William A. Walters

55.9k citations
30 papers · 19.8k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 9
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 4
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 2
    • Gut microbiota and health 21
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 10

William A. Walters

30 papers receiving 19.5k citations

Hit Papers

Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades 2019 · 361 citations
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William A. Walters
Comparison fields: 5 of 190
  • Biological Psychiatry 559
  • Gastroenterology 991
  • Molecular Biology 11.6k
  • Ecology 4.1k
  • Physiology 3.3k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20246
2 202029
3
Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades
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2019361
4
Dynamics of the human gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease
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2017839
5 2016252
6 2016297
7 2015106
8 20153
9
Defining the diversity of microbial eukaryotic communities in the mammalian gut within the context of environmental eukaryotic diversity
20142
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Conducting a Microbiome Study
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2014505
11 2014132
12
Meta‐analyses of human gut microbes associated with obesity and IBD
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2014646
13 2013281
14
Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms
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20126693
15 2012160
16 201216
17 2012408
18
Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes
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20114705
19 201162
20 19994

About William A. Walters

William A. Walters is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Sensory Systems, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, having authored 30 papers that have together received 19.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (4 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers), Lichen and fungal ecology (2 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biological Psychiatry (559 citations), Gastroenterology (991 citations), Molecular Biology (11.6k citations), Ecology (4.1k citations) and Physiology (3.3k citations). William A. Walters has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso, Donna Berg-Lyons, Jack A. Gilbert, Noah Fierer, Christian L. Lauber, Sarah M. Owens, Louise Fraser, Markus Bauer and Niall Gormley. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, PLoS ONE, Microbiome, Frontiers in Microbiology and The Lichenologist.

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