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Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jordan Peccia
Yale University
99
2
Mak A. Saito
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
93
3
Samraat Pawar
Imperial College London
89
4
Jeremy S. Webb
University of Southampton
87
5
Karthik Anantharaman
University of Wisconsin–Madison
86
6
Steven Allison
University of California, Irvine
84
7
Jose V. Lopez
Nova Southeastern University
79
8
Fei Li
Hunan University
79
9
Zheng Gao
Shandong Agricultural University
76
10
Carmine Guarino
University of Sannio
69

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Wyatt Arnold
Yale University
99
2
Yu‐Xiao Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
65
3
Dandan Xu
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
62
4
Rishi Bhandari
Biological Control of Insects Research Laboratory
62
5
Jie Liu
Tibet University
59
6
Jiranan Pattano
Prince of Songkla University
59
7
Zivile Kondrotaite
Aalborg University
59
8
Qing Ma
Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
58
9
Shangdu Zhang
Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences
56
10
Rafael R. Segura Muñoz
Loewe Center for Synthetic Microbiology
54

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Eric Kemen
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
99
2
Anindita Chakraborty
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
93
3
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Washington University in St. Louis
90
4
Philip S. Poole
University of Oxford
80
5
Konrad J. Domig
BOKU University
79
6
Diana R. Nemergut
Duke University
79
7
Sean M. Schaeffer
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
77
8
Matthew D. Wallenstein
Colorado State University
73
9
Mona N. Högberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
73
10
Alain F. Plante
University of Pennsylvania
66

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil
Frontiers in Microbiology|2012
1.4k cit.
2
Microbial Hub Taxa Link Host and Abiotic Factors to Plant Microbiome Variation
PLoS Biology|2016
1.4k cit.
3
Recognition and Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides by Two Human Gut Symbionts
PLoS Biology|2011
862 cit.
4
Microbial responses to multi-factor climate change: effects on soil enzymes
Frontiers in Microbiology|2013
248 cit.
5
Shaping the leaf microbiota: plant–microbe–microbe interactions
Journal of Experimental Botany|2020
246 cit.
6
Role of root microbiota in plant productivity
Journal of Experimental Botany|2015
226 cit.
7
Biochemical studies of three Saccharomyces cerevisiae acyl-CoA synthetases, Faa1p, Faa2p, and Faa3p.
Journal of Biological Chemistry|1994
128 cit.
8
Complementation of Saccharomycescerevisiae Strains Containing Fatty Acid Activation Gene (FAA) Deletions with a Mammalian Acyl-CoA Synthetase
Journal of Biological Chemistry|1995
65 cit.
9
Intrinsic disorder in elicitin-like effectors: Molecular shields in the arms race of biotrophic pathogens
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
0 cit.

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