Alex D. Thomas

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alex D. Thomas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex D. Thomas has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alex D. Thomas's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers). Alex D. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers). Alex D. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Alex D. Thomas's co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Edward M. Rubin, Natalia Mikhailova, David Páez-Espino, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Marcel Huntemann, T. B. K. Reddy and Dimitri Stamatis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and mBio.

In The Last Decade

Alex D. Thomas

7 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Uncovering Earth’s virome

2016 719 citations David Páez-Espino, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex D. Thomas United States	7	745	627	333	132	119	7	1.1k
Akbar Adjie Pratama Netherlands	10	914 1.2×	514 0.8×	384 1.2×	195 1.5×	155 1.3×	15	1.2k
Yosuke Nishimura Japan	15	1.0k 1.4×	718 1.1×	305 0.9×	130 1.0×	140 1.2×	31	1.4k
Natalie Solonenko United States	17	1.2k 1.6×	504 0.8×	461 1.4×	161 1.2×	203 1.7×	25	1.3k
Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta United States	6	612 0.8×	378 0.6×	212 0.6×	145 1.1×	99 0.8×	8	839
Elina Roine Finland	24	866 1.2×	566 0.9×	794 2.4×	240 1.8×	160 1.3×	36	1.6k
Cristina Howard‐Varona United States	13	1.2k 1.6×	534 0.9×	344 1.0×	156 1.2×	176 1.5×	19	1.3k
Susanne Erdmann Germany	18	526 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	190 0.6×	81 0.6×	81 0.7×	34	1.4k
Eric Marinier Canada	5	288 0.4×	454 0.7×	135 0.4×	112 0.8×	124 1.0×	6	970
Philip Arevalo United States	14	456 0.6×	365 0.6×	138 0.4×	114 0.9×	106 0.9×	23	875
Bahador Nosrat United States	8	566 0.8×	657 1.0×	170 0.5×	90 0.7×	46 0.4×	8	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex D. Thomas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex D. Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex D. Thomas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex D. Thomas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex D. Thomas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex D. Thomas. Alex D. Thomas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Keren, Ray, Raphaël Méheust, Joanne M. Santini, et al.. (2022). Global genomic analysis of microbial biotransformation of arsenic highlights the importance of arsenic methylation in environmental and human microbiomes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 20. 559–572. 11 indexed citations

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Carnevali, Paula B. Matheus, Adi Lavy, Alex D. Thomas, et al.. (2021). Meanders as a scaling motif for understanding of floodplain soil microbiome and biogeochemical potential at the watershed scale. Microbiome. 9(1). 121–121. 19 indexed citations

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Jaffe, Alexander L., Alex D. Thomas, Christine He, et al.. (2021). Patterns of Gene Content and Co-occurrence Constrain the Evolutionary Path toward Animal Association in Candidate Phyla Radiation Bacteria. mBio. 12(4). e0052121–e0052121. 27 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Supratim, Dimitri Stamatis, Galina Ovchinnikova, et al.. (2016). Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.6: data updates and feature enhancements. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D446–D456. 107 indexed citations

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Páez-Espino, David, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, et al.. (2016). Uncovering Earth’s virome. Nature. 536(7617). 425–430. 719 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reddy, T. B. K., Alex D. Thomas, Dimitri Stamatis, et al.. (2014). The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.5: a metadata management system based on a four level (meta)genome project classification. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D1099–D1106. 233 indexed citations

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Manilal, Aseer, et al.. (2010). Role of sponge associated actinomycetes in the marine phosphorous biogeochemical cycles.. American-Asian-Journal of agricultural & environmental sciences. 8(3). 253–256. 9 indexed citations

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