Mohammad Bahram

26.5k total citations · 13 hit papers
129 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Mohammad Bahram is a scholar working on Plant Science, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohammad Bahram has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Plant Science, 43 papers in Insect Science and 38 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Mohammad Bahram's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (71 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (39 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (32 papers). Mohammad Bahram is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (71 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (39 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (32 papers). Mohammad Bahram collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Sweden and United States. Mohammad Bahram's co-authors include Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan, Urmas Kõljalg, R. Henrik Nilsson, Kessy Abarenkov, Sergei Põlme, Martin Zobel, Falk Hildebrand, Peer Bork and Christian Wurzbacher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mohammad Bahram

120 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequen... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2018 2020 2017 2010 2018 200 400 600
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. Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi
    2018 622 citations R. Henrik Nilsson, Sten Anslan et al. profile →
  2. How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology
    2020 596 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  3. Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson’s disease patients
    2017 461 citations Falk Hildebrand, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  4. 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases
    2010 456 citations Leho Tedersoo, R. Henrik Nilsson et al. New Phytologist profile →
  5. High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses
    2018 456 citations Leho Tedersoo, Santiago Sánchez‐Ramírez et al. Fungal Diversity profile →
  6. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi
    2015 398 citations Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys profile →
  7. Towards global patterns in the diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi
    2012 322 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  8. Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent
    2015 287 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  9. Mycorrhizal types differ in ecophysiology and alter plant nutrition and soil processes
    2019 238 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram profile →
  10. Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results
    2022 167 citations Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram et al. profile →
  11. Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe
    2023 161 citations Maëva Labouyrie, Cristiano Ballabio et al. Nature Communications profile →
  12. Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands
    2022 148 citations Mohammad Bahram, Mikk Espenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →
  13. Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes
    2023 81 citations Mohammad Bahram, Falk Hildebrand 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
Mohammad Bahram Estonia 49 5.9k 2.5k 2.4k 2.2k 2.2k 129 9.5k
Kessy Abarenkov Estonia 31 5.9k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 3.0k 1.4× 2.5k 1.1× 54 9.4k
Ari Jumpponen United States 56 6.0k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 2.8k 1.3× 1.6k 0.7× 143 10.3k
Peter G. Kennedy United States 39 7.9k 1.4× 3.7k 1.5× 2.8k 1.2× 2.5k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 112 11.2k
Urmas Kõljalg Estonia 40 7.5k 1.3× 3.1k 1.3× 2.3k 1.0× 3.5k 1.6× 2.3k 1.1× 101 10.9k
Andy F. S. Taylor United Kingdom 37 4.8k 0.8× 2.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 74 6.9k
Kabir Peay United States 43 6.2k 1.1× 3.3k 1.3× 1.8k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 98 8.5k
François Buscot Germany 59 6.8k 1.2× 3.2k 1.3× 3.3k 1.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 249 11.8k
Tesfaye Wubet Germany 44 3.6k 0.6× 2.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 124 7.0k
Björn D. Lindahl Sweden 45 7.3k 1.2× 4.5k 1.8× 2.7k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 998 0.5× 91 10.4k
Miranda M. Hart Canada 45 6.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 127 9.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Köninger, Julia, et al.. (2026). Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils. Nature. 650(8101). 367–373.
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Dang, Pengfei, Scott X. Chang, Ji Chen, et al.. (2025). Long-term climate warming substantially reduces global soil microbial richness. One Earth. 9(1). 101511–101511.
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Osburn, Ernest D., JL Weissman, Michael S. Strickland, et al.. (2025). Relative abundances of bacterial phyla are strong indicators of community-scale microbial growth rates in soil. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 131–131.
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Lentendu, Guillaume, David Singer, Sabine Agatha, et al.. (2025). EukFunc : A Holistic Eukaryotic Functional Reference for Automated Profiling of Soil Eukaryotes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(7). e14118–e14118. 1 indexed citations
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Riggi, Laura, Carles Castaño, Dirk F. van Apeldoorn, et al.. (2024). Impact of plant diversity in potato-ley strip-cropping systems on soil microbial communities. Applied Soil Ecology. 206. 105777–105777.
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Hu, Yigang, et al.. (2024). Grazing exclusion-induced alterations of soil microbial biogeographic pattern and co-occurrence network across a Tibetan elevation gradient. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 376. 109231–109231. 2 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Rein Drenkhan, Kessy Abarenkov, et al.. (2024). The influence of tree genus, phylogeny, and richness on the specificity, rarity, and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(2). e13253–e13253. 13 indexed citations
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Romero, Ferran, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2024). Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1847–1855. 35 indexed citations
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Hannula, S. Emilia, et al.. (2023). Microbial regulation of feedbacks to ecosystem change. Trends in Microbiology. 32(1). 68–78. 28 indexed citations
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Hagh‐Doust, Niloufar, Vladimir Mikryukov, Sten Anslan, et al.. (2023). Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon and nutrient cycling along a natural soil acidity gradient as revealed by metagenomics. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2607–2620. 28 indexed citations
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Bahram, Mohammad, Mikk Espenberg, Jaan Pärn, et al.. (2022). Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1430–1430. 148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tedersoo, Leho, Sten Anslan, Mohammad Bahram, Urmas Kõljalg, & Kessy Abarenkov. (2020). Identifying the ‘unidentified’ fungi: a global-scale long-read third-generation sequencing approach. Fungal Diversity. 103(1). 273–293. 57 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, R. Henrik Nilsson, Christian Wurzbacher, et al.. (2018). Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys. 39(39). 29–40. 40 indexed citations
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Tedersoo, Leho, Santiago Sánchez‐Ramírez, Urmas Kõljalg, et al.. (2018). High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses. Fungal Diversity. 90(1). 135–159. 456 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, & Leho Tedersoo. (2017). Seasonal and annual variation in fungal communities associated with epigeic springtails (Collembola spp.) in boreal forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 245–252. 38 indexed citations
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Nilsson, R. Henrik, Christian Wurzbacher, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2016). Top 50 most wanted fungi. MycoKeys. 12. 29–40. 61 indexed citations
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Anslan, Sten, Mohammad Bahram, & Leho Tedersoo. (2016). Temporal changes in fungal communities associated with guts and appendages of Collembola as based on culturing and high-throughput sequencing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 96. 152–159. 45 indexed citations
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Bahram, Mohammad, et al.. (2006). ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF AMANITA (AGARICALES, PLUTEACEAE) FROM IRAN. 7(227). 107–119. 6 indexed citations

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