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Alice C. McHardy publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alice C. McHardy sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 204 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Alice C. McHardy D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alice C. McHardy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alice C. McHardy is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in medicine as well.

Their subfields of study include molecular biology, infectious diseases, ecology, epidemiology, and genetics. A variety of topics have been central to their scientific work, including genomics and phylogenetic studies, gut microbiota and health, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, as well as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent co-authors associated with their work are Philipp C. Münch, Zhi-Luo Deng, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Curtis Huttenhower, and Susanne Reimering.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Briefings in Bioinformatics, Cell Reports, Communications Biology, and Genome Biology. Some recent representative papers include:

  • Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies, 2023, Nature
  • Predicting antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa with machine learning-enabled molecular diagnostics, 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Computational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research, 2020, Briefings in Bioinformatics

Best Publications

  • The Subsystems Approach to Genome Annotation and its Use in the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes

    Ross Overbeek;Tadhg P. Begley;Ralph M. Butler;Jomuna Choudhuri

  • Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite.

    Falk Warnecke;Peter Luginbühl;Natalia Ivanova;Majid Ghassemian

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

  • Structure and Function of the Bacterial Root Microbiota in Wild and Domesticated Barley

    Davide Bulgarelli;Davide Bulgarelli;Ruben Garrido-Oter;Ruben Garrido-Oter;Philipp C. Münch;Aaron Weiman

  • Functional overlap of the Arabidopsis leaf and root microbiota

    Yang Bai;Daniel B. Müller;Girish Srinivas;Ruben Garrido-Oter;Ruben Garrido-Oter

  • Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

    David Lähnemann;David Lähnemann;Johannes Köster;Johannes Köster;Ewa Szczurek;Davis J. McCarthy;Davis J. McCarthy

  • Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Joshua A Steele;J. Gregory Caporaso;Lars Steinbrück

  • The complete Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 genome sequence and its impact on the production of l-aspartate-derived amino acids and vitamins

    Jörn Kalinowski;Brigitte Bathe;Daniela Bartels;Nicole Bischoff

  • Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities

    Héctor García Martín;Natalia Ivanova;Victor Kunin;Falk Warnecke

  • Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation - A benchmark of metagenomics software

    Alexander Sczyrba;Peter Hofmann;Peter Hofmann;Peter Belmann;David Koslicki

  • GenDB—an open source genome annotation system for prokaryote genomes

    Folker Meyer;Alexander Goesmann;Alice C. McHardy;Daniela Bartels

  • Microbiota and Host Nutrition across Plant and Animal Kingdoms

    Stéphane Hacquard;Ruben Garrido-Oter;Ruben Garrido-Oter;Antonio González;Stijn Spaepen

  • Accurate phylogenetic classification of variable-length DNA fragments

    Alice Carolyn McHardy;Héctor García Martín;Aristotelis Tsirigos;Philip Hugenholtz

  • The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

    Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  • Organismal, genetic, and transcriptional variation in the deeply sequenced gut microbiomes of identical twins.

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Christopher Quince;Jeremiah J. Faith;Alice C. McHardy

  • Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

    Susanne Schneiker;Vítor A.P. Martins Dos Santos;Daniela Bartels;Thomas Bekel

  • Complete genome sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum

    Susanne Schneiker;Olena Perlova;Olaf Kaiser;Klaus Gerth

  • Genome-guided design of a defined mouse microbiota that confers colonization resistance against Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Sandrine Brugiroux;Markus Beutler;Carina Pfann;Debora Garzetti

  • Insights into Genome Plasticity and Pathogenicity of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria Revealed by the Complete Genome Sequence

    Frank Thieme;Ralf Koebnik;Thomas Bekel;Carolin Berger

  • Use of simulated data sets to evaluate the fidelity of metagenomic processing methods

    Konstantinos Mavromatis;Natalia Ivanova;Kerrie Barry;Harris Shapiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad R. K. Mofrad
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad University of California, Berkeley
Isidore Rigoutsos
Isidore Rigoutsos Thomas Jefferson University
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University
Folker Meyer
Folker Meyer Argonne National Laboratory
Alexander Goesmann
Alexander Goesmann University of Giessen
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Arndt Borkhardt
Arndt Borkhardt Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University

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