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D-Index
70
Citations
17706
World Ranking
1939
National Ranking
66

Ricardo Cavicchioli 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 Ricardo Cavicchioli sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 152 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ricardo Cavicchioli 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 Ricardo Cavicchioli sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ricardo Cavicchioli is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, they focus on subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in their research include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Polar Research and Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Ricardo Cavicchioli has co-authored several papers with frequent collaborators including Michelle A. Allen, Timothy J. Williams, Nina Dombrowski, Simon Roux, and Stephen Nayfach.

The scientist has published multiple papers in various venues. Frequent publication venues include Microbiome, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Biotechnology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Communications.

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, 2023, Nature
  • Influence of the polar light cycle on seasonal dynamics of an Antarctic lake microbial community, 2020, Microbiome
  • Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Molecular hydrogen in seawater supports growth of diverse marine bacteria, 2023, Nature Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Cold-adapted enzymes.

    Khawar Sohail Siddiqui;Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria.

    Federico M. Lauro;Diane McDougald;Torsten Thomas;Timothy J. Williams

  • Low-temperature extremophiles and their applications.

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;Khawar S Siddiqui;David Andrews;Kevin R Sowers

  • Cold-adapted archaea.

    Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • Prevalent genome streamlining and latitudinal divergence of planktonic bacteria in the surface ocean

    Brandon K. Swan;Ben Tupper;Alexander Sczyrba;Federico M. Lauro

  • Biotechnological uses of enzymes from psychrophiles

    R. Cavicchioli;T. Charlton;H. Ertan;H. Ertan;S. Mohd Omar;S. Mohd Omar

  • Virophage control of antarctic algal host–virus dynamics

    Sheree Yau;Federico M. Lauro;Matthew Z. DeMaere;Mark V. Brown

  • The role of planktonic Flavobacteria in processing algal organic matter in coastal East Antarctica revealed using metagenomics and metaproteomics

    Timothy J. Williams;David Wilkins;Emilie Long;Emilie Long;Flavia Evans

  • Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation Revealed From the Genomes of the Antarctic Archaea Methanogenium frigidum and Methanococcoides burtonii

    Neil F.W. Saunders;Torsten Thomas;Paul M.G. Curmi;John S. Mattick

  • Extremophiles and the search for extraterrestrial life.

    Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • A metaproteomic assessment of winter and summer bacterioplankton from Antarctic Peninsula coastal surface waters

    Timothy J Williams;Emilie Long;Emilie Long;Flavia Evans;Mathew Z DeMaere

  • Global biogeography of SAR11 marine bacteria

    Mark V Brown;Federico M Lauro;Matthew Z DeMaere;Les Muir

  • A plasmid from an Antarctic haloarchaeon uses specialized membrane vesicles to disseminate and infect plasmid-free cells

    Susanne Erdmann;Bernhard Tschitschko;Ling Zhong;Mark J. Raftery

  • Implications of rRNA operon copy number and ribosome content in the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp. strain RB2256.

    Fitri Fegatella;Julianne Lim;Staffan Kjelleberg;Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • An integrative study of a meromictic lake ecosystem in Antarctica

    Federico M Lauro;Matthew Z DeMaere;Sheree Yau;Mark V Brown

  • Archaea — timeline of the third domain

    Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • Microbial ecology of Antarctic aquatic systems

    Ricardo Cavicchioli

  • Responses to stress and nutrient availability by the marine ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas sp strain RB2256

    M Eguchi;T Nishikawa;K Macdonald;R Cavicchioli

  • IMG/VR: a database of cultured and uncultured DNA Viruses and retroviruses.

    David Paez-Espino;I. Min A. Chen;Krishna Palaniappan;Anna Ratner

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Raftery
Mark J. Raftery University of New South Wales
Paul M. G. Curmi
Paul M. G. Curmi University of New South Wales
Torsten Thomas
Torsten Thomas University of New South Wales
Mark V. Brown
Mark V. Brown University of Technology Sydney
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Robert P. Gunsalus
Robert P. Gunsalus University of California, Los Angeles
Staffan Kjelleberg
Staffan Kjelleberg Nanyang Technological University
John A. E. Gibson
John A. E. Gibson University of Tasmania
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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