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D-Index
78
Citations
75864
World Ranking
1246
National Ranking
551

Patrick D. Schloss publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick D. Schloss sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 162 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Patrick D. Schloss D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick D. Schloss sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ASM Award for Service, American Society for Microbiology

Overview

Patrick D. Schloss is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, gender studies, and emergency medical services.

Their research primarily focuses on topics such as gut microbiota and health, diversity and career in medicine, global health workforce issues, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, ethics in clinical research, and public health policies and education.

Patrick D. Schloss has published numerous papers in various venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mSphere, mBio, Microbiology Resource Announcements, and Microbiology Spectrum.

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • A Framework for Effective Application of Machine Learning to Microbiome-Based Classification Problems, 2020, mBio
  • Amplicon Sequence Variants Artificially Split Bacterial Genomes into Separate Clusters, 2021, mSphere
  • Gut Microbiota Modulate CD8 T Cell Responses to Influence Colitis-Associated Tumorigenesis, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Rarefaction is currently the best approach to control for uneven sequencing effort in amplicon sequence analyses, 2024, mSphere

Frequent co-authors of Patrick D. Schloss include Arturo Casadevall, César A. Arias, Andreas J. Bäumler, Corrella S. Detweiler, and Michael J. Imperiale, each having collaborated on a significant number of publications.

The academic venues where Schloss most often publishes confirm a strong focus on microbiology and molecular biology disciplines.

Patrick D. Schloss received the ASM Award for Service from the American Society for Microbiology in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

    Patrick D. Schloss;Patrick D. Schloss;Sarah L. Westcott;Sarah L. Westcott;Thomas Ryabin;Justine R. Hall

  • Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

    Curtis Huttenhower;Curtis Huttenhower;Dirk Gevers;Rob Knight;Rob Knight;Sahar Abubucker

  • Development of a dual-index sequencing strategy and curation pipeline for analyzing amplicon sequence data on the MiSeq Illumina sequencing platform.

    James J. Kozich;Sarah L. Westcott;Nielson T. Baxter;Sarah K. Highlander

  • Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness

    Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • A framework for human microbiome research

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Mihai Pop;Heather H. Creasy

  • Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

    Patrick D. Schloss;Dirk Gevers;Sarah L. Westcott

  • Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities.

    Christian S. Riesenfeld;Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome

    Sahar Abubucker;Nicola Segata;Johannes Goll;Alyxandria M. Schubert

  • Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body

    Tao Ding;Patrick D. Schloss

  • Comparison of the Respiratory Microbiome in Healthy Nonsmokers and Smokers

    Alison Morris;James M. Beck;Patrick D. Schloss;Thomas B. Campbell

  • Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

    Patrick D. Schloss;Sarah L. Westcott

  • 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

  • Biotechnological prospects from metagenomics

    Patrick D Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • Status of the Microbial Census

    Patrick D. Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • The Gut Microbiome Modulates Colon Tumorigenesis

    Joseph P. Zackular;Nielson T. Baxter;Kathryn D. Iverson;William D. Sadler

  • Decade-long bacterial community dynamics in cystic fibrosis airways

    Jiangchao Zhao;Patrick D. Schloss;Linda M. Kalikin;Lisa A. Carmody

  • Looking for a Signal in the Noise: Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome

    Marc A. Sze;Patrick D. Schloss

  • Metagenomics for studying unculturable microorganisms: cutting the Gordian knot

    Patrick D Schloss;Jo Handelsman

  • The Human Gut Microbiome as a Screening Tool for Colorectal Cancer

    Joseph P. Zackular;Mary A.M. Rogers;Mack T. Ruffin;Patrick D. Schloss

  • Toward a Census of Bacteria in Soil

    Patrick David Schloss;Jo Handelsman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Jo Handelsman
Jo Handelsman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Vincent B. Young
Vincent B. Young University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nancy N. Baxter
Nancy N. Baxter University of Sydney
Andreas J. Bäumler
Andreas J. Bäumler University of California, Davis
Cesar A. Arias
Cesar A. Arias The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Harold L. Drake
Harold L. Drake University of Bayreuth
Susan T. Lovett
Susan T. Lovett Brandeis University

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