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D-Index
46
Citations
10682
World Ranking
4576
National Ranking
1589

Ian Hewson 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 Ian Hewson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 111 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian Hewson 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 Ian Hewson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ian Hewson is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on Ecology, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

Their main topics of study encompass bacteriophages and microbial interactions, coral and marine ecosystems, echinoderm biology and ecology, plant virus research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, marine and coastal plant biology, and plant and fungal interactions.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Coronaviruses in the Sea, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the Caribbean Sea, 2023, Science Advances
  • Diversity of Sea Star-Associated Densoviruses and Transcribed Endogenous Viral Elements of Densovirus Origin, 2020, Journal of Virology

Frequent collaborators include Mya Breitbart, Christopher M. DeRito, Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas, James S. Evans, and Christina A. Kellogg.

The most common publication venues where Hewson has contributed multiple papers are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Viruses
  • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Best Publications

  • Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces

    Mya Breitbart;Ian Hewson;Ben Felts;Joseph M. Mahaffy

  • A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

    Jed A. Fuhrman;Joshua A. Steele;Ian Hewson;Michael S. Schwalbach

  • Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages.

    Joshua A. Steele;Peter D. Countway;Li Xia;Patrick D. Vigil

  • Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions

    Jed A. Fuhrman;Ian Hewson;Michael S. Schwalbach;Joshua A. Steele

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain

    Pia H. Moisander;Roxanne A. Beinart;Ian Hewson;Angelicque E. White

  • Globally Distributed Uncultivated Oceanic N2-Fixing Cyanobacteria Lack Oxygenic Photosystem II

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Shellie R. Bench;Brandon J. Carter;Ian Hewson

  • Virus and prokaryote enumeration from planktonic aquatic environments by epifluorescence microscopy with SYBR Green I

    Anand Patel;Rachel T Noble;Joshua A Steele;Michael S Schwalbach

  • Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality

    Ian Hewson;Jason B. Button;Brent M. Gudenkauf;Benjamin Miner

  • Comparative day/night metatranscriptomic analysis of microbial communities in the North Pacific subtropical gyre.

    Rachel S. Poretsky;Ian Hewson;Shulei Sun;Andrew E. Allen

  • Coral-Associated Bacterial Assemblages: Current Knowledge and the Potential for Climate-Driven Impacts

    Morgan E. Mouchka;Ian Hewson;C. Drew Harvell

  • Coupling 16S‐ITS rDNA clone libraries and automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis to show marine microbial diversity: development and application to a time series

    Mark V. Brown;Michael S. Schwalbach;Ian Hewson;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Richness and diversity of bacterioplankton species along an estuarine gradient in Moreton Bay, Australia.

    Ian Hewson;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Virus‐like particle distribution and abundance in sediments and overlying waters along eutrophication gradients in two subtropical estuaries

    Ian Hewson;Judith M. O'Neil;Jed A. Fuhrman;William C. Dennison

  • Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins.

    J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego;Shao Pei Chou;Sara C. Di Rienzi;Julia K. Goodrich

  • Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skin microbial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians

    Ana V. Longo;Anna E. Savage;Ian Hewson;Kelly R. Zamudio

  • Experiments linking nitrogenase gene expression to nitrogen fixation in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

    Jonathan P. Zehr;Joseph P. Montoya;Bethany D. Jenkins;Ian Hewson

  • Abundance and distribution of major groups of diazotrophic cyanobacteria and their potential contribution to N2 fixation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Nicole L. Goebel;Kendra A. Turk;Katherine M. Achilles;Ryan Paerl

  • Bacterial diversity in shallow oligotrophic marine benthos and overlying waters: effects of virus infection, containment, and nutrient enrichment.

    I. Hewson;G. A. Vargo;J. A. Fuhrman

  • Viral effects on bacterial community composition in marine plankton microcosms

    Michael S. Schwalbach;Ian Hewson;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Viriobenthos production and virioplankton sorptive scavenging by suspended sediment particles in coastal and pelagic waters.

    I. Hewson;J. A. Fuhrman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
Jonathan P. Zehr
Jonathan P. Zehr University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph P. Montoya
Joseph P. Montoya Georgia Institute of Technology
Pia H. Moisander
Pia H. Moisander University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Peter T. Raimondi
Peter T. Raimondi University of California, Santa Cruz
C. Drew Harvell
C. Drew Harvell Cornell University
Mya Breitbart
Mya Breitbart University of South Florida
Lars G. Rudstam
Lars G. Rudstam Cornell University
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Angelicque E. White
Angelicque E. White University of Hawaii at Manoa

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