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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
42699
World Ranking
15321
National Ranking
6389

Sean M. Gibbons 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 Sean M. Gibbons sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 109 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sean M. Gibbons 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 Sean M. Gibbons sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sean M. Gibbons is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a notable emphasis on molecular biology and physiology within these fields.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields, including infectious diseases, ecology, and genetics. Their research topics involve diverse aspects such as gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, nutrition, genetics, and disease, as well as gastrointestinal motility and disorders.

Sean M. Gibbons has contributed to several publication venues with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Metabolism

Notable recent papers include:

  • Health and disease markers correlate with gut microbiome composition across thousands of people (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Gut microbiome pattern reflects healthy ageing and predicts survival in humans (2021, Nature Metabolism)
  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome (2021, Cell)
  • MICOM: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiota (2020, mSystems)
  • Genomic and functional characterization of a mucosal symbiont involved in early-stage colorectal cancer (2021, Cell Host & Microbe)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Christian Diener
  • Tomasz Wilmanski
  • Andrew T. Magis
  • Noa Rappaport
  • Leroy Hood

Sean M. Gibbons' body of research contributes to a broad understanding of the human microbiome's impact on health, metabolism, and disease. Their work encompasses advanced techniques in metagenome-scale modeling and functional genomic analyses, aiming to unravel complex metabolic interactions within the gut microbiota and their implications in conditions such as colorectal cancer and aging-related microbiome changes.

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

    Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Luke R. Thompson;Jon G. Sanders;Daniel McDonald;Amnon Amir

  • Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment.

    Simon Lax;Simon Lax;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens

  • Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responses.

    Claire Duvallet;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Thomas Gurry;Thomas Gurry;Rafael A. Irizarry

  • Effects of diurnal variation of gut microbes and high-fat feeding on host circadian clock function and metabolism.

    Vanessa Leone;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Kristina Martinez;Alan L. Hutchison

  • Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences.

    Jai Ram Rideout;Jai Ram Rideout;Yan He;Jose A. Navas-Molina;William A. Walters

  • Health and disease markers correlate with gut microbiome composition across thousands of people.

    Ohad Manor;Chengzhen L. Dai;Sergey A. Kornilov;Brett Smith

  • Gut microbiome pattern reflects healthy ageing and predicts survival in humans

    Tomasz Wilmanski;Christian Diener;Noa Rappaport;Sushmita Patwardhan

  • Whole-grain wheat consumption reduces inflammation in a randomized controlled trial on overweight and obese subjects with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviors: role of polyphenols bound to cereal dietary fiber

    Paola Vitaglione;Ilario Mennella;Rosalia Ferracane;Angela A Rivellese

  • Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People

    Shijie Zhao;Tami D. Lieberman;Mathilde Poyet;Mathilde Poyet;Kathryn M. Kauffman

  • Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome.

    Mathieu Groussin;Mathilde Poyet;Ainara Sistiaga;Ainara Sistiaga;Sean M. Kearney

  • A library of human gut bacterial isolates paired with longitudinal multiomics data enables mechanistic microbiome research

    M. Poyet;M. Poyet;M. Groussin;M. Groussin;S. M. Gibbons;J. Avila-Pacheco

  • Severe plant invasions can increase mycorrhizal fungal abundance and diversity

    Ylva Lekberg;Sean M Gibbons;Søren Rosendahl;Philip W Ramsey

  • Blood metabolome predicts gut microbiome α-diversity in humans.

    Tomasz Wilmanski;Noa Rappaport;John C. Earls;Andrew T. Magis

  • Spatial scale drives patterns in soil bacterial diversity

    Sarah L. O'Brien;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Sarah M. Owens;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell

  • Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean

    Sean M. Gibbons;J. Gregory Caporaso;J. Gregory Caporaso;Meg Pirrung;Dawn Field

  • 454-sequencing reveals stochastic local reassembly and high disturbance tolerance within arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

    Ylva Lekberg;Tim Krone Schnoor;Rasmus Kjoller;Sean M. Gibbons

  • Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology

    Alex Carr;Christian Diener;Nitin S. Baliga;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons

  • MICOM: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiota.

    Christian Diener;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Eric J. Alm
Eric J. Alm MIT
Nathan D. Price
Nathan D. Price University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Nitin S. Baliga
Nitin S. Baliga University of Washington
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego

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