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Michael J. Behrenfeld

Active 1996–2024

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Citations

Citations per year for Michael J. Behrenfeld1995: 1 citations1996: 1 citations1997: 4 citations1998: 15 citations1999: 17 citations2000: 31 citations2001: 42 citations2002: 40 citations2003: 42 citations2004: 59 citations2005: 50 citations2006: 72 citations2007: 82 citations2008: 126 citations2009: 108 citations2010: 155 citations2011: 108 citations2012: 119 citations2013: 124 citations2014: 127 citations2015: 110 citations2016: 139 citations2017: 109 citations2018: 87 citations2019: 219 citations2020: 292 citations2021: 288 citations2022: 254 citations2023: 229 citations2024: 223 citations2025: 117 citations2026: 9 citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,138 citing papers, 21.1% of this breakdownChina: 475 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 434 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownGermany: 398 citing papers, 7.4% of this breakdownFrance: 376 citing papers, 7% of this breakdownCanada: 232 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 211 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownSpain: 192 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownItaly: 182 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownJapan: 135 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 112 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownNetherlands: 111 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Environmental Science33.4%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences29.4%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.9%
  • Energy3.8%
  • Materials Science2.6%
  • Other8.8%

Topics

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems12.1%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology9.1%
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny4.3%
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms4.1%
  • Algal biology and biofuel production3.4%
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research3.4%
  • Other63.6%

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  1. Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

    Authors: Ricardo Cavicchioli, William J. Ripple, Kenneth N. Timmis, Farooq Azam, Lars R. Bakken, Matthew Baylis, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Antje Boëtius, Philip W. Boyd, Aimée T. Classen, Thomas W. Crowther, Roberto Danovaro, Christine M. Foreman, Jef Huisman, David A. Hutchins, Janet Jansson, David M. Karl, Britt Koskella, David B. Mark Welch, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Mary Ann Moran, Victoria J. Orphan, David Reay, Justin V. Remais, Virginia I. Rich, Brajesh K. Singh, Lisa Y. Stein, Frank J. Stewart, Matthew B. Sullivan, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Scott C. Weaver, Eric A. Webb, Nicole S. Webster - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2019 cited by 2,074

  2. Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components

    Authors: Christopher B. Field, Michael J. Behrenfeld, James T. Randerson, Paul G. Falkowski - Science 1998 cited by 6,442

  3. Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel, Charles R. McClain, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Gene C. Feldman, Allen J. Milligan, Paul G. Falkowski, Ricardo M. Letelier, Emmanuel Boss - Nature 2006 cited by 2,523

  4. Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Authors: Thomas W. Crowther, Rino Rappuoli, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Roberto Danovaro, Timothy J. Donohue, Jef Huisman, Lisa Y. Stein, James Kenneth Timmis, Kenneth N. Timmis, Matthew Z. Anderson, Lars R. Bakken, Matthew Baylis, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Philip W. Boyd, Ian Brettell, Ricardo Cavicchioli, Camille S. Delavaux, Christine M. Foreman, Janet Jansson, Britt Koskella, Kat Milligan-McClellan, Justin A. North, Devin G. Peterson, Mariagrazia Pizza, Juan L. Ramos, David Reay, Justin V. Remais, Virginia I. Rich, William J. Ripple, Brajesh K. Singh, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Frank J. Stewart, Matthew B. Sullivan, Johan van den Hoogen, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Nicole S. Webster, Constantin M. Zohner, Laura G. van Galen - Cell 2024 cited by 115

  5. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission: Status, Science, Advances

    Authors: P. Jeremy Werdell, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Paula S Bontempi, Emmanuel Boss, Brian Cairns, Gary T. Davis, Bryan A. Franz, U. Gliese, Eric T. Gorman, Otto Hasekamp, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Antonio Mannino, J. Vanderlei Martins, Charles R. McClain, Gerhard Meister, L. A. Remer - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2019 cited by 417

  6. Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentration

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Paul G. Falkowski - Limnology and Oceanography 1997 cited by 2,946

  7. Regional variations in the influence of mesoscale eddies on near‐surface chlorophyll

    Authors: Peter Gaube, Dennis J. McGillicuddy, Dudley B. Chelton, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Peter G. Strutton - Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 2014 cited by 381

  8. Carbon‐based ocean productivity and phytoplankton physiology from space

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Emmanuel Boss, David A. Siegel, Donald M. Shea - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2005 cited by 1,177

