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 Ramunas Stepanauskas sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 200 publications — 50th percentile
50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.
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 Ramunas Stepanauskas sits on this spectrum.
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 167 D-Index or more.
Ramunas Stepanauskas is affiliated with the Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology and ecology. These fields shape much of their scientific inquiry and publication record.
The scientist's work covers several subfields and topics, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Main subfields of study include molecular biology, ecology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The primary research topics are microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.
Stepanauskas has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with nine publications, The ISME Journal with seven, Frontiers in Microbiology with five, Microbiome with four, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with three papers.
Notable recent papers include:
Stepanauskas frequently collaborates with other researchers. Among their most frequent co-authors are Julia M. Brown, Tanja Woyke, Nicole Poulton, Frederik Schulz, and Eric D. Becraft.
In 2018, Ramunas Stepanauskas was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Craig Baker-Austin;Meredith S. Wright;Ramunas Stepanauskas;J.V. McArthur
Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey A. Gurevich
Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary
Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey Gurevich
Brandon K. Swan;Manuel Martinez-Garcia;Christina M. Preston;Alexander Sczyrba
Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggensack;Sébastien Rodrigue;Sébastien Rodrigue;Jessie W. Thompson
Karen G. Lloyd;Lars Schreiber;Dorthe G. Petersen;Kasper U. Kjeldsen
Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggen;Sebastien Rodrigue;Jessica Weidemier Thompson
Brandon K. Swan;Ben Tupper;Alexander Sczyrba;Federico M. Lauro
Tanja Woyke;Gary Xie;Alex Copeland;José M. González
Ramunas Stepanauskas;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Travis C. Glenn;Travis C. Glenn;Charles H. Jagoe;R. Cary Tuckfield
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Rohit Ghai;Lejla Pašić;Lejla Pašić;Ana Beatriz Fernández;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado
Christian Rinke;Janey Lee;Nandita Nath;Danielle Goudeau
Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Dana C. Price;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Veeran D. Rajah
Maria G. Pachiadaki;Eva Sintes;Kristin Bergauer;Julia M. Brown
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Ramunas Stepanauskas
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