| The uncultured microbial majority MS Rappé, SJ Giovannoni Annual Reviews in Microbiology 57 (1), 369-394, 2003 | 2625 | 2003 |
| Bias caused by template annealing in the amplification of mixtures of 16S rRNA genes by PCR MT Suzuki, SJ Giovannoni Applied and environmental microbiology 62 (2), 625-630, 1996 | 2310 | 1996 |
| Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton SJ Giovannoni, TB Britschgi, CL Moyer, KG Field Nature 345 (6270), 60-63, 1990 | 2149 | 1990 |
| Microbial ecology and evolution: a ribosomal RNA approach GJ Olsen, DJ Lane, SJ Giovannoni, NR Pace, DA Stahl Annual reviews in microbiology 40 (1), 337-365, 1986 | 1515 | 1986 |
| SAR11 clade dominates ocean surface bacterioplankton communities RM Morris, MS Rappé, SA Connon, KL Vergin, WA Siebold, CA Carlson, ... Nature 420 (6917), 806-810, 2002 | 1240 | 2002 |
| Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium SJ Giovannoni, HJ Tripp, S Givan, M Podar, KL Vergin, D Baptista, ... science 309 (5738), 1242-1245, 2005 | 1236 | 2005 |
| Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other … DR Lovley, SJ Giovannoni, DC White, JE Champine, EJP Phillips, ... Archives of microbiology 159, 336-344, 1993 | 1178 | 1993 |
| Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade MS Rappé, SA Connon, KL Vergin, SJ Giovannoni Nature 418 (6898), 630-633, 2002 | 1141 | 2002 |
| High-throughput methods for culturing microorganisms in very-low-nutrient media yield diverse new marine isolates SA Connon, SJ Giovannoni Applied and environmental microbiology 68 (8), 3878-3885, 2002 | 953 | 2002 |
| Phylogenetic group-specific oligodeoxynucleotide probes for identification of single microbial cells SJ Giovannoni, EF DeLong, GJ Olsen, NR Pace Journal of bacteriology 170 (2), 720-726, 1988 | 948 | 1988 |
| Molecular phylogeny of the animal kingdom KG Field, GJ Olsen, DJ Lane, SJ Giovannoni, MT Ghiselin, EC Raff, ... Science 239 (4841), 748-753, 1988 | 947 | 1988 |
| Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes AZ Worden, MJ Follows, SJ Giovannoni, S Wilken, AE Zimmerman, ... Science 347 (6223), 1257594, 2015 | 720 | 2015 |
| Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology SJ Giovannoni, J Cameron Thrash, B Temperton The ISME journal 8 (8), 1553-1565, 2014 | 682 | 2014 |
| Evolutionary relationships among cyanobacteria and green chloroplasts SJ Giovannoni, S Turner, GJ Olsen, S Barns, DJ Lane, NR Pace Journal of bacteriology 170 (8), 3584-3592, 1988 | 664 | 1988 |
| Revolution, diversity, and molecular ecology of marine prokaryotes S Giovannoni Microbial ecology of the oceans, 2000 | 620 | 2000 |
| Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton SJ Giovannoni, U Stingl Nature 437 (7057), 343-348, 2005 | 546 | 2005 |
| Genetic comparisons reveal the same unknown bacterial lineages in Atlantic and Pacific bacterioplankton communities TD Mullins, TB Britschgi, RL Krest, SJ Giovannoni Limnology and Oceanography 40 (1), 148-158, 1995 | 478 | 1995 |
| Perennial Antarctic lake ice: an oasis for life in a polar desert JC Priscu, CH Fritsen, EE Adams, SJ Giovannoni, HW Paerl, CP McKay, ... Science 280 (5372), 2095-2098, 1998 | 458 | 1998 |
| Cultivation and Growth Characteristics of a Diverse Group of Oligotrophic Marine Gammaproteobacteria JC Cho, SJ Giovannoni Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70 (1), 432-440, 2004 | 441 | 2004 |
| Bacterial diversity among small-subunit rRNA gene clones and cellular isolates from the same seawater sample MT Suzuki, MS Rappe, ZW Haimberger, H Winfield, N Adair, J Ströbel, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 63 (3), 983-989, 1997 | 439 | 1997 |
