Raphael Eisenhofer

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Raphael Eisenhofer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphael Eisenhofer has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Raphael Eisenhofer's work include Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Raphael Eisenhofer is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers). Raphael Eisenhofer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Denmark and United States. Raphael Eisenhofer's co-authors include Laura S. Weyrich, Alan Cooper, Clarisse Marotz, Rob Knight, Jeremiah J. Minich, Caitlin A. Selway, Laura S. Weyrich, Andrew G. Farrer, Luis A. Arriola and Christina Adler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raphael Eisenhofer

30 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations

2018 643 citations Raphael Eisenhofer, Jeremiah J. Minich et al. Trends in Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raphael Eisenhofer Australia	13	657	276	123	113	101	32	1.1k
Refugio Robles‐Sikisaka United States	13	275 0.4×	316 1.1×	107 0.9×	167 1.5×	138 1.4×	16	814
James B. Thissen United States	21	274 0.4×	568 2.1×	119 1.0×	60 0.5×	180 1.8×	58	1.4k
Sabin Bhuju Germany	26	1.0k 1.5×	267 1.0×	171 1.4×	263 2.3×	369 3.7×	40	1.9k
Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan United States	16	674 1.0×	186 0.7×	210 1.7×	90 0.8×	135 1.3×	36	1.1k
Justin A. Pachebat United Kingdom	20	539 0.8×	338 1.2×	68 0.6×	85 0.8×	152 1.5×	29	1.4k
Alex Washburne United States	15	813 1.2×	430 1.6×	84 0.7×	65 0.6×	661 6.5×	17	1.8k
Cecil M. Lewis United States	24	898 1.4×	214 0.8×	584 4.7×	64 0.6×	167 1.7×	50	1.7k
Leah Reshef Israel	18	732 1.1×	1.2k 4.5×	273 2.2×	177 1.6×	129 1.3×	37	2.4k
Lasse Vinner Denmark	19	393 0.6×	179 0.6×	368 3.0×	166 1.5×	193 1.9×	39	1.3k
Craig Jackson United States	17	463 0.7×	389 1.4×	135 1.1×	169 1.5×	271 2.7×	30	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raphael Eisenhofer

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Hammer, Tobin J., et al.. (2025). Blanking on blanks: few insect microbiota studies control for contaminants. mBio. 16(4). e0265824–e0265824. 2 indexed citations

Carøe, Christian, Raphael Eisenhofer, Iñaki Odriozola, et al.. (2025). Robust, Open‐Source and Automation‐Friendly DNA Extraction Protocol for Hologenomic Research. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(8). e70042–e70042.

Hogendoorn, Katja, et al.. (2025). The bacterial community associated with the solitary resin bee Megachile tosticauda throughout its life cycle. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 101(4).

Aizpurua, Ostaizka, et al.. (2025). Functional Insights Into the Effect of Feralisation on the Gut Microbiota of Cats Worldwide. Molecular Ecology. 34(6). e17695–e17695. 1 indexed citations

Eisenhofer, Raphael, et al.. (2024). The prevalence of controls in phyllosphere microbiome research: a methodological review. New Phytologist. 242(1). 23–29. 2 indexed citations

Mounsey, Kate, et al.. (2024). Changes in the Skin Microbiota in Two Bare-Nosed Wombats (Vombatus ursinus) with Differing Recovery Trajectories Following Treatment for Sarcoptic Mange. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 60(3). 734–738. 1 indexed citations

Eisenhofer, Raphael, Joseph Nesme, Adam Koziol, et al.. (2024). A comparison of short-read, HiFi long-read, and hybrid strategies for genome-resolved metagenomics. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4). e0359023–e0359023. 15 indexed citations

Dosseto, Anthony, Florian Dux, Raphael Eisenhofer, & Laura S. Weyrich. (2024). Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 31(3). 1570–1584. 1 indexed citations

Eisenhofer, Raphael, Antton Alberdi, & Ben J. Woodcroft. (2024). Quantifying microbial DNA in metagenomes improves microbial trait estimation. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae111–ycae111. 3 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, Iñaki Odriozola, & Antton Alberdi. (2023). Impact of microbial genome completeness on metagenomic functional inference. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 12–12. 27 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, et al.. (2023). Monitoring the viable grapevine microbiome to enhance the quality of wild wines. Microbiology Australia. 44(1). 13–17. 3 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, et al.. (2023). Pouch bacteria: an understudied and potentially important facet of marsupial reproduction. Microbiology Australia. 44(1). 41–44. 1 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, Michaela D. J. Blyton, Kellie Leigh, et al.. (2023). Individuality and stability of the koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus ) faecal microbiota through time. PeerJ. 11. e14598–e14598. 5 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, et al.. (2022). Microbial biogeography of the wombat gastrointestinal tract. PeerJ. 10. e12982–e12982. 2 indexed citations

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Armbrecht, Linda, Raphael Eisenhofer, José Utge, et al.. (2021). Paleo-diatom composition from Santa Barbara Basin deep-sea sediments: a comparison of 18S-V9 and diat-rbcL metabarcoding vs shotgun metagenomics. ISME Communications. 1(1). 66–66. 20 indexed citations

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Farrer, Andrew G., et al.. (2021). Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 7456–7456. 18 indexed citations

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Taggart, David, et al.. (2021). Host reproductive cycle influences the pouch microbiota of wild southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 13–13. 14 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, Kristofer M. Helgen, & David Taggart. (2021). Signatures of landscape and captivity in the gut microbiota of Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 4–4. 9 indexed citations

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Weyrich, Laura S., Andrew G. Farrer, Raphael Eisenhofer, et al.. (2019). Laboratory contamination over time during low‐biomass sample analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(4). 982–996. 162 indexed citations

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Eisenhofer, Raphael, Jeremiah J. Minich, Clarisse Marotz, et al.. (2018). Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations. Trends in Microbiology. 27(2). 105–117. 643 indexed citations breakdown →

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