| The uncultured microbial majority MS Rappé, SJ Giovannoni Annual Reviews in Microbiology 57 (1), 369-394, 2003 | 2357 | 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 | 2179 | 1996 |
| Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton SJ Giovannoni, TB Britschgi, CL Moyer, KG Field Nature 345 (6270), 60-63, 1990 | 2041 | 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 | 1408 | 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 | 1092 | 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 | 1088 | 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 metals DR Lovley, SJ Giovannoni, DC White, JE Champine, EJP Phillips, ... Archives of microbiology 159 (4), 336-344, 1993 | 1067 | 1993 |
| Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade MS Rappé, SA Connon, KL Vergin, SJ Giovannoni Nature 418 (6898), 630-633, 2002 | 1020 | 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 | 903 | 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 | 896 | 1988 |
| 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 | 862 | 2002 |
| 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 | 641 | 1988 |
| Evolution, diversity and molecular ecology of marine prokaryotes SJ Giovannoni Microbial ecology of the oceans, 47-84, 2000 | 600 | 2000 |
| Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton SJ Giovannoni, U Stingl Nature 437 (7057), 343-348, 2005 | 488 | 2005 |
| Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology SJ Giovannoni, JC Thrash, B Temperton The ISME journal 8 (8), 1553-1565, 2014 | 475 | 2014 |
| 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 | 473 | 1995 |
| 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), 2015 | 454 | 2015 |
| 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 | 449 | 1998 |
| Kinetic bias in estimates of coastal picoplankton community structure obtained by measurements of small-subunit rRNA gene PCR amplicon length heterogeneity M Suzuki, MS Rappé, SJ Giovannoni Applied and environmental microbiology 64 (11), 4522-4529, 1998 | 436 | 1998 |
| 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 | 419 | 1997 |
