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Roman Stocker

Roman Stocker

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
19502
World Ranking
5919
National Ranking
113

Roman Stocker 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 Roman Stocker sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 262 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roman Stocker 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 Roman Stocker sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roman Stocker is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans various fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering. Stocker has authored numerous publications touching on ecology, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, oceanography, and endocrinology.

The primary topics in their work focus on microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, micro and nano robotics, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and Vibrio bacteria research studies.

Stocker has contributed to several recent papers, including the following:

  • Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Trophic Interactions and the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly (2020, Current Biology)
  • The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis (2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Environmental fluctuations and their effects on microbial communities, populations and individuals (2020, FEMS Microbiology Reviews)
  • Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean's microbiome (2022, Nature)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and The ISME Journal.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their career. Some frequent co-authors include Uria Alcolombri, Kang Soo Lee, Vicente I. Fernandez, Eleonora Secchi, and Johannes M. Keegstra.

Best Publications

  • Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton-bacteria relationships.

    Justin R. Seymour;Shady A. Amin;Jean Baptiste Raina;Roman Stocker

  • Marine Microbes See a Sea of Gradients

    Roman Stocker

  • Single-cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting subpopulations in wild Prochlorococcus.

    Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggensack;Sébastien Rodrigue;Sébastien Rodrigue;Jessie W. Thompson

  • Fluid Mechanics of Planktonic Microorganisms

    Jeffrey S. Guasto;Roberto Rusconi;Roman Stocker

  • Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

    Roman Stocker;Justin R. Seymour;Azadeh Samadani;Dana E. Hunt

  • Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations in Wild Prochlorococcus

    Nadav Kashtan;Sara E. Roggen;Sebastien Rodrigue;Jessica Weidemier Thompson

  • Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

    Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Rafel Simó;Tanvir Ahmed;Roman Stocker

  • High-avidity IgA protects the intestine by enchaining growing bacteria

    Kathrin Moor;Médéric Diard;Mikael E. Sellin;Mikael E. Sellin;Boas Felmy

  • Bacterial transport suppressed by fluid shear

    Roberto Rusconi;Jeffrey S. Guasto;Roman Stocker

  • Disruption of Vertical Motility by Shear Triggers Formation of Thin Phytoplankton Layers

    William M. Durham;John O. Kessler;Roman Stocker

  • The extracellular matrix Component Psl provides fast-acting antibiotic defense in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

    Nicole Billings;Maria Ramirez Millan;Marina Caldara;Roberto Rusconi

  • Bacteria can exploit a flagellar buckling instability to change direction

    Kwangmin Son;Jeffrey S. Guasto;Roman Stocker

  • Ecology and Physics of Bacterial Chemotaxis in the Ocean

    Roman Stocker;Justin R. Seymour

  • Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton

    William M. Durham;William M. Durham;Eric Climent;Michael Barry;Filippo De Lillo;Filippo De Lillo

  • Thin Phytoplankton Layers: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Consequences

    William M. Durham;Roman Stocker

  • Chemotaxis toward phytoplankton drives organic matter partitioning among marine bacteria

    Steven Smriga;Steven Smriga;Vicente I. Fernandez;Vicente I. Fernandez;James G. Mitchell;Roman Stocker;Roman Stocker

  • Modeling circulation in lakes: Spatial and temporal variations

    Bernard Laval;Jörg Imberger;Ben R. Hodges;Roman Stocker

  • Bacterial rheotaxis

    Marcos;Henry C. Fu;Thomas R. Powers;Roman Stocker

  • Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization.

    Fátima C. Pereira;Kenneth Wasmund;Iva Cobankovic;Nico Jehmlich

  • Trophic Interactions and the Drivers of Microbial Community Assembly

    Matti Gralka;Rachel Szabo;Roman Stocker;Otto X. Cordero

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin R. Seymour
Justin R. Seymour University of Technology Sydney
Jean-Baptiste Raina
Jean-Baptiste Raina University of Technology Sydney
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland
Peter J. Ralph
Peter J. Ralph University of Technology Sydney
Pedro Reis
Pedro Reis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Uwe Sauer
Uwe Sauer ETH Zurich
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology

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