Jack A. Gilbert

70.2k total citations · 21 hit papers
383 papers, 38.9k citations indexed

About

Jack A. Gilbert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack A. Gilbert has authored 383 papers receiving a total of 38.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 217 papers in Molecular Biology, 136 papers in Ecology and 36 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Jack A. Gilbert's work include Gut microbiota and health (135 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (119 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (67 papers). Jack A. Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (135 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (119 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (67 papers). Jack A. Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Jack A. Gilbert's co-authors include Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso, Sarah M. Owens, Noah Fierer, Janet Jansson, William A. Walters, Donna Berg-Lyons, Louise Fraser, Jason Betley and Niall Gormley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jack A. Gilbert

364 papers receiving 38.4k citations

Hit Papers

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2018 2015 2012 2016 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms
    2012 6.7k citations J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  2. Current understanding of the human microbiome
    2018 1.6k citations Jack A. Gilbert, J. Gregory Caporaso et al. profile →
  3. Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys
    2015 1.6k citations William A. Walters, Donna Berg-Lyons et al. mSystems profile →
  4. Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes
    2012 1.2k citations Noah Fierer, Sarah M. Owens et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Geographic patterns of co-occurrence network topological features for soil microbiota at continental scale in eastern China
    2016 950 citations Jack A. Gilbert et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  6. GABA-modulating bacteria of the human gut microbiota
    2018 794 citations Philip Strandwitz, Ki Hyun Kim et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
  7. Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics
    2011 791 citations Jack A. Gilbert, J. Gregory Caporaso et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  8. The Soil Microbiome Influences Grapevine-Associated Microbiota
    2015 704 citations Sarah M. Owens, Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell et al. mBio profile →
  9. Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children
    2016 652 citations Jack A. Gilbert et al. profile →
  10. Effects of Diurnal Variation of Gut Microbes and High-Fat Feeding on Host Circadian Clock Function and Metabolism
    2015 643 citations Sean M. Gibbons, Yunwei Wang et al. profile →
  11. Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment
    2014 633 citations Simon Lax, Daniel P. Smith et al. Science profile →
  12. Metagenomics - a guide from sampling to data analysis
    2012 593 citations Jack A. Gilbert et al. profile →
  13. The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations
    2014 548 citations Jack A. Gilbert, Janet Jansson et al. profile →
  14. Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity
    2014 521 citations Ashley Shade, J. Gregory Caporaso et al. mBio profile →
  15. Microbiome-wide association studies link dynamic microbial consortia to disease
    2016 496 citations Jack A. Gilbert, Janet Jansson et al. profile →
  16. Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences
    2014 421 citations William A. Walters, Luke K. Ursell et al. profile →
  17. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG-supplemented formula expands butyrate-producing bacterial strains in food allergic infants
    2015 402 citations Jack A. Gilbert et al. The ISME Journal profile →
  18. Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States
    2013 400 citations Noah Fierer, José C. Clemente et al. Science profile →
  19. Earth microbial co-occurrence network reveals interconnection pattern across microbiomes
    2020 388 citations Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight et al. profile →
  20. Soil pH correlates with the co-occurrence and assemblage process of diazotrophic communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of wheat fields
    2018 313 citations Jack A. Gilbert et al. profile →
  21. Collagen degradation and MMP9 activation by Enterococcus faecalis contribute to intestinal anastomotic leak
    2015 278 citations Benjamin D. Shogan, Alexander Zaborin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jack A. Gilbert United States 92 18.0k 13.6k 5.0k 3.6k 3.3k 383 38.9k
Paul J. McMurdie United States 19 19.9k 1.1× 12.9k 0.9× 6.3k 1.3× 3.3k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 22 42.5k
Gary L. Andersen United States 70 15.7k 0.9× 10.6k 0.8× 4.7k 0.9× 3.0k 0.8× 3.7k 1.1× 216 34.5k
Patrick D. Schloss United States 75 22.6k 1.3× 14.1k 1.0× 4.7k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 4.0k 1.2× 201 44.1k
Christian Quast Germany 17 17.9k 1.0× 15.1k 1.1× 4.9k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 3.9k 1.2× 22 38.6k
Susan Holmes United States 60 23.9k 1.3× 13.8k 1.0× 6.8k 1.4× 3.8k 1.1× 3.4k 1.0× 189 52.9k
Elmar Pruesse Germany 8 19.8k 1.1× 16.4k 1.2× 5.3k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 4.0k 1.2× 10 41.1k
Jörg Peplies Germany 28 21.9k 1.2× 17.5k 1.3× 5.9k 1.2× 2.1k 0.6× 4.3k 1.3× 39 44.4k
