Alexander Crits‐Christoph

7.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
36 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alexander Crits‐Christoph is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Crits‐Christoph has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alexander Crits‐Christoph's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Alexander Crits‐Christoph is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Alexander Crits‐Christoph collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Alexander Crits‐Christoph's co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, Spencer Diamond, Matthew R. Olm, Brian C. Thomas, Brian Firek, Michael J. Morowitz, Cristina N. Butterfield, Keith Bouma‐Gregson, Mary E. Power and Reena Debray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Crits‐Christoph

35 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Priority effects in microbiome assembly 2018 2026 2020 2023 2021 2018 2021 2021 2022 100 200 300
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.

  1. Priority effects in microbiome assembly
    2021 320 citations Reena Debray, Robin A. Herbert et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  2. Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis
    2018 304 citations Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Spencer Diamond et al. Nature profile →
  3. inStrain profiles population microdiversity from metagenomic data and sensitively detects shared microbial strains
    2021 279 citations Matthew R. Olm, Alexander Crits‐Christoph et al. profile →
  4. Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants
    2021 217 citations Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Rose S. Kantor et al. profile →
  5. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
    2022 198 citations Michael Worobey, Alexander Crits‐Christoph et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Crits‐Christoph United States 23 1.3k 1.0k 554 360 214 36 2.8k
Fares Z. Najar United States 26 1.8k 1.5× 973 0.9× 350 0.6× 442 1.2× 252 1.2× 57 3.9k
Andrea Thürmer Germany 25 1.3k 1.0× 969 0.9× 284 0.5× 342 0.9× 176 0.8× 58 2.7k
Guilherme Oliveira Brazil 37 1.4k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 294 0.5× 533 1.5× 197 0.9× 257 5.0k
Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh Switzerland 16 2.1k 1.7× 1.3k 1.2× 323 0.6× 446 1.2× 124 0.6× 36 3.8k
Suparna Mitra United Kingdom 21 2.2k 1.8× 1.4k 1.3× 328 0.6× 449 1.2× 122 0.6× 41 4.1k
Parag Vaishampayan United States 29 1.2k 1.0× 867 0.8× 162 0.3× 384 1.1× 227 1.1× 71 3.0k
Gail Ackermann United States 30 2.8k 2.2× 1.1k 1.0× 553 1.0× 673 1.9× 138 0.6× 45 5.5k
Dawn Ciulla United States 10 2.7k 2.1× 1.0k 1.0× 396 0.7× 493 1.4× 121 0.6× 13 4.4k
Kenneth D. Bruce United Kingdom 42 2.3k 1.8× 784 0.8× 487 0.9× 405 1.1× 151 0.7× 106 5.3k
Belinda C. Ferrari Australia 33 1.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.7× 326 0.6× 447 1.2× 287 1.3× 94 3.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pekar, Jonathan E., Niema Moshiri, Philippe Lemey, et al.. (2025). Recently reported SARS-CoV-2 genomes suggested to be intermediate between the two early main lineages are instead likely derived. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf008–veaf008. 2 indexed citations
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Valentin-Alvarado, Luis E., Valerie De Anda, Marie C. Schoelmerich, et al.. (2024). Asgard archaea modulate potential methanogenesis substrates in wetland soil. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6384–6384. 11 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Spencer Diamond, Basem Al-Shayeb, Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2022). A widely distributed genus of soil Acidobacteria genomically enriched in biosynthetic gene clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 70–70. 18 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander & Jotham Suez. (2022). Gut bacteria go on record. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 19(9). 557–558. 1 indexed citations
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Al-Shayeb, Basem, Marie C. Schoelmerich, Jacob West-Roberts, et al.. (2022). Borgs are giant genetic elements with potential to expand metabolic capacity. Nature. 610(7933). 731–736. 36 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Good microbes, bad genes? The dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in the human microbiome. Gut Microbes. 14(1). 2055944–2055944. 83 indexed citations
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Diamond, Spencer, Adi Lavy, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2022). Soils and sediments host Thermoplasmata archaea encoding novel copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs). The ISME Journal. 16(5). 1348–1362. 25 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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Debray, Reena, Robin A. Herbert, Alexander L. Jaffe, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(2). 122–122. 10 indexed citations
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Whitney, Oscar N., Lauren C. Kennedy, Adrian Hinkle, et al.. (2021). Sewage, Salt, Silica, and SARS-CoV-2 (4S): An Economical Kit-Free Method for Direct Capture of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(8). 4880–4888. 50 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Matthew R. Olm, Spencer Diamond, Keith Bouma‐Gregson, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2020). Soil bacterial populations are shaped by recombination and gene-specific selection across a grassland meadow. The ISME Journal. 14(7). 1834–1846. 51 indexed citations
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Chen, Lin-Xing, Raphaël Méheust, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2020). Large Freshwater Phages with the Potential to Augment Aerobic Methane Oxidation. Goldschmidt Abstracts. 389–389. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Lin-Xing, Raphaël Méheust, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2020). Large freshwater phages with the potential to augment aerobic methane oxidation. Nature Microbiology. 5(12). 1504–1515. 79 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Nicholas Bhattacharya, Matthew R. Olm, Yun S. Song, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2020). Transporter genes in biosynthetic gene clusters predict metabolite characteristics and siderophore activity. Genome Research. 31(2). 239–250. 36 indexed citations
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Diamond, Spencer, Peter Andeer, Li Zhou, et al.. (2019). Mediterranean grassland soil C–N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms. Nature Microbiology. 4(8). 1356–1367. 145 indexed citations
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Olm, Matthew R., Nicholas Bhattacharya, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2019). Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella , and fimbriae-encoding bacteria. Science Advances. 5(12). eaax5727–eaax5727. 132 indexed citations
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Li, Zhou, Qiuming Yao, Xuan Guo, et al.. (2019). Genome-Resolved Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing of Soil Microbial Communities Using 13CO2 and 13C-Methanol. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2706–2706. 28 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Spencer Diamond, Cristina N. Butterfield, Brian C. Thomas, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2018). Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis. Nature. 558(7710). 440–444. 304 indexed citations breakdown →
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McCall, Matthew N., Alexander S. Baras, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, et al.. (2016). A benchmark for microRNA quantification algorithms using the OpenArray platform. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 138–138. 4 indexed citations
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Crits‐Christoph, Alexander, Courtney K. Robinson, Bing Ma, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic and Functional Substrate Specificity for Endolithic Microbial Communities in Hyper-Arid Environments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 301–301. 45 indexed citations

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