Robert A. Edwards

62.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
219 papers, 30.0k citations indexed

About

Robert A. Edwards is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. Edwards has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 30.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Molecular Biology, 120 papers in Ecology and 35 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Robert A. Edwards's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (73 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers). Robert A. Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (73 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (47 papers). Robert A. Edwards collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Robert A. Edwards's co-authors include Robert Schmieder, Forest Rohwer, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Ross Overbeek, Veronika Vonstein, Gordon D. Pusch, Terry Disz, M. J. Merrick and Svetlana Gerdes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Edwards

213 papers receiving 29.5k citations

Hit Papers

Quality control and preprocessing of meta... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2011 2013 2008 2015 2006 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets
    2011 3.7k citations Robert A. Edwards et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  2. The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)
    2013 3.5k citations Robert Olson, Robert A. Edwards et al. profile →
  3. The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes
    2008 2.7k citations Robert A. Edwards et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →
  4. RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes
    2015 2.0k citations Robert A. Edwards, Robert Olson et al. profile →
  5. Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior
    2006 1.0k citations Matthew B. Sullivan, Robert A. Edwards et al. profile →
  6. The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions
    2006 709 citations Florent Angly, Ben Felts et al. PLoS Biology profile →
  7. Viral metagenomics
    2005 587 citations Robert A. Edwards, Forest Rohwer profile →
  8. A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes
    2014 567 citations Bas E. Dutilh, Katelyn McNair et al. profile →
  9. Nitrogen control in bacteria
    1995 557 citations Robert A. Edwards et al. profile →
  10. Gene-centric metagenomics of the fiber-adherent bovine rumen microbiome reveals forage specific glycoside hydrolases
    2009 548 citations Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards et al. profile →
  11. Fast Identification and Removal of Sequence Contamination from Genomic and Metagenomic Datasets
    2011 524 citations Robert A. Edwards 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
Robert A. Edwards United States 69 15.7k 14.9k 4.5k 2.9k 2.5k 219 30.0k
George M Garrity United States 34 14.4k 0.9× 10.3k 0.7× 4.3k 1.0× 2.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 247 28.8k
Christopher Quince United Kingdom 54 17.1k 1.1× 14.0k 0.9× 4.9k 1.1× 2.6k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 111 34.5k
Donovan H. Parks Australia 43 23.5k 1.5× 19.8k 1.3× 5.4k 1.2× 3.5k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 66 44.2k
Alexey Gurevich Russia 20 15.3k 1.0× 8.1k 0.5× 5.9k 1.3× 3.5k 1.2× 3.1k 1.2× 30 28.4k
Mitchell L. Sogin United States 90 23.0k 1.5× 15.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.6× 2.4k 0.8× 3.7k 1.5× 213 39.0k
Glenn Tesler United States 23 15.8k 1.0× 7.7k 0.5× 6.8k 1.5× 3.3k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 36 28.8k
Ivica Letunić Germany 37 20.0k 1.3× 6.5k 0.4× 8.7k 1.9× 2.1k 0.7× 2.5k 1.0× 48 34.9k
James R. Cole United States 46 16.2k 1.0× 13.0k 0.9× 4.7k 1.0× 2.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 98 35.8k
Nikolay Vyahhi Russia 6 13.0k 0.8× 7.0k 0.5× 5.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 7 24.8k
Dmitry Antipov Russia 16 12.2k 0.8× 6.9k 0.5× 4.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 29 23.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Long, et al.. (2026). Interactions of Mucus Monosaccharides and the Epidermal Microbiome in Four Benthic Elasmobranchs. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 18(2). e70303–e70303.
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Gulliver, Emily L., Dinesh Subedi, Nathan R. Campbell, et al.. (2025). Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut. Nature. 647(8090). 698–705. 1 indexed citations
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McNair, Katelyn, Péter Salamon, Robert A. Edwards, & Anca M. Segall. (2024). PRFect: a tool to predict programmed ribosomal frameshifts in prokaryotic and viral genomes. BMC Bioinformatics. 25(1). 82–82. 3 indexed citations