  9. Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, James T. Randerson, Charles R. McClain, Gene C. Feldman, S. O. Los, Compton J. Tucker, Paul G. Falkowski, Christopher B. Field, Robert Frouin, Wayne E. Esaias, Dorota Kolber, N. Pollack - Science 2001 cited by 658

  10. Resurrecting the Ecological Underpinnings of Ocean Plankton Blooms

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Emmanuel Boss - Annual Review of Marine Science 2013 cited by 471

  11. Annual boom–bust cycles of polar phytoplankton biomass revealed by space-based lidar

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Yongxiang Hu, Robert T. O’Malley, Emmanuel Boss, C. A. Hostetler, David A. Siegel, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Jennifer A. Schulien, Johnathan W. Hair, Xiaomei Lu, Sharon Rodier, Amy Jo Scarino - Nature Geoscience 2016 cited by 237

  12. Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Toby K. Westberry, Emmanuel Boss, Robert T. O’Malley, David A. Siegel, Jerry D. Wiggert, Bryan A. Franz, Charles R. McClain, Gene C. Feldman, Scott C. Doney, J. Keith Moore, Giorgio Dall’Olmo, A. J. Milligan, Ivan D. Lima, N. M. Mahowald - Biogeosciences 2009 cited by 356

  13. Photophysiological Expressions of Iron Stress in Phytoplankton

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Allen J. Milligan - Annual Review of Marine Science 2012 cited by 255

  14. Revaluating ocean warming impacts on global phytoplankton

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley, Emmanuel Boss, Toby K. Westberry, Jason R. Graff, Kimberly H. Halsey, Allen J. Milligan, David A. Siegel, Matthew B. Brown - Nature Climate Change 2015 cited by 406

  15. Abandoning Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld - Ecology 2010 cited by 676

  16. Evolved physiological responses of phytoplankton to their integrated growth environment

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Kimberly H. Halsey, Allen J. Milligan - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2008 cited by 222

  17. Beam attenuation and chlorophyll concentration as alternative optical indices of phytoplankton biomass

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Emmanual Boss - Journal of Marine Research 2006 cited by 203

  18. Exploring Vitamin B1 Cycling and Its Connections to the Microbial Community in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Authors: Christopher P. Suffridge, Luis M. Bolaños, Kristin Bergauer, Alexandra Z. Worden, Jeff Morré, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Stephen J. Giovannoni - Frontiers in Marine Science 2020 cited by 36

  19. Phytoplankton biodiversity and the inverted paradox

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Robert T. O’Malley, Emmanuel Boss, Lee Karp‐Boss, Christopher C. Mundt - ISME Communications 2021 cited by 30

  20. Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food‐web models

    Authors: David A. Siegel, Ken O. Buesseler, Scott C. Doney, Sévrine Sailley, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Philip W. Boyd - Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2014 cited by 520

  21. Confirmation of iron limitation of phytoplankton photosynthesis in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, A.J. Bale, Zbigniew Kolber, James Aiken, Paul G. Falkowski - Nature 1996 cited by 468

  22. Satellite observations of chlorophyll, phytoplankton biomass, and Ekman pumping in nonlinear mesoscale eddies

    Authors: Peter Gaube, Dudley B. Chelton, Peter G. Strutton, Michael J. Behrenfeld - Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 2013 cited by 333

  23. Temperate infection in a virus–host system previously known for virulent dynamics

    Authors: Ben Knowles, Juan A. Bonachela, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Karen Grace V. Bondoc, B. B. Cael, Craig A. Carlson, Nick Cieslik, Ben Diaz, Heidi L. Fuchs, Jason R. Graff, Juris A. Grasis, Kimberly H. Halsey, Liti Haramaty, Christopher T. Johns, Frank Natale, Jozef I. Nissimov, Brittany M. Schieler, Kimberlee Thamatrakoln, T. Frede Thingstad, Selina Våge, Cliff Watkins, Toby K. Westberry, Kay D. Bidle - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 54

  24. Satellite Lidar Measurements as a Critical New Global Ocean Climate Record

    Authors: Michael J. Behrenfeld, Laura Lorenzoni, Yongxiang Hu, Kelsey M. Bisson, Chris A. Hostetler, Paolo Di Girolamo, Davide Dionisi, Francesco Longo, Simona Zoffoli - Remote Sensing, Remote. Sens. 2023 cited by 28