William Martin

48.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
390 papers, 30.6k citations indexed

About

William Martin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Martin has authored 390 papers receiving a total of 30.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 274 papers in Molecular Biology, 95 papers in Ecology and 56 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in William Martin's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (113 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (101 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (84 papers). William Martin is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (113 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (101 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (84 papers). William Martin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. William Martin's co-authors include Michael J. Russell, Nick Lane, Tal Dagan, Miklós Müller, Filipa L. Sousa, T. Martin Embley, Sven B. Gould, Reinhold G. Herrmann, Eugene V. Koonin and Jeremy N. Timmis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William Martin

380 papers receiving 29.8k 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.

Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes

2004 1.1k citations William Martin et al. profile →
Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

2008 1.0k citations William Martin et al. profile →
The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote

1998 857 citations William Martin et al. profile →
Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis , cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus

2002 838 citations William Martin, Tamas Rujan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The energetics of genome complexity

2010 832 citations Nick Lane, William Martin profile →
Isoprenoid biosynthesis: The evolution of two ancient and distinct pathways across genomes

2000 637 citations Tamas Rujan, William Martin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges

2006 635 citations T. Martin Embley, William Martin profile →
The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

2016 635 citations Natalia Mrnjavac, Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi et al. profile →
Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts

1998 581 citations William Martin, Masami Hasegawa et al. profile →
Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

2012 553 citations Marek Mentel, Christian Woehle et al. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells

2003 541 citations William Martin et al. profile →
On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent

2006 541 citations William Martin et al. profile →
Genetics and geography of wild cereal domestication in the near east

2002 524 citations William Martin et al. profile →
Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision

2003 521 citations William Martin et al. profile →
Gene Transfer from Organelles to the Nucleus: How Much, What Happens, and Why?1

1998 513 citations William Martin et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	“The future of capitalism”: A 50‐year retrospective 2025 ·Business and Society Review ·Eric B. Dent, John A. Parnell, William Martin, George C. Lodge	0
2	Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation 2024 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·(unknown), (unknown), William Martin	1
3	GTP before ATP: The very early evolution of energy currencies preserved in modern metabolism 2024 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·William Martin, Natalia Mrnjavac	1
4	Chemical Antiquity in Metabolism 2024 ·Accounts of Chemical Research ·Natalia Mrnjavac, (unknown), (unknown), William Martin	6
5	Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans 2024 ·Science ·Sarah Moraïs, (unknown), Alvah Zorea, Liron Levin, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David N. Bolam, Madhav P. Yadav, Edward A. Bayer, William Martin, Itzhak Mizrahi	40
6	Mitochondrial evolution: Gene shuffling, endosymbiosis, and signaling 2023 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), William Martin, Sven B. Gould	11
7	Effects of Silica Modification (Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, and Zr) on Supported Cobalt Catalysts for H₂-Dependent CO₂ Reduction to Metabolic Intermediates 2022 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), (unknown), Cristina Ochoa‐Hernández, Ray Miyazaki, Lucas Foppa, William Martin, Harun Tüysüz	26
8	Role of geochemical protoenzymes (geozymes) in primordial metabolism: specific abiotic hydride transfer by metals to the biological redox cofactor NAD ⁺ 2021 ·FEBS Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Karl Kleinermanns, Harun Tüysüz, William Martin, Martina Preiner	22
9	Gene Duplications Trace Mitochondria to the Onset of Eukaryote Complexity 2021 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Fernando D. K. Tria, (unknown), Josip Skejo, Joana C. Xavier, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Verena Zimorski, Sven B. Gould, Sriram G. Garg, William Martin	28
10	Bacterial Genes Outnumber Archaeal Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes 2020 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·(unknown), William Martin	33
11	Adaptation to life on land at high O ₂ via transition from ferredoxin-to NADH-dependent redox balance 2019 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Sven B. Gould, Sriram G. Garg, (unknown), Shijulal Nelson‐Sathi, Nicole Gruenheit, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, William Martin	15
12	Currency, Exchange, and Inheritance in the Evolution of Symbiosis 2019 ·Trends in Microbiology ·Tanita Wein, Devani Romero Picazo, Frances Blow, Christian Woehle, Elie Jami, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, William Martin, Tal Dagan	30
13	The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin 2017 ·Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews ·William Martin, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Marek Mentel, Sriram G. Garg, Sven B. Gould	86
14	Plastid-bearing sea slugs fix CO ₂ in the light but do not require photosynthesis to survive 2013 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Gregor Christa, Verena Zimorski, Christian Woehle, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Heike Wägele, William Martin, Sven B. Gould	45
15	Ancestral genome sizes specify the minimum rate of lateral gene transfer during prokaryote evolution 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tal Dagan, William Martin	163
16	Mitochondria and hydrogenosomes are two forms of the same fundamental organelle - Discussion 2003 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), T. Martin Embley, William Martin, Jorge Tovar, (unknown), Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Adrian C. Barbrook, John F. Allen, (unknown), Nick Lane	1
17	Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis , cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus breakdown → 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·William Martin, Tamas Rujan, Erik Richly, (unknown), Sabine Cornelsen, (unknown), Dario Leister, (unknown), Masami Hasegawa, David Penny	838
18	Acceleration of genomic evolution caused by enhanced mutation rate in endocellular symbionts 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Takeshi Itoh, William Martin, Masatoshi Nei	119
19	Energy Dynamics of Developing Countries 1996 ·The Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan ·William Martin	1
20	The Challenge of Pneumocystis carinii Culture1 1993 ·Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·Elaine M. Sloand, Barbara E. Laughon, M Armstrong, Marilyn S. Bartlett, Walter Blumenfeld, Melanie T. Cushion, Anthony R. Kalica, Joseph A. Kovacs, William Martin, (unknown), E L Pesanti, Frank Richards, (unknown), Peter D. Walzer	75

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