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D-Index
71
Citations
55546
World Ranking
6483
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496

Christopher Quince 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 Christopher Quince sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 245 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher Quince 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 Christopher Quince sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher Quince is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Environmental Science. Their research interests span several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Plant Science, and Genetics.

The scientist's work centers on key topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and Protist diversity and phylogeny.

Christopher Quince has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Mobile resistome of human gut and pathogen drives anthropogenic bloom of antibiotic resistance, 2020, Microbiome
  • Swarm v3: towards tera-scale amplicon clustering, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • STRONG: metagenomics strain resolution on assembly graphs, 2021, Genome Biology
  • High-quality metagenome assembly from long accurate reads with metaMDBG, 2024, Nature Biotechnology
  • Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome, 2023, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include Sébastien Raguideau, Konstantinos Gerasimidis, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Falk Hildebrand, and Gary D. Bending.

Christopher Quince's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

    Robert C. Edgar;Brian J. Haas;Jose C. Clemente;Christopher Quince

  • VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

    Torbjørn Rognes;Torbjørn Rognes;Tomáš Flouri;Tomáš Flouri;Ben Nichols;Christopher Quince;Christopher Quince

  • Binning metagenomic contigs by coverage and composition

    Johannes Alneberg;Brynjar Smári Bjarnason;Ino de Bruijn;Melanie Schirmer

  • Removing noise from pyrosequenced amplicons.

    Christopher Quince;Anders Lanzen;Russell J Davenport;Peter J Turnbaugh

  • Extensive Unexplored Human Microbiome Diversity Revealed by Over 150,000 Genomes from Metagenomes Spanning Age, Geography, and Lifestyle.

    Edoardo Pasolli;Francesco Asnicar;Serena Manara;Moreno Zolfo

  • Anvi'o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data.

    A. Murat Eren;A. Murat Eren;Özcan C. Esen;Christopher Quince;Joseph H. Vineis

  • Shotgun metagenomics, from sampling to analysis

    Christopher Quince;Alan W Walker;Jared T Simpson;Jared T Simpson;Nicholas J Loman

  • Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

    Christopher Quince;Anders Lanzén;Thomas P Curtis;Russell J Davenport

  • Decreased gut microbiota diversity, delayed Bacteroidetes colonisation and reduced Th1 responses in infants delivered by Caesarean section

    Hedvig E Jakobsson;Thomas R Abrahamsson;Maria C Jenmalm;Keith Harris

  • Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Paul I. Costea;Falk Hildebrand;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed

  • Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies.

    Frédéric Mahé;Frédéric Mahé;Frédéric Mahé;Torbjørn Rognes;Torbjørn Rognes;Christopher Quince;Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas

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

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

  • Insight into biases and sequencing errors for amplicon sequencing with the Illumina MiSeq platform

    Melanie Schirmer;Umer Zeeshan Ijaz;Rosalinda D'Amore;Neil Hall

  • Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

    Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

  • Dirichlet Multinomial Mixtures: Generative Models for Microbial Metagenomics

    Ian Holmes;Keith Harris;Christopher Quince

  • Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes.

    Tom O. Delmont;Christopher Quince;Alon Shaiber;Özcan C. Esen

  • 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

  • Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

    Frédéric Mahé;Torbjørn Rognes;Torbjørn Rognes;Christopher Quince;Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas

  • Niche specialization of terrestrial archaeal ammonia oxidizers

    Cécile Gubry-Rangin;Brigitte Hai;Christopher Quince;Marion Engel

  • A comprehensive benchmarking study of protocols and sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA community profiling

    Rosalinda D’Amore;Umer Zeeshan Ijaz;Melanie Schirmer;John G. Kenny

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Achtman
Mark Achtman University of Warwick
Gavin Collins
Gavin Collins University of Galway
Zhemin Zhou
Zhemin Zhou University of Warwick
Nicholas J. Loman
Nicholas J. Loman University of Birmingham
A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Alice C. McHardy
Alice C. McHardy Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Alan J. McKane
Alan J. McKane University of Manchester
Thomas P. Curtis
Thomas P. Curtis Newcastle University
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park

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