Barkay, (unknown), Søren J. Sørensen	12
19	The relationships of Hg(II) volatilization from a freshwater pond to the abundance ofmer genes in the gene pool of the indigenous microbial community 1991 ·Microbial Ecology ·Tamar Barkay, Ralph R. Turner, (unknown), C Liebert	68
20	Feasibility of using bacterial resistance to metals in mineral exploration 1986 ·(unknown), Tamar Barkay	1

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