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Polar Research and Ecology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Mahsa Masjoudi
Sharif University of Technology
2
Weigang Hu
Lanzhou University
3
Kevin Y. H. Liang
Jewish General Hospital
4
Jiaojiao Liao
Peking University
5
Luiz A. Domeignoz‐Horta
AgroParisTech
6
Arthur A. D. Broadbent
University of Manchester
7
Nicholas B. Dragone
University of Colorado Boulder
8
Sean K. Bay
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
9
Piotr Rozwalak
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
10
Tadeo Sáez‐Sandino
Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Rising Stars Papers

1
Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils
Nature Communications|2024
138 cit.
2
Taxonomic and genomic attributes of oligotrophic soil bacteria
ISME Communications|2024
60 cit.
3
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem
Global Change Biology|2024
59 cit.
4
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide
Nature Climate Change|2024
43 cit.
5
Beyond growth: The significance of non-growth anabolism for microbial carbon-use efficiency in the light of soil carbon stabilisation
Soil Biology and Biochemistry|2024
39 cit.
6
Soil stoichiometric imbalances constrain microbial-driven C and N dynamics in grassland
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
22 cit.
7
Ultraconserved bacteriophage genome sequence identified in 1300-year-old human palaeofaeces
Nature Communications|2024
14 cit.
8
A comprehensive survey of soil microbial diversity across the Antarctic continent
Polar Biology|2025
10 cit.
9
Examining the potential of plastic-fed black soldier fly larvae (<i>Hermetia illucens</i>) as “bioincubators” of plastic-degrading bacteria
Journal of Applied Microbiology|2025
8 cit.
10
Interpreting differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by isotope methods and the ecoenzyme stoichiometry model
Soil Biology and Biochemistry|2025
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Claire Porter
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
2
Myoung‐Jong Noh
The Ohio State University
3
Chris Greening
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
4
Martin Hartmann
ETH Zurich
5
Yngve Melvær
Norwegian Polar Institute
6
Jenine McCutcheon
University of Leeds
7
Cassandra M. Brooks
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
8
Robert Józef Bialik
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
9
Daniel F. Carlson
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
10
Johnna M. Holding
Aarhus University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments
Nature Communications|2022
132 cit.
2
Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
Nature|2023
86 cit.
3
Molecular hydrogen in seawater supports growth of diverse marine bacteria
Nature Microbiology|2023
78 cit.
4
Climate change scenarios in fisheries and aquatic conservation research
ICES Journal of Marine Science|2023
66 cit.
5
A nitrite-oxidising bacterium constitutively consumes atmospheric hydrogen
The ISME Journal|2022
59 cit.
6
Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea
Cell|2024
49 cit.
7
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities
Soil Biology and Biochemistry|2025
41 cit.
8
Potential relevance between soybean nitrogen uptake and rhizosphere prokaryotic communities under waterlogging stress
ISME Communications|2023
38 cit.
9
Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem
Science|2022
30 cit.
10
The bridging role of non-governmental organizations in the planning, adoption, and management of the marine protected area network in Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Marine Policy|2022
29 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John C. Priscu
Desert Research Institute
2
Noah Fierer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
3
Steven K. Schmidt
University of Colorado System
4
Ron Milo
Weizmann Institute of Science
5
Matthew D. Wallenstein
Colorado State University
6
Peter Convey
British Antarctic Survey
7
Ross A. Virginia
Dartmouth College
8
Steven L. Chown
Monash University
9
Diana H. Wall
Colorado State University
10
James M. Tiedje
Michigan State University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks
Science|2002
7.5k cit.
2
The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2006
5.7k cit.
3
Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body
PLoS Biology|2016
5.1k cit.
4
TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA
Ecology|2007
5k cit.
5
The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis
Nucleic Acids Research|2008
4.9k cit.
6
DNA–DNA hybridization values and their relationship to whole-genome sequence similarities
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY|2007
4.8k cit.
7
Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis
Nucleic Acids Research|2013
4.6k cit.
8
Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil
The ISME Journal|2010
4.2k cit.
9
Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
Applied and Environmental Microbiology|2009
4k cit.
10
The biomass distribution on Earth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2018
3.7k cit.

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