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D-Index
68
Citations
13166
World Ranking
2207
National Ranking
185

William D. Grant publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William D. Grant sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 178 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

William D. Grant D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William D. Grant sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

William D. Grant is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their academic profile does not list recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, or book publications.

No information is available regarding their main fields or subfields of study, nor specific research topics they have worked on.

There are no recorded awards or distinctions attributed to William D. Grant.

This overview is constructed from the currently available data on their academic and research contributions.

Best Publications

  • Life at low water activity.

    W. D. Grant

  • Microbial diversity of soda lakes.

    B. E. Jones;William D. Grant;A. W. Duckworth;G. G. Owenson

  • Proposed Minimal Standards for Description of New Taxa in the Order Halobacteriales

    A. Oren;A. Ventosa;W. D. Grant

  • Phylogenetic diversity of soda lake alkaliphiles

    A.W. Duckworth;W.D. Grant;B.E. Jones;R. van Steenbergen

  • Natronobacterium gen. nov. and Natronococcus gen. nov., Two New Genera of Haloalkaliphilic Archaebacteria

    B.J. Tindall;H.N.M. Ross;W.D. Grant

  • Alkaliphiles: Ecology, diversity and applications

    W.D. Grant;W.E. Mwatha;B.E. Jones

  • Extremophiles : microbial life in extreme environments

    弘毅 掘越;W. D. Grant

  • Origins of halophilic microorganisms in ancient salt deposits

    Terry J. McGenity;Renia T. Gemmell;William D. Grant;Helga Stan-Lotter

  • Halophiles 2010: life in saline environments.

    Yanhe Ma;Erwin A. Galinski;William D. Grant;Aharon Oren

  • The regulation of cell size and the control of mitosis.

    P.A. Fantes;W.D. Grant;R.H. Pritchard;P.E. Sudbery

  • Diversity of Kenyan soda lake alkaliphiles assessed by molecular methods

    Helen C. Rees;Helen C. Rees;William D. Grant;Brian E. Jones;Shaun Heaphy

  • Survival of Halobacteria Within Fluid Inclusions in Salt Crystals

    Cynthia F. Norton;William D. Grant

  • Halobacteria: the evidence for longevity

    W. D. Grant;Renia T. Gemmell;Terry J. McGenity

  • Class III. Halobacteria class nov

    WD Grant;M Kamekura;TJ McGenity;A Ventosa

  • Searching for life on Mars: selection of molecular targets for ESA's aurora ExoMars mission

    John Parnell;David Cullen;Mark R. Sims;Stephen Alan Bowden

  • Transfer of Halobacterium saccharovorum, Halobacterium sodomense, Halobacterium trapanicum NRC 34021 and Halobacterium lacusprofundi to the Genus Halorubrum gen. nov., as Halorubrum saccharovorum comb. nov., Halorubrum sodomense comb. nov., Halorubrum trapanicum comb. nov., and Halorubrum lacusprofundi comb. nov.

    Terry J. McGenity;William D. Grant

  • Detecting cellulase and esterase enzyme activities encoded by novel genes present in environmental DNA libraries.

    Helen C. Rees;Helen C. Rees;Susan Grant;Brian Jones;William D. Grant

  • Recovery of 16S ribosomal RNA gene fragments from ancient halite

    Steven Anthony Fish;Thomas J. Shepherd;Terry J. McGenity;William D. Grant

  • Archaeal halophiles (halobacteria) from two British salt mines

    Cynthia F. Norton;Terry J. McGenity;William D. Grant

  • Dietzia natronolimnaios sp. nov., a new member of the genus Dietzia isolated from an east African soda lake.

    A. W. Duckworth;Susan Grant;W. D. Grant;Brian E. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Ventosa
Antonio Ventosa University of Seville
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria
Yanhe Ma
Yanhe Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Terry J. McGenity
Terry J. McGenity University of Essex
Barbara Nicolaus
Barbara Nicolaus National Research Council (CNR)
Koki Horikoshi
Koki Horikoshi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Antonio Molinaro
Antonio Molinaro University of Naples Federico II
Aharon Oren
Aharon Oren Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mario De Rosa
Mario De Rosa University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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