2026 Claire M. Fraser: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	127	388	369	235	221	395	104786
Genetics	126	298	288	157	151	304	103205

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

5591
Citations
The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

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

4416
Citations
The minimal gene complement of Mycoplasma genitalium

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

3341
Citations
Genome analysis of multiple pathogenic isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae: Implications for the microbial “pan-genome”

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

2922
Citations
Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi

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

2665
Citations
The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

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

2637
Citations
Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

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

2564
Citations
Mutation of a mutL homolog in hereditary colon cancer

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

2421
Citations
DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae

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

2246
Citations
Mutations of two PMS homologues in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer.

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

2074
Citations
The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei

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

2000
Citations
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

1846
Citations
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

1803
Citations
The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

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

1777
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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

1696
Citations
Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

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

1687
Citations
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

1667
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

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

1417
Citations
Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

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

1407
Citations
Genome sequence of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1.

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

1251
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University

Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis

J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute

Hervé Tettelin University of Maryland, Baltimore

Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University

Sean C. Daugherty University of Maryland, Baltimore

Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute

Robert J. Dodson Northwestern University

William C. Nelson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Luke J. Tallon University of Maryland, Baltimore

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