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D-Index
62
Citations
14794
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2859
National Ranking
1137

Paul A. Lawson 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 Paul A. Lawson sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 193 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul A. Lawson 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 Paul A. Lawson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Paul A. Lawson is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and is a researcher with a focus on microbiology and microbial taxonomy. Their work predominantly contributes to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science.

The scientist's publication record includes a significant number of works in Molecular Biology and Ecology, with additional contributions in Clinical Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and Endocrinology. Their research topics primarily revolve around Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing. Other notable areas include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Gut Microbiota and Health, Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research, and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology.

Paul A. Lawson has published extensively in several scientific journals, with the majority of their papers appearing in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. They have also contributed to publications such as Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Anaerobe, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lawson include Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, D. Annie Doyle, Nisha B. Patel, Richard William McLaughlin, and Rashmi Fotedar.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul A. Lawson include:

  • Reclassification of Clostridium cocleatum, Clostridium ramosum, Clostridium spiroforme and Clostridium saccharogumia as Thomasclavelia cocleata gen. nov., comb. nov., Thomasclavelia ramosa comb. nov., gen. nov., Thomasclavelia spiroformis comb. nov. and Thomasclavelia saccharogumia comb. nov (2023), published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Ningiella ruwaisensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Alteromonadaceae isolated from marine water of the Arabian Gulf (2020), published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Reclassification of Facklamia ignava, Facklamia sourekii and Facklamia tabacinasalis as Falseniella ignava gen. nov., comb. nov., Hutsoniella sourekii gen. nov., comb. nov., and Ruoffia tabacinasalis gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Ruoffia halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from hypersaline Inland Sea of Qatar (2021), published in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Clostridium muellerianum sp. nov., a carbon monoxide-oxidizing acetogen isolated from old hay (2022), published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Zhaonella formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and Moorellales ord. nov. in the phylum Firmicutes (2020), published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Best Publications

  • The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations

    M. D. Collins;P. A. Lawson;A. Willems;J. J. Cordoba

  • Gastrointestinal Microflora Studies in Late-Onset Autism

    Sydney M. Finegold;Sydney M. Finegold;Denise Molitoris;Yuli Song;Chengxu Liu

  • Reclassification of Clostridium difficile as Clostridioides difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prévot 1938.

    Paul A. Lawson;Diane M. Citron;Kerin L. Tyrrell;Sydney M. Finegold

  • Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes

    Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito;Raul Y. Tito;Jessica Metcalf;Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan

  • Reclassification of Clostridium coccoides, Ruminococcus hansenii, Ruminococcus hydrogenotrophicus, Ruminococcus luti, Ruminococcus productus and Ruminococcus schinkii as Blautia coccoides gen. nov., comb. nov., Blautia hansenii comb. nov., Blautia hydrogenotrophica comb. nov., Blautia luti comb. nov., Blautia producta comb. nov., Blautia schinkii comb. nov. and description of Blautia wexlerae sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.

    Chengxu Liu;Sydney M. Finegold;Sydney M. Finegold;Yuli Song;Paul A. Lawson

  • Desulfitobacterium sp strain PCE1, an anaerobic bacterium that can grow by reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene or ortho-chlorinated phenols

    J. Gerritse;Veronique Renard;T. M. Pedro Gomes;Paul A. Lawson

  • The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov.

    Matthew D. Collins;Paul A. Lawson

  • Roseovarius tolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a budding bacterium with variable bacteriochlorophyll a production from hypersaline Ekho Lake.

    M Labrenz;M D Collins;P A Lawson;B J Tindall

  • Anaerostipes caccae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new saccharolytic, acetate-utilising, butyrate-producing bacterium from human faeces.

    Andreas Schwiertz;Georgina L. Hold;Sylvia H. Duncan;Bärbel Gruhl

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Corynebacterium Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequences

    Cristina Pascual;Paul A. Lawson;John A. E. Farrow;Montserrat Navarro Gimenez

  • Characterization of Some Actinomyces-Like Isolates from Human Clinical Specimens: Reclassification of Actinomyces suis (Soltys and Spratling) as Actinobaculum suis comb. nov. and Description of Actinobaculum schaalii sp. nov.

    Paul A. Lawson;Enevold Falsen;Eva Åkervall;Peter Vandamme

  • Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium Prazmowski to Clostridium butyricum and related species.

    Paul A. Lawson;Fred A. Rainey

  • Ruminococcus champanellensis sp. nov., a cellulose-degrading bacterium from human gut microbiota.

    Christophe Chassard;Eve Delmas;Céline Robert;Paul A. Lawson

  • Cetobacterium somerae sp. nov. from human feces and emended description of the genus Cetobacterium.

    Sydney M. Finegold;Marja-Liisa Vaisanen;Denise R. Molitoris;Thomas J. Tomzynski

  • Reclassification of Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al., 1937) in a new genus Alistipes gen. nov., as Alistipes putredinis comb. nov., and description of Alistipes finegoldii sp. nov., from human sources.

    Merja Rautio;Erkki Eerola;Marja-Liisa Väisänen-Tunkelrott;Denise Molitoris

  • Bacteroides cellulosilyticus sp. nov., a cellulolytic bacterium from the human gut microbial community.

    Céline Robert;Christophe Chassard;Paul A. Lawson;Annick Bernalier-Donadille

  • Reclassification of Eubacterium formicigenerans Holdeman and Moore 1974 as Dorea formicigenerans gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Dorea longicatena sp. nov., isolated from human faeces.

    David Taras;Rainer Simmering;Matthew D Collins;Paul A Lawson

  • Listeria fleischmannii sp. nov., isolated from cheese.

    David Bertsch;Jörg Rau;Marcel R. Eugster;Martina C. Haug

  • Staleya guttiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sulfitobacter brevis sp. nov., alpha-3-Proteobacteria from hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic antarctic Ekho Lake.

    Matthias Labrenz;B. J. Tindall;Paul A. Lawson;Matthew D. Collins

  • Dysgonomonas gen. nov. to accommodate Dysgonomonas gadei sp. nov., an organism isolated from a human gall bladder, and Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides (formerly CDC group DF-3).

    Tor Hofstad;Ingar Olsen;Emenike R. Eribe;Enevold Falsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew D. Collins
Matthew D. Collins University of Reading
Enevold Falsen
Enevold Falsen University of Gothenburg
Sydney M. Finegold
Sydney M. Finegold University of California, Los Angeles
Michael A. Cotta
Michael A. Cotta National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Edward R. B. Moore
Edward R. B. Moore University of Gothenburg
Brian J. Tindall
Brian J. Tindall Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann Leibniz Association
Michael Blaut
Michael Blaut University of Potsdam
Lucas Domínguez
Lucas Domínguez Complutense University of Madrid
Haroun N. Shah
Haroun N. Shah Middlesex University

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