Patrick D. Schloss

75.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
201 papers, 44.1k citations indexed

About

Patrick D. Schloss is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick D. Schloss has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 44.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Molecular Biology, 57 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 46 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Patrick D. Schloss's work include Gut microbiota and health (72 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers). Patrick D. Schloss is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (72 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (35 papers). Patrick D. Schloss collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Patrick D. Schloss's co-authors include Sarah L. Westcott, Jo Handelsman, Nielson T. Baxter, Courtney J. Robinson, Jason W. Sahl, David J. Horn, Emily B. Hollister, Carolyn F. Weber, Blaž Stres and Gerhard Thallinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick D. Schloss

199 papers receiving 43.5k citations

Hit Papers

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Co... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2009 2013 2005 2011 2012 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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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.

  1. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
    2009 16.9k citations Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  2. Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform
    2013 5.3k citations Sarah L. Westcott, Nielson T. Baxter et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  3. Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness
    2005 2.1k citations Patrick D. Schloss et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  4. Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies
    2011 1.7k citations Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott et al. profile →
  5. Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome \n
    2012 723 citations Alyxandria M. Schubert, Patrick D. Schloss et al. profile →
  6. Metagenomics: Genomic Analysis of Microbial Communities
    2004 669 citations Patrick D. Schloss et al. profile →
  7. Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body
    2014 635 citations Tao Ding, Patrick D. Schloss profile →
  8. Comparison of the Respiratory Microbiome in Healthy Nonsmokers and Smokers
    2013 585 citations Patrick D. Schloss, Vincent B. Young et al. profile →
  9. The Gut Microbiome Modulates Colon Tumorigenesis
    2013 558 citations Joseph P. Zackular, Nielson T. Baxter et al. mBio profile →
  10. Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis
    2011 551 citations Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
  11. Decade-long bacterial community dynamics in cystic fibrosis airways
    2012 454 citations Patrick D. Schloss, Vincent B. Young et al. profile →
  12. Looking for a Signal in the Noise: Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome
    2016 423 citations Marc A. Sze, Patrick D. Schloss mBio profile →
  13. The Human Gut Microbiome as a Screening Tool for Colorectal Cancer
    2014 400 citations Joseph P. Zackular, Mary A.M. Rogers et al. Cancer Prevention Research profile →
  14. Rarefaction is currently the best approach to control for uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequence analyses
    2024 62 citations Patrick D. Schloss mSphere profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick D. Schloss United States 75 22.6k 14.1k 4.7k 4.0k 3.8k 201 44.1k
Paul J. McMurdie United States 19 19.9k 0.9× 12.9k 0.9× 6.3k 1.4× 3.4k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 22 42.5k
Jörg Peplies Germany 28 21.9k 1.0× 17.5k 1.2× 5.9k 1.3× 4.3k 1.1× 2.5k 0.7× 39 44.4k
Susan Holmes United States 60 23.9k 1.1× 13.8k 1.0× 6.8k 1.5× 3.4k 0.8× 4.5k 1.2× 189 52.9k
Elmar Pruesse Germany 8 19.8k 0.9× 16.4k 1.2× 5.3k 1.1× 4.0k 1.0× 2.4k 0.6× 10 41.1k
Christian Quast Germany 17 17.9k 0.8× 15.1k 1.1× 4.9k 1.1× 3.9k 1.0× 2.3k 0.6× 22 38.6k
J. Gregory Caporaso United States 65 28.1k 1.2× 18.6k 1.3× 7.8k 1.7× 5.2k 1.3× 4.3k 1.1× 123 57.4k
Christopher Quince United Kingdom 54 17.1k 0.8× 14.0k 1.0× 4.9k 1.0× 3.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 111 34.5k
Jack A. Gilbert United States 92 18.0k 0.8× 13.6k 1.0× 5.0k 1.1× 3.3k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 383 38.9k
Catherine Lozupone United States 56 28.3k 1.3× 12.4k 0.9× 5.0k 1.1× 2.9k 0.7× 5.7k 1.5× 104 48.8k
Gary L. Andersen United States 70 15.7k 0.7× 10.6k 0.8× 4.7k 1.0× 3.7k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 216 34.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick D. Schloss

