Gareth Trubl

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 979 citations indexed

About

Gareth Trubl is a scholar working on Ecology, Endocrinology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gareth Trubl has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 979 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Endocrinology and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gareth Trubl's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (18 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Gareth Trubl is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (18 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (10 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers). Gareth Trubl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Gareth Trubl's co-authors include Simon Roux, Virginia I. Rich, Neslihan Taş, Matthew B. Sullivan, Natalie Solonenko, Joanne Emerson, Yaxin Xue, Anniek E. E. de Jong, Yaoming Li and Benjamin Bolduc and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Gareth Trubl

27 papers receiving 969 citations

Hit Papers

Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbo... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing
    2018 251 citations Gareth Trubl, Ho Bin Jang et al. mSystems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gareth Trubl United States 14 736 370 307 232 118 28 979
Natalie Solonenko United States 17 1.2k 1.6× 461 1.2× 504 1.6× 203 0.9× 161 1.4× 25 1.3k
Jennifer R. Brum United States 15 1.4k 1.8× 412 1.1× 459 1.5× 149 0.6× 130 1.1× 21 1.5k
M. Le Romancer France 16 475 0.6× 546 1.5× 373 1.2× 181 0.8× 43 0.4× 27 1.1k
Dhritiman Ghosh United States 10 449 0.6× 187 0.5× 185 0.6× 102 0.4× 69 0.6× 10 555
Olivier Zablocki United States 15 1.3k 1.8× 509 1.4× 738 2.4× 185 0.8× 268 2.3× 22 1.8k
María Consuelo Gazitúa United States 12 1.2k 1.7× 318 0.9× 765 2.5× 158 0.7× 212 1.8× 16 1.7k
Mohammad Moniruzzaman United States 19 863 1.2× 433 1.2× 371 1.2× 144 0.6× 51 0.4× 46 1.0k
Karin Holmfeldt Sweden 20 1.0k 1.4× 216 0.6× 486 1.6× 82 0.4× 51 0.4× 32 1.2k
Isabell Flade Germany 3 540 0.7× 202 0.5× 594 1.9× 59 0.3× 148 1.3× 5 1.3k
Marc W. Van Goethem South Africa 15 606 0.8× 148 0.4× 438 1.4× 65 0.3× 53 0.4× 25 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gareth Trubl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gareth Trubl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gareth Trubl

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gareth Trubl. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gareth Trubl 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 Gareth Trubl. Gareth Trubl is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Sieradzki, Ella T., Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Graeme W. Nicol, et al.. (2025). Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 205. 109791–109791. 1 indexed citations
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Hazard, Christina, Karthik Anantharaman, Luke S. Hillary, et al.. (2025). Beneath the surface: Unsolved questions in soil virus ecology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 205. 109780–109780. 3 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rachel, Patrick Crill, Zhen Li, et al.. (2025). On the Relationship Between Methane Production in Anaerobic Incubations of Peat Material and In Situ Methane Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(4). 1 indexed citations
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Harman, Chester E., et al.. (2024). Chapter 8: Searching for Life Beyond Earth. Astrobiology. 24(S1). S–164. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Tingting, Tarquin Netherway, Ruiqi Wang, et al.. (2023). Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022. Virus Research. 331. 199121–199121. 1 indexed citations
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Popa, Ovidiu, et al.. (2023). Breaking the Ice: A Review of Phages in Polar Ecosystems. Methods in molecular biology. 2738. 31–71. 7 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Kenneth M. Stedman, Pacifica Sommers, et al.. (2023). Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe. International Journal of Astrobiology. 22(4). 247–271. 2 indexed citations
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Mageeney, Catherine M., Gareth Trubl, & Kelly P. Williams. (2022). Improved Mobilome Delineation in Fragmented Genomes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 866850–866850. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Ruonan, Gareth Trubl, Neslihan Taş, & Janet Jansson. (2022). Permafrost as a potential pathogen reservoir. One Earth. 5(4). 351–360. 43 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Erin Nuccio, et al.. (2021). Active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing temperatures in Arctic peat soil. Microbiome. 9(1). 208–208. 64 indexed citations
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Taş, Neslihan, Anniek E. E. de Jong, Yaoming Li, et al.. (2021). Metagenomic tools in microbial ecology research. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 67. 184–191. 118 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Kenneth M. Stedman, Penelope J. Boston, et al.. (2021). Astrovirology: Expanding the Search for Life. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 53(4). 2 indexed citations
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Horst, Anneliek M. ter, Christian Santos‐Medellín, Jackson W. Sorensen, et al.. (2021). Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations. Microbiome. 9(1). 233–233. 75 indexed citations
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Hyman, Paul, Gareth Trubl, & Stephen T. Abedon. (2020). Virus-Like Particle: Evolving Meanings in Different Disciplines. PubMed. 2(1). 11–15. 12 indexed citations
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Roux, Simon, Gareth Trubl, Danielle Goudeau, et al.. (2019). Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes. PeerJ. 7. e6902–e6902. 26 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Simon Roux, Natalie Solonenko, et al.. (2019). Towards optimized viral metagenomes for double-stranded and single-stranded DNA viruses from challenging soils. PeerJ. 7. e7265–e7265. 43 indexed citations
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Goethem, Marc W. Van, Tami L. Swenson, Gareth Trubl, Simon Roux, & Trent R. Northen. (2019). Characteristics of Wetting-Induced Bacteriophage Blooms in Biological Soil Crust. mBio. 10(6). 58 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, Ho Bin Jang, Simon Roux, et al.. (2018). Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing. mSystems. 3(5). 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ostrom, Nathaniel E., Hasand Gandhi, Gareth Trubl, & Alison E. Murray. (2016). Chemodenitrification in the cryoecosystem of Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica. Geobiology. 14(6). 575–587. 32 indexed citations
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Trubl, Gareth, José Q. García‐Maldonado, W. Berelson, et al.. (2014). Insights into Microbial Mats and Possible Stromatolite Formation from Little Hot Creek, California. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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