2026 James M. Tiedje: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	187	468	433	307	279	746	155272
Microbiology	180	6	6	2	2	660	154451

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1992 - Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology
1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1981 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
1981 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Overview

James M. Tiedje is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in subfields including Ecology, Pollution, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, and Plant Science.

Their research covers several topics such as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, microbial community ecology and physiology, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Frequent collaborators of James M. Tiedje include Fang Wang, Yuhao Fu, Jizhong Zhou, Marko Virta, and Xin Jiang.

The scientist's common publication venues include Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, The Innovation, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by James M. Tiedje include:

Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Artificial intelligence: A powerful paradigm for scientific research, 2021, The Innovation
Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality, 2021, The Innovation
An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes, 2021, Nature Communications
Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective, 2024, The Innovation

James M. Tiedje has been recognized through several honors including being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2012, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003, receiving the Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology in 1992, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1985, as well as being a Fellow of both the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) since 1981.

Best Publications

Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy

Qiong Wang;George M. Garrity;James M. Tiedje;James R. Cole

21494
Citations
The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

James R. Cole;Qiong Wang;E. Cardenas;Jordan A. Fish

5580
Citations
DNA–DNA hybridization values and their relationship to whole-genome sequence similarities

Johan Goris;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Joel A. Klappenbach;Tom Coenye

4909
Citations
Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

James R. Cole;Qiong Wang;Jordan A. Fish;Benli Chai

4684
Citations
DNA recovery from soils of diverse composition.

Jizhong Zhou;Mary Ann Bruns;James M. Tiedje

4047
Citations
Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms.

Yong Guan Zhu;Timothy A. Johnson;Jian Qiang Su;Min Qiao

2593
Citations
Genomic insights that advance the species definition for prokaryotes

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

2337
Citations
The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues.

Bonnie L. Maidak;James R. Cole;Timothy G. Lilburn;Charles T. Parker

2190
Citations
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

Mengting Maggie Yuan;Mengting Maggie Yuan;Xue Guo;Xue Guo;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

1937
Citations
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II): sequences and tools for high-throughput rRNA analysis

James R. Cole;Benli Chai;Ryan J. Farris;Qiong Wang

1783
Citations
Ecology of Denitrification and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium

J. M. Tiedje

1750
Citations
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II): previewing a new autoaligner that allows regular updates and the new prokaryotic taxonomy

James R. Cole;Benli Chai;Terry L. Marsh;Ryan J. Farris

1723
Citations
The ribosomal database project (RDP-II): introducing myRDP space and quality controlled public data.

James R. Cole;Benli Chai;Ryan J. Farris;Qiong Wang

1335
Citations
Using the class 1 integron-integrase gene as a proxy for anthropogenic pollution

Michael R. Gillings;William H. Gaze;Amy Pruden;Kornelia Smalla

1325
Citations
Towards a Genome-Based Taxonomy for Prokaryotes

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

1236
Citations
Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes.

Bing Li;Ying Yang;Liping Ma;Feng Ju

1209
Citations
In-feed antibiotic effects on the swine intestinal microbiome.

Torey Looft;Timothy A. Johnson;Heather K. Allen;Darrell O. Bayles

1190
Citations
Revealing the Bacterial Butyrate Synthesis Pathways by Analyzing (Meta)genomic Data

Marius Vital;Adina Chuang Howe;Adina Chuang Howe;James M. Tiedje

1145
Citations
Towards environmental systems biology of Shewanella

James K. Fredrickson;Margaret F. Romine;Alexander S. Beliaev;Jennifer M. Auchtung

1109
Citations
Microbial reductive dehalogenation.

William W. Mohn;J Tiedje

1048
Citations
A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

Daliang Ning;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;James M Tiedje;Jizhong Zhou

1046
Citations
A new version of the RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

Bonnie L. Maidak;James R. Cole;Charles T. Parker;George M. Garrity

1029
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma

James R. Cole Michigan State University

Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology

Yiqi Luo Cornell University

Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University

Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University

Craig S. Criddle Stanford University

Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences

Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma

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