Benjamin J. Koch

5.1k citations

47 papers · 2.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Soil Science top 1%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Ecology top 1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Papers in

Ecology 32
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 25
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 10
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology 10
Soil Science 9
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 9

Co-authors: Bruce A. Hungate Egbert Schwartz Margaret A. Palmer Ember M. Morrissey Rebecca L. Mau Kelly L. Hondula Paul Dijkstra Michaela Hayer
Journals: The ISME Journal (9 papers)Nature Communications (3 papers)Elementa Science of the Anthropocene (2 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2 papers)Freshwater Science (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States New Zealand United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Koch

47 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many 2023 · 94 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 The ISME Journal
2014 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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1	MISIP: a data standard for the reuse and reproducibility of any stable isotope probing-derived nucleic acid sequence and experiment GigaScience ·三佐子リット, Elisha M. Wood‐Charlson, 立脇和夫, Benjamin J. Koch, Kathleen Beilsmith, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Matthew Kellom, Chris Hunter, Ramona Walls, Lynn M. Schriml, Roland C. Wilhelm	2024	3
2	Predicting sepsis mortality into an era of pandrug-resistant E. coli through modeling SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Benjamin J. Koch, Daniel E. Park, Bruce A. Hungate, Cindy M. Liu, G. Sridevi, Lance B. Price	2024	2
3	Gut microbiome predictors of Escherichia coli sequence type 131 colonization and loss EBioMedicine ·Daniel E. Park, Maliha Aziz, Benjamin J. Koch, 敏雄中山, Connie Clabots, James R. Johnson, Lance B. Price, Cindy M. Liu	2023	2
4	Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many The ISME Journal ·Bram WG Stone, Paul Dijkstra, Brianna Finley, Mitchell Guanzon, Megan M. Foley, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Benjamin J. Koch, Junhui Li, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, 郁美田中, Rebecca L. Mau, Jane C. Marks, 王玲娟, Ember M. Morrissey, Jeffrey Propster, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Alicia M. Purcell, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate Hit paper breakdown →	2023	94
5	The predictive power of phylogeny on growth rates in soil bacterial communities ISME Communications ·Xiaoxi Xia, 林純, Rebecca L. Mau, Michaela Hayer, Egbert Schwartz, Bram WG Stone, Kirsten Hofmockel, Benjamin J. Koch, Alicia M. Purcell, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Chao Wang, Bruce A. Hungate, Ember M. Morrissey	2023	14
6	Nutrients strengthen density dependence of per-capita growth and mortality rates in the soil bacterial community Oecologia ·Bram WG Stone, Steven J. Blazewicz, Benjamin J. Koch, Paul Dijkstra, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Rebecca L. Mau, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate	2023	4
7	Microbial growth under drought is confined to distinct taxa and modified by potential future climate conditions Nature Communications ·Rustam Bekishev, Jörg Schnecker, Alberto Canarini, Lucia Fuchslueger, Benjamin J. Koch, Bram WG Stone, Bruce A. Hungate, Bela Hausmann, Hannes Schmidt, Andreas Schaumberger, Michael Bahn, Christina Kaiser, Andreas Richter	2023	70
8	Active populations and growth of soil microorganisms are framed by mean annual precipitation in three California annual grasslands Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Megan M. Foley, Steven J. Blazewicz, Karis J. McFarlane, Alex Greenlon, Michaela Hayer, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Benjamin J. Koch, 王玲娟, Keith D. Morrison, Ember M. Morrissey, Bruce A. Hungate, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge	2022	15
9	Microbes on decomposing litter in streams: entering on the leaf or colonizing in the water? The ISME Journal ·Michaela Hayer, Adam S. Wymore, Bruce A. Hungate, Egbert Schwartz, Benjamin J. Koch, Jane C. Marks	2021	28
10	Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth The ISME Journal ·Brianna Finley, Rebecca L. Mau, Michaela Hayer, Bram WG Stone, Ember M. Morrissey, Benjamin J. Koch, Craig Rasmussen, Paul Dijkstra, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate	2021	44
11	Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community Nature Communications ·Bram WG Stone, Junhui Li, Benjamin J. Koch, Steven J. Blazewicz, Paul Dijkstra, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Rebecca L. Mau, Ember M. Morrissey, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate	2021	110
12	Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil The ISME Journal ·Steven J. Blazewicz, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Erin Nuccio, Ember M. Morrissey, Eoin Brodie, Egbert Schwartz, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone	2020	80
13	Predictive genomic traits for bacterial growth in culture versus actual growth in soil The ISME Journal ·Junhui Li, Rebecca L. Mau, Paul Dijkstra, Benjamin J. Koch, Egbert Schwartz, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Ember M. Morrissey, Steven J. Blazewicz, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Bram WG Stone, Michaela Hayer, Bruce A. Hungate	2019	71
14	Microbial Taxon-Specific Isotope Incorporation with DNA Quantitative Stable Isotope Probing Methods in molecular biology ·Brianna Finley, Michaela Hayer, Rebecca L. Mau, Alicia M. Purcell, Benjamin J. Koch, Natasja van Gestel, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate	2019	9
15	Taxonomic patterns in the nitrogen assimilation of soil prokaryotes Environmental Microbiology ·Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, Benjamin J. Koch, Michaela Hayer, Bruce A. Hungate	2018	37
16	Colonizing opportunistic pathogens (COPs): The beasts in all of us PLoS Pathogens ·Lance B. Price, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Gregg S. Davis, Cindy M. Liu	2017	65
17	Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity The ISME Journal ·Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, J. Gregory Caporaso, Paul Dijkstra, Natasja van Gestel, Benjamin J. Koch, Cindy M. Liu, Michaela Hayer, Theresa A. McHugh, Jane C. Marks, Lance B. Price, Bruce A. Hungate	2016	126
18	Stable isotope probing with 18O-water to investigate microbial growth and death in environmental samples Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·Egbert Schwartz, Michaela Hayer, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Theresa A. McHugh, Dauda Leviticus Adiga, Ember M. Morrissey, Yaao Yang	2016	31
19	Nitrogen Removal by Stormwater Management Structures: A Data Synthesis JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association ·Benjamin J. Koch, D. Dudley Williams, Muriel Gevrey, Lisa Wainger, Margaret A. Palmer	2014	78
20	Hydrologic control of nitrogen removal, storage, and export in a mountain stream Limnology and Oceanography ·Robert Hall, Michelle A. Baker, Christopher D. Arp, Benjamin J. Koch	2009	76

About Benjamin J. Koch

Benjamin J. Koch is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science, Molecular Medicine, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 47 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (25 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (10 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (10 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (4 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (725 citations), Ecology (1.5k citations), Environmental Chemistry (335 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (285 citations) and Molecular Medicine (116 citations). Benjamin J. Koch has collaborated with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Bruce A. Hungate, Egbert Schwartz, Margaret A. Palmer, Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Kelly L. Hondula, Paul Dijkstra, Michaela Hayer, Jane C. Marks and Lance B. Price. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Nature Communications, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Freshwater Science.

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