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D-Index
67
Citations
26048
World Ranking
2229
National Ranking
924

Gautam Dantas 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 Gautam Dantas sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 234 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gautam Dantas 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 Gautam Dantas sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gautam Dantas is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant contributions in the subfields of Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on gut microbiota and health, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research. Other notable topics include pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, urinary tract infections management, and infant nutrition and health.

Frequent coauthors working alongside them include Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Meghan A. Wallace, Skye R. S. Fishbein, Erik R. Dubberke, and Tiffany Hink.

Gautam Dantas has published extensively in several journals. The venues where they have published most frequently are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Host & Microbe, Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and mSystems.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by them include:

  • Understanding the impact of antibiotic perturbation on the human microbiome, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • Antibiotic perturbations to the gut microbiome, 2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Environmental remodeling of human gut microbiota and antibiotic resistome in livestock farms, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Gut microbiome composition may be an indicator of preclinical Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Science Translational Medicine
  • Genetically stable CRISPR-based kill switches for engineered microbes, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Design of a Novel Globular Protein Fold with Atomic-Level Accuracy

    Brian A Kuhlman;Gautam Dantas;Gregory C. Ireton;Gabriele Varani

  • The shared antibiotic resistome of soil bacteria and human pathogens

    Kevin J. Forsberg;Alejandro Reyes;Bin Wang;Elizabeth M. Selleck

  • Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats

    Kevin J. Forsberg;Sanket Patel;Molly K. Gibson;Christian L. Lauber

  • Tackling antibiotic resistance

    Karen Bush;Patrice Courvalin;Gautam Dantas;Julian Davies

  • The effects of antibiotics on the microbiome throughout development and alternative approaches for therapeutic modulation

    Amy Langdon;Nathan Crook;Gautam Dantas

  • Functional Characterization of the Antibiotic Resistance Reservoir in the Human Microflora

    Morten O. A. Sommer;Gautam Dantas;George M. Church

  • Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment.

    Simon Lax;Simon Lax;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens

  • The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians

    Jose C. Clemente;Erica C. Pehrsson;Martin J. Blaser;Martin J. Blaser;Kuldip Sandhu

  • Extensive personal human gut microbiota culture collections characterized and manipulated in gnotobiotic mice

    Andrew L. Goodman;George Kallstrom;Jeremiah J. Faith;Alejandro Reyes

  • Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

    Gautam Dantas;Morten O. A. Sommer;Rantimi D. Oluwasegun;George M. Church

  • Improved annotation of antibiotic resistance determinants reveals microbial resistomes cluster by ecology

    Molly K Gibson;Kevin J Forsberg;Gautam Dantas

  • Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes in low-income human habitats.

    Erica C. Pehrsson;Pablo Tsukayama;Sanket Patel;Melissa Mejía-Bautista;Melissa Mejía-Bautista

  • Next-generation approaches to understand and combat the antibiotic resistome

    Terence Spencer Crofts;Andrew J. Gasparrini;Gautam Dantas

  • Sequencing-based methods and resources to study antimicrobial resistance.

    Manish Boolchandani;Alaric W. D’Souza;Gautam Dantas

  • Developmental dynamics of the preterm infant gut microbiota and antibiotic resistome.

    Molly K. Gibson;Bin Wang;Sara Ahmadi;Carey-Ann D. Burnham

  • The rapid spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

    Robert F. Potter;Alaric W. D’Souza;Gautam Dantas

  • A large scale test of computational protein design: folding and stability of nine completely redesigned globular proteins.

    Gautam Dantas;Brian Kuhlman;David Callender;Michelle Wong

  • High-Specificity Targeted Functional Profiling in Microbial Communities with ShortBRED

    James Kaminski;Molly K. Gibson;Eric A. Franzosa;Eric A. Franzosa;Nicola Segata

  • Antibiotic perturbations to the gut microbiome

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  • Gut microbiome composition may be an indicator of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

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  • Antibiotics and the developing infant gut microbiota and resistome

    Molly K. Gibson;Terence Spencer Crofts;Gautam Dantas

  • Functional Characterization of Bacteria Isolated from Ancient Arctic Soil Exposes Diverse Resistance Mechanisms to Modern Antibiotics

    Gabriel G. Perron;Lyle Whyte;Peter J. Turnbaugh;Jacqueline Goordial

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten Otto Alexander Sommer
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer Technical University of Denmark
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
Phillip I. Tarr
Phillip I. Tarr Washington University in St. Louis
Erik R. Dubberke
Erik R. Dubberke Washington University in St. Louis
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Gabriele Varani
Gabriele Varani University of Washington
Brian Kuhlman
Brian Kuhlman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexei Savchenko
Alexei Savchenko University of Calgary
Fong-Fu Hsu
Fong-Fu Hsu Washington University in St. Louis

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