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Claire M. Fraser publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claire M. Fraser sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 304 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Claire M. Fraser D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claire M. Fraser sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 126 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2005 - Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Claire M. Fraser is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology, infectious diseases, physiology, organic chemistry, and parasitology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne animal diseases, tryptophan and brain disorders, and research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Claire M. Fraser include Silvia Grant-Beurmann, Luke J. Tallon, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Steven E. Schutzer, and Julie C. Dunning Hotopp.

The scientist has published in several venues with multiple publications appearing in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Human Molecular Genetics, and UNC Libraries. Other publication venues include Current Opinion in Biotechnology and Genome Medicine.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • Molecular mechanisms of probiotic prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, 2020, Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 Protects against Antibiotic-Induced Functional and Compositional Changes in Human Fecal Microbiome, 2021, Nutrients
  • Dynamics of the infant gut microbiota in the first 18 months of life: the impact of maternal HIV infection and breastfeeding, 2022, Microbiome
  • FADU: a Quantification Tool for Prokaryotic Transcriptomic Analyses, 2021, mSystems

Claire M. Fraser has received recognitions including the Promega Biotechnology Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2005 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Neil Hall;Eula Fung;Owen White

  • The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

    Jean-F. Tomb;Owen White;Anthony R. Kerlavage;Rebecca A. Clayton

  • The minimal gene complement of Mycoplasma genitalium

    Claire M. Fraser;Jeannine D. Gocayne;Owen White;Mark D. Adams

  • Genome analysis of multiple pathogenic isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae: Implications for the microbial “pan-genome”

    Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani;Michael J. Cieslewicz;Claudio Donati

  • Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi

    Claire M. Fraser;Sherwood Casjens;Wai Mun Huang;Granger G. Sutton

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Mutation of a mutL homolog in hereditary colon cancer

    Nickolas Papadopoulos;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Ying Fei Wei;Steven M. Ruben

  • DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae

    John F. Heidelberg;Jonathan A. Eisen;William C. Nelson;Rebecca A. Clayton

  • Mutations of two PMS homologues in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer.

    Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Nickolas Papadopoulos;Bo Liu;Ying Fei Weit

  • The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei

    Matthew Berriman;Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Christiane Hertz-Fowler;Gaelle Blandin

  • Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

    Karen E. Nelson;Rebecca A. Clayton;Steven R. Gill;Michelle L. Gwinn

  • The genome sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas disease

    Najib M. El-Sayed;Peter J. Myler;Peter J. Myler;Daniella C. Bartholomeu;Daniel Nilsson

  • The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Hans-Peter Klenk;Rebecca A. Clayton;Jean-Francois Tomb;Owen White

  • Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    H. Tettelin;K. E. Nelson;I. T. Paulsen;Jonathan A Eisen

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

    K. E. Nelson;C. Weinel;I. T. Paulsen;R. J. Dodson

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

    Claire M. Fraser;Steven J. Norris;George M. Weinstock;Owen White

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

    Hervé Tettelin;Nigel J. Saunders;John Heidelberg;Alex C. Jeffries

  • Genome sequence of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1.

    O. White;J. A. Eisen;J. F. Heidelberg;E. K. Hickey

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute
Hervé Tettelin
Hervé Tettelin University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Sean C. Daugherty
Sean C. Daugherty University of Maryland, Baltimore
Karen E. Nelson
Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute
Robert J. Dodson
Robert J. Dodson Northwestern University
William C. Nelson
William C. Nelson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Luke J. Tallon
Luke J. Tallon University of Maryland, Baltimore

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