Rohit Ghai

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Rohit Ghai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rohit Ghai has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 67 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rohit Ghai's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (59 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (28 papers). Rohit Ghai is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (59 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (28 papers). Rohit Ghai collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Czechia and Germany. Rohit Ghai's co-authors include Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera, Vipin Chandra Kalia, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Rashmi Rashmi, Maliheh Mehrshad, Michaela M. Salcher, Trinad Chakraborty, Adrian‐Ștefan Andrei, Ana-Belén Martín-Cuadrado and Uday Kishore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rohit Ghai

93 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rohit Ghai Spain	41	2.9k	2.8k	745	693	664	95	5.8k
Shuai Liu China	45	1.1k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	554 0.7×	446 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	217	6.5k
Jason E. Fish Canada	38	1.5k 0.5×	6.2k 2.2×	191 0.3×	973 1.4×	501 0.8×	76	10.1k
Philippe Lebaron France	50	4.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.8×	749 1.0×	228 0.3×	983 1.5×	166	9.1k
Ruddy Wattiez Belgium	49	724 0.2×	3.0k 1.1×	626 0.8×	690 1.0×	1.5k 2.3×	255	8.4k
Elena Fabbri Italy	50	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	605 0.8×	551 0.8×	3.0k 4.5×	213	8.2k
Xi‐Ying Zhang China	33	1.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	236 0.3×	222 0.3×	180 0.3×	182	4.3k
Alberto Pallavicini Italy	43	1.2k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	158 0.2×	1.4k 2.1×	221 0.3×	199	5.8k
Qingyun Yan China	51	2.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	102 0.1×	1.6k 2.3×	1.2k 1.8×	188	8.2k
Xiangzhen Li China	53	3.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	328 0.4×	203 0.3×	1.5k 2.2×	184	9.3k
Ariel Kushmaro Israel	44	3.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	102 0.1×	1.2k 1.7×	687 1.0×	159	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rohit Ghai

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Salcher, Michaela M., Maria‐Cecilia Chiriac, Paul‐Adrian Bulzu, et al.. (2025). Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7971–7971. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Zhen‐Hao, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Sven Dahlke, et al.. (2025). Diversity and environmental distribution of Asgard archaea in shallow saline sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1549128–1549128. 1 indexed citations

Mujakić, Izabela, Jason Woodhouse, Jason Dean, et al.. (2024). Phenology and ecological role of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs in freshwaters. Microbiome. 12(1). 65–65. 6 indexed citations

Bulzu, Paul‐Adrian, Vojtěch Kasalický, Markus Haber, et al.. (2024). Isolation of a widespread giant virus implicated in cryptophyte bloom collapse. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Park, Hongjae, Paul‐Adrian Bulzu, Tanja Shabarova, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the genomic basis of symbiotic interactions and niche adaptations in freshwater picocyanobacteria. Microbiome. 12(1). 150–150. 3 indexed citations

Mujakić, Izabela, Adrian‐Ștefan Andrei, Tanja Shabarova, et al.. (2021). Common Presence of Phototrophic Gemmatimonadota in Temperate Freshwater Lakes. mSystems. 6(2). 30 indexed citations

Salcher, Michaela M., et al.. (2020). Visualization of Lokiarchaeia and Heimdallarchaeia (Asgardarchaeota) by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition (CARD-FISH). mSphere. 5(4). 7 indexed citations

Salcher, Michaela M., et al.. (2019). Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae. The ISME Journal. 13(11). 2764–2777. 70 indexed citations

Andrei, Adrian‐Ștefan, Michaela M. Salcher, Maliheh Mehrshad, et al.. (2019). Niche-directed evolution modulates genome architecture in freshwater Planctomycetes. The ISME Journal. 13(4). 1056–1071. 64 indexed citations

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Vavourakis, Charlotte D., Maliheh Mehrshad, Cherel Balkema, et al.. (2019). Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake. BMC Biology. 17(1). 69–69. 77 indexed citations

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Flores‐Uribe, José, Rohit Ghai, Alina Pushkarev, et al.. (2019). Heliorhodopsins are absent in diderm (Gram‐negative) bacteria: Some thoughts and possible implications for activity. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 11(3). 419–424. 25 indexed citations

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Hur, Moonsuk, et al.. (2017). Physiological and genomic insights into the lifestyle of arsenite-oxidizing Herminiimonas arsenitoxidans. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15007–15007. 12 indexed citations

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Vavourakis, Charlotte D., Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera, et al.. (2016). Metagenomic Insights into the Uncultured Diversity and Physiology of Microbes in Four Hypersaline Soda Lake Brines. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 211–211. 140 indexed citations

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Park, Soo-Je, Rohit Ghai, Ana-Belén Martín-Cuadrado, et al.. (2014). Genomes of Two New Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Enriched from Deep Marine Sediments. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96449–e96449. 27 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Valera, Francisco, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, & Rohit Ghai. (2014). Tales from a thousand and one phages. PubMed. 4(2). e28265–e28265. 16 indexed citations

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León, María José, A Fernández, Rohit Ghai, et al.. (2014). From Metagenomics to Pure Culture: Isolation and Characterization of the Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Spiribacter salinus gen. nov., sp. nov. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(13). 3850–3857. 62 indexed citations

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Gonzaga, Aitor, Mario López‐Pérez, Ana-Belén Martín-Cuadrado, Rohit Ghai, & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (2012). Complete Genome Sequence of the Copiotrophic Marine Bacterium Alteromonas macleodii Strain ATCC 27126 ^T. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(24). 6998–6998. 12 indexed citations

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Ghai, Rohit, Lejla Pašić, A Fernández, et al.. (2011). New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 135–135. 231 indexed citations

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Ghai, Rohit & Trinad Chakraborty. (2007). Comparative Microbial Genome Visualization Using GenomeViz. Methods in molecular biology. 395. 97–108. 5 indexed citations

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Kishore, Uday, Rohit Ghai, Trevor J. Greenhough, et al.. (2005). Structural and functional anatomy of the globular domain of complement protein C1q (vol 95, pg 113, 2004). Immunology Letters. 101. 7 indexed citations

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