Brian C. Thomas

23.4k citations
116 papers · 15.1k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 60
  • Ecology top 0.05%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 55
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 15
    • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 11
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 56
    • Gut microbiota and health 15
    • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 10
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 9
  • Pollution top 0.5%
    • Probiotics and Fermented Foods 10

Brian C. Thomas

115 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for sec...30420122026201620214008001.2k

Peers

Brian C. Thomas
Comparison fields: 5 of 190
  • Ecology 7.7k
  • Environmental Chemistry 2.5k
  • Molecular Biology 9.6k
  • Pollution 1.3k
  • Endocrinology 413
Replace Alexander J. Probst with:
Alexander J. Probst Germany
Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera Spain
Karthik Anantharaman United States
Anders F. Andersson Sweden
Joy D. Van Nostrand United States
Gene W. Tyson Australia
Christopher T. Brown United States
Søren J. Sørensen Denmark
Zhili He China
Itai Sharon United States
Brian C. Thomas relative to Alexander J. Probst Germany Alexander J. Probst's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×1.5×1.9×
Alexander J. Probst · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Brian C. Thomas

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Brian C. Thomas's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Brian C. Thomas with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Brian C. Thomas more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Brian C. Thomas

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Brian C. Thomas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Brian C. Thomas. The network helps show where Brian C. Thomas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Brian C. Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Brian C. Thomas Line = papers co-authored together Brian C. Thomas links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20236
2 202220
3 20221
4 20204
5 20208
6 202024
7 201952
8 2019134
9 2019145
10
Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cyclebreakdown →
2018295
11 201829
12 201872
13 2017105
14
A new view of the tree of lifebreakdown →
20161282
15
New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbesbreakdown →
2016409
16 2015160
17 201527
18 2011272
19
Community-wide analysis of microbial genome signatures
20091
20
Polynucleotide biology : the chemical basis of biological systems
19801

About Brian C. Thomas

Brian C. Thomas is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology, having authored 116 papers that have together received 15.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (56 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (55 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (7.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.5k citations) and Molecular Biology (9.6k citations). Brian C. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Jillian F. Banfield, Itai Sharon, Cindy J. Castelle, Christopher T. Brown, Laura Hug, Alexander J. Probst, Kenneth H. Williams, Kelly Wrighton, Michael Freeling and Karthik Anantharaman. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Environmental Microbiology and mBio.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Rankless by CCL
2026