Sean M. Gibbons

39.7k citations

85 papers · 7.3k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 42

Biological Psychiatry top 2%
Molecular Biology top 1%
- Gut microbiota and health 57
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies 10
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 6
Ecology top 1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 20
Physiology top 2%
- Diet and metabolism studies 16
Periodontics top 2%
Infectious Diseases
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 10
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Nutritional Studies and Diet 5
Genetics
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease 5

Co-authors: Jack A. Gilbert Eric J. Alm Claire Duvallet Christian Diener Thomas Gurry Rafael A. Irizarry Nathan D. Price Andrew T. Magis
Cited by: Biological Psychiatry Molecular Biology Ecology
Journals: Science (1 paper)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)Nature Medicine (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States China Austria

In The Last Decade

Sean M. Gibbons

80 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

2020 Nature Communications
2019 Cell Host & Microbe
2017 Nature Communications
2015 Cell Host & Microbe
2014 PeerJ
2014 Science

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1	Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization mSystems ·Gechlang Tang,Alex V. Carr,C. Pérez,Katherine Ramos Sarmiento,Lisa Levy,Johanna W. Lampe,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons	2025	0
2	Understanding disease-associated metabolic changes in human colonic epithelial cells using the iColonEpithelium metabolic reconstruction PLoS Computational Biology ·Boyu Jiang,Nick Quinn-Bohmann,Christian Diener,Vignesh Bose Nathan,Yu Han-Hallett,Lavanya Reddivari,Sean M. Gibbons,Priyanka Baloni	2025	0
3	Meta-analysis of the human upper respiratory tract microbiome reveals robust taxonomic associations with health and disease BMC Biology ·Nick Quinn-Bohmann,José A. Freixas-Coutin,Jin Jong Seo,Ruth Simmons,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons	2024	3
4	Neonates exposed to HIV but uninfected exhibit an altered gut microbiota and inflammation associated with impaired breast milk antibody function Microbiome ·Adam J. Byrne,Christian Diener,Bryan P. Brown,Brandon S. Maust,Colin Feng,Berenice Alinde,Sean M. Gibbons,Meghan A. Koch,Clive M. Gray,Heather B. Jaspan,Donald Nyangahu	2024	4
5	Multiomic signatures of body mass index identify heterogeneous health phenotypes and responses to a lifestyle intervention Nature Medicine ·Kengo Watanabe,Tomasz Wilmanski,Christian Diener,John C. Earls,Anat Zimmer,Briana Lincoln,Jennifer Hadlock,Jennifer C. Lovejoy,Sean M. Gibbons,Andrew T. Magis,Leroy Hood,Nathan D. Price,Noa Rappaport	2023	71
6	Genome–microbiome interplay provides insight into the determinants of the human blood metabolome Nature Metabolism ·Christian Diener,Chengzhen L. Dai,Tomasz Wilmanski,Priyanka Baloni,Brett Smith,Noa Rappaport,Leroy Hood,Andrew T. Magis,Sean M. Gibbons	2022	59
7	The geometry of clinical labs and wellness states from deeply phenotyped humans Nature Communications ·Anat Zimmer,Yael Korem,Noa Rappaport,Tomasz Wilmanski,Priyanka Baloni,Kathleen Jade,Max Robinson,Andrew T. Magis,Jennifer C. Lovejoy,Sean M. Gibbons,Leroy Hood,Nathan D. Price	2021	10
8	From taxonomy to metabolic output: what factors define gut microbiome health? Gut Microbes ·Tomasz Wilmanski,Noa Rappaport,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons,Nathan D. Price	2021	29
9	Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) productivity influenced by microbial inocula under nitrogen-limited conditions in aquaponics PLoS ONE ·Jessica A. Day,Christian Diener,Anne E. Otwell,Kourtney E. Tams,Brad M. Bebout,Angela M. Detweiler,Michael Lee,Madeline T. Scott,Wilson Ta,Monica Ha,Shienna A. Carreon,Kenny Tong,Abdirizak A. Ali,Sean M. Gibbons,Nitin S. Baliga	2021	20
