Eric J. Alm

88.8k citations

187 papers · 19.2k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 70

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.2%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Papers in ⓘ

Molecular Biology 130
- Gut microbiota and health 71
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 47
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 13
Infectious Diseases 50
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 37
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing 13

Co-authors: Jonathan Friedman (10 shared papers)David Baker (6 shared papers)Lawrence A. David (7 shared papers)Martin F. Polz (14 shared papers)Adam P. Arkin (26 shared papers)Mark Smith (21 shared papers)Claire Duvallet (14 shared papers)Christopher S. Smillie (12 shared papers)
Journals: PLoS ONE (16 papers)The ISME Journal (9 papers)PLoS Computational Biology (9 papers)Gastroenterology (7 papers)Journal of Bacteriology (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Singapore Greece

In The Last Decade

Eric J. Alm

182 papers receiving 19.0k citations

Hit Papers

13 papers align trajectories log scale

High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome 2022 · 170 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.

2022 Science
2021 Nature Communications
2020 mSystems
2019 Cell Host & Microbe
2017 Hepatology
2017 Nature Communications
2016 The ISME Journal
2014 Clinical Infectious Diseases
2014 Genome biology
2012 PLoS Computational Biology
2011 Nature
2001 Current Opinion in Structural Biology
1999 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Inferring Correlation Networks from Genomic Survey Data PLoS Computational Biology ·Jonathan Friedman, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1765
2	Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responses Nature Communications ·Claire Duvallet, Sean M. Gibbons, Thomas Gurry, Rafael A. Irizarry, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2017	675
3	Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales Genome biology ·Lawrence A. David, Arne Materna, Jonathan Friedman, Maria I Campos-Baptista, Matthew Blackburn, Allison Perrotta, Susan E. Erdman, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2014	666
4	Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome Nature ·Christopher S. Smillie, Mark Smith, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, Lawrence A. David, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2011	663
5	SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases mSystems ·Fuqing Wu, Jianbo Zhang, Amy Xiao, Xiaoqiong Gu, Wei Lin Lee, Federica Armas, Kathryn M. Kauffman, William P. Hanage, Mariana Matus, Newsha Ghaeli, Noriko Endo, Claire Duvallet, Mathilde Poyet, Katya Moniz, Alex Washburne, Timothy B. Erickson, Peter R. Chai, Janelle R. Thompson, Eric J. Alm Hit paper breakdown →	2020	593
6	An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes Nature Communications ·Anni Zhang, Jeffry M. Gaston, Chengzhen L. Dai, Shijie Zhao, Mathilde Poyet, Mathieu Groussin, Xiaole Yin, Li-Guan Li, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Edward Topp, Michael R. Gillings, William P. Hanage, James M. Tiedje, Katya Moniz, Eric J. Alm, Tong Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2021	569
7	Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision The ISME Journal ·Sophie Weiss, Will Van Treuren, Catherine Lozupone, Karoline Faust, Jonathan Friedman, Ye Deng, (unknown), Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Luke K. Ursell, Eric J. Alm, Amanda Birmingham, Jacob A. Cram, Jed A. Fuhrman, Jeroen Raes, Fengzhu Sun, Jizhong Zhou, Rob Knight Hit paper breakdown →	2016	542
8	Fecal microbiota transplant from a rational stool donor improves hepatic encephalopathy: A randomized clinical trial Hepatology ·Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Zain Kassam, Andrew Fagan, Edith Gavis, Eric Liu, I. Jane Cox, Raffi Kheradman, Douglas M. Heuman, Jessica Wang, Thomas Gurry, Roger Williams, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Michael Fuchs, Eric J. Alm, Binu V. John, Leroy R. Thacker, Antonio Riva, Mark Smith, Simon D. Taylor‐Robinson, Patrick M. Gillevet Hit paper breakdown →	2017	439
9	Mechanisms of protein folding Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Viara Grantcharova, Eric J. Alm, David Baker, Arthur L. Horwich Hit paper breakdown →	2001	383
10	Resource Partitioning and Sympatric Differentiation Among Closely Related Bacterioplankton Science ·Dana E. Hunt, Lawrence A. David, Dirk Gevers, Sarah P. Preheim, Eric J. Alm, Martin F. Polz	2008	379
11	Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria Science ·B. Jesse Shapiro, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, Sarah P. Preheim, Sonia Timberlake, Gitta Szabó, Martin F. Polz, Eric J. Alm	2012	365
12	Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Relapsing Clostridium difficile Infection Using a Frozen Inoculum From Unrelated Donors: A Randomized, Open-Label, Controlled Pilot Study Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Ilan Youngster, Jenny Sauk, Christina Pindar, Robin Wilson, Jess L. Kaplan, Mark Smith, Eric J. Alm, Dirk Gevers, George H. Russell, Elizabeth Hohmann Hit paper breakdown →	2014	349
13	Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single-Species Ecosystem Deep Within Earth Science ·Dylan Chivian, Eoin Brodie, Eric J. Alm, David Culley, Paramvir Dehal, Todd Z. DeSantis, Thomas M. Gihring, Alla Lapidus, Li‐Hung Lin, Stephen Lowry, Duane P. Moser, Paul M. Richardson, Gordon Southam, Greg Wanger, Lisa M. Pratt, Gary L. Andersen, Terry C. Hazen, Fred J. Brockman, Adam P. Arkin, T. C. Onstott	2008	329
14	Critical role of beta-hairpin formation in protein G folding. Nature Structural Biology ·Erika L. McCallister, Eric J. Alm, David Baker	2000	329
15	Prediction of protein-folding mechanisms from free-energy landscapes derived from native structures Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eric J. Alm, David Baker Hit paper breakdown →	1999	318
16	Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time Nature Communications ·Mathieu Groussin, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders, Christopher S. Smillie, Sébastien Lavergne, Wilfried Thuiller, Eric J. Alm	2017	313
17	Contact order revisited: Influence of protein size on the folding rate Protein Science ·Dmitry N. Ivankov, Sergiy O. Garbuzynskiy, Eric J. Alm, Kevin W. Plaxco, David Baker, Alexei V. Finkelstein	2003	305
18	Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial and archaeal population structure Trends in Genetics ·Martin F. Polz, Eric J. Alm, William P. Hanage	2013	289
19	The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity Science ·Christophe Fraser, Eric J. Alm, Martin F. Polz, Brian G. Spratt, William P. Hanage	2009	288
20	Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion Nature ·Lawrence A. David, Eric J. Alm	2010	283

About Eric J. Alm

Eric J. Alm is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Genetics and Physiology, having authored 187 papers that have together received 19.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (71 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (47 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (42 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (37 papers), SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (13 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (3.4k citations), Molecular Biology (12.0k citations), Ecology (4.0k citations), Molecular Medicine (724 citations) and Gastroenterology (795 citations). Eric J. Alm has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Greece. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan Friedman, David Baker, Lawrence A. David, Martin F. Polz, Adam P. Arkin, Mark Smith, Claire Duvallet, Christopher S. Smillie, Sean M. Gibbons and William P. Hanage. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, The ISME Journal, PLoS Computational Biology, Gastroenterology and Journal of Bacteriology.

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