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D-Index
44
Citations
9177
World Ranking
5006
National Ranking
543

Thomas Bell publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Bell sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 83 publications — 8th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Thomas Bell D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Bell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Bell is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in microbial community ecology and physiology as well as gut microbiota and health.

Their key areas of study include molecular biology, ecology, infectious diseases, genetics, and ecological modeling. These subfields support their broader research themes which encompass evolution and genetic dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, species distribution and climate change, and plant and animal studies.

Thomas Bell has coauthored research with several frequent collaborators including Tom Smith, Emma Ransome, Guy Woodward, Samraat Pawar, and Damian Rivett. These collaborative efforts span multiple topics within their primary fields of study.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, showing a pattern of contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • eLife
  • The ISME Journal

Among their recent notable publications are:

  • "Bacterial adaptation is constrained in complex communities," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Metabolically cohesive microbial consortia and ecosystem functioning," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Community-level signatures of ecological succession in natural bacterial communities," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Many roads to bacterial generalism," 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • "Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of bacterial carbon use efficiency," 2021, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services

    Thomas Bell;Jonathan A. Newman;Bernard W. Silverman;Sarah L. Turner

  • The bacterial biogeography of British soils.

    Robert I. Griffiths;Bruce C. Thomson;Phillip James;Thomas Bell

  • Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species

    Kevin R. Foster;Thomas Bell

  • Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment

    Diane Lawrence;Francesca Fiegna;Volker Behrends;Jacob G. Bundy

  • Plant pathogens drive density‐dependent seedling mortality in a tropical tree

    Thomas Bell;Robert P. Freckleton;Owen T. Lewis

  • Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa

    Thomas Bell;Duane Ager;Ji-Inn Song;Ji-Inn Song;Jonathan A. Newman

  • Abundance determines the functional role of bacterial phylotypes in complex communities.

    Damian W. Rivett;Damian W. Rivett;Thomas Bell

  • Experimental tests of the bacterial distance-decay relationship.

    Thomas Bell

  • Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship

    Dominique Gravel;Thomas Bell;Claire Barbera;Thierry Bouvier

  • The contribution of picophytoplankton in marine and freshwater systems of different trophic status and depth

    Thomas Bell;Jacob Kalff

  • Neutral assembly of bacterial communities

    Stephen Woodcock;Christopher J. Van Der Gast;Thomas Bell;Mary Lunn

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Evolution of species interactions determines microbial community productivity in new environments

    Francesca Fiegna;Alejandra Moreno-Letelier;Thomas Bell;Timothy G Barraclough

  • Bacterial adaptation is constrained in complex communities

    Thomas Scheuerl;Meirion Hopkins;Reuben W. Nowell;Reuben W. Nowell;Damian W. Rivett;Damian W. Rivett

  • Closely related protist strains have different grazing impacts on natural bacterial communities

    Edvard Glücksman;Thomas Bell;Robert I. Griffiths;David Bass

  • A Linear Model Method for Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Experiments

    Thomas Bell;Andrew K. Lilley;Andy Hector;Bernhard Schmid

  • Character Displacement Promotes Cooperation in Bacterial Biofilms

    Michael A. Brockhurst;Michael A. Brockhurst;Michael E. Hochberg;Thomas Bell;Angus Buckling

  • Resource-dependent attenuation of species interactions during bacterial succession

    Damian W Rivett;Thomas Scheuerl;Christopher T Culbert;Shorok B Mombrikotb

  • Differences in soil micro‐eukaryotic communities over soil pH gradients are strongly driven by parasites and saprotrophs

    A. Ö. C. Dupont;R. I. Griffiths;T. Bell;D. Bass;D. Bass

  • Community-level respiration of prokaryotic microbes may rise with global warming.

    Thomas P. Smith;Thomas J. H. Thomas;Bernardo García-Carreras;Sofía Sal

  • Phytoremediation of mixed-contaminated soil using the hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum lesbiacum: evidence of histidine as a measure of phytoextractable nickel.

    Andrew C. Singer;Thomas Bell;Chloe A. Heywood;J.A.C. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. Barraclough
Timothy G. Barraclough University of Oxford
Robert I. Griffiths
Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
Eleanor M. Slade
Eleanor M. Slade Nanyang Technological University
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael J. Bowes
Michael J. Bowes Natural Environment Research Council
John Connolly
John Connolly University College Dublin
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Tracy Hussell
Tracy Hussell University of Manchester
Dawn Field
Dawn Field University of Oxford

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