Jonathan W. Leff

9.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
36 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan W. Leff is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan W. Leff has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Plant Science and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan W. Leff's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Jonathan W. Leff is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Jonathan W. Leff collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Jonathan W. Leff's co-authors include Noah Fierer, Scott T. Bates, Diana H. Wall, Sarah M. Owens, Jack A. Gilbert, J. Gregory Caporaso, Michael S. Strickland, Uffe N. Nielsen, Christian L. Lauber and Byron J. Adams and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan W. Leff

36 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

2012 1.2k citations Noah Fierer, Jonathan W. Leff et al. profile →
Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity

2016 681 citations Paul Carini, Jonathan W. Leff et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

2013 400 citations Noah Fierer, Jonathan W. Leff et al. profile →
Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

2018 235 citations Jonathan W. Leff, Richard D. Bardgett et al. profile →
Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

2018 229 citations Andrew T. Nottingham, Noah Fierer et al. Ecology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan W. Leff United States	27	2.5k	2.2k	1.6k	1.4k	590	36	5.8k
Andrew Bissett Australia	41	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	460 0.8×	132	5.6k
Christophe Mougel France	39	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	400 0.7×	71	6.5k
Ashley Shade United States	39	3.8k 1.5×	2.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	857 0.6×	627 1.1×	87	7.6k
Albert Barberán United States	35	4.2k 1.6×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	707 1.2×	76	7.7k
Tomáš Větrovský Czechia	30	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	595 1.0×	68	4.7k
Stéphane Uroz France	41	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	3.3k 2.0×	965 0.7×	657 1.1×	82	6.2k
Angela D. Kent United States	40	3.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	340 0.6×	101	6.7k
Karoline Faust Belgium	31	3.6k 1.4×	4.5k 2.1×	1.5k 0.9×	834 0.6×	483 0.8×	65	8.3k
Joana Falcão Salles Netherlands	48	4.1k 1.6×	3.0k 1.4×	3.6k 2.2×	1.4k 1.0×	619 1.0×	144	9.0k
Stilianos Louca United States	20	2.9k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	794 0.6×	504 0.9×	44	5.8k

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Schrama, Maarten, Casper W. Quist, G.A. de Groot, et al.. (2023). Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2011). 20231345–20231345. 9 indexed citations

Tan, Jie, Jonathan W. Leff, Brandon Brooks, et al.. (2020). High-resolution temporal profiling of the human gut microbiome reveals consistent and cascading alterations in response to dietary glycans. Genome Medicine. 12(1). 59–59. 14 indexed citations

Allegri, Gabriella, Nicole Rimann, Benjamin Causton, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive characterization of ureagenesis in the spf^ash mouse, a model of human ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, reveals age‐dependency of ammonia detoxification. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 42(6). 1064–1076. 7 indexed citations

Nottingham, Andrew T., Noah Fierer, Benjamin L. Turner, et al.. (2018). Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes. Ecology. 99(11). 2455–2466. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

Leff, Jonathan W., et al.. (2017). Comparison of Standard Culture-Based Method to Culture-Independent Method for Evaluation of Hygiene Effects on the Hand Microbiome. mBio. 8(2). 51 indexed citations

Nováková, Eva, Douglas C. Woodhams, Sonia M. Rodríguez‐Ruano, et al.. (2017). Mosquito Microbiome Dynamics, a Background for Prevalence and Seasonality of West Nile Virus. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 526–526. 88 indexed citations

Madden, Anne A., et al.. (2017). The emerging contribution of social wasps to grape rot disease ecology. PeerJ. 5. e3223–e3223. 22 indexed citations

Parfrey, Laura Wegener, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly Archer, et al.. (2016). Deconstructing the Bat Skin Microbiome: Influences of the Host and the Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1753–1753. 82 indexed citations

Carini, Paul, et al.. (2016). Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity. Nature Microbiology. 2(3). 16242–16242. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leff, Jonathan W., et al.. (2016). Infection with a Shoot-Specific Fungal Endophyte (Epichloë) Alters Tall Fescue Soil Microbial Communities. Microbial Ecology. 72(1). 197–206. 63 indexed citations

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Smets, Wenke, Jonathan W. Leff, Mark A. Bradford, et al.. (2016). A method for simultaneous measurement of soil bacterial abundances and community composition via 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 96. 145–151. 176 indexed citations

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Bachelot, Bénédicte, María Uriarte, Jess K. Zimmerman, et al.. (2016). Long‐lasting effects of land use history on soil fungal communities in second‐growth tropical rain forests. Ecological Applications. 26(6). 1881–1895. 58 indexed citations

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Reich, Brian J., Krishna Pacifici, Eric B. Laber, et al.. (2015). Fungi Identify the Geographic Origin of Dust Samples. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122605–e0122605. 45 indexed citations

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Shah, Vallabh O., et al.. (2015). Composition Diversity and Abundance of Gut Microbiome in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. PubMed. 2(2). 108–114. 222 indexed citations

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Barberán, Albert, Robert R. Dunn, Brian J. Reich, et al.. (2015). The ecology of microscopic life in household dust. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1814). 20151139–20151139. 205 indexed citations

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Ramirez, Kelly S., Markus Döring, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2015). Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. 23 indexed citations

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McGuire, Krista L., Francis Q. Brearley, Seren M. Gedallovich, et al.. (2014). Responses of Soil Fungi to Logging and Oil Palm Agriculture in Southeast Asian Tropical Forests. Microbial Ecology. 69(4). 733–747. 77 indexed citations

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Ramirez, Kelly S., Jonathan W. Leff, Albert Barberán, et al.. (2014). Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1795). 20141988–20141988. 260 indexed citations

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Neher, Deborah A., Thomas R. Weicht, Scott T. Bates, Jonathan W. Leff, & Noah Fierer. (2013). Changes in Bacterial and Fungal Communities across Compost Recipes, Preparation Methods, and Composting Times. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79512–e79512. 252 indexed citations

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McGuire, Krista L., Sara G. Payne, Matthew I. Palmer, et al.. (2013). Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58020–e58020. 236 indexed citations

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