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Eric A. Franzosa

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
36309
World Ranking
11648
National Ranking
5011

Eric A. Franzosa publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 116 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric A. Franzosa 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 Eric A. Franzosa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Eric A. Franzosa is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans across several fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a specific focus on molecular biology, ecology, food science, genetics, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, probiotics and fermented foods, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and gene expression and cancer classification.

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Gastroenterology, Nature, Nature Microbiology, and Nature Biotechnology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric A. Franzosa are:

  • "Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies" (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3" (2021, eLife)
  • "Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4" (2023, Nature Biotechnology)
  • "Global chemical effects of the microbiome include new bile-acid conjugations" (2020, Nature)
  • "Human gut bacteria produce ΤΗ17-modulating bile acid metabolites" (2022, Nature)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Curtis Huttenhower, Yancong Zhang, Long H. Nguyen, Andrew T. Chan, and Kelsey N. Thompson.

Best Publications

  • Multi-omics of the gut microbial ecosystem in inflammatory bowel diseases.

    Jason Lloyd-Price;Jason Lloyd-Price;Cesar Arze;Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan;Melanie Schirmer;Melanie Schirmer

  • Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with biobakery 3

    Francesco Beghini;Lauren J McIver;Aitor Blanco-Míguez;Leonard Dubois

  • MetaPhlAn2 for enhanced metagenomic taxonomic profiling.

    Duy Tin Truong;Eric A Franzosa;Timothy L Tickle;Timothy L Tickle;Matthias Scholz

  • Gut microbiome structure and metabolic activity in inflammatory bowel disease

    Eric A Franzosa;Eric A Franzosa;Alexandra Sirota-Madi;Julian Avila-Pacheco;Nadine Fornelos

  • Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies.

    Himel Mallick;Himel Mallick;Ali Rahnavard;Lauren J. McIver;Lauren J. McIver;Siyuan Ma;Siyuan Ma

  • A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network

    Thomas Rolland;Murat Taşan;Benoit Charloteaux;Samuel J. Pevzner

  • Variation in Microbiome LPS Immunogenicity Contributes to Autoimmunity in Humans

    Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Eva D'Hennezel;Heli Siljander

  • Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes.

    Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Lauren J. McIver;Lauren J. McIver;Gholamali Rahnavard;Gholamali Rahnavard;Luke R. Thompson

  • The Dynamics of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome in Development and in Progression toward Type 1 Diabetes

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Dirk Gevers;Heli Siljander;Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen

  • Linking the Human Gut Microbiome to Inflammatory Cytokine Production Capacity.

    Melanie Schirmer;Melanie Schirmer;Sanne P. Smeekens;Hera Vlamakis;Martin Jaeger

  • Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Project

    Jason Lloyd-Price;Jason Lloyd-Price;Anup Mahurkar;Gholamali Rahnavard;Gholamali Rahnavard;Jonathan Crabtree

  • Natural history of the infant gut microbiome and impact of antibiotic treatment on bacterial strain diversity and stability

    Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen;Heli Siljander;Anu-Maaria Hämäläinen

  • The human gut microbiome in early-onset type 1 diabetes from the TEDDY study

    Tommi Vatanen;Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Randall Schwager;Surya Tripathi

  • Indoleacrylic Acid Produced by Commensal Peptostreptococcus Species Suppresses Inflammation

    Marta Wlodarska;Chengwei Luo;Raivo Kolde;Eva d’Hennezel

  • Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular 'omics' for microbial community profiling

    Eric A. Franzosa;Tiffany Hsu;Alexandra Sirota-Madi;Afrah Shafquat

  • Relating the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut

    Eric A. Franzosa;Xochitl C. Morgan;Nicola Segata;Levi Waldron

  • Dynamics of metatranscription in the inflammatory bowel disease gut microbiome

    Melanie Schirmer;Melanie Schirmer;Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Jason Lloyd-Price;Jason Lloyd-Price;Lauren J. McIver;Lauren J. McIver

  • Identifying personal microbiomes using metagenomic codes

    Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Katherine Huang;James F. Meadow;Dirk Gevers

  • Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3

    Francesco Beghini;Lauren J. McIver;Aitor Blanco-Míguez;Leonard Dubois

  • Natural history of the infant gut microbiome and impact of antibiotic treatment on bacterial strain diversity and stability

    Moran Yassour;Tommi Vatanen;Heli Siljander;Anu-Maaria Hämäläinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Hera Vlamakis
Hera Vlamakis Broad Institute
Nicola Segata
Nicola Segata University of Trento
Clary B. Clish
Clary B. Clish Broad Institute
Dirk Gevers
Dirk Gevers Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Cisca Wijmenga
Cisca Wijmenga University Medical Center Groningen
Wendy S. Garrett
Wendy S. Garrett Harvard University
Jingyuan Fu
Jingyuan Fu University Medical Center Groningen
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute

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