2026 Kevin R. Foster: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	78	913	870	128	122	136	24355

Overview

Kevin R. Foster is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, specializing in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their body of work includes 84 publications primarily focused on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Sociology and Political Science, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics including:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Vibrio bacteria research studies
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Gut microbiota and health
Escherichia coli research studies
Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Kevin R. Foster include:

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking (2023, Science)
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance (2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
Bacterial species rarely work together (2022, Science)
Inhibiting bacterial cooperation is an evolutionarily robust anti-biofilm strategy (2020, Nature Communications)
Ecological rules for the assembly of microbiome communities (2021, PLoS Biology)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

William P. J. Smith
Elisa T. Granato
William M. Durham
Oliver J. Meacock
Sean C. Booth

Kevin R. Foster has published extensively across several venues, with the most frequent being:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Science
PLoS Biology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

Katharine Z. Coyte;Jonas Schluter;Jonas Schluter;Kevin R. Foster

2707
Citations
Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms

Carey D. Nadell;Knut Drescher;Kevin R. Foster

1048
Citations
The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

Kevin R. Foster;Jonas Schluter;Katharine Z. Coyte;Katharine Z. Coyte;Katharine Z. Coyte;Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

961
Citations
Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species

Kevin R. Foster;Thomas Bell

823
Citations
The sociobiology of biofilms

Carey D. Nadell;Joao B. Xavier;Kevin R. Foster

819
Citations
CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN INSECT SOCIETIES

Francis L.W. Ratnieks;Kevin R. Foster;Tom Wenseleers

721
Citations
Cooperation and conflict in microbial biofilms

Joao B. Xavier;Kevin R. Foster

667
Citations
The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum;Seth Rakoff-Nahoum;Kevin R. Foster;Laurie E. Comstock

651
Citations
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

598
Citations
FLO1 Is a Variable Green Beard Gene that Drives Biofilm-like Cooperation in Budding Yeast

Scott Smukalla;Marina Caldara;Nathalie Pochet;Nathalie Pochet;Anne Beauvais

552
Citations
The evolution of quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms.

Carey D. Nadell;Joao B. Xavier;Simon Asher Levin;Kevin R. Foster

526
Citations
Competition sensing: the social side of bacterial stress responses

Daniel M. Cornforth;Daniel M. Cornforth;Kevin R. Foster

521
Citations
The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare.

Elisa T. Granato;Thomas A. Meiller-Legrand;Kevin R. Foster

506
Citations
Kin selection is the key to altruism

Kevin R. Foster;Tom Wenseleers;Francis L.W. Ratnieks

475
Citations
Emergence of spatial structure in cell groups and the evolution of cooperation.

Carey D. Nadell;Kevin R. Foster;João B. Xavier;João B. Xavier

407
Citations
A general model for the evolution of mutualisms

Kevin R. Foster;Tom Wenseleers

375
Citations
Bacterial species rarely work together

Unknown

369
Citations
Why does the microbiome affect behaviour

Katerina V.-A. Johnson;Kevin R. Foster

363
Citations
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance

Unknown

340
Citations
The Genotypic View of Social Interactions in Microbial Communities

Sara Mitri;Kevin Richard Foster

337
Citations
Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition.

Nuno M. Oliveira;Esteban Martinez-Garcia;Joao Xavier;William M. Durham

322
Citations
Supplementary Materials for The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

Katharine Z. Coyte;Jonas Schluter;Kevin R. Foster

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis L. W. Ratnieks University of Sussex

Joao B. Xavier Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tom Wenseleers KU Leuven

David C. Queller Washington University in St. Louis

Judith Korb University of Freiburg

Joan E. Strassmann Washington University in St. Louis

Julia M. Yeomans University of Oxford

Hanna Kokko Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University

Andrew W. Murray Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Kevin R. Foster

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