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Ecology and Evolution
USA
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
147
Citations
177057
World Ranking
32
National Ranking
15

Noah Fierer publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Noah Fierer sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 336 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Noah Fierer D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Noah Fierer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 147 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Clark Soil Biology Graduate Student Scholarship, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

Noah Fierer is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist has contributed to various topics, notably Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Polar Research and Ecology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Notable recent publications by Noah Fierer include the following papers:

  • The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties (2023), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems (2020), published in Science Advances
  • How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health (2020), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces (2021), published in Science Advances

Their frequent coauthors include Nicholas B. Dragone, Byron J. Adams, Matthew J. Gebert, Corinne Walsh, and Hannah Holland-Moritz.

Common venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • The ISME Journal
  • mSystems
  • Science Advances

Noah Fierer received the Clark Soil Biology Graduate Student Scholarship from the American Society of Agronomy in 2002.

Best Publications

  • QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.

    J Gregory Caporaso;Justin Kuczynski;Jesse Stombaugh;Kyle Bittinger

  • Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L. Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities

    Noah Fierer;Robert B. Jackson

  • Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

    Maria G. Dominguez-Bello;Elizabeth K. Costello;Elizabeth K. Costello;Monica Contreras;Magda Magris

  • Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteria.

    Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Mark A. Bradford;Robert B. Jackson

  • Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth;Philip C Brookes;Christian L Lauber

  • Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale.

    Christian L. Lauber;Micah Hamady;Rob Knight;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

    Elizabeth K. Costello;Christian L. Lauber;Micah Hamady;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome.

    Noah Fierer

  • Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

    Albert Barberán;Scott T Bates;Emilio O Casamayor;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

    Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Jon G. Sanders;Daniel McDonald;Amnon Amir

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Tess E. Brewer;Tess E. Brewer;Alberto Benavent-González

  • Variations in microbial community composition through two soil depth profiles

    Noah Fierer;Joshua P Schimel;Patricia A Holden

  • The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

    Christian L. Lauber;Michael S. Strickland;Mark A. Bradford;Noah Fierer

  • Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients.

    Noah Fierer;Christian L Lauber;Kelly S Ramirez;Jesse Zaneveld

  • Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays.

    Noah Fierer;Jason A. Jackson;Rytas Vilgalys;Robert B. Jackson

  • Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

    Noah Fierer;Jonathan W. Leff;Byron J. Adams;Uffe N. Nielsen

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil.

    Scott T Bates;Donna Berg-Lyons;J Gregory Caporaso;William A Walters

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Jonathan W. Leff
Jonathan W. Leff University of Colorado Boulder
Christian L. Lauber
Christian L. Lauber University of Colorado Boulder
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Mark A. Bradford
Mark A. Bradford Yale University
Albert Barberán
Albert Barberán University of Arizona
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University

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