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D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
13629
World Ranking
15456
National Ranking
1217

Thomas A. Richards 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 Thomas A. Richards sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 131 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas A. Richards 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 Thomas A. Richards sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Thomas A. Richards is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with secondary focus areas in environmental science.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields, which include molecular biology, ecology, plant science, global and planetary change, and immunology. Their research topics highlight particular attention to protist diversity and phylogeny, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, as well as bacteriophages and microbial interactions. Additional areas of study encompass aquaculture disease management and microbiota, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

The recent publications provide insight into their active research output. These include:

  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Specimen and sample metadata standards for biodiversity genomics: a proposal from the Darwin Tree of Life project, 2022, Wellcome Open Research
  • Systematic evaluation of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and viruses, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Chytrid fungi distribution and co-occurrence with diatoms correlate with sea ice melt in the Arctic Ocean, 2020, Communications Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • David S. Milner
  • Guy Leonard
  • Estelle Kilias
  • Benjamin H. Jenkins
  • Neil Hall

Their work has been published repeatedly in several prominent venues. Notable publication outlets where they have multiple articles include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Biology
  • Current Biology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

    Thorsten Stoeck;David Bass;Markus Nebel;Richard Christen

  • Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

    Betsy A. Read;Jessica Kegel;Mary J. Klute;Alan Kuo

  • Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner;Lucie Bittner

  • Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes

    Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Thomas Cavalier-Smith

  • Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

    Meredith D. M. Jones;Meredith D. M. Jones;Irene Forn;Catarina Gadelha;Martin J. Egan;Martin J. Egan

  • Marine Fungi: Their Ecology and Molecular Diversity

    Thomas A. Richards;Meredith D. M. Jones;Guy Leonard;David Bass

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

    Ramon Massana;Angélique Gobet;Angélique Gobet;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;David Bass;David Bass

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Pangenomes.

    Michael A. Brockhurst;Ellie Harrison;James P.J. Hall;Thomas Richards

  • Yeast forms dominate fungal diversity in the deep oceans

    David Bass;Alexis Howe;Nick Brown;Hannah Barton

  • A fungal pathogen secretes plant alkalinizing peptides to increase infection.

    Sara Masachis;David Segorbe;David Turrà;Mercedes Leon-Ruiz

  • Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes

    Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Darren M. Soanes;Meredith D. M. Jones;Meredith D. M. Jones;Olga Vasieva

  • Evolution of filamentous plant pathogens: gene exchange across eukaryotic kingdoms.

    Thomas A. Richards;Joel B. Dacks;Joanna M. Jenkinson;Christopher R. Thornton

  • Evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic shikimate pathway: gene fusions, horizontal gene transfer, and endosymbiotic replacements.

    Thomas A. Richards;Joel B. Dacks;Samantha A. Campbell;Jeffrey L. Blanchard

  • Phylogenomic Analysis Demonstrates a Pattern of Rare and Ancient Horizontal Gene Transfer between Plants and Fungi

    Thomas A. Richards;Darren M. Soanes;Peter G. Foster;Guy Leonard

  • The molecular diversity of freshwater picoeukaryotes from an oligotrophic lake reveals diverse, distinctive and globally dispersed lineages.

    Thomas A. Richards;Alexey A. Vepritskiy;Dilnora E. Gouliamova;Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer

  • Diverse, uncultivated bacteria and archaea underlying the cycling of dissolved protein in the ocean

    William D Orsi;Jason M Smith;Shuting Liu;Zhanfei Liu

  • Molecular diversity and distribution of marine fungi across 130 European environmental samples

    Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Guy Leonard;Frédéric Mahé;Javier del Campo;Javier del Campo

  • Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotic Plant Pathogens

    Darren Soanes;Thomas A. Richards

  • Article Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

    Ramiro Logares;David Bass;Lucie Bittner;Christophe Boutte

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
Lucie Bittner
Lucie Bittner Université Paris Cité
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University

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