Sean M. Gibbons

39.7k citations

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

Co-authors: Jack A. Gilbert Eric J. Alm Claire Duvallet Christian Diener Thomas Gurry Rafael A. Irizarry Nathan D. Price Andrew T. Magis
Topics: Gut microbiota and health (57 papers)Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers)Diet and metabolism studies (16 papers)
Cited by: Biological Psychiatry Molecular Biology Ecology
Journals: Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nature Medicine
Partner nations: United States China Austria

In The Last Decade

Sean M. Gibbons

80 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responses

2017 675 citations Claire Duvallet, Sean M. Gibbons et al. Nature Communications profile →
Effects of Diurnal Variation of Gut Microbes and High-Fat Feeding on Host Circadian Clock Function and Metabolism

2015 643 citations Sean M. Gibbons, Jack A. Gilbert et al. profile →
Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment

2014 633 citations Simon Lax, Daniel P. Smith et al. Science profile →
Health and disease markers correlate with gut microbiome composition across thousands of people

2020 550 citations Ohad Manor, Chengzhen L. Dai et al. Nature Communications profile →
Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences

2014 421 citations Luke K. Ursell, Sean M. Gibbons et al. profile →
Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People

2019 254 citations Mathilde Poyet, Sean M. Gibbons et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Sean M. Gibbons

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sean M. Gibbons's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sean M. Gibbons with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sean M. Gibbons more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sean M. Gibbons

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sean M. Gibbons. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sean M. Gibbons. The network helps show where Sean M. Gibbons may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean M. Gibbons

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean M. Gibbons. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean M. Gibbons based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sean M. Gibbons. Sean M. Gibbons is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization 2025 ·mSystems ·(unknown),Alex V. Carr,(unknown),(unknown),Lisa Levy,Johanna W. Lampe,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons	0
2	Understanding disease-associated metabolic changes in human colonic epithelial cells using the iColonEpithelium metabolic reconstruction 2025 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·(unknown),(unknown),Christian Diener,(unknown),(unknown),Lavanya Reddivari,Sean M. Gibbons,Priyanka Baloni	0
3	Meta-analysis of the human upper respiratory tract microbiome reveals robust taxonomic associations with health and disease 2024 ·BMC Biology ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Ruth Simmons,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons	3
4	Neonates exposed to HIV but uninfected exhibit an altered gut microbiota and inflammation associated with impaired breast milk antibody function 2024 ·Microbiome ·Adam J. Byrne,Christian Diener,(unknown),Brandon S. Maust,(unknown),(unknown),Sean M. Gibbons,Meghan A. Koch,Clive M. Gray,Heather B. Jaspan,Donald Nyangahu	4
5	Multiomic signatures of body mass index identify heterogeneous health phenotypes and responses to a lifestyle intervention 2023 ·Nature Medicine ·Kengo Watanabe,Tomasz Wilmanski,Christian Diener,John C. Earls,Anat Zimmer,(unknown),Jennifer Hadlock,Jennifer C. Lovejoy,Sean M. Gibbons,Andrew T. Magis,Leroy Hood,Nathan D. Price,Noa Rappaport	71
6	Genome–microbiome interplay provides insight into the determinants of the human blood metabolome 2022 ·Nature Metabolism ·Christian Diener,Chengzhen L. Dai,Tomasz Wilmanski,Priyanka Baloni,Brett Smith,Noa Rappaport,Leroy Hood,Andrew T. Magis,Sean M. Gibbons	59
7	The geometry of clinical labs and wellness states from deeply phenotyped humans 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Anat Zimmer,Yael Korem,Noa Rappaport,Tomasz Wilmanski,Priyanka Baloni,(unknown),Max Robinson,Andrew T. Magis,Jennifer C. Lovejoy,Sean M. Gibbons,Leroy Hood,Nathan D. Price	10
8	From taxonomy to metabolic output: what factors define gut microbiome health? 2021 ·Gut Microbes ·Tomasz Wilmanski,Noa Rappaport,Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons,Nathan D. Price	29
9	Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) productivity influenced by microbial inocula under nitrogen-limited conditions in aquaponics 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown),Christian Diener,(unknown),(unknown),Brad M. Bebout,Angela M. Detweiler,Michael Lee,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Sean M. Gibbons,Nitin S. Baliga	20
10	MICOM: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiota 2020 ·mSystems ·Christian Diener,Sean M. Gibbons,Osbaldo Reséndis-Antonio	178
11	Longitudinal analysis reveals transition barriers between dominant ecological states in the gut microbiome 2020 ·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	44
12	Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology 2019 ·The ISME Journal ·Alex V. Carr,Christian Diener,Nitin S. Baliga,Sean M. Gibbons	185
13	Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota 2018 ·The ISME Journal ·Sean M. Kearney,Sean M. Gibbons,Mathilde Poyet,Thomas Gurry,Kevin Bullock,Jessica R. Allegretti,Clary B. Clish,Eric J. Alm	36
14	Correcting for batch effects in case-control microbiome studies 2018 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Sean M. Gibbons,Claire Duvallet,Eric J. Alm	103
15	Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responsesbreakdown → 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Claire Duvallet,Sean M. Gibbons,Thomas Gurry,Rafael A. Irizarry,Eric J. Alm	675
16	Forensic analysis of the microbiome of phones and shoes 2015 ·Microbiome ·Simon Lax,Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell,Sean M. Gibbons,Geórgia Barguil Colares,Daniel P. Smith,Jonathan A. Eisen,Jack A. Gilbert	122
17	Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environmentbreakdown → 2014 ·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	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 2014 ·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,(unknown),Luca Scalfi,Vincenzo Fogliano	243
19	Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sean M. Gibbons,J. Gregory Caporaso,Meg Pirrung,Dawn Field,Rob Knight,Jack A. Gilbert	180
20	Ocean acidification shows negligible impacts on high-latitude bacterial community structure in coastal pelagic mesocosms 2013 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown),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	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) and Diet and metabolism studies (16 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.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact