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Mary K. Firestone

Active 1979–2025

79
Papers
31,103
Citations
73
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Citations

Citations per year for Mary K. Firestone1980: 2 citations1981: 1 citations1982: 3 citations1986: 4 citations1987: 5 citations1988: 1 citations1989: 7 citations1990: 6 citations1991: 5 citations1992: 15 citations1993: 19 citations1994: 23 citations1995: 12 citations1996: 25 citations1997: 23 citations1998: 35 citations1999: 23 citations2000: 39 citations2001: 39 citations2002: 45 citations2003: 54 citations2004: 59 citations2005: 60 citations2006: 58 citations2007: 62 citations2008: 109 citations2009: 106 citations2010: 130 citations2011: 122 citations2012: 134 citations2013: 147 citations2014: 132 citations2015: 161 citations2016: 139 citations2017: 162 citations2018: 167 citations2019: 320 citations2020: 330 citations2021: 428 citations2022: 415 citations2023: 375 citations2024: 546 citations2025: 242 citations2026: 7 citations1983–1985: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,419 citing papers, 22.4% of this breakdownChina: 1,274 citing papers, 20.1% of this breakdownGermany: 408 citing papers, 6.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 329 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownFrance: 255 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownAustralia: 239 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 196 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownCanada: 184 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSpain: 152 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 122 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSweden: 115 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownIndia: 105 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
0%22.4%Other 24.2%

Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science41.1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences34.5%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16%
  • Medicine2.3%
  • Engineering1.3%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences1.3%
  • Other3.5%

Topics

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology14.1%
  • Gut microbiota and health8.8%
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics8.4%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies4.4%
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions4.1%
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity4%
  • Other56.2%

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  1. A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

    Authors: Daliang Ning, Mengting Yuan, Linwei Wu, Ya Zhang, Xue Guo, Xishu Zhou, Yunfeng Yang, Adam P. Arkin, Mary K. Firestone, Jizhong Zhou - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 1,319

  2. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly

    Authors: Kateryna Zhalnina, Katherine Louie, Zhao Hao, Nasim Mansoori, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Shengjing Shi, Heejung Cho, Ulaş Karaöz, Dominique Loqué, Benjamin P. Bowen, Mary K. Firestone, Trent R. Northen, Eoin Brodie - Nature Microbiology 2018 cited by 2,331

  3. Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

    Authors: Noah W. Sokol, Eric Slessarev, Gianna L. Marschmann, Alexa M. Nicolas, Steven J. Blazewicz, Eoin Brodie, Mary K. Firestone, Megan Foley, Rachel Hestrin, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Bram WG Stone, Matthew B. Sullivan, Olivier Zablocki, Gareth Trubl, Karis J. McFarlane, Rhona Stuart, Erin Nuccio, Peter Weber, Yongqin Jiao, Mavrik Zavarin, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Keith D. Morrison, Dinesh Adhikari, Amrita Bhattacharaya, Peter Nico, Jinyun Tang, Nicole DiDonato, Ljiljana Paša‐Tolić, Alex Greenlon, Ella T. Sieradzki, Paul Dijkstra, Egbert Schwartz, Rohan Sachdeva, Jillian F. Banfield, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2022 cited by 1,079

  4. The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

    Authors: Shengjing Shi, Erin Nuccio, Zhou Jason Shi, Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, Mary K. Firestone - Ecology Letters 2016 cited by 1,201

  5. The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

    Authors: James I. Prosser, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Tom P. Curtis, Richard J. Ellis, Mary K. Firestone, Robert P. Freckleton, Jessica L. Green, Laura Green, Ken Killham, Jack J. Lennon, A. Mark Osborn, Martin Solan, Chris Gast, J. Peter W. Young - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2007 cited by 1,086

  6. Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants

    Authors: Anne Kakouridis, John A. Hagen, Megan Kan, Stefania Mambelli, Lewis J. Feldman, Donald J. Herman, Peter Weber, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone - New Phytologist 2022 cited by 264

  7. Metatranscriptomic reconstruction reveals RNA viruses with the potential to shape carbon cycling in soil

    Authors: Evan Starr, Erin Nuccio, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Jillian F. Banfield, Mary K. Firestone - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 cited by 261

  8. Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

    Authors: Romain L. Barnard, Catherine A. Osborne, Mary K. Firestone - The ISME Journal 2013 cited by 1,002

  9. Evaluating rRNA as an indicator of microbial activity in environmental communities: limitations and uses

    Authors: Steven J. Blazewicz, Romain L. Barnard, Rebecca A. Daly, Mary K. Firestone - The ISME Journal 2013 cited by 901

