Rob Knight Google Scholar: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Rob Knight's h-index is 271 (937 i10-index, 532,913+ total citations across 1,023+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of October 2026. Rob Knight is affiliated with Wolfe Family Chair at Rady Children's; Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, UCSD.
Rob Knight is a researcher affiliated with Wolfe Family Chair at Rady Children's; Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, UCSD, specializing in microbiome, human microbiome, environmental microbiology. Their work has been cited 532,913 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in China.
Rob Knight's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 1,023 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 271
- i10-Index
- 937
- Total Citations
- 532,913
- Citing Countries
- 115
As of October 2026.
Rob Knight has an h-index of 271 and 532,913 total citations across 1023 publications, with research cited by institutions in 115 countries.
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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
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The researcher developed precise normalization methods for high-throughput sequencing, enabling robust culture-independent meta-pangenomic analyses of infant gut microbiomes and their metabolic development.
The researcher developed UniFrac, a seminal phylogenetic method for comparing microbial communities, establishing a foundational standard for analyzing microbial diversity in environmental microbiology.
The researcher established a foundational link between obesity and gut microbial ecology, providing a seminal framework for understanding host-microbe interactions in metabolic disease.
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About Rob Knight's research
Rob Knight is a researcher in microbiome, human microbiome and environmental microbiology at Wolfe Family Chair at Rady Children's; Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, UCSD. Their work has been cited 532,913 times across 1,023 publications (h-index 271), 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 “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” (2019) with 27,343 citations and “2019 publication — 27122 citations” (2019) with 27,122 citations.
Citations of Rob Knight's research come primarily from China, United States and India, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
