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D-Index
45
Citations
7175
World Ranking
4886
National Ranking
1685

George B. McManus publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George B. McManus sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 112 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

George B. McManus D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George B. McManus sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

George B. McManus is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Frequent venues for publishing their research include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Endangered Species Research
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by George B. McManus include:

  • Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High-Throughput Metabarcoding, 2020, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo-phago-trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean, 2023, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities, 2023, Journal of Plankton Research
  • Regionally endothermic traits in planktivorous basking sharks Cetorhinus maximus, 2023, Endangered Species Research
  • Distribution Patterns of Ciliate Diversity in the South China Sea, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Among the frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Luciana F. Santoferrara
  • Suzana G. Leles
  • Aditee Mitra
  • David A. Caron
  • Emile Faure

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean

    E. T. Buitenhuis;W. K. W. Li;Daniel Vaulot;M. W. Lomas

  • Trophic transfer of fatty acids, sterols, and a triterpenoid alcohol between bacteria, a ciliate, and the copepod Acartia tonsa

    Melissa C. Ederington;George B. McManus;H. Rodger Harvey

  • Planktonic community structure determines the fate of bacterial production in a temperate lake

    Michael L. Pace;George B. McManus;Stuart E. G. Findlay

  • The nearshore zone during coastal upwelling: Daily variability and coupling between primary and secondary production off central Chile

    William T Peterson;Dagoberto F Arcos;George B McManus;Hans Dam

  • Marine ciliates as a widespread source of tetrahymanol and hopan-3β-ol in sediments

    H.Rodger Harvey;George B Mcmanus

  • Do bacteria-sized marine eukaryotes consume significant bacterial production?

    Jed A. Fuhrman;George B. Mcmanus

  • Control of marine bacterioplankton populations: Measurement and significance of grazing

    George B. McManus;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Molecular and morphological methods for identifying plankton: what makes a successful marriage?

    George B. Mcmanus;Laura A. Katz;Laura A. Katz

  • An introduction to the biogeography of aquatic microbes

    Published November;John R. Dolan;A. J. Baldwin;P. Catala

  • The diversity and biogeography of abundant and rare intertidal marine microeukaryotes explained by environment and dispersal limitation

    Wenjing Zhang;Yongbo Pan;Jun Yang;Huihuang Chen

  • Bacterivory in seawater studied with the use of inert fluorescent particles1

    George B. McManus;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Reframing the Everything is everywhere debate: evidence for high gene flow and diversity in ciliate morphospecies

    Laura A. Katz;George B. McManus;Oona L. O. Snoeyenbos-West;Autumn Griffin

  • Insights into the diversity of choreotrich and oligotrich ciliates (Class: Spirotrichea) based on genealogical analyses of multiple loci.

    Oona L O Snoeyenbos-West;Tovah Salcedo;George B McManus;Laura A Katz

  • Phytoplankton pigments and growth rates, and microzooplankton grazing in a large temperate estuary

    GB McManus;MC Ederington-Cantrell

  • Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High‐Throughput Metabarcoding

    Luciana F. Santoferrara;Fabien Burki;Sabine Filker;Ramiro Logares

  • Feeding by ciliates on two harmful algal bloom species, Prymnesium parvum and Prorocentrum minimum

    Carol Holmes Rosetta;George B McManus

  • Production, consumption and nutrient cycling in a laboratory mesocosm

    Roman;HW Ducklow;JA Fuhrman;C. Garside

  • Photosynthetic pigments in the ciliate Laboea strobila from Long Island Sound, USA

    George B. McManus;Jed A. Fuhrman

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura A. Katz
Laura A. Katz Smith College
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
Senjie Lin
Senjie Lin University of Connecticut
Hans G. Dam
Hans G. Dam University of Connecticut
David A. Caron
David A. Caron University of Southern California
Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia

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