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schloss, Patrick D.. (2024). Rarefaction is currently the best approach to control for uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequence analyses. mSphere. 9(2). e0035423–e0035423. 62 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schloss, Patrick D.. (2023). Waste not, want not: revisiting the analysis that called into question the practice of rarefaction. mSphere. 9(1). e0035523–e0035523. 28 indexed citations
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Armour, Courtney R., et al.. (2023). Machine learning classification by fitting amplicon sequences to existing OTUs. mSphere. 8(5). e0033623–e0033623. 3 indexed citations
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Lesniak, Nicholas A., Alyxandria M. Schubert, Kaitlin J. Flynn, et al.. (2022). The Gut Bacterial Community Potentiates Clostridioides difficile Infection Severity. mBio. 13(4). e0118322–e0118322. 32 indexed citations
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Lesniak, Nicholas A., et al.. (2021). Clearance of Clostridioides difficile Colonization Is Associated with Antibiotic-Specific Bacterial Changes. mSphere. 6(3). 18 indexed citations
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Tomkovich, Sarah, et al.. (2021). An Osmotic Laxative Renders Mice Susceptible to Prolonged Clostridioides difficile Colonization and Hinders Clearance. mSphere. 6(5). e0062921–e0062921. 12 indexed citations
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Maseda, Damián, Joseph P. Zackular, Bruno Caetano Trindade, et al.. (2019). Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Alter the Microbiota and Exacerbate Clostridium difficile Colitis while Dysregulating the Inflammatory Response. mBio. 10(1). 43 indexed citations
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Sze, Marc A. & Patrick D. Schloss. (2018). Leveraging Existing 16S rRNA Gene Surveys To Identify Reproducible Biomarkers in Individuals with Colorectal Tumors. mBio. 9(3). 42 indexed citations
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Ding, Tao, Shannon Telesco, Calixte S. Monast, et al.. (2018). Fecal Microbiota Signatures Are Associated with Response to Ustekinumab Therapy among Crohn’s Disease Patients. mBio. 9(2). 125 indexed citations
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Flynn, Kaitlin J., Mack T. Ruffin, D. Kim Turgeon, & Patrick D. Schloss. (2018). Spatial Variation of the Native Colon Microbiota in Healthy Adults. Cancer Prevention Research. 11(7). 393–402. 54 indexed citations
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Schloss, Patrick D.. (2017). Preprinting Microbiology. mBio. 8(3). 8 indexed citations
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Vengeliene, Valentina, Anton Bespalov, Sandra Horschitz, et al.. (2017). Towards trans-diagnostic mechanisms in psychiatry: Neurobehavioral profile of rats with a loss of function point mutation in the dopamine transporter gene. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 10(4). 451–461. 24 indexed citations
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Sze, Marc A. & Patrick D. Schloss. (2016). Looking for a Signal in the Noise: Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome. mBio. 7(4). 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schloss, Patrick D., et al.. (2016). Status of the Archaeal and Bacterial Census: an Update. mBio. 7(3). 92 indexed citations
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Zackular, Joseph P., Mary A.M. Rogers, Mack T. Ruffin, & Patrick D. Schloss. (2014). The Human Gut Microbiome as a Screening Tool for Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 7(11). 1112–1121. 400 indexed citations breakdown →
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Westcott, Sarah L., et al.. (2013). Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79(17). 5112–5120. 5310 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jain, Sunit, et al.. (2012). The metatranscriptome of a deep-sea hydrothermal plume is dominated by water column methanotrophs and lithotrophs. The ISME Journal. 6(12). 2257–2268. 118 indexed citations
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Schloss, Patrick D., Sarah L. Westcott, Martin Hartmann, et al.. (2009). Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75(23). 7537–7541. 16934 indexed citations breakdown →

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