Kristopher Kieft

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kristopher Kieft is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristopher Kieft has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kristopher Kieft's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Kristopher Kieft is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Kristopher Kieft collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Kristopher Kieft's co-authors include Karthik Anantharaman, Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran, Adam M. Breister, Elise S. Cowley, Yang Liu, Ulaş Karaöz, Simon Roux, Steven Hallam and R. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Kristopher Kieft

15 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

VIBRANT: automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial viruses, and evaluation of viral community function from genomic sequences

2020 619 citations Kristopher Kieft, Zhichao Zhou et al. Microbiome profile →
METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks

2022 341 citations Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran et al. Microbiome profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kristopher Kieft

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristopher Kieft

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Engineering bacteriophages through deep mining of metagenomic motifs 2025 ·Science Advances ·Phil Huss, Kristopher Kieft, (unknown), (unknown), Karthik Anantharaman, Srivatsan Raman	3
2	Ecogenomics and cultivation reveal distinctive viral-bacterial communities in the surface microlayer of a Baltic Sea slick 2023 ·ISME Communications ·Janina Rahlff, Matthias Wietz, Helge‐Ansgar Giebel, Oliver W. Bayfield, (unknown), (unknown), Kristopher Kieft, Karthik Anantharaman, Mariana Ribas‐Ribas, (unknown), Oliver Wurl, (unknown), Alfred A. Antson, Karin Holmfeldt	3
3	Physiological and genomic evidence of cysteine degradation and aerobic hydrogen sulfide production in freshwater bacteria 2023 ·mSystems ·Patricia Q. Tran, (unknown), (unknown), Kristopher Kieft, Elizabeth McDaniel, Katherine D. McMahon, Karthik Anantharaman	7
4	Sulfur cycling connects microbiomes and biogeochemistry in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes 2023 ·The ISME Journal ·Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran, (unknown), Kristopher Kieft, J. A. Breier, Caroline S. Fortunato, Cody S. Sheik, Julie A. Huber, Meng Li, Gregory J. Dick, Karthik Anantharaman	18
5	vRhyme enables binning of viral genomes from metagenomes 2022 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Kristopher Kieft, (unknown), Rauf Salamzade, Lindsay Kalan, Karthik Anantharaman	49
6	METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks breakdown → 2022 ·Microbiome ·Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran, Adam M. Breister, Yang Liu, Kristopher Kieft, Elise S. Cowley, Ulaş Karaöz, Karthik Anantharaman	341
7	Virus genomics: what is being overlooked? 2022 ·Current Opinion in Virology ·Kristopher Kieft, Karthik Anantharaman	17
8	Gut virome dysbiosis following focal cerebral ischemia in mice 2022 ·Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism ·Bharath Chelluboina, Kristopher Kieft, Adam M. Breister, Karthik Anantharaman, Raghu Vemuganti	10
9	Deciphering Active Prophages from Metagenomes 2022 ·mSystems ·Kristopher Kieft, Karthik Anantharaman	38
10	Individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis harbor differential intestinal bacteriophage communities with distinct metabolic potential 2021 ·Cell Host & Microbe ·Mihnea R. Mangalea, David Páez-Espino, Kristopher Kieft, Anushila Chatterjee, (unknown), Jennifer Seifert, Marie L. Feser, M. Kristen Demoruelle, (unknown), Karthik Anantharaman, Kevin D. Deane, Kristine A. Kuhn, V. Michael Holers, Breck A. Duerkop	67
11	Ecology of inorganic sulfur auxiliary metabolism in widespread bacteriophages 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Kristopher Kieft, Zhichao Zhou, R. Anderson, Alison Buchan, Barbara J. Campbell, Steven Hallam, Matthias Hess, Matthew B. Sullivan, David A. Walsh, Simon Roux, Karthik Anantharaman	141
12	Virus-associated organosulfur metabolism in human and environmental systems 2021 ·Cell Reports ·Kristopher Kieft, Adam M. Breister, Phil Huss, Alexandra M. Linz, (unknown), Zhichao Zhou, Janina Rahlff, Sarah P. Esser, Alexander J. Probst, Srivatsan Raman, Simon Roux, Karthik Anantharaman	53
13	Isolation, Characterisation of Four Gram Negative Environmental Bacteria and Bacteriophage Plaques Formation on Their Lawns 2021 ·International Journal of Life Science and Pharma Research ·(unknown), Francis Mwaura, (unknown), Kristopher Kieft	1
14	Genome diversification in globally distributed novel marine Proteobacteria is linked to environmental adaptation 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran, Kristopher Kieft, Karthik Anantharaman	171
15	VIBRANT: automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial viruses, and evaluation of viral community function from genomic sequences breakdown → 2020 ·Microbiome ·Kristopher Kieft, Zhichao Zhou, Karthik Anantharaman	619

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