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William B. Whitman

Active 1980–2024

109
Papers
31,879
Citations
81
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Citations

Citations per year for William B. Whitman1960: 1 citations1969: 1 citations1980: 5 citations1981: 3 citations1982: 6 citations1983: 9 citations1984: 9 citations1985: 13 citations1986: 7 citations1987: 12 citations1988: 33 citations1989: 16 citations1990: 27 citations1991: 17 citations1992: 28 citations1993: 24 citations1994: 38 citations1995: 29 citations1996: 32 citations1997: 52 citations1998: 49 citations1999: 61 citations2000: 75 citations2001: 75 citations2002: 91 citations2003: 138 citations2004: 141 citations2005: 178 citations2006: 206 citations2007: 168 citations2008: 188 citations2009: 235 citations2010: 182 citations2011: 231 citations2012: 188 citations2013: 189 citations2014: 225 citations2015: 236 citations2016: 239 citations2017: 215 citations2018: 234 citations2019: 492 citations2020: 571 citations2021: 583 citations2022: 484 citations2023: 339 citations2024: 488 citations2025: 165 citations2026: 7 citations1961–1968: no citations, so these years are not shown1970–1979: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,172 citing papers, 22.1% of this breakdownGermany: 945 citing papers, 9.6% of this breakdownChina: 840 citing papers, 8.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 556 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownFrance: 492 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownAustralia: 348 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSpain: 344 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownCanada: 309 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownJapan: 279 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 270 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownBelgium: 199 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownItaly: 198 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
0%22.1%Other 29.5%

Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.4%
  • Environmental Science30.6%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences9.1%
  • Medicine5.7%
  • Engineering4.9%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.4%
  • Other6.9%

Topics

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology13.6%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies13.5%
  • Gut microbiota and health6.1%
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena2.6%
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny2.6%
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods2.1%
  • Other59.5%

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  1. Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

    Authors: Pablo Yarza, Pelin Yilmaz, Elmar Pruesse, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl‐Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman, J. Euzéby, Rudolf Amann, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2014 cited by 2,594

  2. Prokaryotes: The unseen majority

    Authors: William B. Whitman, David C. Coleman, W. J. Wiebe - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998 cited by 4,821

  3. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database

    Authors: Christian Rinke, Maria Chuvochina, Aaron J. Mussig, Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Adrián Davín, David W. Waite, William B. Whitman, Donovan H. Parks, Philip Hugenholtz - Nature Microbiology 2021 cited by 489

  4. SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data

    Authors: Brian P. Hedlund, Maria Chuvochina, Philip Hugenholtz, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Alison E. Murray, Marike Palmer, Donovan H. Parks, Alexander J. Probst, Anna‐Louise Reysenbach, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Stephanus N. Venter, William B. Whitman - Nature Microbiology 2022 cited by 220

  5. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities

    Authors: David W. Waite, Maria Chuvochina, Claus Pelikan, Donovan H. Parks, Pelin Yilmaz, Michael Wagner, Alexander Loy, Takeshi Naganuma, Ryosuke Nakai, William B. Whitman, Martin W. Hahn, Jan Kuever, Philip Hugenholtz - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2020 cited by 662

  6. Methanogenesis

    Authors: Zhe Lyu, Nana Shao, Taiwo S. Akinyemi, William B. Whitman - Current Biology 2018 cited by 514

  7. Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea

    Authors: Yuchen Liu, William B. Whitman - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008 cited by 1,321

