Benjamin H. Good

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin H. Good is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin H. Good has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Benjamin H. Good's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (25 papers), Gut microbiota and health (12 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers). Benjamin H. Good is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (25 papers), Gut microbiota and health (12 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers). Benjamin H. Good collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Benjamin H. Good's co-authors include Michael M. Desai, Aaron Clauset, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Oskar Hallatschek, Michael J. McDonald, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Richard E. Lenski, Ivana Cvijović, Nandita R. Garud and Katherine S. Pollard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin H. Good

34 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Performance of modularity maximization in practical contexts

2010 622 citations Benjamin H. Good et al. profile →
The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations

2017 402 citations Benjamin H. Good, Michael J. McDonald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin H. Good United States	19	1.0k	971	429	393	176	35	2.2k
Sandeep Krishna India	32	672 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	160 0.4×	225 0.6×	309 1.8×	87	2.5k
Maximino Aldana Mexico	20	446 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	168 0.4×	346 0.9×	40 0.2×	38	2.1k
Edo Kussell United States	22	1.3k 1.3×	1.9k 2.0×	361 0.8×	111 0.3×	267 1.5×	43	2.8k
György Barabás Hungary	21	490 0.5×	250 0.3×	456 1.1×	189 0.5×	580 3.3×	86	2.1k
Gábor Balázsi United States	32	1.1k 1.1×	3.3k 3.4×	74 0.2×	213 0.5×	242 1.4×	84	4.1k
Joshua V. Ross Australia	28	449 0.4×	421 0.4×	89 0.2×	133 0.3×	500 2.8×	118	2.5k
Bärbel Finkenstädt United Kingdom	24	498 0.5×	593 0.6×	78 0.2×	130 0.3×	462 2.6×	57	2.9k
Arend Hintze United States	16	244 0.2×	434 0.4×	311 0.7×	78 0.2×	101 0.6×	78	1.2k
Eric D. Kelsic United States	9	598 0.6×	650 0.7×	181 0.4×	88 0.2×	197 1.1×	12	1.3k
Avigdor Eldar Israel	25	838 0.8×	2.4k 2.5×	88 0.2×	95 0.2×	324 1.8×	43	3.1k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Good, Benjamin H., Ami S. Bhatt, & Michael J. McDonald. (2025). Unraveling the tempo and mode of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Trends in Microbiology. 33(8). 853–865. 6 indexed citations

Xue, Katherine S., Jamie Lopez Bernal, Jean C. C. Vila, et al.. (2025). Competition for shared resources increases dependence on initial population size during coalescence of gut microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2322440122–e2322440122. 1 indexed citations

Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2024). Quantifying the adaptive landscape of commensal gut bacteria using high-resolution lineage tracking. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1605–1605. 6 indexed citations

Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2024). Predicting the first steps of evolution in randomly assembled communities. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8495–8495. 4 indexed citations

Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2024). Linkage equilibrium between rare mutations. Genetics. 228(3). 2 indexed citations

Vasquez, Kimberly S., et al.. (2023). Within-host evolution of the gut microbiome. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 71. 102258–102258. 18 indexed citations

Ascensao, Joao A, Kelly M. Wetmore, Benjamin H. Good, Adam P. Arkin, & Oskar Hallatschek. (2023). Quantifying the local adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community. Nature Communications. 14(1). 248–248. 30 indexed citations

Good, Benjamin H.. (2022). Linkage disequilibrium between rare mutations. Genetics. 220(4). 17 indexed citations

Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2022). Population genetics of polymorphism and divergence in rapidly evolving populations. Genetics. 221(4). 8 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2022). Emergent evolutionary forces in spatial models of luminal growth and their application to the human gut microbiota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(28). e2114931119–e2114931119. 21 indexed citations

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Ho, Po-Yi, Benjamin H. Good, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2022). Competition for fluctuating resources reproduces statistics of species abundance over time across wide-ranging microbiotas. eLife. 11. 40 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H., Nandita R. Garud, Stephen Martis, et al.. (2021). Longitudinal linked-read sequencing reveals ecological and evolutionary responses of a human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment. Genome Research. 31(8). 1433–1446. 60 indexed citations

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Garud, Nandita R., Benjamin H. Good, Oskar Hallatschek, & Katherine S. Pollard. (2019). Evolutionary dynamics of bacteria in the gut microbiome within and across hosts. PLoS Biology. 17(1). e3000102–e3000102. 206 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H., Stephen Martis, & Oskar Hallatschek. (2018). Adaptation limits ecological diversification and promotes ecological tinkering during the competition for substitutable resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). E10407–E10416. 41 indexed citations

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Cvijović, Ivana, Benjamin H. Good, & Michael M. Desai. (2018). The Effect of Strong Purifying Selection on Genetic Diversity. Genetics. 209(4). 1235–1278. 164 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H. & Michael M. Desai. (2016). Evolution of Mutation Rates in Rapidly Adapting Asexual Populations. Genetics. 204(3). 1249–1266. 34 indexed citations

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Rice, Daniel P., Benjamin H. Good, & Michael M. Desai. (2015). The Evolutionarily Stable Distribution of Fitness Effects. Genetics. 200(1). 321–329. 24 indexed citations

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Cvijović, Ivana, Benjamin H. Good, Elizabeth R. Jerison, & Michael M. Desai. (2015). Fate of a mutation in a fluctuating environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(36). E5021–8. 86 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H., Aleksandra M. Walczak, Richard A. Neher, & Michael M. Desai. (2014). Genetic Diversity in the Interference Selection Limit. PLoS Genetics. 10(3). e1004222–e1004222. 69 indexed citations

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Good, Benjamin H. & Michael M. Desai. (2014). The Impact of Macroscopic Epistasis on Long-Term Evolutionary Dynamics. Genetics. 199(1). 177–190. 48 indexed citations

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