Daniel S. Read

6.9k citations
85 papers · 4.4k · 2 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.5%
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Pollution top 1%
    • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Papers in

  • Ecology 35
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 20
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 19
  • Molecular Biology 21
    • Identification and Quantification in Food 9
Co-authors
William O. C. Symondson (4 shared papers)R. Andrew King (2 shared papers)Michael Traugott (1 shared paper)Michael J. Bowes (18 shared papers)Hyun S. Gweon (14 shared papers)Anna Oliver (5 shared papers)Bernd Hänfling (7 shared papers)Lori Lawson Handley (5 shared papers)
Journals
The Science of The Total Environment (13 papers)Water Research (5 papers)Molecular Ecology (4 papers)Environmental DNA (4 papers)Environmental Pollution (3 papers)
Partner nations
United KingdomUnited StatesSwitzerland

In The Last Decade

Daniel S. Read

81 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Daniel S. Read's Hit Papers

EnvironmentalDNAmetabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods 2016 · 422 citations
4220+6+12Years since publication100200300400500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2016 Molecular Ecology
  2. 2008 Molecular Ecology

Peers

Daniel S. Read
Comparison fields: 5 of 144
  • Ecology 1.9k
  • Pollution 836
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 473
  • Environmental Chemistry 458
  • Ecological Modeling 179
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INVITED REVIEW: Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA‐based approaches
Molecular Ecology ·R. Andrew King, Daniel S. Read, Michael Traugott, William O. C. Symondson
Hit paper breakdown →		2008555
2
EnvironmentalDNAmetabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods
Molecular Ecology ·Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Christoph Hahn, Jianlong Li, Paul Nichols, Rosetta C. Blackman, Anna Oliver, Ian J. Winfield
Hit paper breakdown →		2016422
3
PIPITS: an automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the Illumina sequencing platform
Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Hyun S. Gweon, Anna Oliver, Joanne E. Taylor, Tim Booth, Melanie Gibbs, Daniel S. Read, Robert I. Griffiths, Karsten Schönrogge
2015252
4
Catchment-scale biogeography of riverine bacterioplankton
The ISME Journal ·Daniel S. Read, Hyun S. Gweon, Michael J. Bowes, Lindsay K. Newbold, Dawn Field, Mark Bailey, Robert I. Griffiths
2014207
5
Comparison of long-read sequencing technologies in the hybrid assembly of complex bacterial genomes
Microbial Genomics ·Nicola De Maio, Liam P. Shaw, Alasdair T. M. Hubbard, Sophie George, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Jeremy Swann, Ryan R. Wick, Manal AbuOun, Emma Stubberfield, Sarah Hoosdally, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Anna E. Sheppard, Mark Bailey, Daniel S. Read, Muna F. Anjum, (unknown), Nicole Stoesser
2019165
6
Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales
Environmental Science & Technology ·Andrew C. Johnson, Hollie Ball, Richard K. Cross, Alice A. Horton, Monika D. Jürgens, Daniel S. Read, Jes Vollertsen, Claus Svendsen
2020155
7
Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples
Environmental Pollution ·Alice A. Horton, Richard K. Cross, Daniel S. Read, Monika D. Jürgens, Hollie Ball, Claus Svendsen, Jes Vollertsen, Andrew C. Johnson
2020136
8
Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum
Environmental Microbiology ·Hyun S. Gweon, Michael J. Bowes, Heather Moorhouse, Anna Oliver, Mark Bailey, M. Acreman, Daniel S. Read
2020129
9
The effect of anthropogenic arsenic contamination on the earthworm microbiome
Environmental Microbiology ·Daniel A. Pass, Andrew Morgan, Daniel S. Read, Dawn Field, Andrew J. Weightman, Peter Kille
2014125
10
Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake
Environmental DNA ·Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Ian J. Winfield, Helen S. Kimbell, Harriet F. Johnson, Jianlong Li, Christoph Hahn, Rosetta C. Blackman, Rose Wilcox, Rob Donnelly, Amir Szitenberg, Bernd Hänfling
