Ashley E. Franks

17.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
167 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

Ashley E. Franks is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashley E. Franks has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Environmental Engineering, 37 papers in Ecology and 35 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ashley E. Franks's work include Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (45 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (29 papers). Ashley E. Franks is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (45 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (29 papers). Ashley E. Franks collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Ashley E. Franks's co-authors include Derek R. Lovley, Kelly P. Nevin, Zarath M. Summers, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Trevor L. Woodard, Ching Leang, Caixian Tang, David Ryan, Robert P. Ryan and Kieran J. Germaine and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ashley E. Franks

163 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Bacterial endophytes: recent developments and applications

2007 1.0k citations Ashley E. Franks et al. profile →
Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria

2010 805 citations Zarath M. Summers, Ching Leang et al. Science profile →
Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds

2010 796 citations Kelly P. Nevin, Ashley E. Franks et al. profile →
Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks

2011 720 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Kelly P. Nevin et al. profile →
Geobacter

2011 583 citations Derek R. Lovley, Nikhil S. Malvankar et al. profile →
Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds from Carbon Dioxide Is Catalyzed by a Diversity of Acetogenic Microorganisms

2011 545 citations Kelly P. Nevin, Ashley E. Franks et al. profile →
Potential for Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Wastewater Digester Aggregates

2011 471 citations Nikhil S. Malvankar, Ashley E. Franks et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ashley E. Franks	6.3k	3.2k	2.3k	2.0k	1.9k	167	12.8k
Kazuya Watanabe	5.1k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	3.1k 1.4×	492 0.2×	3.2k 1.7×	297	12.5k
Meiying Xu	1.7k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	874 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	237	7.7k
Steven D. Siciliano	2.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.5×	232	11.2k
Rosa Krajmalnik‐Brown	2.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	6.5k 2.9×	204 0.1×	2.2k 1.1×	147	14.6k
Daniel R. Bond	10.3k 1.6×	6.6k 2.1×	1.4k 0.6×	122 0.1×	1.1k 0.6×	84	12.1k
Hauke Harms	1.6k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	5.3k 2.4×	1.8k 0.9×	6.0k 3.1×	368	17.1k
Weiwei Cai	1.2k 0.2×	4.6k 1.4×	546 0.2×	334 0.2×	936 0.5×	74	10.1k
Caroline M. Plugge	2.6k 0.4×	541 0.2×	4.7k 2.1×	338 0.2×	2.4k 1.2×	152	12.1k
Alfons J. M. Stams	6.3k 1.0×	997 0.3×	8.1k 3.6×	953 0.5×	8.3k 4.3×	434	29.0k
Xiaoyan Li	1.3k 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	297 0.1×	5.9k 3.0×	343	13.8k

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Jin, Jian, et al.. (2025). Long-term free-air-CO2-enrichment increases carbon distribution in the stable fraction in the deep layer of non-clay soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 179003–179003.

Krohn, Christian, Jian Jin, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, et al.. (2025). Microbial aerobic degradation of highly chlorinated pollutants in liquid media since 1967: A review of taxonomy and degradation efficiencies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100034–100034. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Zhenhua, Yansheng Li, Xiaojing Hu, et al.. (2025). Microbial mediation of soil organic carbon fractions and its feedback to long-term climate change. Plant and Soil. 513(1). 353–365.

Li, Yansheng, Zhenhua Yu, Haidong Gu, et al.. (2025). Long-term warming offsets the beneficial effect of elevated CO2 on mineral associated organic carbon in Mollisols. The Science of The Total Environment. 966. 178698–178698. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaojuan, P. W. G. Sale, Corinne Celestina, et al.. (2024). Bacterial community shifts occur primarily through rhizosphere expansion in response to subsoil amendments. Environmental Microbiology. 26(3). 1512–1515. 3 indexed citations

Weng, Zhe, Peter M. Kopittke, Steffen A. Schweizer, et al.. (2024). Shining a Light on How Soil Organic Carbon Behaves at Fine Scales under Long-Term Elevated CO₂: An 8 Year Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Study. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(20). 8724–8735. 7 indexed citations

Amin, Unum, et al.. (2024). Effects of gastric bypass bariatric surgery on gut microbiota in patients with morbid obesity. Gut Microbes. 16(1). 2427312–2427312. 4 indexed citations

Hosie, Suzanne, Gayathri K. Balasuriya, Rhiannon T. Filippone, et al.. (2024). Faster Gastrointestinal Transit, Reduced Small Intestinal Smooth Muscle Tone and Dysmotility in the Nlgn3R451C Mouse Model of Autism. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(2). 832–832. 3 indexed citations

Cho, Hyun‐Jung, et al.. (2023). Quantitative Spatial Analysis of Neuroligin-3 mRNA Expression in the Enteric Nervous System Reveals a Potential Role in Neuronal–Glial Synapses and Reduced Expression in Nlgn3R451C Mice. Biomolecules. 13(7). 1063–1063. 5 indexed citations

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Thomas, Colleen J., et al.. (2023). Exploring the antibiogram of soil isolates from an indian hospital precinct: link to antibiotic usage. BMC Research Notes. 16(1). 173–173. 1 indexed citations

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Rose, J., et al.. (2023). Exploring the Diversity and Antibiogram of the Soil around a Tertiary Care Hospital and a University Precinct in Southern India: A Pilot Study. Soil Systems. 7(2). 45–45.

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Wood, Jennifer L., Colleen J. Thomas, Tania F. de Koning‐Ward, et al.. (2023). Altered gastrointestinal tract structure and microbiome following cerebral malaria infection. Parasitology Research. 122(3). 789–799. 3 indexed citations

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Gibb, Heloise, et al.. (2022). The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 31(4). 350–368. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Ya-Jou, Pok Man Leung, Jennifer L. Wood, et al.. (2021). Metabolic flexibility allows bacterial habitat generalists to become dominant in a frequently disturbed ecosystem. The ISME Journal. 15(10). 2986–3004. 159 indexed citations

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Berkowitz, Oliver, et al.. (2019). Direct comparison of Arabidopsis gene expression reveals different responses to melatonin versus auxin. BMC Plant Biology. 19(1). 567–567. 40 indexed citations

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Hosie, Suzanne, Melina Ellis, Gayathri K. Balasuriya, et al.. (2019). Gastrointestinal dysfunction in patients and mice expressing the autism‐associated R451C mutation in neuroligin‐3. Autism Research. 12(7). 1043–1056. 63 indexed citations

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Liu, Junjie, Zhenhua Yu, Qin Yao, et al.. (2019). Biogeographic Distribution Patterns of the Archaeal Communities Across the Black Soil Zone of Northeast China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 23–23. 26 indexed citations

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Batinovic, Steven, Daniel Rice, J. Rose, et al.. (2019). Bacteriophages in Natural and Artificial Environments. Pathogens. 8(3). 100–100. 161 indexed citations

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Lovley, Derek R., et al.. (2010). Stimulating the Anaerobic Degradation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Sediments by Providing an Electron Acceptor. Environmental Microbiology. 12. 1 indexed citations

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Summers, Zarath M., et al.. (2010). Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria. Science. 330(6009). 1413–1415. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

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