William D. Leavitt

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

William D. Leavitt is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Leavitt has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William D. Leavitt's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (14 papers) and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (10 papers). William D. Leavitt is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (14 papers) and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (10 papers). William D. Leavitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and United Kingdom. William D. Leavitt's co-authors include David T. Johnston, Alexander S. Bradley, Itay Halevy, Inês A. C. Pereira, André A. Santos, Ann Pearson, Sofia S. Venceslau, Eric S. Boyd, Gill G. Geesey and Christiane Dahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

William D. Leavitt

32 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life

2024 42 citations Timothy W. Lyons, Gregory P. Fournier et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William D. Leavitt United States	17	541	497	313	304	275	36	1.3k
André Pellerin Denmark	18	590 1.1×	401 0.8×	264 0.8×	288 0.9×	394 1.4×	35	1.2k
Jake V. Bailey United States	22	337 0.6×	459 0.9×	315 1.0×	569 1.9×	218 0.8×	52	1.4k
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Japan	24	748 1.4×	757 1.5×	260 0.8×	122 0.4×	301 1.1×	65	1.8k
Magdalena R. Osburn United States	18	345 0.6×	439 0.9×	203 0.6×	289 1.0×	366 1.3×	50	1.0k
Amy Gartman United States	22	366 0.7×	323 0.6×	422 1.3×	176 0.6×	215 0.8×	40	1.4k
Tamotsu Oomori Japan	22	393 0.7×	408 0.8×	233 0.7×	244 0.8×	378 1.4×	66	1.6k
Sulung Nomosatryo Indonesia	15	371 0.7×	258 0.5×	453 1.4×	514 1.7×	270 1.0×	47	1.2k
Tobias Goldhammer Germany	23	754 1.4×	705 1.4×	249 0.8×	124 0.4×	230 0.8×	60	1.7k
Aurèle Vuillemin Germany	21	348 0.6×	546 1.1×	130 0.4×	122 0.4×	194 0.7×	42	945
Min Sub Sim United States	15	442 0.8×	342 0.7×	472 1.5×	702 2.3×	517 1.9×	34	1.4k

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Liu, Jiarui, Edward Young, André Pellerin, et al.. (2025). Clumped isotopes of methane trace bioenergetics in the environment. Science Advances. 11(26). eadu1401–eadu1401.

Kopf, Sebastian, Felix J. Elling, Xiahong Feng, et al.. (2025). Lipid hydrogen isotope compositions primarily reflect growth water in the model archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(4). e0198324–e0198324.

Kopf, Sebastian, Jamie McFarlin, Ashley E. Maloney, et al.. (2024). Metabolic imprints in the hydrogen isotopes of Archaeoglobus fulgidus tetraether lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 386. 196–212. 6 indexed citations

Labidi, Jabrane, T. M. McCollom, Thomas Giunta, et al.. (2024). Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(7). 1 indexed citations

Leavitt, William D., Jacob Waldbauer, Sofia S. Venceslau, et al.. (2024). Energy flux couples sulfur isotope fractionation to proteomic and metabolite profiles in Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Geobiology. 22(3). e12600–e12600. 1 indexed citations

Lyons, Timothy W., Gregory P. Fournier, R. Anderson, et al.. (2024). Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 22(9). 572–586. 42 indexed citations breakdown →

Amenábar, Maximiliano J., Felix J. Elling, Yuki Weber, et al.. (2024). Mode of carbon and energy metabolism shifts lipid composition in the thermoacidophile Acidianus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(2). e0136923–e0136923. 2 indexed citations

Subhas, Adam V., Hyewon Kim, Ann G. Dunlea, et al.. (2023). Barium in seawater: dissolved distribution, relationship to silicon, and barite saturation state determined using machine learning. Earth system science data. 15(9). 4023–4045. 16 indexed citations

Venceslau, Sofia S., et al.. (2023). DsrC is involved in fermentative growth and interacts directly with the FlxABCD–HdrABC complex in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. Environmental Microbiology. 25(5). 962–976. 5 indexed citations

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Waldbauer, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Membrane lipid and expression responses of Saccharolobus islandicus REY15A to acid and cold stress. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1219779–1219779. 3 indexed citations

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Wing, Boswell A., et al.. (2020). Oxygen isotope effects during microbial sulfate reduction: applications to sediment cell abundances. The ISME Journal. 14(6). 1508–1519. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yujiao, et al.. (2020). Multiple environmental parameters impact lipid cyclization in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Environmental Microbiology. 22(9). 4046–4056. 18 indexed citations

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Carini, Paul, et al.. (2020). Microbial Methane From Methylphosphonate Isotopically Records Source. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(1). 23 indexed citations

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Leavitt, William D., Sofia S. Venceslau, Jacob Waldbauer, et al.. (2019). Proteomic and Isotopic Response of Desulfovibrio vulgaris to DsrC Perturbation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 658–658. 7 indexed citations

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Leavitt, William D., André Pellerin, Grant M. Zane, et al.. (2018). Deconstructing the Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction Pathway: Isotope Fractionation of a Mutant Unable of Growth on Sulfate. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 3110–3110. 4 indexed citations

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Leavitt, William D., Sean Murphy, Lee R. Lynd, & Alexander S. Bradley. (2017). Hydrogen isotope composition of Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum lipids: Comparing wild type with a nfn- transhydrogenase mutant. Organic Geochemistry. 113. 239–241. 7 indexed citations

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Leavitt, William D., et al.. (2016). Transhydrogenase and Growth Substrate Influence Lipid Hydrogen Isotope Ratios in Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 918–918. 17 indexed citations

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Leavitt, William D., Alexander S. Bradley, André A. Santos, Inês A. C. Pereira, & David T. Johnston. (2015). Sulfur Isotope Effects of Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductase. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1392–1392. 47 indexed citations

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Bradley, Alexander S., William D. Leavitt, & David T. Johnston. (2011). Revisiting the dissimilatory sulfate reduction pathway. Geobiology. 9(5). 446–457. 113 indexed citations

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Pearson, Ann, et al.. (2008). Diversity of hopanoids and squalene‐hopene cyclases across a tropical land‐sea gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 11(5). 1208–1223. 54 indexed citations

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