2019116
11
Spatial and temporal changes in chlorophyll-a concentrations in the River Thames basin, UK: Are phosphorus concentrations beginning to limit phytoplankton biomass?
The Science of The Total Environment ·Michael J. Bowes, E. Gozzard, Andrew C. Johnson, Peter Scarlett, C. Roberts, Daniel S. Read, Linda Armstrong, Sarah A. Harman, Heather Wickham
2012105
12
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals
Biological Conservation ·Lynsey R. Harper, Lori Lawson Handley, Angus I. Carpenter, Muḥammad Ghazālī, Cristina Di Muri, Callum J. Macgregor, Thomas W. Logan, Alan Law, Thomas Breithaupt, Daniel S. Read, Allan D. McDevitt, Bernd Hänfling
201999
13
Molecular detection of predation by soil micro‐arthropods on nematodes
Molecular Ecology ·Daniel S. Read, Samuel K. Sheppard, Michael W. Bruford, D. M. Glen, William O. C. Symondson
200693
14
Online fluorescence spectroscopy for the real-time evaluation of the microbial quality of drinking water
Water Research ·James Sorensen, (unknown), Matthew Ascott, Daren C. Gooddy, Dan Lapworth, Daniel S. Read, Cathy M. Rushworth, J. Bucknall, Kipkemoi Herbert, Ilias Karapanos, L. P. Gumm, Richard G. Taylor
201886
15
The effect of filtration method on the efficiency of environmental DNA capture and quantification via metabarcoding
Molecular Ecology Resources ·Jianlong Li, Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, Bernd Hänfling
201881
16
Impacts of climate change, land-use change and phosphorus reduction on phytoplankton in the River Thames (UK)
The Science of The Total Environment ·Gianbattista Bussi, P. G. Whitehead, Michael J. Bowes, Daniel S. Read, Christel Prudhomme, Simon Dadson
201681
17
Identifying multiple stressor controls on phytoplankton dynamics in the River Thames (UK) using high-frequency water quality data
The Science of The Total Environment ·Michael J. Bowes, M. Loewenthal, Daniel S. Read, Michael Hutchins, Christel Prudhomme, Linda Armstrong, Sarah A. Harman, Heather Wickham, E. Gozzard, Laurence Carvalho
201678
18
Soil pH effects on the interactions between dissolved zinc, non-nano- and nano-ZnO with soil bacterial communities
Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Daniel S. Read, Marianne Matzke, Hyun S. Gweon, Lindsay K. Newbold, Laura Roverskov Heggelund, María Díez Ortiz, Elma Lahive, David J. Spurgeon, Claus Svendsen
201575
19
Optimising sample preparation for FTIR-based microplastic analysis in wastewater and sludge samples: multiple digestions
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Serena Cunsolo, J. Williams, Michelle S. Hale, Daniel S. Read, Fay Couceiro
202175
20
The impact of sequencing depth on the inferred taxonomic composition and AMR gene content of metagenomic samples
Environmental Microbiome ·Hyun S. Gweon, Liam P. Shaw, Jeremy Swann, Nicola De Maio, Manal AbuOun, René Niehus, Alasdair T. M. Hubbard, (unknown), Mark Bailey, Tim Peto, Sarah Hoosdally, A Sarah Walker, Robert Sebra, Derrick W. Crook, Muna F. Anjum, Daniel S. Read, Nicole Stoesser
201973

About Daniel S. Read

Daniel S. Read is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry and Water Science and Technology, having authored 85 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (10 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (9 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (8 papers) and Fecal contamination and water quality (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (1.9k citations), Pollution (836 citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (473 citations), Environmental Chemistry (458 citations) and Ecological Modeling (179 citations). Daniel S. Read has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include William O. C. Symondson, R. Andrew King, Michael Traugott, Michael J. Bowes, Hyun S. Gweon, Anna Oliver, Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley, Jianlong Li and Mark Bailey. Their work appears in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research, Molecular Ecology, Environmental DNA and Environmental Pollution.

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