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Howard Ochman

Active 1983–2025

95
Papers
30,043
Citations
81
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Citations

Citations per year for Howard Ochman1950: 2 citations1969: 2 citations1980: 1 citations1983: 1 citations1984: 12 citations1985: 10 citations1986: 20 citations1987: 20 citations1988: 28 citations1989: 49 citations1990: 66 citations1991: 99 citations1992: 83 citations1993: 83 citations1994: 104 citations1995: 96 citations1996: 105 citations1997: 106 citations1998: 163 citations1999: 158 citations2000: 185 citations2001: 287 citations2002: 254 citations2003: 267 citations2004: 272 citations2005: 310 citations2006: 272 citations2007: 305 citations2008: 266 citations2009: 295 citations2010: 249 citations2011: 241 citations2012: 313 citations2013: 242 citations2014: 245 citations2015: 270 citations2016: 297 citations2017: 308 citations2018: 247 citations2019: 740 citations2020: 772 citations2021: 693 citations2022: 487 citations2023: 342 citations2024: 503 citations2025: 202 citations2026: 6 citations1951–1968: no citations, so these years are not shown1970–1979: no citations, so these years are not shown1981–1982: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,428 citing papers, 28.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 888 citing papers, 7.3% of this breakdownChina: 818 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownGermany: 802 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownFrance: 783 citing papers, 6.5% of this breakdownCanada: 481 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownAustralia: 395 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownSpain: 394 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownJapan: 285 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 252 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownItaly: 247 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 230 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
0%28.3%Other 25.6%

Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.8%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.9%
  • Environmental Science9.2%
  • Medicine7.8%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.8%
  • Dentistry0.7%
  • Other3.8%

Topics

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies8.2%
  • Gut microbiota and health7.4%
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria3.9%
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions3.8%
  • Escherichia coli research studies3.7%
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology3.3%
  • Other69.7%

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  1. Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Authors: Paul Igor Costea, Falk Hildebrand, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Fredrik Bäckhed, Martin J. Blaser, Frederic D. Bushman, Willem M. de Vos, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Claire M. Fraser, Masahira Hattori, Curtis Huttenhower, Ian B. Jeffery, Dan Knights, James D. Lewis, Ruth E. Ley, Howard Ochman, Paul W. O’Toole, Christopher Quince, David A. Relman, Fergus Shanahan, Shinichi Sunagawa, Jun Wang, George M. Weinstock, Gary D. Wu, Georg Zeller, Liping Zhao, Jeroen Raes, Rob Knight, Peer Bork - Nature Microbiology 2017 cited by 1,228

  2. Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation

    Authors: Howard Ochman, Jeffrey G. Lawrence, Eduardo A. Groisman - Nature 2000 cited by 3,897

  3. Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

    Authors: Thierry Wirth, Daniel Falush, Ruiting Lan, Frances M. Colles, Patience Mensa, Lothar H. Wieler, Helge Karch, Peter R. Reeves, Martin Maiden, Howard Ochman, Mark Achtman - Molecular Microbiology 2006 cited by 2,017

  4. Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids

    Authors: Andrew H. Moeller, Alejandro Caro‐Quintero, Deus Mjungu, Alexander V. Georgiev, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Martin N. Muller, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman - Science 2016 cited by 599

  5. Standard reference strains of Escherichia coli from natural populations

    Authors: Howard Ochman, R K Selander - Journal of Bacteriology 1984 cited by 813

  6. Human symbionts inject and neutralize antibacterial toxins to persist in the gut

    Authors: Aaron G. Wexler, Yiqiao Bao, John C. Whitney, Louis‐Marie Bobay, João B. Xavier, Whitman B. Schofield, Natasha A. Barry, Alistair B. Russell, Bao Tran, Young Ah Goo, David R. Goodlett, Howard Ochman, Joseph D. Mougous, Andrew L. Goodman - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 215

  7. Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Gut Microbial Communities

    Authors: Nancy A. Moran, Howard Ochman, Tobin J. Hammer - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2019 cited by 285

  8. Deletional bias and the evolution of bacterial genomes

    Authors: Álex Mira, Howard Ochman, Nancy A. Moran - Trends in Genetics 2001 cited by 834

  9. Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution

    Authors: Andrew H. Moeller, Yingying Li, Eitel Mpoudi Ngole, Steve Ahuka‐Mundeke, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 353

  10. Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome

    Authors: Andrew H. Moeller, Steffen Foerster, Michael L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman - Science Advances 2016 cited by 315

  11. Rates of gut microbiome divergence in mammals

    Authors: Alex H. Nishida, Howard Ochman - Molecular Ecology 2017 cited by 247

  12. Factors driving effective population size and pan-genome evolution in bacteria

    Authors: Louis‐Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman - BMC Evolutionary Biology 2018 cited by 166

  13. Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities

    Authors: Howard Ochman, Michael Worobey, Chih‐Horng Kuo, Jean-Bosco N. Ndjango, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, Philip Hugenholtz - PLoS Biology 2010 cited by 506

  14. Stepwise formation of the bacterial flagellar system

    Authors: Renyi Liu, Howard Ochman - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 260

  15. Biological Species Are Universal across Life’s Domains

    Authors: Louis‐Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman - Genome Biology and Evolution 2017 cited by 180

  16. The Evolution of Bacterial Genome Architecture

    Authors: Louis‐Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman - Frontiers in Genetics 2017 cited by 156

  17. Illumina-based analysis of microbial community diversity

    Authors: Patrick H. Degnan, Howard Ochman - The ISME Journal 2011 cited by 431

  18. Deletional Bias across the Three Domains of Life

    Authors: Chih‐Horng Kuo, Howard Ochman - Genome Biology and Evolution 2009 cited by 237

  19. The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes

    Authors: Paul C. Kirchberger, Marian L. Schmidt, Howard Ochman - Annual Review of Microbiology 2020 cited by 67

  20. Genes Lost and Genes Found: Evolution of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Symbiosis

    Authors: Howard Ochman, Nancy A. Moran - Science 2001 cited by 576

  21. The Extinction Dynamics of Bacterial Pseudogenes

    Authors: Chih‐Horng Kuo, Howard Ochman - PLoS Genetics 2010 cited by 191

  22. Genetic applications of an inverse polymerase chain reaction.

    Authors: Howard Ochman, Anne S. Gerber, Daniel L. Hartl - Genetics 1988 cited by 1,873

  23. Calibrating bacterial evolution

    Authors: Howard Ochman, Susannah Elwyn, Nancy A. Moran - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1999 cited by 472

  24. Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park

    Authors: Patrick H. Degnan, Anne E. Pusey, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Jane Goodall, Emily E. Wroblewski, Michael L. Wilson, Rebecca S. Rudicell, Beatrice H. Hahn, Howard Ochman - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 208