Rob Knight

Publishes on Gut microbiota and health, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology. 1.8k papers and 469.8k citations.

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🌟#1 Current Senior Leader in Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies 🌟#1 Current Senior Leader in Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 🌟#2 Current Senior Leader in Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 🌟#2 Current Senior Leader in Gut microbiota and health 🌟#6 Current Senior Leader in Urinary Tract Infections Management

1.8kPublications

469.8kTotal Citations

#1in Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies

First publication: 1929First senior author: 1961

Gut microbiota and health Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Diet and metabolism studies Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Top publicationsby citations

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

J. Gregory Caporaso, Rob Knight, Justin Kuczynski et al.|Nature Methods|2010

Cited by 36k

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

R. C. Edgar, Rob Knight, Brian J. Haas et al.|Bioinformatics|2011

Cited by 15.5k

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

Curtis Huttenhower, Brandi Herter, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti et al.|Nature|2012

Cited by 12k

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

J. Gregory Caporaso, Rob Knight, Christian L. Lauber et al.|Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2010

Cited by 10.1k

UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities

Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight|Applied and Environmental Microbiology|2005

Cited by 8.6k