10	MICOM: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiota mSystems ·Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons,Osbaldo Reséndis-Antonio	2020	178
11	Longitudinal analysis reveals transition barriers between dominant ecological states in the gut microbiome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Roie Levy,Andrew T. Magis,John C. Earls,Ohad Manor,Tomasz Wilmanski,Jennifer C. Lovejoy,Sean M. Gibbons,Gilbert S. Omenn,Leroy Hood,Nathan D. Price	2020	44
12	Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology The ISME Journal ·Alex V. Carr,Christian Diener,Nitin S. Baliga,Sean M. Gibbons	2019	185
13	Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota The ISME Journal ·Sean M. Kearney,Sean M. Gibbons,Mathilde Poyet,Thomas Gurry,Kevin Bullock,Jessica R. Allegretti,Clary B. Clish,Eric J. Alm	2018	36
14	Correcting for batch effects in case-control microbiome studies PLoS Computational Biology ·Sean M. Gibbons,Claire Duvallet,Eric J. Alm	2018	103
15	Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responsesbreakdown → Nature Communications ·Claire Duvallet,Sean M. Gibbons,Thomas Gurry,Rafael A. Irizarry,Eric J. Alm	2017	675
16	Forensic analysis of the microbiome of phones and shoes Microbiome ·Simon Lax,Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell,Sean M. Gibbons,Geórgia Barguil Colares,Daniel P. Smith,Jonathan A. Eisen,Jack A. Gilbert	2015	122
17	Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environmentbreakdown → Science ·Simon Lax,Daniel P. Smith,Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell,Sarah M. Owens,Kim M. Handley,Nicole M. Scott,Sean M. Gibbons,Peter E. Larsen,Benjamin D. Shogan,Sophie Weiss,Jessica L. Metcalf,Luke K. Ursell,Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza,Will Van Treuren,Nur A. Hasan,Molly K. Gibson,Rita R. Colwell,Gautam Dantas,Rob Knight,Jack A. Gilbert	2014	633
18	Whole-grain wheat consumption reduces inflammation in a randomized controlled trial on overweight and obese subjects with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviors: role of polyphenols bound to cereal dietary fiber American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Paola Vitaglione,Ilario Mennella,Rosalia Ferracane,Angela A. Rivellese,Rosalba Giacco,Danilo Ercolini,Sean M. Gibbons,Antonietta La Storia,Jack A. Gilbert,Satya S. Jonnalagadda,Frank Thielecke,Maria A. Gallo,Luca Scalfi,Vincenzo Fogliano	2014	243
19	Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sean M. Gibbons,J. Gregory Caporaso,Meg Pirrung,Dawn Field,Rob Knight,Jack A. Gilbert	2013	180
20	Ocean acidification shows negligible impacts on high-latitude bacterial community structure in coastal pelagic mesocosms Biogeosciences ·A.-S. Roy,Sean M. Gibbons,Harald Schunck,Sarah M. Owens,J. Gregory Caporaso,Martin Sperling,Jozef I. Nissimov,Sarah Romac,Lucie Bittner,Martin Mühling,Ulf Riebesell,Julie LaRoche,Jack A. Gilbert	2013	51

About Sean M. Gibbons

Sean M. Gibbons is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biological Psychiatry and Ecology, having authored 85 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (57 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (16 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (5 papers) and Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biological Psychiatry (227 citations), Molecular Biology (4.3k citations) and Ecology (1.5k citations). Sean M. Gibbons has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Jack A. Gilbert, Eric J. Alm, Claire Duvallet, Christian Diener, Thomas Gurry, Rafael A. Irizarry, Nathan D. Price, Andrew T. Magis, Jennifer C. Lovejoy and Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

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