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James M. Tiedje 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 James M. Tiedje sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 660 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James M. Tiedje 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 James M. Tiedje sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 180 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • DNA recovery from soils of diverse composition.

    Jizhong Zhou;Mary Ann Bruns;James M. Tiedje

  • Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms.

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

  • Genomic insights that advance the species definition for prokaryotes

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

  • The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues.

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

  • Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

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

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

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

  • Ecology of Denitrification and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium

    J. M. Tiedje

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Towards a Genome-Based Taxonomy for Prokaryotes

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

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

    Bing Li;Ying Yang;Liping Ma;Feng Ju

  • In-feed antibiotic effects on the swine intestinal microbiome.

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

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

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

  • Towards environmental systems biology of Shewanella

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

  • Microbial reductive dehalogenation.

    William W. Mohn;J Tiedje

  • A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

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

  • A new version of the RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
James R. Cole
James R. Cole Michigan State University
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Craig S. Criddle
Craig S. Criddle Stanford University
Ye Deng
Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joy D. Van Nostrand
Joy D. Van Nostrand University of Oklahoma

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