William L. King

1.7k total citations
65 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William L. King is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. King has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William L. King's work include Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (10 papers). William L. King is often cited by papers focused on Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (10 papers). William L. King collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. William L. King's co-authors include Justin R. Seymour, Maurizio Labbate, Nachshon Siboni, Cheryl Jenkins, Gwyn W. Gould, Timothy J. Green, Terrence H. Bell, David A. Raftos, Wayne A. O’Connor and Michael Dove and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

William L. King

60 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William L. King United States 22 399 319 205 193 190 65 1.1k
Robert P. Ellis United States 23 483 1.2× 406 1.3× 191 0.9× 249 1.3× 147 0.8× 70 2.0k
Jennifer M. Allen United States 18 110 0.3× 404 1.3× 247 1.2× 20 0.1× 18 0.1× 44 841
William R. Harcombe United States 27 141 0.4× 680 2.1× 1.5k 7.4× 33 0.2× 52 0.3× 50 3.1k
Andrew Goodman Australia 14 37 0.1× 563 1.8× 389 1.9× 61 0.3× 54 0.3× 24 1.2k
Ronald J. Smith Canada 10 40 0.1× 97 0.3× 85 0.4× 75 0.4× 50 0.3× 26 496
Adam R. Burns United States 14 60 0.2× 518 1.6× 1.0k 5.0× 598 3.1× 154 0.8× 17 1.9k
Estelle Russek United States 12 28 0.1× 134 0.4× 58 0.3× 49 0.3× 45 0.2× 22 844
Scott Cameron Australia 19 97 0.2× 51 0.2× 112 0.5× 76 0.4× 123 0.6× 60 1.2k
Tarmo Ketola Finland 19 71 0.2× 502 1.6× 188 0.9× 118 0.6× 47 0.2× 65 1.2k
Greg J. Coman Australia 24 361 0.9× 553 1.7× 138 0.7× 358 1.9× 7 0.0× 60 1.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William L. King

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All Works

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Bell, Terrence H., et al.. (2025). Exploring Diverse Approaches to Iterative Microbiome Passaging in Soil and Plant Systems. Phytobiomes Journal. 9(3). 359–368. 2 indexed citations
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Siboni, Nachshon, William L. King, Khandaker Rayhan Mahbub, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic resistance gene levels within a highly urbanised estuary. Marine Environmental Research. 204. 106961–106961. 1 indexed citations
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King, William L., et al.. (2024). Autoclaving is at least as effective as gamma irradiation for biotic clearing and intentional microbial recolonization of soil. mSphere. 9(7). e0047624–e0047624. 3 indexed citations
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King, William L., et al.. (2024). Leveraging aquatic-terrestrial interfaces to capture putative habitat generalists. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 371. 1 indexed citations
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King, William L., et al.. (2024). Getting to the root of root–microbe interactions. Science Progress. 107(3). 342249279–342249279. 1 indexed citations
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Siboni, Nachshon, William L. King, Elliot Scanes, et al.. (2024). Increased abundance of potentially pathogenic Vibrio and a marine heatwave co-occur with a Pacific Oyster summer mortality event. Aquaculture. 583. 740618–740618. 10 indexed citations
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Williams, Nikolas, et al.. (2023). Crowdsourced EEG experiments: A proof of concept for remote EEG acquisition using EmotivPRO Builder and EmotivLABS. Heliyon. 9(8). e18433–e18433. 5 indexed citations
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King, William L., et al.. (2023). Leveraging microbiome rediversification for the ecological rescue of soil function. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 7–7. 9 indexed citations
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Padovan, Anna, Nachshon Siboni, Mirjam Kaestli, et al.. (2021). Occurrence and dynamics of potentially pathogenic vibrios in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. Marine Environmental Research. 169. 105405–105405. 16 indexed citations
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King, William L., et al.. (2021). The Decay and Fungal Succession of Apples with Bitter Rot Across a Vegetation Diversity Gradient. Phytobiomes Journal. 6(1). 26–34. 2 indexed citations
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Scanes, Elliot, Laura M. Parker, Justin R. Seymour, et al.. (2021). Climate change alters the haemolymph microbiome of oysters. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 164. 111991–111991. 40 indexed citations
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King, William L., Jing Guo, Ryan V. Trexler, et al.. (2021). The hierarchy of root branching order determines bacterial composition, microbial carrying capacity and microbial filtering. Communications Biology. 4(1). 483–483. 44 indexed citations
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King, William L. & Terrence H. Bell. (2021). Can dispersal be leveraged to improve microbial inoculant success?. Trends in biotechnology. 40(1). 12–21. 18 indexed citations
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King, William L., Nachshon Siboni, Tim Kahlke, et al.. (2019). A New High Throughput Sequencing Assay for Characterizing the Diversity of Natural Vibrio Communities and Its Application to a Pacific Oyster Mortality Event. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2907–2907. 35 indexed citations
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King, William L., Nachshon Siboni, Tim Kahlke, et al.. (2019). Variability in the Composition of Pacific Oyster Microbiomes Across Oyster Families Exhibiting Different Levels of Susceptibility to OsHV-1 μvar Disease. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 473–473. 53 indexed citations
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King, William L., Cheryl Jenkins, Justin R. Seymour, & Maurizio Labbate. (2018). Oyster disease in a changing environment: Decrypting the link between pathogen, microbiome and environment. Marine Environmental Research. 143. 124–140. 107 indexed citations
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King, William L.. (1968). Rule Learning and Transfer as a Function of Age and Stimulus Structure. Child Development. 39(1). 311–311. 3 indexed citations

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