William Nelson

138.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
298 papers, 36.7k citations indexed

About

William Nelson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Nelson has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 36.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Molecular Biology, 74 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in William Nelson's work include Gut microbiota and health (91 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (68 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (60 papers). William Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (91 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (68 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (60 papers). William Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. William Nelson's co-authors include Steven R. Gill, David A. Relman, Paul B. Eckburg, Elisabeth M. Bik, Elizabeth Purdom, Michael Sargent, Les Dethlefsen, Çharles N. Bernstein, Claire M. Fraser and Manolito Torralba and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Nelson

293 papers receiving 35.7k citations

Hit Papers

Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora 2001 2026 2009 2017 2005 2001 2006 2013 2006 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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.

  1. Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora
    2005 6.0k citations Paul B. Eckburg, Elisabeth M. Bik et al. Science profile →
  2. The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): a resource for assessing exposure to environmental pollutants
    2001 3.5k citations William Nelson et al. profile →
  3. Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome
    2006 3.5k citations Steven R. Gill, Mihai Pop et al. Science profile →
  4. Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey ( Alouatta pigra ) gastrointestinal microbiomes
    2013 1.0k citations Katherine R. Amato, Carl J. Yeoman et al. profile →
  5. Identification of a conserved bacterial protein secretion system in Vibrio cholerae using the Dictyostelium host model system
    2006 894 citations Stefan Pukatzki, Amy T. et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach
    2006 817 citations Elisabeth M. Bik, Paul B. Eckburg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. A Guild of 45 CRISPR-Associated (Cas) Protein Families and Multiple CRISPR/Cas Subtypes Exist in Prokaryotic Genomes
    2005 729 citations Emmanuel F. Mongodin, William Nelson et al. profile →
  8. Enteric dysbiosis associated with a mouse model of alcoholic liver disease
    2010 639 citations Manolito Torralba, William Nelson et al. profile →
  9. Gene-centric metagenomics of the fiber-adherent bovine rumen microbiome reveals forage specific glycoside hydrolases
    2009 548 citations Margret E. Berg Miller, Joanne Emerson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. It's about time: A comparison of Canadian and American time–activity patterns
    2002 538 citations William Nelson et al. profile →
  11. Interplay between the human gut microbiome and host metabolism
    2019 501 citations William Nelson et al. Nature Communications profile →
  12. Bacterial diversity in the oral cavity of 10 healthy individuals
    2010 492 citations Elisabeth M. Bik, Joanne Emerson et al. profile →
  13. Integrated next-generation sequencing of 16S rDNA and metaproteomics differentiate the healthy urine microbiome from asymptomatic bacteriuria in neuropathic bladder associated with spinal cord injury
    2012 370 citations Manolito Torralba, William Nelson et al. profile →
  14. Cultivation of a human-associated TM7 phylotype reveals a reduced genome and epibiotic parasitic lifestyle
    2014 345 citations Xuesong He, Jeffrey S. McLean et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. Groundwater–surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover
    2016 318 citations William Nelson, Robert Danczak et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Nelson United States 86 19.7k 5.5k 4.2k 4.0k 3.9k 298 36.7k
Susan Holmes United States 60 23.9k 1.2× 13.8k 2.5× 3.7k 0.9× 3.8k 1.0× 3.7k 1.0× 189 52.9k
Patrick D. Schloss United States 75 22.6k 1.1× 14.1k 2.6× 2.4k 0.6× 2.8k 0.7× 3.2k 0.8× 201 44.1k
José C. Clemente United States 54 21.9k 1.1× 8.0k 1.5× 2.8k 0.7× 4.7k 1.2× 3.6k 0.9× 135 38.2k
Paul J. McMurdie United States 19 19.9k 1.0× 12.9k 2.4× 2.5k 0.6× 3.3k 0.8× 3.4k 0.9× 22 42.5k
J. Gregory Caporaso United States 65 28.1k 1.4× 18.6k 3.4× 2.6k 0.6× 4.5k 1.1× 4.3k 1.1× 123 57.4k
Gary L. Andersen United States 70 15.7k 0.8× 10.6k 1.9× 1.6k 0.4× 3.0k 0.7× 2.4k 0.6× 216 34.5k
Catherine Lozupone United States 56 28.3k 1.4× 12.4k 2.3× 2.7k 0.6× 6.4k 1.6× 4.8k 1.2× 104 48.8k
Hauke Smidt Netherlands 86 14.4k 0.7× 3.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.3× 3.2k 0.8× 5.2k 1.3× 409 27.0k
Jack A. Gilbert United States 92 18.0k 0.9× 13.6k 2.5× 1.4k 0.3× 3.6k 0.9× 2.5k 0.6× 383 38.9k
Dirk Gevers United States 68 26.2k 1.3× 7.4k 1.4× 4.3k 1.0× 4.6k 1.2× 5.6k 1.4× 94 42.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Nelson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rodríguez-Ramos, Josué, Natalie Sadler, Samuel Purvine, et al.. (2025). Environmental matrix and moisture influence soil microbial phenotypes in a simplified porous media incubation. mSystems. 10(3). e0161624–e0161624. 2 indexed citations
