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D-Index
50
Citations
14726
World Ranking
4394
National Ranking
1699

Elliot J. Lefkowitz publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elliot J. Lefkowitz sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 121 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Elliot J. Lefkowitz D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elliot J. Lefkowitz sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Elliot J. Lefkowitz is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in the subfields of Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology.

The scientist's work engages heavily with topics related to bacteriophages and microbial interactions, plant virus research studies, gut microbiota and health, plant and fungal interactions, diet and metabolism studies, viral infections and vectors, and zoonotic diseases with implications for public health.

Frequent collaborators include Peter Simmonds, Jens H. Kuhn, Sead Sabanadzovic, Mart Krupovìč, and Luisa Rubino, with collaboration counts ranging from 17 to 19 publications each.

Elliot J. Lefkowitz has consistently published in established peer-reviewed journals, with regular appearances in Archives of Virology, which accounts for nine publications. Other venues include the Journal of General Virology with four publications, Nucleic Acids Research with three, Nature Biotechnology with two, and Nature Microbiology with one publication.

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR" (2022) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2021)" (2021) in Archives of Virology
  • "Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020)" (2020) in Archives of Virology
  • "Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)" (2022) in Archives of Virology
  • "The new scope of virus taxonomy: partitioning the virosphere into 15 hierarchical ranks" (2020) in Nature Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Virus taxonomy: classification and nomenclature of viruses

    A.M.Q. King;M.J. Adams;E.B. Carstens;E.J. Lefkowitz

  • Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).

    Elliot J Lefkowitz;Donald M Dempsey;Robert Curtis Hendrickson;Richard J Orton

  • Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

    Andrew M. Q. King;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian;Michael J. Adams

  • Genome of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae strain R6.

    JoAnn Hoskins;William E. Alborn;Jeffrey Arnold;Larry C. Blaszczak

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

    M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

  • Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

    Peter Simmonds;Mike J. Adams;Mária Benkő;Mya Breitbart

  • Virulence differences between monkeypox virus isolates from West Africa and the Congo basin.

    Nanhai Chen;Guiyun Li;M. Kathryn Liszewski;John P. Atkinson

  • The complete sequence of the mucosal pathogen Ureaplasma urealyticum

    John I. Glass;John I. Glass;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Jennifer S. Glass;Jennifer S. Glass;Cheryl R. Heiner;Cheryl R. Heiner

  • The Genome Sequence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Strain 232, the Agent of Swine Mycoplasmosis

    F. Chris Minion;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Melissa L. Madsen;Barbara J. Cleary

  • Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020).

    Peter J. Walker;Stuart G. Siddell;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian

  • The New Scope of Virus Taxonomy: Partitioning the Virosphere Into 15 Hierarchical Ranks

    Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Alexander E. Gorbalenya;Mart Krupovic;Arcady Mushegian;Andrew M. Kropinski

  • Cystin, a novel cilia-associated protein, is disrupted in the cpk mouse model of polycystic kidney disease

    Xiaoying Hou;Michal Mrug;Bradley K. Yoder;Elliot J. Lefkowitz

  • Orthopoxvirus genome evolution: the role of gene loss.

    Robert Curtis Hendrickson;Chunlin Wang;Eneida L. Hatcher;Elliot J. Lefkowitz

  • Poxviruses: past, present and future.

    E.J. Lefkowitz;C. Wang;C. Upton

  • Altered microbiota associated with abnormal humoral immune responses to commensal organisms in enthesitis-related arthritis.

    Matthew L Stoll;Ranjit Kumar;Casey D Morrow;Elliot J Lefkowitz

  • Kinetic analysis of a complete poxvirus transcriptome reveals an immediate-early class of genes

    Erika Assarsson;Jason A. Greenbaum;Magnus Sundström;Lana Schaffer

  • The genomic sequence of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox.

    Nanhai Chen;Maria I. Danila;Zehua Feng;R.Mark L. Buller

  • Getting started with microbiome analysis: sample acquisition to bioinformatics.

    Ranjit Kumar;Peter Eipers;Rebecca B. Little;Michael Crowley

  • Genetic Variability in the G Protein Gene of Group A and B Respiratory Syncytial Viruses from India

    Shama Parveen;Wayne M. Sullender;Karen Fowler;Elliot J. Lefkowitz

  • Identification of Key Bacteria Involved in the Induction of Incident Bacterial Vaginosis: A Prospective Study.

    Christina A Muzny;Eugene Blanchard;Christopher M Taylor;Kristal J Aaron

  • Additional changes to taxonomy ratified in a special vote by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (October 2018)

    Stuart G. Siddell;Peter J. Walker;Elliot J. Lefkowitz;Arcady R. Mushegian

Frequent Co-Authors

Casey D. Morrow
Casey D. Morrow University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alexander E. Gorbalenya
Alexander E. Gorbalenya Leiden University
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Michael J. Adams
Michael J. Adams Rothamsted Research
Bas E. Dutilh
Bas E. Dutilh Utrecht University
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Andrew J. Davison
Andrew J. Davison University of Glasgow
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Stuart G. Siddell
Stuart G. Siddell University of Bristol

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