Rachel N. Carmody

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
40 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Rachel N. Carmody is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel N. Carmody has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rachel N. Carmody's work include Gut microbiota and health (28 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (23 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (7 papers). Rachel N. Carmody is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (28 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (23 papers) and Dietary Effects on Health (7 papers). Rachel N. Carmody collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Rachel N. Carmody's co-authors include Peter J. Turnbaugh, Corinne F. Maurice, A. Sloan Devlin, Sudha B. Biddinger, Julie E. Button, Lawrence A. David, Michael A. Fischbach, Rachel J. Dutton, David B. Gootenberg and Yug Varma and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rachel N. Carmody

40 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microb... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2014 2015 2016 2024 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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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. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
    2013 7.2k citations Lawrence A. David, Corinne F. Maurice et al. Nature profile →
  2. Diet Dominates Host Genotype in Shaping the Murine Gut Microbiota
    2014 825 citations Rachel N. Carmody, Peter J. Turnbaugh et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
  3. Dietary Polyphenols Promote Growth of the Gut Bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila and Attenuate High-Fat Diet–Induced Metabolic Syndrome
    2015 534 citations Diana E. Roopchand, Rachel N. Carmody et al. profile →
  4. The microbial pharmacists within us: a metagenomic view of xenobiotic metabolism
    2016 507 citations Peter Spanogiannopoulos, Elizabeth N. Bess et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
  5. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease
    2024 50 citations Amar Sarkar, Siobhán Harty et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rachel N. Carmody United States 25 7.7k 3.7k 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 40 10.9k
Corinne F. Maurice Canada 22 7.2k 0.9× 2.9k 0.8× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 910 0.8× 45 9.7k
A. Sloan Devlin United States 17 7.1k 0.9× 3.1k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 865 0.8× 25 9.8k
Silvia Turroni Italy 51 6.5k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 207 10.0k
Lawrence A. David United States 30 8.8k 1.1× 3.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 51 12.4k
Marco Candela Italy 59 7.5k 1.0× 3.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 906 0.8× 228 12.5k
Rachel J. Dutton United States 24 7.0k 0.9× 2.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 845 0.8× 37 9.6k
Julia K. Goodrich United States 25 9.0k 1.2× 2.6k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 31 14.3k
Elena Biagi Italy 45 6.1k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 737 0.7× 96 9.1k
David B. Gootenberg United States 6 6.1k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 842 0.8× 6 8.0k
Michael A. Mahowald United States 9 8.6k 1.1× 4.3k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 780 0.7× 12 12.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carmody, Rachel N., et al.. (2025). Dietary preservatives alter the gut microbiota in vitro and in vivo with sex-specific consequences for host metabolic development in a mouse model. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 122(1). 221–234. 1 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N., et al.. (2025). An energetic framework for gut microbiome-mediated obesity induced by early-life exposure to antibiotics. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(4). 470–483. 1 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Amar, et al.. (2025). Industrialized diets modulate host eating behavior via the microbiome–gut–brain axis. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 37(2). 164–179. 1 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N., et al.. (2024). Decoupled Nutrient Status: a framework to disentangle host from microbial responses to diets that vary in digestibility. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 2 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N., Krista A Varady, & Peter J. Turnbaugh. (2024). Digesting the complex metabolic effects of diet on the host and microbiome. Cell. 187(15). 3857–3876. 28 indexed citations
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Castro, Alberto A., et al.. (2023). Weanling gut microbiota composition of a mouse model selectively bred for high voluntary wheel-running behavior. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(4). 5 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N. & Jordan E. Bisanz. (2023). Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 21(8). 535–550. 51 indexed citations
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Wang, Kai, Raaj S. Mehta, Wenjie Ma, et al.. (2023). The gut microbiome modifies the associations of short- and long-term physical activity with body weight changes. Microbiome. 11(1). 121–121. 12 indexed citations
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Reese, Aspen T., et al.. (2021). Effects of domestication on the gut microbiota parallel those of human industrialization. eLife. 10. 53 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Andrew H. Moeller, et al.. (2021). The gut microbiome as a biomarker of differential susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 27(12). 1115–1134. 34 indexed citations
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Ma, Siyuan, Boyu Ren, Himel Mallick, et al.. (2021). A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1008913–e1008913. 40 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Katerina V.‐A. Johnson, et al.. (2020). Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(8). 1020–1035. 127 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N., Jordan E. Bisanz, Benjamin P. Bowen, et al.. (2019). Cooking shapes the structure and function of the gut microbiome. Nature Microbiology. 4(12). 2052–2063. 114 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N. & Aaron L. Baggish. (2019). Working out the bugs: microbial modulation of athletic performance. Nature Metabolism. 1(7). 658–659. 3 indexed citations
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Tao, Ming, James J. O’Leary, Michael R. MacArthur, et al.. (2019). Insights From a Short-Term Protein–Calorie Restriction Exploratory Trial in Elective Carotid Endarterectomy Patients. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 53(6). 470–476. 12 indexed citations
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Zhang, Li, Rachel N. Carmody, Rocio M. Duran, et al.. (2018). Grape proanthocyanidin-induced intestinal bloom of Akkermansia muciniphila is dependent on its baseline abundance and precedes activation of host genes related to metabolic health. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 56. 142–151. 75 indexed citations
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Carmody, Rachel N., Michael Dannemann, Adrian W. Briggs, et al.. (2016). Genetic Evidence of Human Adaptation to a Cooked Diet. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(4). 1091–1103. 21 indexed citations
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David, Lawrence A., Corinne F. Maurice, Rachel N. Carmody, et al.. (2013). Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature. 505(7484). 559–563. 7181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Carmody, Rachel N. & Richard W. Wrangham. (2009). Cooking and the Human Commitment to a High-quality Diet. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 74(0). 427–434. 27 indexed citations
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Boback, Scott M., Christian L. Cox, Brian D. Ott, et al.. (2007). Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 148(3). 651–656. 68 indexed citations

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