Thomas A. Richards

15.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
111 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Richards is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Richards has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 55 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Richards's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (52 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (43 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Thomas A. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (52 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (43 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Thomas A. Richards collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Thomas A. Richards's co-authors include David Bass, Meredith D. M. Jones, Guy Leonard, Nicholas J. Talbot, Thorsten Stoeck, Richard Christen, Hans‐Werner Breiner, Markus E. Nebel, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith and Darren M. Soanes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Richards

107 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

2010 1.2k citations Meredith D. M. Jones, Thomas A. Richards et al. profile →
Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

2022 172 citations Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Richards United Kingdom	41	4.1k	3.1k	1.6k	1.1k	668	111	6.6k
Sandra L. Baldauf Sweden	33	4.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	907 0.8×	372 0.6×	69	6.4k
Matthias Wolf Germany	43	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	955 0.6×	448 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	92	5.7k
B. Franz Lang Canada	59	10.7k 2.6×	3.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	648 1.0×	164	13.1k
Diego Darriba Germany	10	3.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	492 0.4×	420 0.6×	16	6.6k
Kenneth Söderhäll Sweden	81	3.9k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	475 0.4×	304 0.5×	248	22.2k
John Rozewicki Japan	8	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	298 0.4×	8	6.4k
Paul Hoover United States	18	3.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	541 0.8×	41	8.0k
Kazunori Yamada Japan	23	3.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	297 0.4×	76	7.8k
Patrick Wincker France	65	8.2k 2.0×	3.9k 1.2×	3.8k 2.3×	567 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	232	15.0k
Michael D. Woodhams Australia	11	3.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	479 0.4×	360 0.5×	16	8.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Richards, Thomas A., et al.. (2026). The LECA had a conventional kinetochore and the kinetoplastid kinetochore is a derived feature – a critical evaluation of Akiyoshi, 2025. Journal of Cell Science. 139(3).

Votýpka, Jan, Miloslav Jirkú, Petr Pajer, et al.. (2025). Trypanosomes in Neotropical frogs: unveiling hidden megadiversity and complex host–parasite patterns. Open Biology. 15(11). 250190–250190.

Milner, David S., Yufeng Fang, Yan Xia, et al.. (2024). Duplication and neofunctionalization of a horizontally transferred xyloglucanase as a facet of the Red Queen coevolutionary dynamic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2218927121–e2218927121. 4 indexed citations

Bordin, Nicola, Salvatore Cosentino, Natasha Glover, et al.. (2024). Quest for Orthologs in the Era of Biodiversity Genomics. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(10). 8 indexed citations

Bermúdez, C., Andrew Courtwright, Thomas A. Richards, et al.. (2023). Lung transplantation for COVID-2019 respiratory failure in the United States: Outcomes 1-year posttransplant and the impact of preoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 167(1). 384–395.e3. 10 indexed citations

Richards, Thomas A., et al.. (2023). Amphibian Perkinsea. Current Biology. 33(1). R8–R10. 3 indexed citations

Picchianti, Lorenzo, Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández, Ni Zhan, et al.. (2023). Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy. The EMBO Journal. 42(10). e112053–e112053. 29 indexed citations

Łapińska, Urszula, Zehra Kahveci, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, et al.. (2023). Systematic comparison of unilamellar vesicles reveals that archaeal core lipid membranes are more permeable than bacterial membranes. PLoS Biology. 21(4). e3002048–e3002048. 14 indexed citations

Alacid, Elisabet, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, David S. Milner, et al.. (2022). A diversified and segregated mRNA spliced-leader system in the parasitic Perkinsozoa. Open Biology. 12(8). 220126–220126. 4 indexed citations

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Blaxter, Mark, Nova Mieszkowska, Federica Di Palma, et al.. (2022). Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maguire, Finlay, Guy Leonard, Joshua D Eaton, et al.. (2021). Emergent RNA–RNA interactions can promote stability in a facultative phototrophic endosymbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 9 indexed citations

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Kilias, Estelle, et al.. (2020). Chytrid fungi distribution and co-occurrence with diatoms correlate with sea ice melt in the Arctic Ocean. Communications Biology. 3(1). 183–183. 32 indexed citations

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Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Elisabeth Hehenberger, Javier del Campo, et al.. (2018). Phylogeny, Evidence for a Cryptic Plastid, and Distribution of Chytriodinium Parasites (Dinophyceae) Infecting Copepods. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66(4). 574–581. 1 indexed citations

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Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Anna Karnkowska, Elisabeth Hehenberger, et al.. (2017). Single cell genomics of uncultured marine alveolates shows paraphyly of basal dinoflagellates. The ISME Journal. 12(1). 304–308. 28 indexed citations

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Grau‐Bové, Xavier, Guifré Torruella, Stuart P. Donachie, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of genomic innovation in the unicellular ancestry of animals. eLife. 6. 104 indexed citations

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Orsi, William D., Jason M. Smith, Shuting Liu, et al.. (2016). Diverse, uncultivated bacteria and archaea underlying the cycling of dissolved protein in the ocean. The ISME Journal. 10(9). 2158–2173. 138 indexed citations

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Campo, Javier del, Diego Mallo, Ramón Massana, et al.. (2014). Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the E uropean coast analysed using high‐throughput sequencing. Environmental Microbiology. 17(9). 3195–3207. 35 indexed citations

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Kim, Eunsoo, Jamie Harrison, Sebastian Sudek, et al.. (2011). Newly identified and diverse plastid-bearing branch on the eukaryotic tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1496–1500. 65 indexed citations

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Archibald, John M. & Thomas A. Richards. (2010). Gene transfer: anything goes in plant mitochondria. BMC Biology. 8(1). 147–147. 29 indexed citations

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Richards, Thomas A., et al.. (2005). The molecular diversity of freshwater picoeukaryotes from an oligotrophic lake reveals diverse, distinctive and globally dispersed lineages. Environmental Microbiology. 7(9). 1413–1425. 138 indexed citations

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