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Song, Hyun‐Seob, Joon‐Yong Lee, Christopher S. Henry, et al.. (2025). Coupling flux balance analysis with reactive transport modeling through machine learning for rapid and stable simulation of microbial metabolic switching. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 6042–6042. 3 indexed citations
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Oda, Yasuhiro, William Nelson, William G. Alexander, et al.. (2025). A Rhodopseudomonas strain with a substantially smaller genome retains the core metabolic versatility of its genus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(4). e0205624–e0205624. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Ruonan, Michelle Davison, William Nelson, et al.. (2023). Hi-C metagenome sequencing reveals soil phage–host interactions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7666–7666. 41 indexed citations
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Nelson, William, et al.. (2023). Snekmer: a scalable pipeline for protein sequence fingerprinting based on amino acid recoding. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad005–vbad005. 3 indexed citations
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McClure, Ryan, Robert Danczak, William Nelson, et al.. (2022). Interaction Networks Are Driven by Community-Responsive Phenotypes in a Chitin-Degrading Consortium of Soil Microbes. mSystems. 7(5). e0037222–e0037222. 23 indexed citations
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Christensen, David G., Jesse G. Meyer, Alexandria K. D’Souza, et al.. (2018). Identification of Novel Protein Lysine Acetyltransferases in Escherichia coli. mBio. 9(5). 85 indexed citations
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Vlčková, Klára, Andrés Gómez, Klára J. Petrželková, et al.. (2016). Effect of Antibiotic Treatment on the Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Free-Ranging Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla). Microbial Ecology. 72(4). 943–954. 15 indexed citations
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Rosas‐Salazar, Christian, Meghan H. Shilts, Andrey Tovchigrechko, et al.. (2016). Nasopharyngeal Microbiome in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Resembles Profile Associated with Increased Childhood Asthma Risk. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 193(10). 1180–1183. 50 indexed citations
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Amato, Katherine R., Carl J. Yeoman, Christopher A. Schmitt, et al.. (2015). Variable responses of human and non-human primate gut microbiomes to a Western diet. Microbiome. 3(1). 53–53. 84 indexed citations
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He, Xuesong, Jeffrey S. McLean, Anna Edlund, et al.. (2014). Cultivation of a human-associated TM7 phylotype reveals a reduced genome and epibiotic parasitic lifestyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(1). 244–249. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tian, Ying, Xuesong He, Manolito Torralba, et al.. (2010). Using DGGE profiling to develop a novel culture medium suitable for oral microbial communities. Molecular Oral Microbiology. 25(5). 357–367. 103 indexed citations
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White, James R., Patricia Escobar‐Páramo, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, William Nelson, & Jocelyne DiRuggiero. (2008). Extensive Genome Rearrangements and Multiple Horizontal Gene Transfers in a Population of Pyrococcus Isolates from Vulcano Island, Italy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(20). 6447–6451. 18 indexed citations
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Bryant, Donald A., Amaya M. Garcia Costas, Julia A. Maresca, et al.. (2007). Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum: An Aerobic Phototrophic Acidobacterium. Science. 317(5837). 523–526. 273 indexed citations
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Gill, Steven R., Mihai Pop, Robert T. DeBoy, et al.. (2006). Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome. Science. 312(5778). 1355–1359. 3466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pukatzki, Stefan, Amy T., Bryan Krastins, et al.. (2006). Identification of a conserved bacterial protein secretion system in Vibrio cholerae using the Dictyostelium host model system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(5). 1528–1533. 894 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bik, Elisabeth M., Paul B. Eckburg, Steven R. Gill, et al.. (2006). Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(3). 732–737. 817 indexed citations breakdown →
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DeBoy, Robert T., Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Joanne Emerson, & William Nelson. (2006). Chromosome Evolution in the Thermotogales : Large-Scale Inversions and Strain Diversification of CRISPR Sequences. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(7). 2364–2374. 50 indexed citations
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Mongodin, Emmanuel F., Ioana R. Hance, Robert T. DeBoy, et al.. (2005). Gene Transfer and Genome Plasticity in Thermotoga maritima , a Model Hyperthermophilic Species. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(14). 4935–4944. 34 indexed citations

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