Thomas Bell

10.1k citations
80 papers · 6.0k · 4 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.5%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
    • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 28
    • Gut microbiota and health 18
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 9

Thomas Bell

73 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Thomas Bell's Hit Papers

Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species 2012 · 532 citations
5320+7+14Years since publication250500750

Peers

Thomas Bell
Comparison fields: 5 of 156
  • Ecology 2.9k
  • Soil Science 719
  • Ecological Modeling 267
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 712
  • Environmental Chemistry 434
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Thomas Bell, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services
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2005783
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The bacterial biogeography of British soils
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2011743
3
Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species
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2012532
4 2014350
5
Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment
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2012341
6 2010210
7 2005202
8 2001175
9 2010172
10 2007167
11 2010126
12 2014116
13 2020114
14 2006105
15 201689
16 201683
17 200978
18 201975
19 200972
20 201271

About Thomas Bell

Thomas Bell is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 80 papers that have together received 6.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (28 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers), Gut microbiota and health (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.9k citations), Soil Science (719 citations), Ecological Modeling (267 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (712 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (434 citations). Thomas Bell has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include Kevin R. Foster, Jonathan A. Newman, Andrew Lilley, Robert I. Griffiths, Sarah L. Turner, Bernard W. Silverman, Andrew S. Whiteley, Bruce C. Thomson, Mark Bailey and Philip James. Their work appears in journals such as The ISME Journal, Nature Communications, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Ecology Letters and Environmental Microbiology.

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