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Michael A. Fischbach

Michael A. Fischbach

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
60677
World Ranking
1953
National Ranking
1069

Michael A. Fischbach publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael A. Fischbach sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 180 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael A. Fischbach 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 Michael A. Fischbach sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 94 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Michael A. Fischbach is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research predominantly explores the intersections of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their scholarly output totals over 100 publications in areas spanning molecular biology, immunology, oncology, physiology, and infectious diseases.

The research profile of Michael A. Fischbach centers on complex biological systems, particularly within the framework of gut microbiota and health. Specific topics of study include immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, diet and metabolism studies, and research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens.

Fischbach has published frequently in well-recognized scientific journals and repositories. The most common venues for their publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Cell

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael A. Fischbach include:

  • Dysbiosis-Induced Secondary Bile Acid Deficiency Promotes Intestinal Inflammation, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • A Cardiovascular Disease-Linked Gut Microbial Metabolite Acts via Adrenergic Receptors, 2020, Cell
  • Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Novel bile acid biosynthetic pathways are enriched in the microbiome of centenarians, 2021, Nature
  • A metabolic pathway for bile acid dehydroxylation by the gut microbiome, 2020, Nature

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Kazuki Nagashima
  • Marnix H. Medema
  • Stanley L. Hazen
  • Steven K. Higginbottom
  • Victòria Andreu

Their research contributions focus on understanding microbial metabolites, particularly bile acids, and their roles in inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and aging. The work spans multiple disciplines and often integrates advanced metagenomic and metabolomic techniques to elucidate complex host-microbe interactions relevant to human health.

Best Publications

  • Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

    Lawrence A. David;Corinne F. Maurice;Rachel N. Carmody;David B. Gootenberg

  • A chromatin-mediated reversible drug-tolerant state in cancer cell subpopulations

    Sreenath V. Sharma;Diana Y. Lee;Bihua Li;Margaret P. Quinlan

  • Antibiotics For Emerging Pathogens

    Michael A. Fischbach;Christopher T. Walsh

  • Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: Overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

    Paul G. Arnison;Mervyn J. Bibb;Gabriele Bierbaum;Albert Alexander Bowers

  • antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

    Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

  • antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

    Marnix H. Medema;Kai Blin;Peter Cimermancic;Victor de Jager;Victor de Jager

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  • Assembly-line enzymology for polyketide and nonribosomal Peptide antibiotics: logic, machinery, and mechanisms.

    Michael A. Fischbach;Christopher T. Walsh

  • A gut bacterial pathway metabolizes aromatic amino acids into nine circulating metabolites

    Dylan Dodd;Matthew H. Spitzer;Matthew H. Spitzer;William Van Treuren;Bryan D. Merrill

  • Insights into secondary metabolism from a global analysis of prokaryotic biosynthetic gene clusters.

    Peter Cimermancic;Marnix H. Medema;Jan Claesen;Kenji Kurita

  • Bile acid metabolites control TH17 and Treg cell differentiation

    Saiyu Hang;Donggi Paik;Lina Yao;Eunha Kim

  • antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers

    Kai Blin;Marnix H. Medema;Daniyal Kazempour;Michael A. Fischbach

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Dysbiosis-Induced Secondary Bile Acid Deficiency Promotes Intestinal Inflammation

    Sidhartha R. Sinha;Yeneneh Haileselassie;Linh P. Nguyen;Carolina Tropini

  • New antibiotics from bacterial natural products.

    Jon Clardy;Michael A Fischbach;Christopher T Walsh

  • A systematic analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters in the human microbiome reveals a common family of antibiotics

    Mohamed S. Donia;Peter Cimermancic;Christopher J. Schulze;Laura C. Wieland Brown

  • Small molecules from the human microbiota

    Mohamed S. Abou Donia;Michael A. Fischbach

  • Skin microbiota–host interactions

    Y. Erin Chen;Y. Erin Chen;Michael A. Fischbach;Yasmine Belkaid

  • Insights from the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium marinum on the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Timothy P. Stinear;Torsten Seemann;Paul F. Harrison;Grant A. Jenkin

  • Discovery and Characterization of Gut Microbiota Decarboxylases that Can Produce the Neurotransmitter Tryptamine

    Brianna B. Williams;Andrew H. Van Benschoten;Peter Cimermancic;Mohamed S. Abou Donia

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher T. Walsh
Christopher T. Walsh Stanford University
Marnix H. Medema
Marnix H. Medema Wageningen University & Research
Justin L. Sonnenburg
Justin L. Sonnenburg Stanford University
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
David R. Liu
David R. Liu Broad Institute
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Eriko Takano
Eriko Takano University of Manchester
Hening Lin
Hening Lin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
W.H. Wilson Tang
W.H. Wilson Tang Cleveland Clinic

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