Somak Chowdhury

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Somak Chowdhury is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Somak Chowdhury has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Somak Chowdhury's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers). Somak Chowdhury is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (6 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers). Somak Chowdhury collaborates with scholars based in Germany, India and United Kingdom. Somak Chowdhury's co-authors include Gerd Gleixner, Robert I. Griffiths, Ashish A. Malik, Jérémy Puissant, Nico Jehmlich, Tim Goodall, Aimeric Blaud, Maaike van Agtmaal, Ian M. Clark and Kate M. Buckeridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Somak Chowdhury

24 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

2018 630 citations Ashish A. Malik, Jérémy Puissant et al. Nature Communications profile →
Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

2016 304 citations Ashish A. Malik, Somak Chowdhury et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Somak Chowdhury Germany	15	675	533	325	299	159	24	1.4k
Petr Hědenec China	20	696 1.0×	670 1.3×	325 1.0×	402 1.3×	128 0.8×	86	1.6k
Alica Chroňáková Czechia	22	474 0.7×	664 1.2×	301 0.9×	228 0.8×	248 1.6×	59	1.6k
Dominik Schneider Germany	25	343 0.5×	668 1.3×	519 1.6×	441 1.5×	213 1.3×	80	1.7k
Kamlesh Jangid India	19	847 1.3×	900 1.7×	559 1.7×	460 1.5×	139 0.9×	40	1.9k
Pierre‐Alain Maron France	13	753 1.1×	743 1.4×	357 1.1×	361 1.2×	131 0.8×	17	1.5k
Stephanie A. Yarwood United States	23	532 0.8×	714 1.3×	224 0.7×	524 1.8×	193 1.2×	53	1.6k
Alexandre B. de Menezes Ireland	16	439 0.7×	553 1.0×	357 1.1×	298 1.0×	124 0.8×	28	1.3k
Xingjia Xiang China	21	618 0.9×	870 1.6×	519 1.6×	719 2.4×	100 0.6×	61	1.8k
Margarete Watzka Austria	15	900 1.3×	725 1.4×	160 0.5×	388 1.3×	332 2.1×	27	1.6k
Battle Karimi France	22	612 0.9×	852 1.6×	433 1.3×	499 1.7×	104 0.7×	28	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Somak Chowdhury

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Somak Chowdhury

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Somak Chowdhury. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Somak Chowdhury 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 Somak Chowdhury. Somak Chowdhury is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zhang, Shuai‐Bing, Anan Ibrahim, Anna J. Komor, et al.. (2025). A chemical radar allows bacteria to detect and kill predators. Cell. 188(9). 2495–2504.e20. 2 indexed citations

Koringa, Prakash, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic Analysis Reveals the Complex Microbial Landscape of Market Chicken Meat. Indian Journal of Microbiology. 64(4). 1846–1855. 2 indexed citations

Mukherji, Ruchira, Anan Ibrahim, Sebastian Götze, et al.. (2023). Nonribosomal peptides protect Pseudomonas nunensis 4A2e from amoebal and nematodal predation. Chemical Science. 14(41). 11573–11581. 6 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Somak, Markus Lange, Ashish A. Malik, et al.. (2022). Plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand. Plant and Soil. 475(1-2). 473–490. 27 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai‐Bing, et al.. (2021). Lipopeptide-mediated bacterial interaction enables cooperative predator defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 39 indexed citations

Baunach, Martin, Somak Chowdhury, Pierre Stallforth, & Elke Dittmann. (2021). The Landscape of Recombination Events That Create Nonribosomal Peptide Diversity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(5). 2116–2130. 46 indexed citations

Mukherji, Ruchira, Shuai‐Bing Zhang, Somak Chowdhury, & Pierre Stallforth. (2020). Chimeric LuxR Transcription Factors Rewire Natural Product Regulation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(15). 6192–6195. 20 indexed citations

Ding, Su, Markus Lange, Julius S. Lipp, et al.. (2020). Characteristics and origin of intact polar lipids in soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 151. 108045–108045. 25 indexed citations

Paul, Dhiraj, Mangesh Suryavanshi, Lokesh Sharma, et al.. (2019). Diversity and Succession of Microbiota during Fermentation of the Traditional Indian Food Idli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(13). 32 indexed citations

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Klapper, Martin, Shuai‐Bing Zhang, Somak Chowdhury, et al.. (2019). Biosynthesis of Pseudomonas‐Derived Butenolides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(14). 5607–5610. 15 indexed citations

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Malik, Ashish A., Jérémy Puissant, Kate M. Buckeridge, et al.. (2018). Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3591–3591. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Jianbei, Michael Reichelt, Somak Chowdhury, Almuth Hammerbacher, & Henrik Hartmann. (2017). Increasing carbon availability stimulates growth and secondary metabolites via modulation of phytohormones in winter wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68(5). 1251–1263. 23 indexed citations

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Kumbhare, Shreyas V., Himanshu Kumar, Somak Chowdhury, et al.. (2017). A cross-sectional comparative study of gut bacterial community of Indian and Finnish children. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10555–10555. 27 indexed citations

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Paul, Dhiraj, Shreyas V. Kumbhare, Somak Chowdhury, et al.. (2016). Exploration of Microbial Diversity and Community Structure of Lonar Lake: The Only Hypersaline Meteorite Crater Lake within Basalt Rock. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1553–1553. 85 indexed citations

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Malik, Ashish A., Somak Chowdhury, Anna Oliver, et al.. (2016). Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1247–1247. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kumar, Himanshu, Pirjo Wacklin, Massalin Nakphaichit, et al.. (2015). Secretor Status Is Strongly Associated with Microbial Alterations Observed during Pregnancy. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0134623–e0134623. 15 indexed citations

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Marathe, Nachiket P., Dhiraj Dhotre, Somak Chowdhury, et al.. (2014). Draft Genome Sequences of Yersinia pestis Strains from the 1994 Plague Epidemic of Surat and 2002 Shimla Outbreak in India. Indian Journal of Microbiology. 54(4). 480–482. 5 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Girish, Dhiraj Dhotre, Mahesh Dharne, et al.. (2013). Draft genome of Ochrobactrum intermedium strain M86 isolated from non-ulcer dyspeptic individual from India. Gut Pathogens. 5(1). 7–7. 12 indexed citations

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Pawar, Shrikant P., Dhiraj Dhotre, Sudarshan A. Shetty, et al.. (2012). Genome Sequence of Janibacter hoylei MTCC8307, Isolated from the Stratospheric Air. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(23). 6629–6630. 7 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Somak, et al.. (2011). Expert-based FMEA of wind turbine system. 1582–1585. 2 indexed citations

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