  8. Expanding the genomic encyclopedia of Actinobacteria with 824 isolate reference genomes

    Authors: R. Seshadri, Simon Roux, Katharina J. Huber, Dongying Wu, Sora Yu, Daniel Udwary, Lee Call, Stephen Nayfach, Richard L. Hahnke, Rüdiger Pukall, James R. White, Neha Varghese, Cody Webb, Krishna Palaniappan, L.C. Reimer, J. Sarda Carbasse, Jonathon Bertsch, Supratim Mukherjee, T. B. K. Reddy, Patrick Hajek, Marcel Huntemann, I-Min A. Chen, Alex Spunde, Alicia Clum, Nicole Shapiro, Zong‐Yen Wu, Zhiying Zhao, Yu‐Guang Zhou, Lyudmila I. Evtushenko, Sofie Thijs, Vincent Stevens, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Nigel J. Mouncey, Yasuo Yoshikuni, William B. Whitman, Hans‐Peter Klenk, Tanja Woyke, Markus Göker, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova - Cell Genomics 2022 cited by 65

  9. Development of the SeqCode: A proposed nomenclatural code for uncultivated prokaryotes with DNA sequences as type

    Authors: William B. Whitman, Maria Chuvochina, Brian P. Hedlund, Philip Hugenholtz, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Alison E. Murray, Marike Palmer, Donovan H. Parks, Alexander J. Probst, Anna‐Louise Reysenbach, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Stephanus N. Venter - Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2022 cited by 70

  10. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera

    Authors: Joseph S. Wirth, William B. Whitman - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2018 cited by 217

  11. Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

    Authors: Erko Stackebrandt, Wilhelm Frederiksen, George M Garrity, Patrick A. D. Grimont, Peter Kämpfer, Martin Maiden, Xavier Nesme, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Jean Swings, Hans G. Trüper, L. Vauterin, Alan C. Ward, William B. Whitman - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2002 cited by 1,521

  12. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria

    Authors: Alison E. Murray, John V. Freudenstein, Simonetta Gribaldo, Roland Hatzenpichler, Philip Hugenholtz, Peter Kämpfer, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Christopher E. Lane, R. Thane Papke, Donovan H. Parks, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Matthew B. Stott, Iain C. Sutcliffe, J. Cameron Thrash, Stephanus N. Venter, William B. Whitman, Silvia G. Acinas, Rudolf Amann, Karthik Anantharaman, Jean Armengaud, Brett J. Baker, Roman A. Barco, Helge B. Bode, Eric S. Boyd, Carrie Brady, Paul Carini, Patrick Chain, Daniel R. Colman, Kristen M. DeAngelis, Maria Asuncion de los Rios, Paulina Estrada‐de los Santos, Christopher A. Dunlap, Jonathan A. Eisen, David Emerson, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Damien Eveillard, Peter R. Girguis, Ute Hentschel, James T. Hollibaugh, Laura Hug, William P. Inskeep, Elena P. Ivanova, Hans‐Peter Klenk, Wen‐Jun Li, Karen G. Lloyd, Frank E. Löffler, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Duane P. Moser, Takuro Nunoura, Marike Palmer, Vı́ctor Parro, Carlos Pedrós‐Alió, Alexander J. Probst, Theo H. M. Smits, Andrew D. Steen, Emma T. Steenkamp, Anja Spang, Frank J. Stewart, James M. Tiedje, Peter Vandamme, Michael Wagner, Fengping Wang, Pablo Yarza, Brian P. Hedlund, Anna‐Louise Reysenbach - Nature Microbiology 2020 cited by 157

  13. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life

    Authors: Supratim Mukherjee, R. Seshadri, Neha Varghese, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Jan P. Meier‐Kolthoff, Markus Göker, Roger Coates, Michalis Hadjithomas, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, David Páez-Espino, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Axel Visel, William B. Whitman, George M Garrity, Jonathan A. Eisen, Philip Hugenholtz, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Hans‐Peter Klenk, Nikos C. Kyrpides - Nature Biotechnology 2017 cited by 264

  14. RNA-Dependent Cysteine Biosynthesis in Archaea

    Authors: Anselm Sauerwald, Wenhong Zhu, Tiffany A. Major, Hervé Roy, Sotiria Palioura, Dieter Jahn, William B. Whitman, John R. Yates, Michael Ibba, Dieter Söll - Science 2005 cited by 244