Christopher Quince United Kingdom 54 17.1k 1.0× 14.0k 1.0× 4.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 3.3k 1.0× 111 34.5k
James R. Cole United States 46 16.2k 0.9× 13.0k 1.0× 4.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.4× 6.0k 1.8× 98 35.8k
Janet Jansson United States 76 15.9k 0.9× 8.0k 0.6× 3.9k 0.8× 2.6k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 232 29.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Diner, Rachel E., Sarah M. Allard, & Jack A. Gilbert. (2024). Host-associated microbes mitigate the negative impacts of aquatic pollution. mSystems. 9(10). e0086824–e0086824.
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Sharma, Anukriti, Tess A. O’Meara, Maribel Campos, et al.. (2024). Gut and oral microbial compositional differences in women with breast cancer, women with ductal carcinoma in situ , and healthy women. mSystems. 9(11). e0123724–e0123724. 5 indexed citations
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Roche, Kimberly, Johannes R. Björk, Mauna Dasari, et al.. (2023). Universal gut microbial relationships in the gut microbiome of wild baboons. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Kaiting, Yuzhu Hou, Yuan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Suppression of local type I interferon by gut microbiota–derived butyrate impairs antitumor effects of ionizing radiation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(3). 85 indexed citations
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Bernabé, Beatriz Peñalver, et al.. (2020). Precision medicine in perinatal depression in light of the human microbiome. Psychopharmacology. 237(4). 915–941. 15 indexed citations
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Cárdenas, Paúl, Marco Fornasini, Marcia H. Monaco, et al.. (2019). Analysis of gut microbiome, nutrition and immune status in autism spectrum disorder: a case-control study in Ecuador. Gut Microbes. 11(3). 453–464. 52 indexed citations
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Strandwitz, Philip, Ki Hyun Kim, Darya Terekhova, et al.. (2018). GABA-modulating bacteria of the human gut microbiota. Nature Microbiology. 4(3). 396–403. 794 indexed citations breakdown →
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Handley, Kim M., Yvette M. Piceno, Ping Hu, et al.. (2017). Metabolic and spatio-taxonomic response of uncultivated seafloor bacteria following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ISME Journal. 11(11). 2569–2583. 32 indexed citations
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Linz, Alexandra M., Ashley Shade, Sarah M. Owens, et al.. (2017). Bacterial Community Composition and Dynamics Spanning Five Years in Freshwater Bog Lakes. mSphere. 2(3). 71 indexed citations
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Mason, Olivia U., Nicole M. Scott, Antonio González, et al.. (2014). Metagenomics reveals sediment microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ISME Journal. 8(7). 1464–1475. 273 indexed citations
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Zaborin, Alexander, Daniel P. Smith, John F. Quensen, et al.. (2014). Membership and Behavior of Ultra-Low-Diversity Pathogen Communities Present in the Gut of Humans during Prolonged Critical Illness. mBio. 5(5). e01361–14. 250 indexed citations
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Lax, Simon, Daniel P. Smith, Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell, et al.. (2014). Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment. Science. 345(6200). 1048–1052. 633 indexed citations breakdown →
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Parfrey, Laura Wegener, et al.. (2014). Defining the diversity of microbial eukaryotic communities in the mammalian gut within the context of environmental eukaryotic diversity. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 2 indexed citations
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Piao, Hailan, Nicole M. Scott, Stephanie Malfatti, et al.. (2014). Metagenomic analysis of microbial consortium from natural crude oil that seeps into the marine ecosystem offshore Southern California. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9(3). 1259–1274. 23 indexed citations
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Sperling, Martin, Judith Piontek, Gunnar Gerdts, et al.. (2013). Effect of elevated CO 2 on the dynamics of particle-attached and free-living bacterioplankton communities in an Arctic fjord. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 181–191. 30 indexed citations
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Gibbons, Sean M., J. Gregory Caporaso, Meg Pirrung, et al.. (2013). Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(12). 4651–4655. 180 indexed citations
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Dennis, Kristen L., Yunwei Wang, Nichole R. Blatner, et al.. (2013). Adenomatous Polyps Are Driven by Microbe-Instigated Focal Inflammation and Are Controlled by IL-10–Producing T Cells. Cancer Research. 73(19). 5905–5913. 271 indexed citations
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Caporaso, J. Gregory, Christian L. Lauber, William A. Walters, et al.. (2012). Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms. The ISME Journal. 6(8). 1621–1624. 6693 indexed citations breakdown →
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Temperton, Ben, Dawn Field, Anna Oliver, et al.. (2009). Bias in assessments of marine microbial biodiversity in fosmid libraries as evaluated by pyrosequencing. The ISME Journal. 3(7). 792–796. 33 indexed citations

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