Thomas J. Sharpton

22.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Sharpton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Sharpton has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Sharpton's work include Gut microbiota and health (50 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Thomas J. Sharpton is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (50 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Thomas J. Sharpton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Thomas J. Sharpton's co-authors include Niklaus J. Grünwald, Zachary Foster, Katherine S. Pollard, Mariel M. Finucane, Christopher A. Gaulke, Timothy Laurent, Keaton Stagaman, Courtney R. Armour, Steven W. Kembel and James P. O’Dwyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Sharpton

98 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data

2017 568 citations Thomas J. Sharpton et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
An introduction to the analysis of shotgun metagenomic data

2014 376 citations Thomas J. Sharpton profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Sharpton United States	32	2.2k	897	603	425	349	100	3.9k
Suparna Mitra United Kingdom	21	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	520 0.9×	449 1.1×	328 0.9×	41	4.1k
Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh Switzerland	16	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	279 0.5×	446 1.0×	323 0.9×	36	3.8k
Antonio González Spain	28	2.0k 0.9×	637 0.7×	445 0.7×	595 1.4×	212 0.6×	94	4.2k
Dawn Ciulla United States	10	2.7k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	331 0.5×	493 1.2×	396 1.1×	13	4.4k
Anna Heintz‐Buschart Germany	31	2.4k 1.1×	660 0.7×	508 0.8×	668 1.6×	410 1.2×	77	4.3k
Diana Tabbaa United States	6	2.0k 0.9×	882 1.0×	268 0.4×	544 1.3×	282 0.8×	6	4.0k
Qiyun Zhu United States	30	2.4k 1.1×	730 0.8×	346 0.6×	269 0.6×	331 0.9×	72	3.9k
Giuseppe D’Auria Spain	30	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	281 0.5×	446 1.0×	288 0.8×	73	4.2k
Ilias Lagkouvardos Germany	33	2.7k 1.2×	770 0.9×	755 1.3×	223 0.5×	535 1.5×	71	4.4k
Mathangi Thiagarajan United States	13	2.1k 0.9×	569 0.6×	257 0.4×	570 1.3×	246 0.7×	18	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas J. Sharpton

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Gaulke, Christopher A., Manuel García‐Jaramillo, Jeffrey T. Morré, et al.. (2024). Gut microbiota metabolically mediate intestinal helminth infection in zebrafish. mSystems. 9(9). e0054524–e0054524. 6 indexed citations

Stagaman, Keaton, Kristin D. Kasschau, Vivek K. Unni, et al.. (2024). Effects of Paraquat, Dextran Sulfate Sodium, and Irradiation on Behavioral and Cognitive Performance and the Gut Microbiome in A53T and A53T-L444P Mice. Genes. 15(3). 282–282. 1 indexed citations

Alexiev, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). Clearing the Air on Pollutant Disruptions of the Gut–Brain Axis: Developmental Exposure to Benzo[a]pyrene Disturbs Zebrafish Behavior and the Gut Microbiome in Adults and Subsequent Generations. Toxics. 13(1). 10–10. 1 indexed citations

Choi, Jaewoo, Robert Danczak, Carmen P. Wong, et al.. (2024). Gut enterotype-dependent modulation of gut microbiota and their metabolism in response to xanthohumol supplementation in healthy adults. Gut Microbes. 16(1). 2315633–2315633. 11 indexed citations

Sharpton, Thomas J., Yuan Lü, Michael L. Kent, Stephen A. Watts, & Zoltán M. Varga. (2023). Tenth Aquatic Models of Human Disease Conference 2022 Workshop Report: Aquatics Nutrition and Reference Diet Development. Zebrafish. 20(6). 243–249. 2 indexed citations

Drewery, Merritt L, Markita Savage, Zoltán M. Varga, et al.. (2023). Assessment of various standard fish diets on gut microbiome of platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 342(3). 271–277. 2 indexed citations

Humphreys, Ian R., Holly K. Arnold, Keaton Stagaman, et al.. (2023). Best practice for wildlife gut microbiome research: A comprehensive review of methodology for 16S rRNA gene investigations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1092216–1092216. 18 indexed citations

Epstein, Hannah E., Kelly E. Speare, Thomas C. Adam, et al.. (2023). Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17088–e17088. 11 indexed citations

David, Maude M., Christine Tataru, L. Baker, et al.. (2022). Revealing General Patterns of Microbiomes That Transcend Systems: Potential and Challenges of Deep Transfer Learning. mSystems. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

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Gentekaki, Eleni, Justin Denny, Thomas J. Sharpton, et al.. (2022). The fecal microbiota of Thai school-aged children associated with demographic factors and diet. PeerJ. 10. e13325–e13325. 4 indexed citations

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Stagaman, Keaton, et al.. (2021). Diet and gut microbiome enterotype are associated at the population level in African buffalo. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2267–2267. 61 indexed citations

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Kent, Michael L., Elena S. Wall, Sophie R Sichel, et al.. (2021). Pseudocapillaria tomentosa , Mycoplasma spp., and Intestinal Lesions in Experimentally Infected Zebrafish Danio rerio. Zebrafish. 18(3). 207–220. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yang, Gerd Bobe, Cristobal L. Miranda, et al.. (2021). Tetrahydroxanthohumol, a xanthohumol derivative, attenuates high-fat diet-induced hepatic steatosis by antagonizing PPARγ. eLife. 10. 12 indexed citations

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Flannery, Jessica, Keaton Stagaman, Adam R. Burns, et al.. (2020). Gut Feelings Begin in Childhood: the Gut Metagenome Correlates with Early Environment, Caregiving, and Behavior. mBio. 11(1). 54 indexed citations

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Sharpton, Thomas J., Svetlana Lyalina, Emily M. Deal, et al.. (2017). Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is Linked to a Longitudinal Restructuring of the Gut Metagenome in Mice. mSystems. 2(5). 40 indexed citations

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Burns, Adam R., V Watral, Sophie R Sichel, et al.. (2017). Transmission of a common intestinal neoplasm in zebrafish by cohabitation. Journal of Fish Diseases. 41(4). 569–579. 22 indexed citations

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Kent, Michael L., et al.. (2016). Effects of Subclinical Mycobacterium chelonae Infections on Fecundity and Embryo Survival in Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 13(S1). S–88. 7 indexed citations

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Wong, Carmen P., et al.. (2016). Aging and serum MCP-1 are associated with gut microbiome composition in a murine model. PeerJ. 4. e1854–e1854. 80 indexed citations

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Sharpton, Thomas J., Samantha J. Riesenfeld, Steven W. Kembel, et al.. (2011). PhylOTU: A High-Throughput Procedure Quantifies Microbial Community Diversity and Resolves Novel Taxa from Metagenomic Data. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(1). e1001061–e1001061. 57 indexed citations

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Sharpton, Thomas J., et al.. (2006). Leveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhance Scientific Research. PLoS Biology. 4(6). e199–e199. 3 indexed citations

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