Debashish Bhattacharya

23.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
298 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Debashish Bhattacharya is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Debashish Bhattacharya has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 214 papers in Molecular Biology, 186 papers in Ecology and 70 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Debashish Bhattacharya's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (145 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (138 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (87 papers). Debashish Bhattacharya is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (145 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (138 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (87 papers). Debashish Bhattacharya collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Germany. Debashish Bhattacharya's co-authors include Hwan Su Yoon, Jeremiah D. Hackett, Adrián Reyes‐Prieto, Gabriele Pinto, Ahmed Moustafa, Andreas P.M. Weber, Dana C. Price, Linda Medlin, Claudia Ciniglia and Dawn M. Simon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Debashish Bhattacharya

292 papers receiving 14.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Molecular Timeline for the Origin of Photosynthetic Euk... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 200 400 600
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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.

  1. A Molecular Timeline for the Origin of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes
    2004 657 citations Hwan Su Yoon, Jeremiah D. Hackett et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers

Debashish Bhattacharya
Patrick J. Keeling Canada
Michael Melkonian Germany
Thomas Cavalier‐Smith United Kingdom
Arthur Grossman United States
Annette W. Coleman United States
Chris Bowler France
David Moreira France
Wolfgang R. Hess Germany
Charles F. Delwiche United States
G. Dean Price Australia
Patrick J. Keeling Canada
Debashish Bhattacharya
Citations per year, relative to Debashish Bhattacharya Debashish Bhattacharya (= 1×) peers Patrick J. Keeling

Countries citing papers authored by Debashish Bhattacharya

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Fields of papers citing papers by Debashish Bhattacharya

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Debashish Bhattacharya

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Debashish Bhattacharya. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Debashish Bhattacharya based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Debashish Bhattacharya. Debashish Bhattacharya is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stephens, Timothy G., et al.. (2025). Shifts in the microbiome and virome are associated with stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf226–ycaf226.
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Shah, Sarah, Katherine E. Dougan, Yibi Chen, et al.. (2024). Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 5 indexed citations
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Cho, Chung Hyun, Ji Yang, Yu Min Lee, et al.. (2023). Origin of minicircular mitochondrial genomes in red algae. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3363–3363. 16 indexed citations
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Williams, Amanda, et al.. (2023). Peeling back the layers of coral holobiont multi-omics data. iScience. 26(9). 107623–107623. 3 indexed citations
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Stephens, Timothy G., et al.. (2022). Multiple waves of viral invasions in Symbiodiniaceae algal genomes. Virus Evolution. 8(2). 4 indexed citations
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Calatrava, Victoria, et al.. (2022). Retrotransposition facilitated the establishment of a primary plastid in the thecate amoeba Paulinella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2121241119–e2121241119. 4 indexed citations
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Williams, Amanda, Timothy G. Stephens, Crawford Drury, et al.. (2022). Development of a portable toolkit to diagnose coral thermal stress. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14398–14398. 13 indexed citations
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Chan, Cheong Xin, et al.. (2021). Tightly Constrained Genome Reduction and Relaxation of Purifying Selection during Secondary Plastid Endosymbiosis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(1). 8 indexed citations
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Gavery, Mackenzie, Steven Roberts, Debashish Bhattacharya, et al.. (2021). Invertebrate methylomes provide insight into mechanisms of environmental tolerance and reveal methodological biases. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(4). 1247–1261. 14 indexed citations
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Nissimov, Jozef I., David Talmy, Liti Haramaty, et al.. (2019). Biochemical diversity of glycosphingolipid biosynthesis as a driver of Coccolithovirus competitive ecology. Environmental Microbiology. 21(6). 2182–2197. 15 indexed citations
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Wei, Guo, Qidong Jia, Xinlu Chen, et al.. (2018). Terpene Biosynthesis in Red Algae Is Catalyzed by Microbial Type But Not Typical Plant Terpene Synthases. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 179(2). 382–390. 42 indexed citations
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Taraphder, Subhash, et al.. (2018). PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF HARINGHATA BLACK CHICKENS IN AN ORGANIZED FARM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Ball, Steven, Agathe Subtil, Debashish Bhattacharya, et al.. (2013). Metabolic Effectors Secreted by Bacterial Pathogens: Essential Facilitators of Plastid Endosymbiosis? . The Plant Cell. 25(1). 7–21. 74 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Debashish, et al.. (2012). Identification of a Marine Cyanophage in a Protist Single‐cell Metagenome Assembly. Journal of Phycology. 49(1). 207–212. 11 indexed citations
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Moustafa, Ahmed, Bánk Beszteri, Uwe G. Maier, et al.. (2009). Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms. Science. 324(5935). 1724–1726. 297 indexed citations
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Rumpho, Mary E., Jung‐Ho Lee, Krishna Kannan, et al.. (2008). Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(46). 17867–17871. 169 indexed citations
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Weber, Andreas P.M., Marc Linka, & Debashish Bhattacharya. (2006). Single, Ancient Origin of a Plastid Metabolite Translocator Family in Plantae from an Endomembrane-Derived Ancestor. Eukaryotic Cell. 5(3). 609–612. 83 indexed citations
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Yoon, Hwan Su, Jeremiah D. Hackett, & Debashish Bhattacharya. (2002). A single origin of the peridinin- and fucoxanthin-containing plastids in dinoflagellates through tertiary endosymbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(18). 11724–11729. 351 indexed citations
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Yoon, Hwan Su, Jeremiah D. Hackett, Gabriele Pinto, & Debashish Bhattacharya. (2002). The single, ancient origin of chromist plastids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(24). 15507–15512. 297 indexed citations
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Keeling, Patrick J., et al.. (2000). SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN OF A NOVEL ACTIN GENE IN THE CRYPTOPHYTE, PYRENOMONAS HELGOLANDII. Journal of Phycology. 36(s3). 64–64. 1 indexed citations

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