Robert A. Edwards
Impact in
- Ecology top 0.01%
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Endocrinology top 0.05%
Papers in
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- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 79
- Gut microbiota and health 16
- Ecology 109
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 69
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 36
- Co-authors
- Robert Schmieder (16 shared papers)Forest Rohwer (34 shared papers)Rick Stevens (7 shared papers)Robert Olson (7 shared papers)Ross Overbeek (7 shared papers)Veronika Vonstein (5 shared papers)Gordon D. Pusch (5 shared papers)Terry Disz (4 shared papers)
- Journals
- PLoS ONE (15 papers)Bioinformatics (12 papers)Journal of Bacteriology (12 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (8 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustraliaBrazil
In The Last Decade
Robert A. Edwards
216 papers receiving 29.5k citations
Robert A. Edwards's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 193
- Ecology 14.4k
- Endocrinology 2.3k
- Molecular Medicine 1.3k
- Microbiology 1.5k
- Molecular Biology 14.3k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 3745 |
| 2 | The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST) Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 3594 |
| 3 | The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 2716 |
| 4 | RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 2060 |
| 5 | Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1031 |
| 6 | The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 707 |
| 7 | Viral metagenomics Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 590 |
| 8 | A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 584 |
| 9 | Nitrogen control in bacteria Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 563 |
| 10 | Fast Identification and Removal of Sequence Contamination from Genomic and Metagenomic Datasets Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 532 |
| 11 | 1998 | 498 | |
| 12 | Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 474 |
| 13 | 2002 | 437 | |
| 14 | 2007 | 419 | |
| 15 | 2012 | 382 | |
| 16 | 2007 | 365 | |
| 17 | 2006 | 337 | |
| 18 | 2008 | 327 | |
| 19 | 2015 | 317 | |
| 20 | 2008 | 262 |
About Robert A. Edwards
Robert A. Edwards is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Food Science, Endocrinology and Plant Science, having authored 221 papers that have together received 30.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (79 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (69 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (18 papers), Gut microbiota and health (16 papers), Meat and Animal Product Quality (16 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (16 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (14.4k citations), Endocrinology (2.3k citations), Molecular Medicine (1.3k citations), Microbiology (1.5k citations) and Molecular Biology (14.3k citations). Robert A. Edwards has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include Robert Schmieder, Forest Rohwer, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Ross Overbeek, Veronika Vonstein, Gordon D. Pusch, Terry Disz, Svetlana Gerdes and Bruce Parrello. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Bioinformatics, Journal of Bacteriology, BMC Bioinformatics and Nucleic Acids Research.
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