William R. Harcombe

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
50 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

William R. Harcombe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Harcombe has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William R. Harcombe's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (17 papers). William R. Harcombe is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (23 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (17 papers). William R. Harcombe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. William R. Harcombe's co-authors include Jeremy M. Chacón, Ary A. Hoffmann, Christopher J. Marx, Karin S. Pfennig, David W. Pfennig, K. Tracy Reynolds, Michael Turelli, Andrew R. Weeks, James J. Bull and Elizabeth M. Adamowicz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William R. Harcombe

48 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics

2014 372 citations William R. Harcombe, Nicholas Leiby et al. profile →
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

2022 135 citations Daniel Machado, Isabel Rocha et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers

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Daniel E. Rozen Netherlands

Katharine Z. Coyte United Kingdom

Gregory J. Velicer United States

Freya Harrison United Kingdom

Rolf Kümmerli Switzerland

Christian Kost Germany

Sara Mitri Switzerland

Jeffrey L. Blanchard United States

Otto X. Cordero United States

Álvaro Sánchez United States

Daniel E. Rozen Netherlands

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740 ×1.1

ECOLO

825 ×1.7

SPS

501 ×1.2

Citations per year, relative to William R. Harcombe William R. Harcombe (= 1×) peers Daniel E. Rozen

Countries citing papers authored by William R. Harcombe

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Fields of papers citing papers by William R. Harcombe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William R. Harcombe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William R. Harcombe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William R. Harcombe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William R. Harcombe. William R. Harcombe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Carlson, Ross P., et al.. (2025). Metabolic remodeling of microorganisms by mobile genetic elements alters mutualistic community composition. mSystems. 10(9). e0014425–e0014425.

Chacón, Jeremy M., et al.. (2023). Disentangling a metabolic cross-feeding in a halophilic archaea-bacteria consortium. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1276438–1276438. 3 indexed citations

Martinson, Jonathan N.V., et al.. (2023). Mutualism reduces the severity of gene disruptions in predictable ways across microbial communities. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2270–2278. 3 indexed citations

Machado, Daniel, Isabel Rocha, Jeremy M. Chacón, et al.. (2022). Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 855–865. 135 indexed citations breakdown →

Gedeon, Tomáš, et al.. (2021). Limitation by a shared mutualist promotes coexistence of multiple competing partners. Nature Communications. 12(1). 619–619. 17 indexed citations

Chacón, Jeremy M., Allison K. Shaw, & William R. Harcombe. (2020). Increasing growth rate slows adaptation when genotypes compete for diffusing resources. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(1). e1007585–e1007585. 10 indexed citations

Adamowicz, Elizabeth M., et al.. (2020). Cross-feeding modulates the rate and mechanism of antibiotic resistance evolution in a model microbial community of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. PLoS Pathogens. 16(7). e1008700–e1008700. 35 indexed citations

Chacón, Jeremy M., et al.. (2019). Lytic bacteriophage have diverse indirect effects in a synthetic cross-feeding community. The ISME Journal. 14(1). 123–134. 43 indexed citations

Minato, Yusuke, Daryl M. Gohl, Joshua M. Thiede, et al.. (2019). Genomewide Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Conditionally Essential Metabolic Pathways. mSystems. 4(4). 70 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, et al.. (2019). Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(12). 725–741. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chacón, Jeremy M., Wolfram Möbius, & William R. Harcombe. (2018). The spatial and metabolic basis of colony size variation. The ISME Journal. 12(3). 669–680. 49 indexed citations

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Adamowicz, Elizabeth M., Jeffrey M. Flynn, Ryan C. Hunter, & William R. Harcombe. (2018). Cross-feeding modulates antibiotic tolerance in bacterial communities. The ISME Journal. 12(11). 2723–2735. 104 indexed citations

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Estrela, Sylvie, Eric Libby, Jeremy Van Cleve, et al.. (2018). Environmentally Mediated Social Dilemmas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(1). 6–18. 68 indexed citations

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Maselko, Maciej, et al.. (2017). Engineering species-like barriers to sexual reproduction. Nature Communications. 8(1). 883–883. 26 indexed citations

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Plucain, Jessica, Thomas Hindré, Mickaël Le Gac, et al.. (2014). Epistasis and Allele Specificity in the Emergence of a Stable Polymorphism in Escherichia coli. Science. 343(6177). 1366–1369. 88 indexed citations

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Harcombe, William R.. (2010). NOVEL COOPERATION EXPERIMENTALLY EVOLVED BETWEEN SPECIES. Evolution. 64(7). 2166–72. 220 indexed citations

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Cowperthwaite, Matthew C., Evan P. Economo, William R. Harcombe, E. L. Miller, & Lauren Ancel Meyers. (2008). The Ascent of the Abundant: How Mutational Networks Constrain Evolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(7). e1000110–e1000110. 73 indexed citations

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Weeks, Andrew R., Michael Turelli, William R. Harcombe, K. Tracy Reynolds, & Ary A. Hoffmann. (2007). From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila. PLoS Biology. 5(5). e114–e114. 336 indexed citations

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Harcombe, William R. & James J. Bull. (2005). Impact of Phages on Two-Species Bacterial Communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(9). 5254–5259. 62 indexed citations

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Harcombe, William R. & Ary A. Hoffmann. (2004). Wolbachia effects in Drosophila melanogaster: in search of fitness benefits. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 87(1). 45–50. 73 indexed citations

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