Standout Papers

The Impact of the Gut Mic... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2013 2016 2018 2012 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View
    2012 2.7k citations José C. Clemente, Luke K. Ursell et al. Cell profile →
  2. The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks
    2013 2.6k citations Pelin Yilmaz, Laura Wegener Parfrey et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome
    2016 2.3k citations Stilianos Louca, Laura Wegener Parfrey et al. Science profile →
  4. Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems
    2018 1.2k citations Stilianos Louca, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  5. Defining the human microbiome
    2012 812 citations Luke K. Ursell, Jessica L. Metcalf et al. Nutrition Reviews profile →
  6. Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks
    2011 612 citations Laura Wegener Parfrey, Daniel J. G. Lahr et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome
    2011 526 citations Justin Kuczynski, Christian L. Lauber et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
  8. High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities
    2016 377 citations Stilianos Louca, Aliny P. F. Pires et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Immediate Impact

4 by Nobel laureates 24 from Science/Nature 74 hit
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Citing Papers

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry
2025 HitNature
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
2025 Hit
16 intermediate papers

Works of Laura Wegener Parfrey being referenced

Turning the Crown Upside Down: Gene Tree Parsimony Roots the Eukaryotic Tree of Life
2012
Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome
2011 Hit
and 5 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Laura Wegener Parfrey 8.4k 5.1k 1.8k 1.4k 1.2k 79 15.6k
Robert G. Beiko 9.4k 1.1× 4.2k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 107 16.4k
Jesse Zaneveld 6.9k 0.8× 5.0k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 35 14.1k
Matthias Horn 7.6k 0.9× 4.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 933 0.7× 662 0.5× 157 16.6k
Gerhard Thallinger 9.7k 1.2× 7.1k 1.4× 2.9k 1.7× 1.1k 0.8× 946 0.8× 105 20.5k
Anders F. Andersson 7.1k 0.8× 5.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 899 0.7× 882 0.7× 103 13.0k
Qiong Wang 9.4k 1.1× 7.0k 1.4× 3.1k 1.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 59 20.7k
Todd Z. DeSantis 11.5k 1.4× 6.3k 1.2× 2.0k 1.1× 1.9k 1.4× 2.1k 1.8× 52 21.5k
Thomas M. Schmidt 8.9k 1.1× 6.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 1.0k 0.8× 202 20.1k
Emily B. Hollister 9.6k 1.1× 7.3k 1.4× 3.1k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.4× 62 21.4k
Jason W. Sahl 8.4k 1.0× 7.5k 1.5× 2.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.2× 801 0.7× 122 20.0k

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