Leaderboards/Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Alex Chklovski
Translational Research Institute
2
Francesco Beghini
Yale University
3
Damian J. Hernandez
University of Toronto
4
Jacob T. Nearing
Broad Institute
5
Mantas Sereika
Aalborg University
6
Mauricio Chalita
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
7
Samuel T. N. Aroney
Translational Research Institute
8
Jiai Liu
North West Agriculture and Forestry University
9
Ernest D. Osburn
University of Kentucky
10
Modupe S. Ayilara
North-West University

Papers

1
Publication in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY (2024) [346 citations, W4399774717]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY|2024
346 cit.
2
Oligotrophic microbes are recruited to resist multiple global change factors in agricultural subsoils
Environment International|2024
53 cit.
3
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks
Nature|2024
43 cit.
4
Publication in Nature Communications (2024) [41 citations, W4401500984]
Nature Communications|2024
41 cit.
5
Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats
Nature Microbiology|2025
30 cit.
6
Publication in Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2024) [16 citations, W4401629820]
Soil Biology and Biochemistry|2024
16 cit.
7
Publication in Nature Microbiology (2024) [14 citations, W4396862157]
Nature Microbiology|2024
14 cit.
8
Gene Family Expansions Provide Molecular Flexibility Required for Context‐Dependent Species Interactions
Ecology Letters|2025
4 cit.
9
Publication in Environmental Microbiome (2025) [3 citations, W4415156255]
Environmental Microbiome|2025
3 cit.
10
Capturing sequence ambiguity among taxa in a primer-specific manner to improve taxonomic classification of amplicon sequencing
Nucleic Acids Research|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Anton Korobeynikov
St Petersburg University
2
Qiang Chen
Southern University of Science and Technology
3
Lin Fang
BGI Group (China)
4
Chris Greening
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
5
Minjie Yao
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
6
Rewati Tappu
Heidelberg University
7
Stefan Geisen
Wageningen University & Research
8
Otto X. Cordero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9
Ning Ling
Nanjing Agricultural University
10
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Papers

1
Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions
Nature Communications|2022
1.1k cit.
2
Core species impact plant health by enhancing soil microbial cooperation and network complexity during community coalescence
Soil Biology and Biochemistry|2023
245 cit.
3
Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health
The ISME Journal|2022
178 cit.
4
Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments
Nature Communications|2022
132 cit.
5
Synthetic community derived from grafted watermelon rhizosphere provides protection for ungrafted watermelon against Fusarium oxysporum via microbial synergistic effects
Microbiome|2024
116 cit.
6
Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria
Nature Microbiology|2023
114 cit.
7
Microbial habitat specificity largely affects microbial co-occurrence patterns and functional profiles in wetland soils
Geoderma|2022
95 cit.
8
Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
Nature|2023
86 cit.
9
Nematodes as suppressors and facilitators of plant performance
New Phytologist|2023
80 cit.
10
Interactive effects of global change drivers as determinants of the link between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Global Change Biology|2022
79 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Rob Knight
University of California San Diego
2
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
3
Koichiro Tamura
Tokyo Metropolitan University
4
Pavel A. Pevzner
University of California San Diego
5
Noah Fierer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
6
James M. Tiedje
Michigan State University
7
Max A. Alekseyev
George Washington University
8
Rudolf Amann
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
9
Jillian F. Banfield
Planetary Science Institute
10
Philip Hugenholtz
Ecogenomics (Japan)

Papers

1
MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2013
47.9k cit.
2
MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2016
45.6k cit.
3
MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2011
40.3k cit.
4
MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2018
38.8k cit.
5
The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
Nucleic Acids Research|2012
34k cit.
6
MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2007
28.8k cit.
7
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
Journal of Computational Biology|2012
27.2k cit.
8
MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2021
22.1k cit.
9
UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection
Bioinformatics|2011
15.5k cit.
10
Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.
Molecular Biology and Evolution|1993
11.4k cit.

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