William J. Brazelton

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

William J. Brazelton is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Brazelton has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William J. Brazelton's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). William J. Brazelton is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). William J. Brazelton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. William J. Brazelton's co-authors include Matthew O. Schrenk, John A. Baross, Susan Q. Lang, Deborah S. Kelley, R. Anderson, Carolyn D. Silflow, Penny L. Morrill, Paul A. Lefebvre, Natalie Szponar and Clara A. Fuchsman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

William J. Brazelton

57 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life

2013 327 citations Matthew O. Schrenk, William J. Brazelton et al. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Brazelton United States	27	1.3k	1.3k	1000	409	403	61	2.8k
Li‐Hung Lin Taiwan	20	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	630 0.6×	714 1.7×	290 0.7×	59	2.7k
Duane P. Moser United States	32	2.0k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	563 1.4×	239 0.6×	72	4.2k
Hisako Hirayama Japan	35	2.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	290 0.7×	139 0.3×	54	3.6k
Tori M. Hoehler United States	36	2.1k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	952 1.0×	806 2.0×	755 1.9×	88	4.7k
Matthew O. Schrenk United States	26	1.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	917 0.9×	625 1.5×	607 1.5×	59	3.8k
Yohey Suzuki Japan	33	2.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.8×	181 0.4×	86 0.2×	76	4.5k
Daniël Prieur France	45	2.7k 2.0×	1.4k 1.1×	2.4k 2.4×	270 0.7×	144 0.4×	110	5.0k
Junichi Miyazaki Japan	26	1.1k 0.8×	753 0.6×	871 0.9×	170 0.4×	122 0.3×	71	2.4k
Yuki Morono Japan	32	2.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	406 1.0×	91 0.2×	105	3.3k
Terje Torsvik Norway	29	924 0.7×	784 0.6×	552 0.6×	273 0.7×	158 0.4×	42	2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Santini, Sébastien, Audrey Lartigue, Jean-Marie Alempic, et al.. (2025). Pacmanvirus isolated from the Lost City hydrothermal field extends the concept of transpoviron beyond the family Mimiviridae. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Twing, Katrina I., William J. Brazelton, T. M. McCollom, et al.. (2025). Heterogeneity of rock-hosted microbial communities in a serpentinizing aquifer of the Coast Range Ophiolite. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1504241–1504241.

Brazelton, William J., et al.. (2024). Metagenome mining and functional analysis reveal oxidized guanine DNA repair at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0284642–e0284642.

Brazelton, William J., et al.. (2024). Bacterial diversity and chemical ecology of natural product–producing bacteria from Great Salt Lake sediment. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae029–ycae029. 1 indexed citations

Brazelton, William J., Katrina I. Twing, W. J. Lowe, et al.. (2022). Metabolic Strategies Shared by Basement Residents of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(17). e0092922–e0092922. 25 indexed citations

Chadwick, Grayson L., Connor T. Skennerton, Rafael Laso-Pérez, et al.. (2022). Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biology. 20(1). e3001508–e3001508. 87 indexed citations

Lang, Susan Q., et al.. (2020). Genomic Evidence for Formate Metabolism by Chloroflexi as the Key to Unlocking Deep Carbon in Lost City Microbial Ecosystems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(8). 23 indexed citations

Orcutt, Beth N., James A. Bradley, William J. Brazelton, et al.. (2020). Impacts of deep‐sea mining on microbial ecosystem services. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(7). 1489–1510. 77 indexed citations

Amador, E. S., J. L. Bandfield, William J. Brazelton, & Deborah S. Kelley. (2017). The Lost City Hydrothermal Field: A Spectroscopic and Astrobiological Analogue for Nili Fossae, Mars. Astrobiology. 17(11). 1138–1160. 18 indexed citations

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Nadkarni, Nalini M., et al.. (2017). Canopy soil bacterial communities altered by severing host tree limbs. PeerJ. 5. e3773–e3773. 11 indexed citations

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Twing, Katrina I., William J. Brazelton, M. D. Kubo, et al.. (2017). Serpentinization-Influenced Groundwater Harbors Extremely Low Diversity Microbial Communities Adapted to High pH. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 308–308. 62 indexed citations

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Anderson, R., William J. Brazelton, & J. A. Baross. (2013). The Deep Viriosphere: Assessing the Viral Impact on Microbial Community Dynamics in the Deep Subsurface. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 75(1). 649–675. 31 indexed citations

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Schrenk, Matthew O., et al.. (2011). The Serpentinite Subsurface Microbiome. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Anderson, R., William J. Brazelton, & John A. Baross. (2011). Is the Genetic Landscape of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere Affected by Viruses?. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2. 219–219. 45 indexed citations

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Malcolm, James Peller, Natalie Szponar, Penny L. Morrill, et al.. (2011). Abstracts – Geological Association of Canada, Newfoundland Section – 2011 Spring Technical Meeting. Atlantic Geology. 47. 54–65.

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Szponar, Natalie, et al.. (2011). The Tablelands Ophiolite of Newfoundland: A Mars Analogue Site of Present-Day Serpentinization. 1612(161). 6017. 1 indexed citations

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Szponar, Natalie, Penny L. Morrill, William J. Brazelton, et al.. (2010). Present-day serpentinization in the Tablelands, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland: a Mars Analogue Site. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Méhay, S., Gretchen L. Früh‐Green, Stefano M. Bernasconi, et al.. (2010). Archaeal communities of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 74. 1 indexed citations

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Brazelton, William J. & Woodruff T. Sullivan. (2009). Understanding the nineteenth century origins of disciplines: lessons for astrobiology today?. International Journal of Astrobiology. 8(4). 257–266. 4 indexed citations

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Brazelton, William J., Deborah S. Kelley, & J. A. Baross. (2008). Biological methane cycling at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 72(12). 1 indexed citations

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