  10. Disentangling direct from indirect relationships in association networks

    Authors: Naijia Xiao, Aifen Zhou, Megan L. Kempher, Benjamin Yamin Zhou, Zhou Jason Shi, Mengting Yuan, Xue Guo, Linwei Wu, Daliang Ning, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Mary K. Firestone, Jizhong Zhou - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 173

  11. Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils

    Authors: Christian Santos‐Medellín, Steven J. Blazewicz, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone, Joanne Emerson - Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023 cited by 84

  12. Microbial functional diversity: From concepts to applications

    Authors: Arthur Escalas, Lauren Hale, James W. Voordeckers, Yunfeng Yang, Mary K. Firestone, Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen, Jizhong Zhou - Ecology and Evolution 2019 cited by 273

  13. Successional Trajectories of Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities over Consecutive Seasons

    Authors: Shengjing Shi, Erin Nuccio, Donald J. Herman, Ruud Rijkers, Katerina Y. Estera, Jiabao Li, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Zhili He, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Eoin Brodie, Jizhong Zhou, Mary K. Firestone - mBio 2015 cited by 300

  14. Methane-derived carbon flows into host–virus networks at different trophic levels in soil

    Authors: Sungeun Lee, Ella T. Sieradzki, Alexa M. Nicolas, Robin L. Walker, Mary K. Firestone, Christina Hazard, Graeme W. Nicol - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 cited by 81

  15. Effects of selected root exudate components on soil bacterial communities

    Authors: Shengjing Shi, Alan E. Richardson, Maureen O’Callaghan, Kristen M. DeAngelis, E. Eirian Jones, A. Stewart, Mary K. Firestone, Leo M. Condron - FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2011 cited by 440

  16. An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus significantly modifies the soil bacterial community and nitrogen cycling during litter decomposition

    Authors: Erin Nuccio, Angela Hodge, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Donald J. Herman, Peter Weber, Mary K. Firestone - Environmental Microbiology 2013 cited by 405

  17. Soil Candidate Phyla Radiation Bacteria Encode Components of Aerobic Metabolism and Co-occur with Nanoarchaea in the Rare Biosphere of Rhizosphere Grassland Communities

    Authors: Alexa M. Nicolas, Alexander L. Jaffe, Erin Nuccio, Michiko E. Taga, Mary K. Firestone, Jillian F. Banfield - mSystems 2021 cited by 68

  18. The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators

    Authors: Bruce A. Hungate, Jane C. Marks, Mary E. Power, Egbert Schwartz, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Steven J. Blazewicz, Peter F. Chuckran, Paul Dijkstra, Brianna Finley, Mary K. Firestone, Megan Foley, Alex Greenlon, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Benjamin J. Koch, Michelle C. Mack, Rebecca L. Mau, Samantha Miller, Ember M. Morrissey, Jeffrey Propster, Alicia M. Purcell, Ella T. Sieradzki, Evan Starr, Bram WG Stone, César Terrer, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge - mBio 2021 cited by 121

  19. A subset of viruses thrives following microbial resuscitation during rewetting of a seasonally dry California grassland soil

    Authors: Alexa M. Nicolas, Ella T. Sieradzki, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Jillian F. Banfield, Michiko E. Taga, Mary K. Firestone, Steven J. Blazewicz - Nature Communications 2023 cited by 67

  20. Protist diversity and community complexity in the rhizosphere of switchgrass are dynamic as plants develop

    Authors: Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, Yuan Wang, Daliang Ning, Abelardo Arellano, Leila Ramanculova, Mengting Yuan, Alyssa Byer, Kelly D. Craven, Malay C. Saha, Eoin Brodie, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone - Microbiome 2021 cited by 137

  21. Nutrient and moisture limitations reveal keystone metabolites linking rhizosphere metabolomes and microbiomes

    Authors: Nameer Baker, Kateryna Zhalnina, Mengting Yuan, Don Herman, Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, Joëlle Sasse, Jacob S. Jordan, Benjamin P. Bowen, Liyou Wu, Christina Fossum, Aaron Chew, Ying Fu, Malay C. Saha, Jizhong Zhou, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Trent R. Northen, Mary K. Firestone - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024 cited by 116

  22. Rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses result from sequential resuscitation of phylogenetically clustered microbial groups

    Authors: Sarah Placella, Eoin Brodie, Mary K. Firestone - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 528

  23. Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall‐induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil

    Authors: Steven J. Blazewicz, Egbert Schwartz, Mary K. Firestone - Ecology 2013 cited by 238

  24. Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status

    Authors: Kristen M. DeAngelis, Whendee L. Silver, Andrew W. Thompson, Mary K. Firestone - Environmental Microbiology 2010 cited by 346