Luke Thompson

40.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Luke Thompson is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke Thompson has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Luke Thompson's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (12 papers). Luke Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (31 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (12 papers). Luke Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom. Luke Thompson's co-authors include Rob Knight, James T. Morton, Sallie W. Chisholm, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Matthew B. Sullivan, Amnon Amir, Evguenia Kopylova, José A. Navas-Molina, Daniel McDonald and Antonio González and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luke Thompson

42 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Deblur Rapidly Resolves Single-Nucleotide Community Sequence Patterns

2017 1.3k citations Evguenia Kopylova, James T. Morton et al. mSystems profile →
Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes

2018 1.0k citations Eric A. Franzosa, Lauren J. McIver et al. Nature Methods profile →
A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations

2019 329 citations Cameron Martino, James T. Morton et al. mSystems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luke Thompson United States	21	2.9k	2.4k	535	371	368	45	4.8k
Giuseppe D’Auria Spain	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	446 0.8×	281 0.8×	288 0.8×	73	4.2k
Lutz Krause Australia	44	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	493 0.9×	510 1.4×	713 1.9×	82	6.3k
Katherine Huang United States	28	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	721 1.3×	232 0.6×	306 0.8×	51	4.6k
J. Kirk Harris United States	41	3.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	318 0.6×	435 1.2×	388 1.1×	91	6.6k
Benjamin D. Kaehler Australia	9	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	685 1.3×	426 1.1×	406 1.1×	14	4.9k
Vanja Klepac‐Ceraj United States	32	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	272 0.5×	321 0.9×	196 0.5×	61	4.4k
Matthew R. Dillon United States	6	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	738 1.4×	459 1.2×	455 1.2×	8	5.2k
Suparna Mitra United Kingdom	21	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	449 0.8×	520 1.4×	328 0.9×	41	4.1k
Evguenia Kopylova United States	11	2.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	590 1.1×	198 0.5×	293 0.8×	16	4.1k
Evan Bolyen United States	9	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	715 1.3×	432 1.2×	419 1.1×	12	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Luke Thompson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luke Thompson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luke Thompson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Takahashi, Miwa, et al.. (2026). A TDWG and GSC Collaborative Initiative To Develop an Environmental DNA (eDNA) Metadata Checklist. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 10.

Thompson, Luke, et al.. (2025). AmesFormer: State-of-the-Art Mutagenicity Prediction with Graph Transformers. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 38(7). 1167–1182. 1 indexed citations

Gold, Zachary, Ryan P. Kelly, Andrew O. Shelton, et al.. (2023). Archived DNA reveals marine heatwave‐associated shifts in fish assemblages. Environmental DNA. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Thompson, Luke, et al.. (2023). A Case Study in Sharing Marine eDNA Metabarcoding Data to OBIS. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 7.

Thompson, Luke, et al.. (2023). E018 COVID-19 vaccine-induced myositis. Lara D. Veeken. 62(Supplement_2).

Thompson, Luke, et al.. (2022). Tourmaline: A containerized workflow for rapid and iterable amplicon sequence analysis using QIIME 2 and Snakemake. GigaScience. 11. 10 indexed citations

Truelove, Nathan K., Nastassia Patin, Kathleen Pitz, et al.. (2022). Expanding the temporal and spatial scales of environmental DNA research with autonomous sampling. Environmental DNA. 4(4). 972–984. 34 indexed citations

Enochs, Ian C., et al.. (2021). Subsurface automated samplers for eDNA (SASe) for biological monitoring and research. HardwareX. 10. e00239–e00239. 29 indexed citations

Lavrinienko, Anton, Eugene Tukalenko, Timothy A. Mousseau, et al.. (2020). Two hundred and fifty-four metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes from the bank vole gut microbiota. Scientific Data. 7(1). 312–312. 16 indexed citations

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Thompson, Luke, Mohamed Fauzi Haroon, Ahmed A. Shibl, et al.. (2019). Red Sea SAR11 and Prochlorococcus Single-Cell Genomes Reflect Globally Distributed Pangenomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(13). 15 indexed citations

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Martino, Cameron, James T. Morton, Clarisse Marotz, et al.. (2019). A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations. mSystems. 4(1). 329 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Ward Appeltans, Gabrielle Canonico, et al.. (2019). Building a strategy towards an Omic Biodiversity Observation Network (Omic BON). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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Franzosa, Eric A., Lauren J. McIver, Ali Rahnavard, et al.. (2018). Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. Nature Methods. 15(11). 962–968. 1019 indexed citations breakdown →

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Michaud, Jennifer M., Luke Thompson, Drishti Kaul, et al.. (2018). Taxon-specific aerosolization of bacteria and viruses in an experimental ocean-atmosphere mesocosm. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2017–2017. 117 indexed citations

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Thompson, Luke, Jon G. Sanders, Daniel McDonald, et al.. (2017). A Communal Catalogue Reveals Earth'S Multiscale Microbial Diversity. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Luke, Gareth J. Williams, Mohamed Fauzi Haroon, et al.. (2016). Metagenomic covariation along densely sampled environmental gradients in the Red Sea. The ISME Journal. 11(1). 138–151. 39 indexed citations

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Luo, Haiwei, Luke Thompson, Ulrich Stingl, & Austin L. Hughes. (2015). Selection Maintains Low Genomic GC Content in Marine SAR11 Lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(10). 2738–2748. 38 indexed citations

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Thompson, Luke, Qinglu Zeng, Libusha Kelly, et al.. (2011). Phage auxiliary metabolic genes and the redirection of cyanobacterial host carbon metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(39). E757–64. 361 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Matthew B., Katherine Huang, J. Cesar Ignacio‐Espinoza, et al.. (2010). Genomic analysis of oceanic cyanobacterial myoviruses compared with T4‐like myoviruses from diverse hosts and environments. Environmental Microbiology. 12(11). 3035–3056. 270 indexed citations

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Zinser, Erik R., Debbie Lindell, Zackary I. Johnson, et al.. (2009). Choreography of the Transcriptome, Photophysiology, and Cell Cycle of a Minimal Photoautotroph, Prochlorococcus. PLoS ONE. 4(4). e5135–e5135. 157 indexed citations

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