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Lima, Laís Farias Oliveira, et al.. (2024). Pre-Bleaching Coral Microbiome Is Enriched in Beneficial Taxa and Functions. Microorganisms. 12(5). 1005–1005. 1 indexed citations
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Papudeshi, Bhavya, Michael J. Roach, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, et al.. (2024). Sphae: an automated toolkit for predicting phage therapy candidates from sequencing data. Bioinformatics Advances. 5(1). vbaf004–vbaf004. 4 indexed citations
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Roach, Michael J., Sarah J. Beecroft, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, et al.. (2024). Hecatomb: an integrated software platform for viral metagenomics. GigaScience. 13. 7 indexed citations
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Bouras, George, Louise M. Judd, Robert A. Edwards, et al.. (2024). How low can you go? Short-read polishing of Oxford Nanopore bacterial genome assemblies. Microbial Genomics. 10(6). 23 indexed citations
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Droit, Lindsay, Alejandro A. Vega, Kathie A. Mihindukulasuriya, et al.. (2023). Draft genomes of 12 Bifidobacterium isolates from human IBD fecal samples. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(1). e0013023–e0013023. 1 indexed citations
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Edwards, Robert A., et al.. (2023). Knowing and Naming: Phage Annotation and Nomenclature for Phage Therapy. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 77(Supplement_5). S352–S359. 21 indexed citations
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Zhou, Carol, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, Robert A. Edwards, et al.. (2021). MultiPhATE2: code for functional annotation and comparison of phage genomes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(5). 16 indexed citations
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Dutilh, Bas E., Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, et al.. (2021). Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses. Current Opinion in Virology. 51. 207–215. 35 indexed citations
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Rojas, María Isabel, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, Katelyn McNair, et al.. (2020). A Distinct Contractile Injection System Gene Cluster Found in a Majority of Healthy Adult Human Microbiomes. mSystems. 5(4). 9 indexed citations
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Lima, Laís Farias Oliveira, Bhavya Papudeshi, Megan M. Morris, et al.. (2020). Modeling of the Coral Microbiome: the Influence of Temperature and Microbial Network. mBio. 11(2). 48 indexed citations
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Doane, Michael P., John M. Haggerty, Robert A. Edwards, et al.. (2020). Latitude and chlorophyll a density drive the distribution of carbohydrate‐active enzymes in the planktonic microbial fraction of the epipelagic zone. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 12(5). 473–485. 1 indexed citations
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McNair, Katelyn, Carol Zhou, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Brian Souza, & Robert A. Edwards. (2019). PHANOTATE: a novel approach to gene identification in phage genomes. Bioinformatics. 35(22). 4537–4542. 172 indexed citations
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Zhou, Carol, Stephanie Malfatti, Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, et al.. (2019). multiPhATE: bioinformatics pipeline for functional annotation of phage isolates. Bioinformatics. 35(21). 4402–4404. 33 indexed citations
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Frank, Jeremy A., Don Lorimer, Merry Youle, et al.. (2013). Structure and function of a cyanophage-encoded peptide deformylase. The ISME Journal. 7(6). 1150–1160. 25 indexed citations
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Angly, Florent, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, et al.. (2006). The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions. PLoS Biology. 4(11). e368–e368. 709 indexed citations breakdown →
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Collins, Matthew, Ubaldina M. Rodrigues, R.H. Dainty, Robert A. Edwards, & T.A. Roberts. (1992). Taxonomic studies on a psychrophilicClostridiumfrom vacuum-packed beef: Description ofClostridium estertheticumsp. nov.. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 96(2-3). 235–239. 64 indexed citations
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Hosmer, Trina & Robert A. Edwards. (1984). Imaging: A Tool for Data Reduction. The American Statistician. 38(4). 322–327. 1 indexed citations

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