Ben Nichols

12.0k citations
40 papers · 7.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 12

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.5%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
    • Gut microbiota and health
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
    • Protist diversity and phylogeny
    • Identification and Quantification in Food

Papers in

Ben Nichols

33 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics 2016 · 7.2k citations
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Peers

Ben Nichols
Comparison fields: 5 of 164
  • Ecology 3.0k
  • Molecular Biology 3.6k
  • Insect Science 628
  • Pollution 571
  • Soil Science 395
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ben Nichols, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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About Ben Nichols

Ben Nichols is a scholar working on Genetics, Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology and Surgery, having authored 40 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Inflammatory Bowel Disease (17 papers), Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Eosinophilic Esophagitis (7 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (6 papers), Microscopic Colitis (5 papers), Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies (4 papers), Digestive system and related health (4 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (3.0k citations), Molecular Biology (3.6k citations), Insect Science (628 citations), Pollution (571 citations) and Soil Science (395 citations). Ben Nichols has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include Christopher Quince, Frédéric Mahé, Tomáš Flouri, Torbjørn Rognes, Konstantinos Gerasimidis, Richard Hansen, Vera G. Fonseca, Deborah M. Power, Gary R. Carvalho and Simon Creer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Crohn s and Colitis, Clinical Nutrition, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and PLoS ONE.

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