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Roger E. Summons

Active 1973–2025

96
Papers
25,983
Citations
75
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Citations

Citations per year for Roger E. Summons1977: 1 citations1978: 1 citations1981: 1 citations1982: 1 citations1985: 2 citations1986: 2 citations1987: 2 citations1988: 8 citations1989: 5 citations1990: 9 citations1991: 8 citations1992: 6 citations1993: 15 citations1994: 28 citations1995: 16 citations1996: 12 citations1997: 17 citations1998: 36 citations1999: 39 citations2000: 59 citations2001: 57 citations2002: 65 citations2003: 113 citations2004: 81 citations2005: 108 citations2006: 159 citations2007: 159 citations2008: 170 citations2009: 124 citations2010: 126 citations2011: 164 citations2012: 125 citations2013: 120 citations2014: 161 citations2015: 164 citations2016: 149 citations2017: 142 citations2018: 131 citations2019: 238 citations2020: 238 citations2021: 240 citations2022: 207 citations2023: 153 citations2024: 229 citations2025: 118 citations2026: 8 citations1979–1980: no citations, so these years are not shown1983–1984: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,351 citing papers, 27.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 419 citing papers, 8.5% of this breakdownGermany: 411 citing papers, 8.4% of this breakdownChina: 395 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownAustralia: 251 citing papers, 5.1% of this breakdownFrance: 246 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownCanada: 228 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 148 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSpain: 117 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownJapan: 117 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSweden: 89 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 86 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.2%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences21.1%
  • Environmental Science16.8%
  • Engineering10.1%
  • Physics and Astronomy9.6%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.5%
  • Other13.7%

Topics

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils6.5%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology5.1%
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping4.4%
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis4.2%
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research4.1%
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena3.5%
  • Other72.2%

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  1. Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome

    Authors: Mathieu Groussin, Mathilde Poyet, Ainara Sistiaga, Sean M. Kearney, Katya Moniz, Mary Noel, Jeff Hooker, Sean M. Gibbons, Laure Ségurel, Alain Froment, Rihlat Saïd-Mohamed, Alain Fezeu, Vanessa A. Juimo, Sophie Lafosse, Francis Ekwin Tabe, Catherine Girard, Deborah Iqaluk, Le Thanh Tu Nguyen, B. Jesse Shapiro, Jenni Lehtimäki, Lasse Ruokolainen, Pinja Kettunen, Tommi Vatanen, Shani Sigwazi, Audax Mabulla, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Yvonne Ayerki Nartey, Adwoa Agyei‐Nkansah, Amoako Duah, Yaw Asante Awuku, Kenneth Valles, Shadrack Osei Asibey, Mary Afihene, Lewis R. Roberts, Amelie Plymoth, Charles Onyekwere, Roger E. Summons, Ramnik J. Xavier, Eric J. Alm - Cell 2021 cited by 369

  2. Bacterial Vesicles in Marine Ecosystems

    Authors: Steven J. Biller, Florence Schubotz, Sara E. Roggensack, Anne Thompson, Roger E. Summons, Sallie W. Chisholm - Science 2014 cited by 552

  3. A Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystem: The Lost City Hydrothermal Field

    Authors: Deborah S. Kelley, Jeffrey A. Karson, Gretchen L. Früh‐Green, D. Yoerger, Timothy M. Shank, D. A. Butterfield, John M. Hayes, Matthew O. Schrenk, E. J. Olson, G. Proskurowski, Mike Jakuba, Al Bradley, B. I. Larson, K. A. Ludwig, D. Glickson, Kate L. Buckman, Alexander S. Bradley, William J. Brazelton, K. K. Roe, Mitch J. Elend, A. Delacour, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Marvin D. Lilley, John A. Baross, Roger E. Summons, Sean P. Sylva - Science 2005 cited by 1,264

  4. Lipid biomarkers: molecular tools for illuminating the history of microbial life

    Authors: Roger E. Summons, Paula V. Welander, David A. Gold - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2021 cited by 111

  5. Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

    Authors: Genming Luo, Shuhei Ono, Nicolas J. Beukes, David T. Wang, Shucheng Xie, Roger E. Summons - Science Advances 2016 cited by 380

