Alexander L. Jaffe

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 795 citations indexed

About

Alexander L. Jaffe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander L. Jaffe has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 795 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alexander L. Jaffe's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). Alexander L. Jaffe is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). Alexander L. Jaffe collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. Alexander L. Jaffe's co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, Robin A. Herbert, Mary E. Power, Reena Debray, Britt Koskella, Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Graham J. Slater, Michael E. Alfaro, Cindy J. Castelle and Simonetta Gribaldo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Alexander L. Jaffe

28 papers receiving 791 citations

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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.

Priority effects in microbiome assembly

2021 320 citations Reena Debray, Robin A. Herbert et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander L. Jaffe United States	13	387	366	128	89	86	29	795
Stephanie D. Jurburg Germany	17	304 0.8×	309 0.8×	166 1.3×	65 0.7×	194 2.3×	40	884
Karen L. Adair United States	16	361 0.9×	410 1.1×	175 1.4×	90 1.0×	35 0.4×	22	1.1k
Sandi Wong United States	6	734 1.9×	452 1.2×	114 0.9×	63 0.7×	60 0.7×	7	1.4k
Daniel Padfield United Kingdom	13	179 0.5×	414 1.1×	74 0.6×	84 0.9×	98 1.1×	32	749
Julien Barrere United States	2	230 0.6×	272 0.7×	103 0.8×	63 0.7×	28 0.3×	4	566
Andrew P. Martin United States	8	379 1.0×	339 0.9×	91 0.7×	54 0.6×	25 0.3×	14	713
Feng Zhao China	17	264 0.7×	207 0.6×	242 1.9×	52 0.6×	120 1.4×	96	1.0k
Nanxi Lu United States	11	470 1.2×	382 1.0×	103 0.8×	76 0.9×	48 0.6×	17	951
Charles G Howes Canada	6	199 0.5×	215 0.6×	142 1.1×	81 0.9×	47 0.5×	7	589
Lukas Beule Germany	17	146 0.4×	188 0.5×	227 1.8×	74 0.8×	83 1.0×	41	793

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Rapp, Josephine Z., et al.. (2025). Chemoautotrophy in subzero environments and the potential for cold-adapted Rubisco. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(6). e0060425–e0060425. 1 indexed citations

Jaffe, Alexander L., et al.. (2025). Abundant and metabolically flexible bacterial lineages underlie a vast potential for rubisco-mediated carbon fixation in the dark ocean. Genome biology. 26(1). 167–167. 1 indexed citations

Sachdeva, Rohan, Karthik Anantharaman, Shufei Lei, et al.. (2024). Diverse microbiome functions, limited temporal variation and substantial genomic conservation within sedimentary and granite rock deep underground research laboratories. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 105–105.

Jaffe, Alexander L., Noam Prywes, Patrick M. Shih, et al.. (2024). Cyanobacteria from marine oxygen-deficient zones encode both form I and form II Rubiscos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(49). e2418345121–e2418345121. 3 indexed citations

Jaffe, Alexander L. & Jillian F. Banfield. (2024). Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria. Current Biology. 34(3). R80–R81. 5 indexed citations

Valentin-Alvarado, Luis E., Sirine C. Fakra, Alexander J. Probst, et al.. (2024). Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism. Microbiome. 12(1). 15–15. 7 indexed citations

Jaffe, Alexander L., et al.. (2023). Host translation machinery is not a barrier to phages that interact with both CPR and non-CPR bacteria. mBio. 14(6). e0176623–e0176623. 3 indexed citations

Marı́n, Marı́a del Carmen, Alexander L. Jaffe, Patrick T. West, et al.. (2023). Biophysical characterization of microbial rhodopsins with DSE motif. Biophysics and Physicobiology. 20(Supplemental). n/a–n/a. 1 indexed citations

Jaffe, Alexander L., Corinne Bardot, Jonathan Colombet, et al.. (2023). Variable impact of geochemical gradients on the functional potential of bacteria, archaea, and phages from the permanently stratified Lac Pavin. Microbiome. 11(1). 14–14. 8 indexed citations

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Jaffe, Alexander L., Marie C. Schoelmerich, Lin-Xing Chen, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Incubation of Lake Water Enables Genomic Sampling of Consortia Involving Planctomycetes and Candidate Phyla Radiation Bacteria. mSystems. 7(2). e0022322–e0022322. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Lin-Xing, Alexander L. Jaffe, Adair L. Borges, et al.. (2022). Phage-encoded ribosomal protein S21 expression is linked to late-stage phage replication. ISME Communications. 2(1). 31–31. 12 indexed citations

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Megrian, Daniela, Najwa Taïb, Alexander L. Jaffe, Jillian F. Banfield, & Simonetta Gribaldo. (2022). Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 7(12). 2114–2127. 37 indexed citations

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Borges, Adair L., Yue Clare Lou, Rohan Sachdeva, et al.. (2022). Widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages may regulate translation of lytic genes. Nature Microbiology. 7(6). 918–927. 37 indexed citations

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Jaffe, Alexander L., Masae Konno, Yuma Kawasaki, et al.. (2022). Saccharibacteria harness light energy using type-1 rhodopsins that may rely on retinal sourced from microbial hosts. The ISME Journal. 16(8). 2056–2059. 18 indexed citations

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Méheust, Raphaël, Cindy J. Castelle, Alexander L. Jaffe, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2022). Conserved and lineage-specific hypothetical proteins may have played a central role in the rise and diversification of major archaeal groups. BMC Biology. 20(1). 154–154. 6 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Alexa M., Alexander L. Jaffe, Erin Nuccio, et al.. (2021). Soil Candidate Phyla Radiation Bacteria Encode Components of Aerobic Metabolism and Co-occur with Nanoarchaea in the Rare Biosphere of Rhizosphere Grassland Communities. mSystems. 6(4). e0120520–e0120520. 39 indexed citations

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Debray, Reena, Robin A. Herbert, Alexander L. Jaffe, et al.. (2021). Priority effects in microbiome assembly. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(2). 109–121. 320 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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Castelle, Cindy J., Raphaël Méheust, Alexander L. Jaffe, et al.. (2021). Protein Family Content Uncovers Lineage Relationships and Bacterial Pathway Maintenance Mechanisms in DPANN Archaea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 660052–660052. 16 indexed citations

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Jaffe, Alexander L., Cindy J. Castelle, Paula B. Matheus Carnevali, Simonetta Gribaldo, & Jillian F. Banfield. (2020). The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation. BMC Biology. 18(1). 69–69. 44 indexed citations

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