2026 Josh D. Neufeld: 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	58	12993	11954	441	403	166	15726

Overview

Josh D. Neufeld is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research activity spans areas within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a primary focus on subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Gut Microbiota and Health
Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
Water Treatment and Disinfection
Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Frequent publication venues for Josh D. Neufeld's work include:

The ISME Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
ISME Communications
Bioresource Technology
mSystems

Among recent scientific articles, notable publications are:

"Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics" (2023), published in Nature
"High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant" (2020), published in The ISME Journal
"Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and complete ammonia-oxidizing Nitrospira in water treatment systems" (2022), published in Water Research X
"Nitrogen removal pathways during simultaneous nitrification, denitrification, and phosphorus removal under low temperature and dissolved oxygen conditions" (2022), published in Bioresource Technology
"Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes" (2022), published in Cell Reports

Collaborations have frequently involved the following co-authors:

Katja Engel
Jackson M. Tsuji
Sherry L. Schiff
W. Jeffrey Binns
Jason J. Venkiteswaran

Best Publications

PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

Andre P. Masella;Andrea K. Bartram;Jakub Truszkowski;Daniel Gregory Brown

2186
Citations
Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

Michael D. J. Lynch;Josh D. Neufeld

1047
Citations
Generation of Multimillion-Sequence 16S rRNA Gene Libraries from Complex Microbial Communities by Assembling Paired-End Illumina Reads

Andrea K. Bartram;Michael D. J. Lynch;Jennifer C. Stearns;Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb

937
Citations
Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications.

Pelin Yilmaz;Pelin Yilmaz;Renzo Kottmann;Dawn Field;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

810
Citations
Transplantation of fecal microbiota from patients with irritable bowel syndrome alters gut function and behavior in recipient mice.

Giada De Palma;Michael D. J. Lynch;Jun Lu;Vi T. Dang

479
Citations
Bacterial biogeography of the human digestive tract

Jennifer C. Stearns;Michael D. J. Lynch;Michael D. J. Lynch;Dilani B. Senadheera;Howard C. Tenenbaum

466
Citations
Who eats what, where and when? Isotope-labelling experiments are coming of age.

Josh D Neufeld;Michael Wagner;J Colin Murrell

303
Citations
Evaluating Bias of Illumina-Based Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene Profiles

Katherine Kennedy;Michael W. Hall;Michael D. J. Lynch;Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb

284
Citations
Methodological Considerations for the Use of Stable Isotope Probing in Microbial Ecology

Josh D. Neufeld;Marc G. Dumont;Jyotsna Vohra;J. Colin Murrell

283
Citations
Something from (almost) nothing: the impact of multiple displacement amplification on microbial ecology.

Erik K Binga;Roger S Lasken;Josh D Neufeld

231
Citations
Stable-isotope probing implicates Methylophaga spp and novel Gammaproteobacteria in marine methanol and methylamine metabolism

Josh D. Neufeld;Hendrik Schäfer;Michael J. Cox;Michael J. Cox;Rich Boden

204
Citations
Cultivation and characterization of Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus exaquare, an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from a municipal wastewater treatment system

Laura A Sauder;Mads Albertsen;Katja Engel;Jasmin Schwarz

201
Citations
Biogeography of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria.

Puntipar Sonthiphand;Michael W. Hall;Josh D. Neufeld

198
Citations
Exploring links between pH and bacterial community composition in soils from the Craibstone Experimental Farm

Andrea K. Bartram;Xingpeng Jiang;Michael D.J. Lynch;Andre P. Masella

192
Citations
Comprehensive skin microbiome analysis reveals the uniqueness of human skin and evidence for phylosymbiosis within the class Mammalia

Ashley A. Ross;Kirsten M. Müller;J. Scott Weese;Josh D. Neufeld

192
Citations
Unexpectedly High Bacterial Diversity in Arctic Tundra Relative to Boreal Forest Soils, Revealed by Serial Analysis of Ribosomal Sequence Tags

Josh D. Neufeld;William W. Mohn

186
Citations
Inter-personal diversity and temporal dynamics of dental, tongue, and salivary microbiota in the healthy oral cavity

Michael W. Hall;Natasha Singh;Kester F. Ng;David K. Lam

184
Citations
Comparison of chloroform fumigation-extraction, phospholipid fatty acid, and DNA methods to determine microbial biomass in forest humus

Sara E. Leckie;Cindy E. Prescott;Susan J. Grayston;Josh D. Neufeld

180
Citations
The Skin Microbiome of Vertebrates

Ashley A. Ross;Ashley A. Ross;Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann;Josh D. Neufeld

176
Citations
Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) for Microbial Community Analysis

Stefan J. Green;Mary Beth Leigh;Josh D. Neufeld

170
Citations