  6. GDGT cyclization proteins identify the dominant archaeal sources of tetraether lipids in the ocean

    Authors: Zhirui Zeng, Xiao-Lei Liu, Kristen R. Farley, Jeremy H. Wei, William W. Metcalf, Roger E. Summons, Paula V. Welander - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 cited by 142

  7. A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

    Authors: J. P. Grotzinger, D. Y. Sumner, Linda C. Kah, K. M. Stack, Sanjeev Gupta, L. A. Edgar, David M. Rubin, K. W. Lewis, Jüergen Schieber, N. Mangold, R. E. Milliken, P. G. Conrad, David J. DesMarais, Jack D. Farmer, K. L. Siebach, F. J. Calef, J. A. Hurowitz, S. M. McLennan, D. W. Ming, D. T. Vaniman, J. A. Crisp, A. R. Vasavada, K. S. Edgett, M. C. Malin, D. F. Blake, R. Gellert, P. R. Mahaffy, R. C. Wiens, S. Maurice, J. A. Grant, Sharon A. Wilson, Robert C. Anderson, L. W. Beegle, R. E. Arvidson, B. Hallet, R. S. Sletten, M. S. Rice, J. F. Bell, J. L. Griffes, B. L. Ehlmann, R. B. Anderson, T. F. Bristow, W. E. Dietrich, Gilles Dromart, J. L. Eigenbrode, A. A. Fraeman, C. Hardgrove, K. E. Herkenhoff, Louise Jandura, Gary Kocurek, S. Lee, L. A. Leshin, Richard Léveillé, D. Limonadi, J. N. Maki, Scott McCloskey, Michael A. Meÿer, M. E. Minitti, H. E. Newsom, Dorothy Z. Oehler, A. Okon, M. C. Palucis, T. J. Parker, Scott K. Rowland, M. E. Schmidt, S. W. Squyres, A. Steele, E. M. Stolper, Roger E. Summons, A. H. Treiman, R. M. E. Williams, Aileen Yingst, MSL Science Team, Osku Kemppinen, Nathan Bridges, J. R. Johnson, David A. Cremers, Austin Godber, M. Wadhwa, Danika Wellington, Ian McEwan, Claire Newman, M. I. Richardson, Antoine Charpentier, Laurent Péret, P. L. King, Jennifer G. Blank, Gerald Weigle, Shuai Li, Kevin M. Robertson, V. Z. Sun, Michael Baker, Christopher S. Edwards, Kenneth A. Farley, Hayden Miller, Megan Newcombe, Cedric Pilorget, Claude Brunet, Victoria Hipkin, Richard Léveillé and 348 more - Science 2013 cited by 905

  8. Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars

    Authors: J. L. Eigenbrode, Roger E. Summons, A. Steele, Caroline Freissinet, M. Millán, R. Navarro‐González, B. Sutter, A. C. McAdam, H. B. Franz, D. P. Glavin, P. D. Archer, P. R. Mahaffy, P. G. Conrad, J. A. Hurowitz, J. P. Grotzinger, Sanjeev Gupta, Doug Ming, D. Y. Sumner, Cyril Szopa, C. A. Malespin, A. Buch, Patrice Coll - Science 2018 cited by 542

  9. Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

    Authors: Gordon D. Love, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Charlotte Stalvies, David A. Fike, J. P. Grotzinger, Alexander S. Bradley, Amy E. Kelly, Maya P. Bhatia, William Meredith, Colin E. Snape, Samuel A. Bowring, Daniel J. Condon, Roger E. Summons - Nature 2009 cited by 728

  10. Intact polar membrane lipids in prokaryotes and sediments deciphered by high‐performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization multistage mass spectrometry—new biomarkers for biogeochemistry and microbial ecology

    Authors: Helen Sturt, Roger E. Summons, K. M. Smith, Marcus Elvert, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2004 cited by 582

  11. Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea

    Authors: Jochen J. Brocks, Gordon D. Love, Roger E. Summons, Andrew H. Knoll, Graham A. Logan, Stephen A. Bowden - Nature 2005 cited by 614

