Brett J. Baker

19.4k citations

89 papers · 10.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Environmental Chemistry top 0.1%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Mine drainage and remediation techniques
Ecology top 0.1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Papers in

Environmental Chemistry 46
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 33
- Mine drainage and remediation techniques 11
Ecology 67
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 64
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 6

Co-authors: Jillian F. Banfield Gregory J. Dick Andreas Teske Kiley W. Seitz Brian C. Thomas Nina Dombrowski Cassandre Sara Lazar Karthik Anantharaman
Journals: The ISME Journal (10 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (9 papers)Nature Microbiology (9 papers)Nature Communications (8 papers)Environmental Microbiology (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Germany

In The Last Decade

Brett J. Baker

86 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea 2020 · 335 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2020 Nature Microbiology
2017 Nature
2016 Nature Microbiology
2003 FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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1	Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling Nature Microbiology ·Stephan Köstlbacher, Jolien J. E. Van Hooff, Kassiani Panagiotou, Daniel Tamarit, Valerie De Anda, Kathryn E. Appler, Brett J. Baker, Thijs J. G. Ettema	2026	2
2	Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms The ISME Journal ·Daniel J. Acosta, Delbert S. Barth, Julie Bondy, Kathryn E. Appler, Valerie De Anda, Phuoc H. T. Ngo, Hal S. Alper, Brett J. Baker, Edward M. Marcotte, Andrew D. Ellington	2025	0
3	Metabolic capacity is maintained despite shifts in microbial diversity in estuary sediments ISME Communications ·Marguerite V. Langwig, Sunny L. Sneed, Anna Rasmussen, Kiley W. Seitz, Jessica A. Lee, Karthik Anantharaman, Valerie De Anda, Christopher Francis, Brett J. Baker	2025	0
4	Globally distributed marine Gemmatimonadota have unique genomic potentials Microbiome ·Xianzhe Gong, Le Xu, Marguerite V. Langwig, Zhiyi Chen, Shujie Huang, Duo Zhao, Lei Su, Yan Zhang, Christopher Francis, Jihua Liu, Jiangtao Li, Brett J. Baker	2024	12
5	Expansion of Armatimonadota through marine sediment sequencing describes two classes with unique ecological roles ISME Communications ·John D Carlton, Marguerite V. Langwig, Xianzhe Gong, Emily Aguilar-Pine, Mirna Vázquez‐Rosas‐Landa, Kiley W. Seitz, Brett J. Baker, Valerie De Anda	2023	26
6	New globally distributed bacterial phyla within the FCB superphylum Nature Communications ·Xianzhe Gong, Álvaro Rodríguez del Río, Xu Le, Zhiyi Chen, Marguerite V. Langwig, Lei Su, Mingxue Sun, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Valerie De Anda, Brett J. Baker	2022	13
7	Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics reveal broadly distributed, active, novel methanotrophs in the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone and in the marine water column FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Kathryn L. Howe, Kiley W. Seitz, Lauren Gillies Campbell, Brett J. Baker, J. Cameron Thrash, Nancy N. Rabalais, Mary-Kate Rogener, Samantha B. Joye, Olivia U. Mason	2022	8
8	Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups The ISME Journal ·Marguerite V. Langwig, Valerie De Anda, Nina Dombrowski, Kiley W. Seitz, Ian M. Rambo, Chris Greening, Andreas Teske, Brett J. Baker	2021	106
9	Brockarchaeota, a novel archaeal phylum with unique and versatile carbon cycling pathways Nature Communications ·Valerie De Anda, Lin-Xing Chen, Nina Dombrowski, Zheng‐Shuang Hua, Hongchen Jiang, Jillian F. Banfield, Wen‐Jun Li, Brett J. Baker	2021	41
10	Hydrocarbon degradation and response of seafloor sediment bacterial community in the northern Gulf of Mexico to light Louisiana sweet crude oil The ISME Journal ·Hernando P. Bacosa, Deana L. Erdner, B. E. Rosenheim, Prateek Shetty, Kiley W. Seitz, Brett J. Baker, Zhanfei Liu	2018	123
