Leaderboards/Gut microbiota and health

Gut microbiota and health

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Francesco Beghini
Yale University
2
Aitor Blanco‐Míguez
University of Trento
3
Alex Chklovski
Translational Research Institute
4
Yun Kit Yeoh
Australian Institute of Marine Science
5
Damian J. Hernandez
University of Toronto
6
Hannah C. Wastyk
Stanford University
7
Jacob T. Nearing
Broad Institute
8
Jorge Luis Galeano Niño
The University of Texas at El Paso
9
Mackenzie Bender
Yale University
10
Mir Zulqarnain Talpur
Yunnan Agricultural University

Papers

1
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks
Nature|2024
43 cit.
2
Tumor-infiltrating bacteria disrupt cancer epithelial cell interactions and induce cell-cycle arrest
Cancer Cell|2025
22 cit.
3
Gene Family Expansions Provide Molecular Flexibility Required for Context‐Dependent Species Interactions
Ecology Letters|2025
4 cit.
4
Capturing sequence ambiguity among taxa in a primer-specific manner to improve taxonomic classification of amplicon sequencing
Nucleic Acids Research|2025
2 cit.
5
The Transcription Factor ELF4 Restrains the Inflammatory Potential of CD4+ T Cells
The Journal of Immunology|2024
0 cit.
6
Assessing the educational potential of an interactive board game to convey meaningful immunological interactions 3974
The Journal of Immunology|2025
0 cit.
7
ELF4 bridges transcriptional and translational outputs to regulate inflammatory T Cells 3617
The Journal of Immunology|2025
0 cit.
8
Referee report. For: Computational Study Protocol: Leveraging Synthetic Data to Validate a Benchmark Study for Differential Abundance Tests for 16S Microbiome Sequencing Data [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd|2024
0 cit.
9
Characterization of gut microbiomes in rural Honduras reveals uncharacterized species and associations with human genetic variation
Cell Reports|2025
0 cit.
10
A rare deletion of <i>BZ1</i> in the ivy-leaf morning glory eliminates anthocyanin-based pigmentation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Shai Fuchs
Sheba Medical Center
2
Ravid Straussman
Weizmann Institute of Science
3
Chenhong Zhang
Linyi University
4
Benjamin J. Callahan
North Carolina State University
5
Anton Korobeynikov
St Petersburg University
6
Riyue Bao
University of Pittsburgh
7
Jessica Fessler
Stanford University
8
Changtao Jiang
Peking University
9
Alexander Kurilshikov
University Medical Center Groningen
10
Ilana Livyatan
Weizmann Institute of Science

Papers

1
Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions
Cell|2022
504 cit.
2
Gut symbionts alleviate MASH through a secondary bile acid biosynthetic pathway
Cell|2024
275 cit.
3
Gut bacteria alleviate smoking-related NASH by degrading gut nicotine
Nature|2022
211 cit.
4
Microbial-host-isozyme analyses reveal microbial DPP4 as a potential antidiabetic target
Science|2023
166 cit.
5
Ex vivo organotypic cultures for synergistic therapy prioritization identify patient-specific responses to combined MEK and Src inhibition in colorectal cancer
Nature Cancer|2022
47 cit.
6
Choice of DNA extraction method affects stool microbiome recovery and subsequent phenotypic association analyses
Scientific Reports|2024
46 cit.
7
A microbial amino-acid-conjugated bile acid, tryptophan-cholic acid, improves glucose homeostasis via the orphan receptor MRGPRE
Cell|2025
46 cit.
8
Pathobionts from chemically disrupted gut microbiota induce insulin-dependent diabetes in mice
Microbiome|2023
41 cit.
9
“Triple-Punch” Strategy Exosome-Mimetic Nanovesicles for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Therapy
ACS Nano|2024
32 cit.
10
Identification of gut microbial bile acid metabolic enzymes via an AI-assisted pipeline
Cell|2025
32 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Washington University in St. Louis
2
Rob Knight
University of California San Diego
3
Curtis Huttenhower
Harvard University
4
Susan Holmes
Palo Alto University
5
Jun Wang
Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital
6
Peer Bork
Max Delbrück Center
7
Ramnik J. Xavier
Massachusetts General Hospital
8
Fredrik Bäckhed
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
9
James R. Cole
Michigan State University
10
Willem M. de Vos
University of Helsinki

Papers

1
DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
Nature Methods|2016
36.3k cit.
2
phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data
PLoS ONE|2013
22.5k cit.
3
Naive Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy
Applied and Environmental Microbiology|2007
20.5k cit.
4
Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation
Genome biology|2011
16.7k cit.
5
UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection
Bioinformatics|2011
15.5k cit.
6
An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest
Nature|2006
12.4k cit.
7
Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome
Nature|2012
11.9k cit.
8
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
Nucleic Acids Research|2021
11.7k cit.
9
Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2010
10k cit.
10
Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences
Nature Biotechnology|2013
9.4k cit.

Reagents for Gut microbiota and health

Citation-validated products used in this field

🔥 Trending

Gaining adoption fast

Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 67

GFAP (E4L7M) Mouse Chimeric Monoclonal Antibody

Cited in 13 papers
#72673$186,434
View Evidence →

⭐ Top Rated

Best all-around

Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 66

F4/80 (BM8.1) Rat Monoclonal Antibody (APC-Cy7® Conjugate)

Cited in 29 papers
#19233$389
View Evidence →
Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 67

Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase 2 (D5B9) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody

Cited in 29 papers
#8578$161,351
View Evidence →
Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 66

TCF1/TCF7 (C63D9) Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody (Pacific Blue™ Conjugate)

Cited in 25 papers
#9066$465
View Evidence →

🌟 All-Time

Most validated

QiagenEvidence 64

QIAsprint workflow for microbial DNA & RNA isolation from inhibitor rich samples

Cited in 40 papers
#47016
View Evidence →
Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 68

DKK1 Antibody

Cited in 31 papers
#4687$317
View Evidence →
Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 64

Bcl-2 (124) Mouse Monoclonal Antibody (BSA and Azide Free)

Cited in 30 papers
#17447$865
View Evidence →