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Josh D. Neufeld

Josh D. Neufeld

University of Waterloo
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
15726
World Ranking
12993
National Ranking
441

Josh D. Neufeld publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 166 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Josh D. Neufeld 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 Josh D. Neufeld sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

    Michael D. J. Lynch;Josh D. Neufeld

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bacterial biogeography of the human digestive tract

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

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

    Josh D Neufeld;Michael Wagner;J Colin Murrell

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

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

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

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

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

    Erik K Binga;Roger S Lasken;Josh D Neufeld

  • 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

  • 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

  • Biogeography of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Skin Microbiome of Vertebrates

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

  • Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) for Microbial Community Analysis

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

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Trevor C. Charles
Trevor C. Charles University of Waterloo
William W. Mohn
William W. Mohn University of British Columbia
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Sherry L. Schiff
Sherry L. Schiff University of Waterloo
David R. Rose
David R. Rose University of Waterloo
Lewis A. Molot
Lewis A. Molot York University
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Virginia K. Walker
Virginia K. Walker Queen's University
Janet K. Jansson
Janet K. Jansson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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