Rob Knight
Impact in
- Biological Psychiatry top 0.01%
- Molecular Biology top 0.01%
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Papers in
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- Gut microbiota and health 438
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 127
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies 71
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 46
- Ecology 165
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 118
- Co-authors
- Catherine Lozupone (49 shared papers)J. Gregory Caporaso (66 shared papers)Noah Fierer (49 shared papers)Micah Hamady (35 shared papers)Jeffrey I. Gordon (35 shared papers)José C. Clemente (29 shared papers)Ruth E. Ley (32 shared papers)Peter J. Turnbaugh (13 shared papers)
- Journals
- mSystems (59 papers)The ISME Journal (43 papers)Microbiome (26 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (25 papers)PLoS ONE (25 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomChina
In The Last Decade
Rob Knight
883 papers receiving 228.9k citations
Rob Knight's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 228
- Biological Psychiatry 6.5k
- Molecular Biology 125.7k
- Ecology 47.9k
- Gastroenterology 7.5k
- Soil Science 12.0k
Countries citing papers authored by Rob Knight
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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Knight
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Rob Knight, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 12454 |
| 2 | Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 7317 |
| 3 | Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 7216 |
| 4 | Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 6809 |
| 5 | UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 6407 |
| 6 | A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 5958 |
| 7 | Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 4784 |
| 8 | Obesity alters gut microbial ecology Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 4740 |
| 9 | Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 4153 |
| 10 | The Human Microbiome Project Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 4116 |
| 11 | An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 4033 |
| 12 | Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 3987 |
| 13 | Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 3418 |
| 14 | Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 3356 |
| 15 | Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 3287 |
| 16 | Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 3138 |
| 17 | PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 2934 |
| 18 | Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 2820 |
| 19 | The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 2766 |
| 20 | Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 2754 |
About Rob Knight
Rob Knight is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Physiology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics, having authored 904 papers that have together received 232.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gut microbiota and health (438 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (127 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (118 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (97 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (71 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (58 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (34 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biological Psychiatry (6.5k citations), Molecular Biology (125.7k citations), Ecology (47.9k citations), Gastroenterology (7.5k citations) and Soil Science (12.0k citations). Rob Knight has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Catherine Lozupone, J. Gregory Caporaso, Noah Fierer, Micah Hamady, Jeffrey I. Gordon, José C. Clemente, Ruth E. Ley, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Christian L. Lauber and Brian J. Haas. Their work appears in journals such as mSystems, The ISME Journal, Microbiome, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.
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