11	Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction The ISME Journal ·Kiley W. Seitz, Cassandre Sara Lazar, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, Andreas Teske, Brett J. Baker	2016	131
12	A new view of the tree of life Nature Microbiology ·Laura Hug, Brett J. Baker, Karthik Anantharaman, Christopher T. Brown, Alexander J. Probst, Cindy J. Castelle, Cristina N. Butterfield, Alex W Hernsdorf, Yuki Amano, Kotaro Ise, Yohey Suzuki, Natasha K. Dudek, David A. Relman, Kari Finstad, Ronald Amundson, Brian C. Thomas, Jillian F. Banfield Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1282
13	Culture Independent Genomic Comparisons Reveal Environmental Adaptations for Altiarchaeales Frontiers in Microbiology ·Jordan T. Bird, Brett J. Baker, Alexander J. Probst, Mircea Podar, Karen G. Lloyd	2016	22
14	Genomic resolution of linkages in carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling among widespread estuary sediment bacteria Microbiome ·Brett J. Baker, Cassandre Sara Lazar, Andreas Teske, Gregory J. Dick	2015	299
15	Microbial iron uptake as a mechanism for dispersing iron from deep-sea hydrothermal vents Nature Communications ·Meng Li, Brandy M. Toner, Brett J. Baker, J. A. Breier, Cody S. Sheik, Gregory J. Dick	2014	81
16	Gene Transfer from Bacteria and Archaea Facilitated Evolution of an Extremophilic Eukaryote Science ·Gerald Schönknecht, Wei‐Hua Chen, Chad M. Ternes, Guillaume G. Barbier, Roshan P. Shrestha, Mario Stanke, Andrea Bräutigam, Brett J. Baker, Jillian F. Banfield, R. Michael Garavito, Kevin M. Carr, Curtis G. Wilkerson, Stefan A. Rensing, David Gagneul, Nicholas E. Dickenson, Christine Oesterhelt, Martin J. Lercher, Andreas P.M. Weber	2013	338
17	EMIRGE: reconstruction of full-length ribosomal genes from microbial community short read sequencing data Genome biology ·Christopher S. Miller, Brett J. Baker, Brian C. Thomas, Steven W. Singer, Jillian F. Banfield	2011	272
18	Community genomic and proteomic analysis of chemoautotrophic, iron-oxidizing "Leptospirillum rubarum" (Group II) and Leptospirillum ferrodiazotrophum (Group III) in acid mine drainage biofilms Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman, Vincent J. Denef, Steven W. Singer, Nathan C. VerBerkmoes, Mark Lefsrud, Ryan Mueller, Gregory J. Dick, Christine Sun, Korin E. Wheeler, Adam Zelma, Brett J. Baker, Loren Hauser, Miriam Land, Manesh Shah, Michael P. Thelen, Robert L. Hettich, Jillian F. Banfield	2009	6
19	Community-wide analysis of microbial genome signatures Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Gregory J. Dick, Anders F. Andersson, Brett J. Baker, Sheri L. Simmons, Brian C. Thomas, Alexis P Yelton, Jillian F. Banfield	2009	1
20	Extremely Acidophilic Protists from Acid Mine Drainage Host Rickettsiales -Lineage Endosymbionts That Have Intervening Sequences in Their 16S rRNA Genes Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Brett J. Baker, Philip Hugenholtz, Scott C. Dawson, Jillian F. Banfield	2003	73

About Brett J. Baker

Brett J. Baker is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution and Oceanography, having authored 89 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (64 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (51 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (33 papers), Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (18 papers), Mine drainage and remediation techniques (11 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (3.1k citations), Ecology (5.5k citations), Molecular Biology (5.4k citations), Pollution (876 citations) and Geochemistry and Petrology (315 citations). Brett J. Baker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, Gregory J. Dick, Andreas Teske, Kiley W. Seitz, Brian C. Thomas, Nina Dombrowski, Cassandre Sara Lazar, Karthik Anantharaman, Gene W. Tyson and Thijs J. G. Ettema. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications and Environmental Microbiology.

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