Noah Fierer Google Scholar: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Noah Fierer's h-index is 152 (306 i10-index, 198,533+ total citations across 103+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of October 2026. Noah Fierer is affiliated with Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Noah Fierer is a researcher affiliated with Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in ecology, microbiology, biogeochemistry. Their work has been cited 198,533 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in China.
Noah Fierer's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 103 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 152
- i10-Index
- 306
- Total Citations
- 198,533
- Citing Countries
- 73
As of October 2026.
Noah Fierer has an h-index of 152 and 198,533 total citations across 103 publications, with research cited by institutions in 73 countries.
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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
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The researcher developed QIIME, a foundational software framework enabling the analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data, which has become a standard tool in microbial ecology.
The researcher established a foundational framework for understanding soil bacterial diversity and biogeography, as evidenced by a seminal 2006 PNAS paper with over 6,600 citations.
The researcher established that delivery mode fundamentally shapes the acquisition and structure of initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns.
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About Noah Fierer's research
Noah Fierer is a researcher in ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry at Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder. Their work has been cited 198,533 times across 103 publications (h-index 152), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data” (2010), has accumulated 39,417 citations. Other influential works include “QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data” (2010) with 38,781 citations and “Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample” (2011) with 11,235 citations.
Citations of Noah Fierer's research come primarily from China, United States and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
