Rob Knight

Also affiliated with University of California San Diego, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyAgricultural and Biological SciencesDentistry

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 100%percentile

0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Papers

Driven by 2 papers. Top paper: “A meta-analysis of changes in bacterial and archaeal communities with time”.

A meta-analysis of changes in bacterial and archaeal communities with time

The ISME Journal(2013)10.1038/ismej.2013.54

N/A

0.908DataRank · unranked

424 citations

J Gregory Caporaso, Jo Handelsman, Rob Knight, Noah Fierer, Ashley Shade

Real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater genomic surveillance with Freyja 2

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.07.26.25332245

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Praneeth Gangavarapu, Dylan Pilz, Maryam Ahmadi Jesvaghane, Allison Steedman, Mark Zeller +15 more