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Christopher W. Schadt 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 W. Schadt sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 222 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher W. Schadt 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 W. Schadt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christopher W. Schadt is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Ecology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Soil Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics

Christopher W. Schadt has published extensively in venues such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), mSystems, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbiology Resource Announcements, and Microbiome. The quantity of publications ranges notably, with 65 works in OSTI OAI and multiple publications in the other venues.

Among recent scientific papers, the following stand out:

  • Global meta-analyses show that conservation tillage practices promote soil fungal and bacterial biomass, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations, 2021, Microbiome
  • Functional Redundancy in Soil Microbial Community Based on Metagenomics Across the Globe, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Soil metabolome response to whole-ecosystem warming at the Spruce and Peatland Responses under Changing Environments experiment, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plant Hosts Modify Belowground Microbial Community Response to Extreme Drought, 2020, mSystems

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including:

  • Jeffrey P. Chanton
  • Joel E. Kostka
  • Rachel Wilson
  • Max Kolton
  • Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

Best Publications

  • Soil microbial community responses to multiple experimental climate change drivers

    Hector F. Castro;Aimée T. Classen;Emily E. Austin;Richard J. Norby

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Long-term nitrogen fertilization decreases bacterial diversity and favors the growth of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in agro-ecosystems across the globe

    Zhongmin Dai;Weiqin Su;Huaihai Chen;Albert Barberán

  • Seasonal dynamics of previously unknown fungal lineages in tundra soils.

    Christopher W. Schadt;Andrew P. Martin;David A. Lipson;Steven K. Schmidt

  • GeoChip: a comprehensive microarray for investigating biogeochemical, ecological and environmental processes

    Zhili He;Terry J Gentry;Terry J Gentry;Christopher W Schadt;Liyou Wu;Liyou Wu

  • Distinct Microbial Communities within the Endosphere and Rhizosphere of Populus deltoides Roots across Contrasting Soil Types

    Neil R. Gottel;Hector F. Castro;Hector F. Castro;Marilyn Kerley;Zamin Yang

  • Labile soil carbon inputs mediate the soil microbial community composition and plant residue decomposition rates

    Marie-Anne de Graaff;Marie-Anne de Graaff;Aimee T. Classen;Hector F. Castro;Hector F. Castro;Christopher W. Schadt

  • Network succession reveals the importance of competition in response to emulsified vegetable oil amendment for uranium bioremediation.

    Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Yujia Qin;Qichao Tu

  • Massively parallel rRNA gene sequencing exacerbates the potential for biased community diversity comparisons due to variable library sizes.

    Thomas Gihring;Stefan Green;Christopher Warren Schadt

  • The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome

    M. A. Cregger;A. M. Veach;Z. K. Yang;M. J. Crouch;M. J. Crouch

  • Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function in an Alpine Dry Meadow Following Spring Snow Melt

    David A. Lipson;C.W. Schadt;Steven K. Schmidt

  • The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling

    Diana R. Nemergut;Alan R. Townsend;Sarah R. Sattin;Kristen R. Freeman

  • Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132 as a Model for Understanding Bacterial Mercury Methylation

    Cynthia C. Gilmour;Dwayne A. Elias;Amy M. Kucken;Steven D. Brown

  • Microarray-Based Analysis of Subnanogram Quantities of Microbial Community DNAs by Using Whole-Community Genome Amplification

    Liyou Wu;Xueduan Liu;Xueduan Liu;Xueduan Liu;Christopher W. Schadt;Jizhong Zhou

  • Fruit and soil quality of organic and conventional strawberry agroecosystems.

    John P. Reganold;Preston K. Andrews;Jennifer R. Reeve;Lynne Carpenter-Boggs

  • A Multifactor Analysis of Fungal and Bacterial Community Structure in the Root Microbiome of Mature Populus deltoides Trees

    Migun Shakya;Migun Shakya;Neil Gottel;Hector Castro;Hector Castro;Zamin K. Yang

  • Spatial scaling of functional gene diversity across various microbial taxa.

    Jizhong Zhou;Sanghoon Kang;Christopher W. Schadt;Charles T. Garten

  • Plant host and soil origin influence fungal and bacterial assemblages in the roots of woody plants

    Gregory Bonito;Gregory Bonito;Hannah Reynolds;Michael S. Robeson;Jessica Nelson

  • Stability of peatland carbon to rising temperatures

    Rachel Wilson;Anya Hopple;Malak Tfaily;Stephen Sebestyen

  • Microarray applications in microbial ecology research.

    T. J. Gentry;T. J. Gentry;G. S. Wickham;C. W. Schadt;Z. He;Z. He

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Dale A. Pelletier
Dale A. Pelletier Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rytas Vilgalys
Rytas Vilgalys Duke University
Gerald A. Tuskan
Gerald A. Tuskan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Gregory Bonito
Gregory Bonito Michigan State University
David B. Watson
David B. Watson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Terry J. Gentry
Terry J. Gentry Texas A&M University
Timothy J. Tschaplinski
Timothy J. Tschaplinski Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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