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John B. Waterbury

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
29064
World Ranking
16906
National Ranking
6965

John B. Waterbury publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 74 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

John B. Waterbury D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John B. Waterbury sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John B. Waterbury is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on various subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work addresses topics that include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

John B. Waterbury has published recent papers such as:

  • Abundant nitrite-oxidizing metalloenzymes in the mesopelagic zone of the tropical Pacific Ocean, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Dynamic diel proteome and daytime nitrogenase activity supports buoyancy in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Mechanisms and heterogeneity of in situ mineral processing by the marine nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium revealed by single-colony metaproteomics, 2021, ISME Communications
  • Complete Genome Sequences of Two Phylogenetically Distinct Nitrospina Strains Isolated from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 2022, Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • La légitimation du pouvoir au Maghreb: tradition, protestation et répression, 2021, L Année du Maghreb

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Eric A. Webb
  • Mak A. Saito
  • Matthew R. McIlvin
  • Frederica W. Valois
  • Noelle A. Held

Publication venues where John B. Waterbury has appeared regularly include:

  • The Middle East Journal
  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Microbiology
  • ISME Communications

John B. Waterbury has authored book titles published by The American University in Cairo Press eBooks and Water Environment Federation, including:

  • Missions Impossible, 2020
  • A Digital Twin is More Than Hype: How Hartford MDC is Putting It to Use for Resilient Capital Improvements Planning, 2020

They received the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Generic assignments, strain histories, and properties of pure cultures of cyanobacteria

    Rosmarie Rippka;Josette Deruelles;John B. Waterbury;Michael Herdman

  • Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon

    Martin Könneke;Anne E Bernhard;Anne E Bernhard;José R de la Torre;Christopher B Walker

  • A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone

    Sallie W. Chisholm;Robert J. Olson;Erik R. Zettler;Ralf Goericke

  • Widespread occurrence of a unicellular, marine, planktonic, cyanobacterium

    John B. Waterbury;Stanley W. Watson;Robert R. L. Guillard;Larry E. Brand

  • Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts.

    Colleen M. Cavanaugh;Stephen L. Gardiner;Meredith L. Jones;Holger W. Jannasch

  • The genome of a motile marine Synechococcus

    B. Palenik;B. Brahamsha;F. W. Larimer;F. W. Larimer;M. Land;M. Land

  • Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;John B. Waterbury;Patricia J. Turner;Joseph P. Montoya

  • Phosphonate utilization by the globally important marine diazotroph Trichodesmium.

    S. T. Dyhrman;P. D. Chappell;S. T. Haley;J. W. Moffett

  • Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

    Matthew B. Sullivan;John B. Waterbury;Sallie W. Chisholm

  • Resistance to Co-Occurring Phages Enables Marine Synechococcus Communities To Coexist with Cyanophages Abundant in Seawater

    John B. Waterbury;Frederica W. Valois

  • Resolution of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Ecotypes by Using 16S-23S Ribosomal DNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequences

    Gabrielle Rocap;Daniel L. Distel;John B. Waterbury;Sallie W. Chisholm

  • Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b

    Sallie W. Chisholm;Sheila L. Frankel;Ralf Goericke;Robert J. Olson

  • Phylum BX. Cyanobacteria

    Richard W. Castenholz;Annick Wilmotte;Michael Herdman;Rosmarie Rippka

  • A cyanobacterium which lacks thylakoids

    R. Rippka;J. Waterbury;G. Cohen-Bazire

  • Nitrospira marina gen. nov. sp. nov.: a chemolithotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium

    Stanley W. Watson;Eberhard Bock;Frederica W. Valois;John B. Waterbury

  • Culturing the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

    Lisa R. Moore;Allison Coe;Erik R. Zinser;Mak A. Saito

  • A cellulolytic nitrogen-fixing bacterium cultured from the gland of deshayes in shipworms (bivalvia: teredinidae).

    John B. Waterbury;C. Bradford Calloway;Ruth D. Turner

  • Patterns of growth and development in pleurocapsalean cyanobacteria.

    J B Waterbury;R Y Stanier

  • Rapid Diversification of Marine Picophytoplankton with Dissimilar Light-Harvesting Structures Inferred from Sequences of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria)

    Ena Urbach;David J. Scanlan;Daniel L. Distel;John B. Waterbury

  • Cobalt limitation and uptake in Prochlorococcus

    Mak A. Saito;James W. Moffett;Sallie W. Chisholm;John B. Waterbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Sallie W. Chisholm
Sallie W. Chisholm MIT
Mak A. Saito
Mak A. Saito Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sonya T. Dyhrman
Sonya T. Dyhrman Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Matthew B. Sullivan
Matthew B. Sullivan The Ohio State University
Roger Y. Stanier
Roger Y. Stanier University of California, Berkeley
Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Alexander N. Glazer
Alexander N. Glazer University of California, Berkeley
Holger W. Jannasch
Holger W. Jannasch Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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