  12. On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

    Authors: Pincelli M. Hull, André Bornemann, Donald E. Penman, Michael J. Henehan, Richard D. Norris, Paul A. Wilson, Peter Blum, Laia Alegret, Sietske J. Batenburg, Paul R. Bown, Timothy J. Bralower, C. Cournède, A. Deutsch, Barbara Donner, Oliver Friedrich, Sofie Jehle, Hojung Kim, Dick Kroon, Peter C. Lippert, Dominik Loroch, Iris Moebius, Kazuyoshi Moriya, Daniel J. Peppe, G. Ravizza, Ursula Röhl, Jonathan D. Schueth, Julio Sepúlveda, Philip F. Sexton, Elizabeth C Sibert, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Roger E. Summons, Ellen Thomas, Thomas Westerhold, Jessica H. Whiteside, Tatsuhiko Yamaguchi, James C. Zachos - Science 2020 cited by 340

  13. Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

    Authors: Derek E. G. Briggs, Roger E. Summons - BioEssays 2014 cited by 217

  14. Proteorhodopsin photosystem gene expression enables photophosphorylation in a heterologous host

    Authors: Asunción Martínez Martínez, Alexander S. Bradley, Jacob Waldbauer, Roger E. Summons, Edward F. DeLong - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 206

  15. Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

    Authors: Keely Glass, Shosuke Ito, Philip R. Wilby, Takayuki Sota, Atsushi Nakamura, Clifford R. Bowers, Jakob Vinther, Suryendu Dutta, Roger E. Summons, Derek E. G. Briggs, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, John D. Simon - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 200

  16. Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars

    Authors: Caroline Freissinet, D. P. Glavin, P. R. Mahaffy, Kristen Miller, J. L. Eigenbrode, Roger E. Summons, A. Brunner, A. Buch, Cyril Szopa, P. D. Archer, H. B. Franz, S. K. Atreya, W. B. Brinckerhoff, M. Cabane, Patrice Coll, P. G. Conrad, David J. Des Marais, Jason P. Dworkin, Alberto González Fairén, P. François, J. P. Grotzinger, Srishti Kashyap, I. L. ten Kate, L. A. Leshin, C. A. Malespin, Mildred Martin, Javier Martín‐Torres, A. C. McAdam, D. W. Ming, R. Navarro‐González, Alexander A. Pavlov, Benito Prats, S. W. Squyres, A. Steele, J. C. Stern, D. Y. Sumner, B. Sutter, María‐Paz Zorzano, the MSL Science Team - Journal of Geophysical Research Planets 2015 cited by 496

  17. Identification of aryl isoprenoids in source rocks and crude oils: Biological markers for the green sulphur bacteria

    Authors: Roger E. Summons, T.G. Powell - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1987 cited by 454

  18. Steroids, triterpenoids and molecular oxygen

    Authors: Roger E. Summons, Alexander S. Bradley, L. L. Jahnke, Jacob Waldbauer - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2006 cited by 364

  19. Discovery, taxonomic distribution, and phenotypic characterization of a gene required for 3-methylhopanoid production

    Authors: Paula V. Welander, Roger E. Summons - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 150

  20. Extending the known range of glycerol ether lipids in the environment: structural assignments based on tandem mass spectral fragmentation patterns

    Authors: Xiaolei Liu, Roger E. Summons, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2012 cited by 142

  21. Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen

    Authors: David A. Gold, Abigail M. Caron, Gregory P. Fournier, Roger E. Summons - Nature 2017 cited by 130

  22. 2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis

    Authors: Roger E. Summons, L. L. Jahnke, Janet M. Hope, Graham A. Logan - Nature 1999 cited by 972

  23. Isotopic exchange of carbon-bound hydrogen over geologic timescales 1 1Associate editor: J. Horita

    Authors: Alex L. Sessions, Sean P. Sylva, Roger E. Summons, John M. Hayes - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2004 cited by 248

  24. Cyanobacterial bacteriohopanepolyol signatures from cultures and natural environmental settings

    Authors: Helen M. Talbot, Roger E. Summons, L. L. Jahnke, Charles S. Cockell, Michel Rohmer, Paul Farrimond - Organic Geochemistry 2007 cited by 217