2026 Gene W. Tyson: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	85	3057	2813	67	66	228	51446

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Gene W. Tyson is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial number of publications in these fields.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, Tyson explores several subfields, including:

Molecular Biology
Ecology
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Engineering
Atmospheric Science

The scientist's research covers several key topics such as:

Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Gut microbiota and health
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Climate change and permafrost
Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Gene W. Tyson has coauthored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including:

Ben J. Woodcroft
Simon Jon McIlroy
Donovan H. Parks
Philip Hugenholtz
Andy O Leu

The scientist has published notably in several venues, with a high number of works in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The ISME Journal
Nature Communications
Gastroenterology
Nature Methods

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gene W. Tyson include:

CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning, 2023, Nature Methods
Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations, 2021, Cell
Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae, 2020, The ISME Journal
Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean's microbiome, 2022, Nature
CoverM: read alignment statistics for metagenomics, 2025, Bioinformatics

Best Publications

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

Donovan H. Parks;Michael Imelfort;Connor T. Skennerton;Philip Hugenholtz

8828
Citations
STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

Donovan H. Parks;Gene W. Tyson;Philip Hugenholtz;Robert G. Beiko

3604
Citations
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment

Gene W. Tyson;Jarrod Chapman;Jarrod Chapman;Philip Hugenholtz;Eric E. Allen

2834
Citations
Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

2403
Citations
Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

Donovan H. Parks;Christian Rinke;Maria Chuvochina;Pierre-Alain Chaumeil

1613
Citations
Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to nitrate reduction in a novel archaeal lineage

Mohamed F. Haroon;Shihu Hu;Ying Shi;Michael Imelfort

1422
Citations
Genome sequences of rare, uncultured bacteria obtained by differential coverage binning of multiple metagenomes

Mads Albertsen;Philip Hugenholtz;Adam Skarshewski;Kåre Lehmann Nielsen

1354
Citations
Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters

Jorge Frias-Lopez;Yanmei Shi;Gene W. Tyson;Maureen L. Coleman

929
Citations
A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

928
Citations
Methane metabolism in the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

Paul N. Evans;Donovan H. Parks;Grayson L. Chadwick;Steven J. Robbins

816
Citations
Community Proteomics of a Natural Microbial Biofilm

Rachna J. Ram;Nathan C. VerBerkmoes;Michael P. Thelen;Michael P. Thelen;Gene W. Tyson

800
Citations
Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient

Joanne B. Emerson;Joanne B. Emerson;Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Jennifer R. Brum;Jennifer R. Brum;Benjamin Bolduc

604
Citations
Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota.

Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul N. Evans;Donovan H. Parks;Paul D. Jensen

561
Citations
Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw

Carmody K. McCalley;Ben J. Woodcroft;Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Richard A. Wehr

462
Citations
An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea.

Paul N. Evans;Joel A. Boyd;Andy O. Leu;Ben J. Woodcroft

456
Citations
Investigation of candidate division TM7, a recently recognized major lineage of the domain Bacteria with no known pure-culture representatives

Philip Hugenholtz;Gene W. Tyson;Richard I. Webb;Ankia M. Wagner

415
Citations
Linking microbial community structure, interactions and function in anaerobic digesters using new molecular techniques.

Inka Vanwonterghem;Paul D Jensen;Dang P Ho;Damien J Batstone

410
Citations
Rapidly evolving CRISPRs implicated in acquired resistance of microorganisms to viruses.

Gene W. Tyson;Jillian F. Banfield

402
Citations
Shining a light on dark sequencing: characterising errors in Ion Torrent PGM data.

Lauren M. Bragg;Glenn Stone;Margaret K. Butler;Philip Hugenholtz

387
Citations
CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes: supplemental material

Donovan H. Parks;Michael Imelfort;Connor T. Skennerton;Philip Hugenholtz

13
Citations