Ulaş Karaöz

19.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
54 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Ulaş Karaöz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulaş Karaöz has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ulaş Karaöz's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Ulaş Karaöz is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Ulaş Karaöz collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Sweden. Ulaş Karaöz's co-authors include Eoin Brodie, Katherine C. Goldfarb, Clark A. Santee, Susan V. Lynch, Trent R. Northen, Akemi Imaoka, Dongguang Wei, Tatsuichiro Shima, Dan R. Littman and Yoshinori Umesaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ulaş Karaöz

52 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Induction of Intestinal Th17 Cells by Segmented Filamentous Bacteria

2009 3.4k citations Eoin Brodie, Ulaş Karaöz et al. profile →
Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly

2018 1.5k citations Kateryna Zhalnina, Katherine Louie et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

2016 741 citations Karthik Anantharaman, Christopher T. Brown et al. Nature Communications profile →
Differential Growth Responses of Soil Bacterial Taxa to Carbon Substrates of Varying Chemical Recalcitrance

2011 493 citations Katherine C. Goldfarb, Ulaş Karaöz et al. Frontiers in Microbiology profile →
Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee

2015 365 citations Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, Fernando E. Vega et al. Nature Communications profile →
METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks

2022 341 citations Zhichao Zhou, Patricia Q. Tran et al. Microbiome profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulaş Karaöz United States	29	4.7k	2.2k	1.8k	1.3k	1.1k	54	9.8k
William W. Mohn Canada	62	5.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	529 0.4×	953 0.8×	165	12.4k
Morgan G. I. Langille Canada	38	7.3k 1.6×	3.0k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	655 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	99	13.5k
Jesse Zaneveld United States	22	7.0k 1.5×	5.0k 2.3×	1.6k 0.9×	994 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	35	14.2k
Tanja Magoč United States	5	5.7k 1.2×	3.8k 1.7×	2.4k 1.4×	767 0.6×	647 0.6×	7	12.1k
Sarah K. Highlander United States	31	5.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	731 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	71	11.7k
Aymé Spor France	33	5.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	429 0.3×	975 0.9×	65	10.6k
Benli Chai United States	23	5.4k 1.2×	4.0k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	452 0.3×	835 0.7×	36	11.6k
Laura Wegener Parfrey Canada	39	8.4k 1.8×	5.2k 2.4×	1.8k 1.0×	676 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	80	15.8k
Niall Gormley United Kingdom	22	3.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1000 0.6×	521 0.4×	615 0.5×	36	8.3k
William A. Walters United States	14	4.6k 1.0×	4.0k 1.8×	1.9k 1.1×	435 0.3×	656 0.6×	18	10.9k

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Marschmann, Gianna L., et al.. (2025). Volatile traits expand the microbial playbook. Trends in Microbiology. 34(3). 252–261.

Marschmann, Gianna L., Jinyun Tang, Kateryna Zhalnina, et al.. (2024). Predictions of rhizosphere microbiome dynamics with a genome-informed and trait-based energy budget model. Nature Microbiology. 9(2). 421–433. 29 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhichao, Patricia Q. Tran, Adam M. Breister, et al.. (2022). METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks. Microbiome. 10(1). 33–33. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

Shi, Wang, Robert Walker, Marcus Schicklberger, et al.. (2021). Microbial Phosphorus Mobilization Strategies Across a Natural Nutrient Limitation Gradient and Evidence for Linkage With Iron Solubilization Traits. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 572212–572212. 23 indexed citations

Nuccio, Erin, Evan Starr, Ulaş Karaöz, et al.. (2020). Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere. The ISME Journal. 14(4). 999–1014. 138 indexed citations

Sorensen, Patrick O., Harry R. Beller, Markus Bill, et al.. (2020). The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 871–871. 32 indexed citations

Ceja-Navarro, Javier A., Ulaş Karaöz, Markus Bill, et al.. (2019). Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle. Nature Microbiology. 4(5). 864–875. 70 indexed citations

Mailloux, Brian J., Wang Shi, Talia Jewell, et al.. (2019). Paired RNA Radiocarbon and Sequencing Analyses Indicate the Importance of Autotrophy in a Shallow Alluvial Aquifer. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10370–10370. 2 indexed citations

Zhalnina, Kateryna, Katherine Louie, Zhao Hao, et al.. (2018). Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nature Microbiology. 3(4). 470–480. 1496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Manalastas-Cantos, Karen, Sharie Keanne C. Ganchua, Midori Kato‐Maeda, et al.. (2018). Whole-genome sequencing and single nucleotide polymorphisms in multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Philippines. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 15. 239–245. 5 indexed citations

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Swenson, Tami L., et al.. (2017). Linking soil biology and chemistry in biological soil crust using isolate exometabolomics. Nature Communications. 9(1). 127 indexed citations

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D’haeseleer, Patrik, Leslie Prufert‐Bebout, Luke C. Burow, et al.. (2017). Metagenomic analysis of intertidal hypersaline microbial mats from Elkhorn Slough, California, grown with and without molybdate. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 67–67. 5 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Karthik, Ulaş Karaöz, Nicholas Bouskill, et al.. (2016). A New Approach to Predict Microbial Community Assembly and Function Using a Stochastic, Genome-Enabled Modeling Framework. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Couradeau, Estelle, Ulaş Karaöz, Hsiao Chien Lim, et al.. (2016). Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10373–10373. 152 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Karthik, Christopher T. Brown, Laura Hug, et al.. (2016). Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13219–13219. 741 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ceja-Navarro, Javier A., Fernando E. Vega, Ulaş Karaöz, et al.. (2015). Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7618–7618. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jewell, Talia, Ulaş Karaöz, Beatrice C. Thomas, et al.. (2014). Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Groundwater Reveals an Active Anammox Bacterial Population. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Goldfarb, Katherine C., Ulaş Karaöz, China A. Hanson, et al.. (2011). Differential Growth Responses of Soil Bacterial Taxa to Carbon Substrates of Varying Chemical Recalcitrance. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2. 94–94. 493 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cox, Michael J., Martin Allgaier, Marshall Baek, et al.. (2010). Airway Microbiota and Pathogen Abundance in Age-Stratified Cystic Fibrosis Patients. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11044–e11044. 339 indexed citations

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Trinklein, Nathan D., Ulaş Karaöz, Jiaqian Wu, et al.. (2007). Integrated analysis of experimental data sets reveals many novel promoters in 1% of the human genome. Genome Research. 17(6). 720–731. 25 indexed citations

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