  15. The importance of designating type material for uncultured taxa

    Authors: Maria Chuvochina, Christian Rinke, Donovan H. Parks, Michael S. Rappé, Gene W. Tyson, Pelin Yilmaz, William B. Whitman, Philip Hugenholtz - Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2018 cited by 110

  16. Genome-scale analysis of gene function in the hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Authors: Felipe Sarmiento, Jan Mrázek, William B. Whitman - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 152

  17. Cysteine Is Not the Sulfur Source for Iron-Sulfur Cluster and Methionine Biosynthesis in the Methanogenic Archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    Authors: Yuchen Liu, Magdalena Sieprawska‐Lupa, William B. Whitman, Robert H. White - Journal of Biological Chemistry 2010 cited by 116

  18. Proposal of the suffix –ota to denote phyla. Addendum to ‘Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes’

    Authors: William B. Whitman, Aharon Oren, Maria Chuvochina, Milton S. da Costa, George M Garrity, Fred A. Rainey, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Bernhard Schink, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Martha E. Trujillo, Stefano Ventura - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2018 cited by 114

  19. Genome sequences as the type material for taxonomic descriptions of prokaryotes

    Authors: William B. Whitman - Systematic and Applied Microbiology 2015 cited by 104

  20. Systematic Bacteriology

    Authors: Paul de Vos, George M Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Noel R. Krieg, Wolfgang Ludwig, Fred A. Rainey, Karl‐Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman - 2009 cited by 208

  21. RNA-dependent conversion of phosphoserine forms selenocysteine in eukaryotes and archaea

    Authors: Jing Yuan, Sotiria Palioura, Juan Carlos Salazar, Dan Su, Patrick O’Donoghue, Michael J. Hohn, Alexander Machado Cardoso, William B. Whitman, Dieter Söll - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006 cited by 208

  22. Toward unrestricted use of public genomic data

    Authors: Rudolf Amann, Shakuntala Baichoo, Benjamin J. Blencowe, Peer Bork, Mark Borodovsky, Cath Brooksbank, Patrick Chain, Rita R. Colwell, Daniele Daffonchio, Antoine Danchin, Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, Pieter C. Dorrestein, ROBERT FINN, Claire M. Fraser, Jack A. Gilbert, Steven Hallam, Philip Hugenholtz, John P. A. Ioannidis, Janet Jansson, Jihyun F. Kim, Hans-Peter Klenk, Martin G. Klotz, Rob Knight, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Christopher E. Mason, Alice C. McHardy, Folker Meyer, Christos Ouzounis, A.A.N. Patrinos, Mircea Podar, Katherine S. Pollard, Jacques Ravel, Alejandro Reyes, Richard J. Roberts, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, Susanna‐Assunta Sansone, Patrick D. Schloss, Lynn M. Schriml, João Carlos Setúbal, Rotem Sorek, Rick Stevens, James M. Tiedje, Adrián G. Turjanski, Gene W. Tyson, David W. Ussery, George M. Weinstock, Owen White, William B. Whitman, Ioannis Xénarios - Science 2019 cited by 61

  23. Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae

    Authors: Paulina Estrada‐de los Santos, Marike Palmer, Belén Chávez‐Ramírez, Chrizelle W. Beukes, Emma T. Steenkamp, Leah Briscoe, Noor Khan, Marta Maluk, Marcel Lafos, Ethan Humm, Monique Arrabit, Matthew B. Crook, Eduardo Gross, Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, Fábio Bueno dos Reis, William B. Whitman, Nicole Shapiro, Philip S. Poole, Ann M. Hirsch, Stephanus N. Venter, Euan K. James - Genes 2018 cited by 237

  24. Genetic Systems for Hydrogenotrophic Methanogens

    Authors: Felipe Sarmiento, John A. Leigh, William B. Whitman - Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology 2011 cited by 103