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5174
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Peter J. Turnbaugh 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 Peter J. Turnbaugh sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 198 publications — 49th percentile

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

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

Peter J. Turnbaugh 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 Peter J. Turnbaugh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 75 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Peter J. Turnbaugh is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, physiology, infectious diseases, oncology, and genetics as subfields of study.

Their body of work heavily explores the relationship between the gut microbiota and health, as well as diet and metabolism studies. Specific topics of interest also include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, probiotics and fermented foods, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Turnbaugh has published extensively, with many papers appearing in high-impact journals and notable publication venues. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Cell, Cell Host & Microbe, and Nature.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Turnbaugh include:

  • Ketogenic Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome Resulting in Decreased Intestinal Th17 Cells, 2020, Cell
  • Human gut bacteria produce ΤΗ17-modulating bile acid metabolites, 2022, Nature
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Human gut bacterial metabolism drives Th17 activation and colitis, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Dissecting the contribution of host genetics and the microbiome in complex behaviors, 2021, Cell

Collaborations form an important part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include Jordan E. Bisanz, Margaret Alexander, Vaibhav Upadhyay, Cecilia Noecker, and Kai Trepka.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Ruth E. Ley;Michael A. Mahowald;Vincent Magrini

  • 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

  • Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

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

  • A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Micah Hamady;Tanya Yatsunenko;Brandi L. Cantarel

  • Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity

    Ruth E. Ley;Peter J. Turnbaugh;Samuel Klein;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Obesity alters gut microbial ecology

    Ruth E. Ley;Fredrik Bäckhed;Peter Turnbaugh;Catherine A. Lozupone

  • The human microbiome project.

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Ruth E. Ley;Micah Hamady;Claire M. Fraser-Liggett

  • Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome

    Steven R. Gill;Mihai Pop;Robert T. DeBoy;Paul B. Eckburg;Paul B. Eckburg

  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Evolution of mammals and their gut microbes

    Ruth E. Ley;Micah Hamady;Catherine Lozupone;Catherine Lozupone;Peter J. Turnbaugh

  • The Effect of Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Metagenomic Analysis in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Vanessa K. Ridaura;Jeremiah J. Faith;Federico E. Rey

  • DIET-INDUCED OBESITY IS LINKED TO MARKED BUT REVERSIBLE ALTERATIONS IN THE MOUSE DISTAL GUT MICROBIOME

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Fredrik Bäckhed;Lucinda Fulton;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Removing noise from pyrosequenced amplicons.

    Christopher Quince;Anders Lanzen;Russell J Davenport;Peter J Turnbaugh

  • Energy-balance studies reveal associations between gut microbes, caloric load, and nutrient absorption in humans

    Reiner Jumpertz;Duc Son Le;Peter J Turnbaugh;Cathy Trinidad

  • The core gut microbiome, energy balance and obesity

    Peter J. Turnbaugh;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Conserved Shifts in the Gut Microbiota Due to Gastric Bypass Reduce Host Weight and Adiposity

    Alice P. Liou;Melissa Paziuk;Jesus-Mario Luevano;Sriram Machineni

  • Diet dominates host genotype in shaping the murine gut microbiota.

    Rachel N Carmody;Georg K Gerber;Jesus M Luevano;Daniel Mario Gatti

  • QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R Dillon;Nicholas A Bokulich

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley Max Planck Society
Catherine A. Lozupone
Catherine A. Lozupone University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Andrew D. Patterson
Andrew D. Patterson Pennsylvania State University
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Katherine S. Pollard
Katherine S. Pollard University of California, San Francisco
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
David A. Relman
David A. Relman Stanford University

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