Curtis Huttenhower Google Scholar: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Curtis Huttenhower's h-index is 144 (326 i10-index, 188,853+ total citations across 606+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of October 2026. Curtis Huttenhower is affiliated with Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health.
Curtis Huttenhower is a researcher affiliated with Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, specializing in computational metagenomics, human microbiome, biological data mining. Their work has been cited 188,853 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Curtis Huttenhower's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 606 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 144
- i10-Index
- 326
- Total Citations
- 188,853
- Citing Countries
- 19
As of October 2026.
Curtis Huttenhower has an h-index of 144 and 188,853 total citations across 606 publications, with research cited by institutions in 19 countries.
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Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
201925,340
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The researcher developed a seminal framework for metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation, establishing a foundational approach for interpreting complex microbial community data.
The researcher developed QIIME 2, a highly cited, reproducible, and scalable framework for interactive microbiome data science, establishing a new standard for computational analysis in the field.
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About Curtis Huttenhower's research
Curtis Huttenhower is a researcher in computational metagenomics, human microbiome and biological data mining at Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health. Their work has been cited 188,853 times across 606 publications (h-index 144), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” (2019), has accumulated 25,340 citations. Other influential work includes “Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation” (2011) with 16,304 citations.
Citations of Curtis Huttenhower's research come primarily from United States, China 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.
