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J. Gregory Caporaso publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J. Gregory Caporaso sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 152 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

J. Gregory Caporaso 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 J. Gregory Caporaso sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

J. Gregory Caporaso is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable focus in subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Periodontics, Epidemiology, and Ecology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, especially those related to the gut microbiota and health, with additional interest in cervical cancer and HPV research, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, dental health and care utilization, reproductive tract infections research, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Recent publications by Caporaso exemplify the breadth of their research. These include:

  • QIIME 2 Enables Comprehensive End-to-End Analysis of Diverse Microbiome Data and Comparative Studies with Publicly Available Data, 2020, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
  • The Cancer Microbiome: Distinguishing Direct and Indirect Effects Requires a Systemic View, 2020, Trends in Cancer
  • Impact of Different Exercise Modalities on the Human Gut Microbiome, 2021, Sports
  • The international sinonasal microbiome study: A multicentre, multinational characterization of sinonasal bacterial ecology, 2020, Allergy
  • The Oral Microbiome and Lung Cancer Risk: An Analysis of 3 Prospective Cohort Studies, 2022, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention with 6 publications
  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 6 publications
  • PLoS Computational Biology with 4 publications
  • F1000Research with 3 publications

Caporaso collaborates regularly with several co-authors, reflecting a collaborative approach to research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Evan Bolyen, with 20 joint publications
  • Nicholas A. Bokulich, with 18 joint publications
  • Chloe Herman, with 18 joint publications
  • Emily K. Cope, with 14 joint publications
  • Melissa M. Herbst-Kralovetz, with 11 joint publications

Best Publications

  • QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.

    J Gregory Caporaso;Justin Kuczynski;Jesse Stombaugh;Kyle Bittinger

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L. Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

    Morgan G I Langille;Jesse Zaneveld;J Gregory Caporaso;J Gregory Caporaso;Daniel McDonald

  • Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

    Tanya Yatsunenko;Federico E Rey;Mark J Manary;Mark J Manary;Indi Trehan;Indi Trehan

  • Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;Benjamin D. Kaehler;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew Dillon

  • Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing.

    Nicholas A Bokulich;Sathish Subramanian;Jeremiah J Faith;Dirk Gevers

  • Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth;Philip C Brookes;Christian L Lauber

  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Kyle Bittinger;Frederic D. Bushman;Todd Z. DeSantis

  • Current understanding of the human microbiome.

    Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Jack A Gilbert;Martin J Blaser;J Gregory Caporaso;Janet K Jansson

  • Using QIIME to Analyze 16S rRNA Gene Sequences from Microbial Communities

    Justin Kuczynski;Jesse Stombaugh;William Anton Walters;Antonio González

  • Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys.

    William Walters;Embriette R. Hyde;Donna Berg-Lyons;Gail Ackermann

  • Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

    Noah Fierer;Jonathan W. Leff;Byron J. Adams;Uffe N. Nielsen

  • Best practices for analysing microbiomes.

    Rob Knight;Alison Vrbanac;Bryn C. Taylor;Alexander Aksenov

  • Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil.

    Scott T Bates;Donna Berg-Lyons;J Gregory Caporaso;William A Walters

  • 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

  • Moving pictures of the human microbiome.

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L Lauber;Elizabeth K. Costello;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker gene amplicon sequences

    Nicholas A Bokulich;Benjamin D Kaehler;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew Dillon

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Dan Knights
Dan Knights University of Minnesota
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Christian L. Lauber
Christian L. Lauber University of Colorado Boulder
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University
Catherine A. Lozupone
Catherine A. Lozupone University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Talima Pearson
Talima Pearson Northern Arizona University

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