Tom O. Delmont

10.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
52 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Tom O. Delmont is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom O. Delmont has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Tom O. Delmont's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (32 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Tom O. Delmont is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (32 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (23 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (11 papers). Tom O. Delmont collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. Tom O. Delmont's co-authors include A. Murat Eren, Özcan C. Esen, Christopher Quince, Hilary G. Morrison, Joseph H. Vineis, Mitchell L. Sogin, Timothy M. Vogel, Pascal Simonet, Simon Roux and Jiarong Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tom O. Delmont

50 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Anvi’o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data

2015 1.2k citations A. Murat Eren, Özcan C. Esen et al. PeerJ profile →
VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

2021 682 citations Tom O. Delmont et al. profile →
Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes

2018 353 citations Tom O. Delmont, Christopher Quince et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses

2023 62 citations Morgan Gaïa, Lingjie Meng et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom O. Delmont France	33	3.1k	2.8k	603	574	497	52	5.2k
Aaron J. Mussig Australia	6	3.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.4×	617 1.0×	890 1.6×	873 1.8×	11	6.4k
David W. Waite New Zealand	25	2.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	422 0.7×	502 0.9×	630 1.3×	56	5.5k
Maria Chuvochina Australia	20	3.9k 1.3×	4.7k 1.6×	672 1.1×	730 1.3×	1.0k 2.1×	50	7.2k
A. Murat Eren United States	48	3.3k 1.1×	4.8k 1.7×	621 1.0×	575 1.0×	621 1.2×	96	8.4k
Chi-Man Liu Hong Kong	8	2.8k 0.9×	3.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.7×	1.1k 2.0×	615 1.2×	13	7.4k
Luis M. Rodriguez‐R United States	32	3.7k 1.2×	4.6k 1.6×	1.3k 2.2×	830 1.4×	575 1.2×	77	8.0k
Rob Egan United States	11	2.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	470 0.8×	632 1.1×	581 1.2×	17	4.6k
Otto X. Cordero United States	28	2.0k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	404 0.7×	548 1.0×	210 0.4×	57	4.4k
Christian Rinke Australia	32	4.8k 1.6×	5.4k 1.9×	723 1.2×	896 1.6×	1.2k 2.5×	53	8.4k
Ruth A. Schmitz Germany	47	2.4k 0.8×	3.9k 1.4×	548 0.9×	693 1.2×	615 1.2×	180	7.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom O. Delmont

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Jamy, Mahwash, Thomas M. Huber, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, et al.. (2025). Identification of a deep-branching lineage of algae using environmental plastid genomes. Nature Communications. 17(1). 662–662.

Medvedeva, Sofia, Éric Pelletier, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, et al.. (2025). Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes. Nature Microbiology. 11(1). 228–239.

Pessi, Igor Stelmach, Tom O. Delmont, Jonathan P. Zehr, & Jenni Hultman. (2024). Discovery of Eremiobacterota with nifH homologues in tundra soil. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(3). e13277–e13277. 4 indexed citations

Delmont, Tom O., et al.. (2024). Complex Genomes of Early Nucleocytoviruses Revealed by Ancient Origins of Viral Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(8). 7 indexed citations

Rosani, Umberto, Morgan Gaïa, Tom O. Delmont, & Mart Krupovìč. (2023). Tracing the invertebrate herpesviruses in the global sequence datasets. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 11 indexed citations

Gaïa, Morgan, Lingjie Meng, Éric Pelletier, et al.. (2023). Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses. Nature. 616(7958). 783–789. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Meng, Lingjie, Tom O. Delmont, Morgan Gaïa, et al.. (2023). Genomic adaptation of giant viruses in polar oceans. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6233–6233. 11 indexed citations

Pessi, Igor Stelmach, Anna‐Maria Virkkala, Eeva Eronen‐Rasimus, et al.. (2022). In-depth characterization of denitrifier communities across different soil ecosystems in the tundra. Environmental Microbiome. 17(1). 36 indexed citations

Frémont, Paul, Marion Gehlen, Mathieu Vrac, et al.. (2022). Restructuring of plankton genomic biogeography in the surface ocean under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 12(4). 393–401. 28 indexed citations

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Cunha, Violette Da, Morgan Gaïa, Hiroyuki Ogata, et al.. (2022). Giant Viruses Encode Actin-Related Proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(2). 32 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O., Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Iva Veseli, et al.. (2021). Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean. The ISME Journal. 16(4). 927–936. 59 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O.. (2021). Discovery of nondiazotrophic Trichodesmium species abundant and widespread in the open ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(46). 27 indexed citations

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Puetz, Lara, Tom O. Delmont, Ostaizka Aizpurua, et al.. (2021). Gut Microbiota Linked with Reduced Fear of Humans in Red Junglefowl Has Implications for Early Domestication. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 2100018–2100018. 12 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O., Evan Kiefl, Özcan C. Esen, et al.. (2019). Single-amino acid variants reveal evolutionary processes that shape the biogeography of a global SAR11 subclade. eLife. 8. 80 indexed citations

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McKay, Luke J., Mensur Dlakić, Matthew W. Fields, et al.. (2019). Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota. Nature Microbiology. 4(4). 614–622. 88 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O. & A. Murat Eren. (2018). Linking pangenomes and metagenomes: the Prochlorococcus metapangenome. PeerJ. 6. e4320–e4320. 259 indexed citations

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Delmont, Tom O., Christopher Quince, Alon Shaiber, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes. Nature Microbiology. 3(7). 804–813. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

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Delmont, Tom O. & A. Murat Eren. (2016). Identifying contamination with advanced visualization and analysis practices: metagenomic approaches for eukaryotic genome assemblies. PeerJ. 4. e1839–e1839. 58 indexed citations

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Eren, A. Murat, Özcan C. Esen, Christopher Quince, et al.. (2015). Anvi’o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data. PeerJ. 3. e1319–e1319. 1168 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacquiod, Samuel, Sandrine Demanèche, Laure Franqueville, et al.. (2014). Characterization of new bacterial catabolic genes and mobile genetic elements by high throughput genetic screening of a soil metagenomic library. Journal of Biotechnology. 190. 18–29. 21 indexed citations

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