Otto X. Cordero

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Otto X. Cordero is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Otto X. Cordero has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Otto X. Cordero's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (9 papers). Otto X. Cordero is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (9 papers). Otto X. Cordero collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Otto X. Cordero's co-authors include Martin F. Polz, Manoshi Sen Datta, Eric J. Alm, Jonathan Friedman, Mark Smith, Lawrence A. David, Christopher S. Smillie, Matti Gralka, Roman Stocker and Julia Schwartzman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Otto X. Cordero

57 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome

2011 663 citations Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero et al. profile →
Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

2016 310 citations Elżbieta Śliwerska, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Otto X. Cordero United States	28	2.4k	2.0k	793	548	404	57	4.4k
Valeria Souza Mexico	38	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	865 1.1×	234 0.4×	1.1k 2.7×	155	4.8k
Frederick M. Cohan United States	42	4.2k 1.7×	3.2k 1.6×	1.8k 2.3×	260 0.5×	1.2k 3.0×	96	7.0k
Jasmine Lee Australia	22	1.5k 0.6×	818 0.4×	353 0.4×	695 1.3×	281 0.7×	43	3.4k
Richard J. Ellis United Kingdom	36	1.4k 0.6×	924 0.5×	793 1.0×	285 0.5×	690 1.7×	124	4.3k
S. Brook Peterson United States	25	2.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	342 0.6×	741 1.8×	37	5.4k
Rachel J. Whitaker United States	32	2.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	792 1.0×	143 0.3×	471 1.2×	85	4.2k
Jared R. Leadbetter United States	31	2.6k 1.1×	966 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	332 0.6×	532 1.3×	61	4.9k
Yan Boucher Canada	32	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	524 0.7×	518 0.9×	390 1.0×	73	4.1k
Osnat Gillor Israel	33	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	320 0.4×	306 0.6×	302 0.7×	82	3.1k
Tom Defoirdt Belgium	43	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	323 0.4×	850 1.6×	280 0.7×	112	8.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Otto X. Cordero

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Otto X. Cordero

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shan, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2025). Microbiome determinants of productivity in aquaculture of whiteleg shrimp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(5). e0242024–e0242024. 1 indexed citations

Shan, Xiaoyu, YuanQiao Rao, Scott A. Backer, et al.. (2024). Simple Genomic Traits Predict Rates of Polysaccharide Biodegradation. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(29). 13000–13009. 3 indexed citations

Vincent, Flora, Matti Gralka, Daniella Schatz, et al.. (2023). Viral infection switches the balance between bacterial and eukaryotic recyclers of organic matter during coccolithophore blooms. Nature Communications. 14(1). 510–510. 33 indexed citations

Amarnath, Kapil, Sammy Pontrelli, Jiajia Dong, et al.. (2023). Stress-induced metabolic exchanges between complementary bacterial types underly a dynamic mechanism of inter-species stress resistance. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3165–3165. 37 indexed citations

Capovilla, Giovanna, Rogier Braakman, Gregory P. Fournier, et al.. (2023). Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(20). e2213271120–e2213271120. 9 indexed citations

Shan, Xiaoyu, Akshit Goyal, Rachel Gregor, & Otto X. Cordero. (2023). Annotation-free discovery of functional groups in microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(5). 716–724. 23 indexed citations

Gralka, Matti, Shaul Pollak, & Otto X. Cordero. (2023). Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 8(10). 1799–1808. 60 indexed citations

Shan, Xiaoyu, Rachel E. Szabo, & Otto X. Cordero. (2023). Mutation-induced infections of phage-plasmids. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2049–2049. 10 indexed citations

D’Souza, Glen G, Julia Schwartzman, Johannes M. Keegstra, et al.. (2023). Interspecies interactions determine growth dynamics of biopolymer-degrading populations in microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(44). e2305198120–e2305198120. 18 indexed citations

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Palomo, Alejandro, Arnaud Dechesne, Otto X. Cordero, & Barth F. Smets. (2022). Evolutionary Ecology of Natural Comammox Nitrospira Populations. mSystems. 7(1). e0113921–e0113921. 14 indexed citations

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Szabo, Rachel E., Sammy Pontrelli, Jacopo Grilli, et al.. (2022). Historical contingencies and phage induction diversify bacterioplankton communities at the microscale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2117748119–e2117748119. 18 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Trang, Emily J. Zakem, Ali Ebrahimi, et al.. (2022). Microbes contribute to setting the ocean carbon flux by altering the fate of sinking particulates. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1657–1657. 54 indexed citations

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Furman, Ori, Liat Shenhav, Goor Sasson, et al.. (2020). Stochasticity constrained by deterministic effects of diet and age drive rumen microbiome assembly dynamics. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1904–1904. 150 indexed citations

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Bittleston, Leonora, Matti Gralka, Gabriel E. Leventhal, Itzhak Mizrahi, & Otto X. Cordero. (2020). Context-dependent dynamics lead to the assembly of functionally distinct microbial communities. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1440–1440. 90 indexed citations

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Leventhal, Gabriel E., Carles A. Boix, Tim N. Enke, et al.. (2018). Strain-level diversity drives alternative community types in millimetre-scale granular biofilms. Nature Microbiology. 3(11). 1295–1303. 71 indexed citations

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Enke, Tim N., et al.. (2018). Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2743–2743. 88 indexed citations

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Bongrand, Clotilde, Eric J. Koch, Silvia Moriano‐Gutierrez, et al.. (2016). A genomic comparison of 13 symbiotic Vibrio fischeri isolates from the perspective of their host source and colonization behavior. The ISME Journal. 10(12). 2907–2917. 47 indexed citations

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Yawata, Yutaka, Otto X. Cordero, Filippo Menolascina, et al.. (2014). Competition–dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(15). 5622–5627. 150 indexed citations

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Cordero, Otto X., Hans Wildschutte, Benjamin C Kirkup, et al.. (2012). Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance. Science. 337(6099). 1228–1231. 212 indexed citations

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Shapiro, B. Jesse, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, et al.. (2012). Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria. Science. 336(6077). 48–51. 365 indexed citations

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