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Talima Pearson

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
37363
World Ranking
15871
National Ranking
6590

Talima Pearson 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 Talima Pearson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 137 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Talima Pearson 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 Talima Pearson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Talima Pearson is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Leptospirosis research and findings
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Talima Pearson has contributed research articles to notable publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • BMC Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Talima Pearson include:

  • "Impact of Different Exercise Modalities on the Human Gut Microbiome," 2021, Sports
  • "Predicting the current and future distribution of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, across the Western US using citizen science collections," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Pathogen to commensal? Longitudinal within-host population dynamics, evolution, and adaptation during a chronic >16-year Burkholderia pseudomallei infection," 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador," 2021, BMC Microbiology
  • "Diverse lineages of pathogenic Leptospira species are widespread in the environment in Puerto Rico, USA," 2022, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Sara Maltinsky
  • Tara Furstenau
  • Viacheslav Y. Fofanov
  • Verónica Barragán
  • Colin Wood

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

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

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

  • Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock

    Lance B. Price;Marc Stegger;Henrik Hasman;Maliha Aziz

  • Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis

    David M. Wagner;Jennifer Klunk;Michaela Harbeck;Alison Devault

  • The Epidemic of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli ST131 Is Driven by a Single Highly Pathogenic Subclone, H30-Rx

    Lance B. Price;Lance B. Price;James R. Johnson;Maliha Aziz;Maliha Aziz;Connie Clabots

  • Global Genetic Population Structure of Bacillus anthracis

    Matthew N. Van Ert;W Ryan Easterday;Lynn Y Huynh;Richard T. Okinaka;Richard T. Okinaka

  • Anthrax molecular epidemiology and forensics: using the appropriate marker for different evolutionary scales.

    Paul Keim;Matthew N. Van Ert;Talima Pearson;Amy J. Vogler

  • Population Genetics of Vibrio cholerae from Nepal in 2010: Evidence on the Origin of the Haitian Outbreak

    Rene S. Hendriksen;Lance B. Price;James M. Schupp;John D. Gillece

  • Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single-nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome sequencing.

    Talima Pearson;Joseph D. Busch;Jacques Ravel;Timothy D. Read

  • Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer

    Talima Pearson;Philip Giffard;Philip Giffard;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Raymond Auerbach;Raymond Auerbach

  • Whole-Genome-Based Phylogeny and Divergence of the Genus Brucella

    Jeffrey T. Foster;Stephen M Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen M Beckstrom-Sternberg;Talima Ross Pearson;James S Beckstrom-Sternberg

  • Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis : Global Expansion of a Highly Fit Clone

    Amy J. Vogler;Dawn Birdsell;Lance B. Price;Jolene R. Bowers

  • Strain-Specific Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Assays for the Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain

    Matthew N. Van Ert;W. Ryan Easterday;Tatum S. Simonson;Jana M. U'Ren

  • A genomic survey of positive selection in Burkholderia pseudomallei provides insights into the evolution of accidental virulence.

    Tannistha Nandi;Catherine Ong;Arvind Pratap Singh;Justin Andrew Boddey

  • In vitro selection and characterization of Bacillus anthracis mutants with high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin.

    Lance B. Price;Lance B. Price;Amy Vogler;Talima Pearson;Joseph D. Busch

  • Phylogenetic understanding of clonal populations in an era of whole genome sequencing

    Talima Pearson;Richard T. Okinaka;Jeffrey T. Foster;Paul Keim;Paul Keim

  • Continuing Evolution of Burkholderia mallei Through Genome Reduction and Large-Scale Rearrangements

    Liliana Losada;Liliana Losada;Catherine M. Ronning;David DeShazer;Donald Woods

  • Within-Host Evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei over a Twelve-Year Chronic Carriage Infection

    Erin P. Price;Derek S. Sarovich;Mark Mayo;Apichai Tuanyok

  • Comparative Phylogenomics and Evolution of the Brucellae Reveal a Path to Virulence

    Alice R. Wattam;Jeffrey T. Foster;Shrinivasrao P. Mane;Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University
David M. Wagner
David M. Wagner Northern Arizona University
Bart J. Currie
Bart J. Currie Charles Darwin University
Jeffrey T. Foster
Jeffrey T. Foster Northern Arizona University
Mark Mayo
Mark Mayo Charles Darwin University
Lance B. Price
Lance B. Price George Washington University
David M. Engelthaler
David M. Engelthaler Translational Genomics Research Institute
Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Jacques Ravel
Jacques Ravel University of Maryland, Baltimore

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