2026 Karsten Kristiansen: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	122	566	507	3	3	567	113019
Medicine	122	3390	3162	41	38	559	112841

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Biology and Biochemistry

122

566

507

567

113019

Medicine

122

3390

3162

559

112841

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index

122

Citations

113019

World Ranking

566

National Ranking

Medicine

D-Index

122

Citations

112841

World Ranking

3390

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Karsten Kristiansen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

The subfields include:

Molecular Biology
Physiology
Ecology
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology

Kristiansen's research topics cover a broad area centered on microbiota and related physiological systems. These include:

Gut microbiota and health
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Diet and metabolism studies
Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Probiotics and Fermented Foods
Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

"Developmental trajectory of the healthy human gut microbiota during the first 5 years of life," 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
"Metagenome-wide association of gut microbiome features for schizophrenia," 2020, Nature Communications
"Sex- and age-related trajectories of the adult human gut microbiota shared across populations of different ethnicities," 2021, Nature Aging
"Multi-omics analyses of serum metabolome, gut microbiome and brain function reveal dysregulated microbiota-gut-brain axis in bipolar depression," 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
"A multi-omics approach unravels metagenomic and metabolic alterations of a probiotic and synbiotic additive in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)," 2022, Microbiome

Kristiansen frequently publishes in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Research Square (Research Square)
Scientific Reports
Nature Communications
Microbiome

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, with the most frequent including:

Huanming Yang
Xun Xu
Susanne Brix
Liang Xiao
Jian Wang

Best Publications

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Junjie Qin;Ruiqiang Li;Jeroen Raes;Manimozhiyan Arumugam

13472
Citations
A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

Junjie Qin;Yingrui Li;Zhiming Cai;Shenghui Li

7470
Citations
Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

Trine Nielsen;Junjie Qin;Edi Prifti

5806
Citations
SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment.

Ruiqiang Li;Chang Yu;Yingrui Li;Tak Wah Lam

4329
Citations
Dynamics and Stabilization of the Human Gut Microbiome during the First Year of Life.

Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed;Josefine Roswall;Yangqing Peng;Qiang Feng

3662
Citations
SOAP: short oligonucleotide alignment program

Ruiqiang Li;Yingrui Li;Karsten Kristiansen;Jun Wang

3467
Citations
De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing

Ruiqiang Li;Hongmei Zhu;Jue Ruan;Wubin Qian

3306
Citations
Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

2336
Citations
An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

Junhua Li;Huijue Jia;Xianghang Cai;Huanzi Zhong

2275
Citations
Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota

Kristoffer Forslund;Falk Hildebrand;Falk Hildebrand;Trine Nielsen;Gwen Falony;Gwen Falony

2209
Citations
Human gut microbes impact host serum metabolome and insulin sensitivity

Helle Krogh Pedersen;Valborg Gudmundsdottir;Henrik B. Nielsen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen;Tuulia Hyötyläinen

2098
Citations
The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.

Sanwen Huang;Ruiqiang Li;Zhonghua Zhang;Li Li

1729
Citations
Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

Xin Yi;Yu Liang;Emilia Huerta-Sanchez;Xin Jin

1717
Citations
The oral and gut microbiomes are perturbed in rheumatoid arthritis and partly normalized after treatment

Xuan Zhang;Dongya Zhang;Huijue Jia;Qiang Feng

1589
Citations
Gut microbiome development along the colorectal adenoma-carcinoma sequence.

Qiang Feng;Suisha Liang;Huijue Jia;Andreas Stadlmayr

1558
Citations
The gut microbiome in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Zhuye Jie;Huihua Xia;Shi-Long Zhong;Shi-Long Zhong;Qiang Feng

1490
Citations
The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

Ruiqiang Li;Wei Fan;Geng Tian;Hongmei Zhu

1413
Citations
Gut microbiome and serum metabolome alterations in obesity and after weight-loss intervention

Ruixin Liu;Jie Hong;Xiaoqiang Xu;Qiang Feng

1244
Citations
The diploid genome sequence of an Asian individual.

Jun Wang;Wei Wang;Ruiqiang Li;Ruiqiang Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li;Yingrui Li

1157
Citations
SNP detection for massively parallel whole-genome resequencing

Ruiqiang Li;Yingrui Li;Xiaodong Fang;Huanming Yang

1116
Citations