| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
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| 2 | ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules | Nucleic Acids Research | 2016 | 2,395 |
| 3 | Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires | Nature | 2005 | 2,189 |
| 4 | Electricity Production by Geobacter sulfurreducens Attached to Electrodes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 1,966 |
| 5 | Humic substances as electron acceptors for microbial respiration | Nature | 1996 | 1,572 |
| 6 | The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease | Science | 2005 | 1,273 |
| 7 | Electrode-Reducing Microorganisms That Harvest Energy from Marine Sediments | Science | 2002 | 1,234 |
| 8 | Bug juice: harvesting electricity with microorganisms | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2006 | 1,192 |
| 9 | A new model for electron flow during anaerobic digestion: direct interspecies electron transfer to Methanosaeta for the reduction of carbon dioxide to methane | Energy and Environmental Science | 2014 | 1,074 |
| 10 | The importance of repairing stalled replication forks | Nature | 2000 | 1,008 |
| 11 | Alterations of the human gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis | Nature Communications | 2016 | 957 |
| 12 | Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals | Archives of Microbiology | 1993 | 902 |
| 13 | Stimulating the In Situ Activity of Geobacter Species To Remove Uranium from the Groundwater of a Uranium-Contaminated Aquifer | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 828 |
| 14 | Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds | MBio | 2010 | 815 |
| 15 | Direct Exchange of Electrons Within Aggregates of an Evolved Syntrophic Coculture of Anaerobic Bacteria | Science | 2010 | 791 |
| 16 | Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks | Nature Nanotechnology | 2011 | 762 |
| 17 | The microbe electric: conversion of organic matter to electricity | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 2008 | 753 |
| 18 | Biofilm and Nanowire Production Leads to Increased Current in Geobacter sulfurreducens Fuel Cells | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 752 |
| 19 | Untangling the Genetic Basis of Fibrolytic Specialization by Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae in Diverse Gut Communities | Diversity | 2013 | 748 |
| 20 | Promoting direct interspecies electron transfer with activated carbon | Energy and Environmental Science | 2012 | 718 |
| 21 | Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer between Geobacter metallireducens and Methanosarcina barkeri | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2014 | 714 |
| 22 | Graphite electrodes as electron donors for anaerobic respiration | Environmental Microbiology | 2004 | 659 |
| 23 | Genome of Geobacter sulfurreducens: Metal Reduction in Subsurface Environments | Science | 2003 | 648 |
| 24 | Harnessing microbially generated power on the seafloor | Nature Biotechnology | 2002 | 640 |
| 25 | Extending the Upper Temperature Limit for Life | Science | 2003 | 619 |
| 26 | Electromicrobiology | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2012 | 603 |
| 27 | Hydrogen concentrations as an indicator of the predominant terminal electron-accepting reactions in aquatic sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1988 | 577 |
| 28 | Polyphasic taxonomy of the genus Shewanella and description of Shewanella oneidensis sp. nov. | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1999 | 574 |
| 29 | Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world | Science | 2017 | 548 |
| 30 | Microbial fuel cells: novel microbial physiologies and engineering approaches | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 2006 | 510 |
| 31 | Syntrophy Goes Electric: Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2017 | 510 |
| 32 | Cleaning up with genomics: applying molecular biology to bioremediation | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2003 | 497 |
| 33 | Microbiological evidence for Fe(III) reduction on early Earth | Nature | 1998 | 486 |
| 34 | Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 481 |
| 35 | Potential for Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Wastewater Digester Aggregates | MBio | 2011 | 472 |
| 36 | Power output and columbic efficiencies from biofilms of Geobacter sulfurreducens comparable to mixed community microbial fuel cells | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 471 |
| 37 | Cyclic voltammetry of biofilms of wild type and mutant Geobacter sulfurreducens on fuel cell anodes indicates possible roles of OmcB, OmcZ, type IV pili, and protons in extracellular electron transfer | Energy and Environmental Science | 2009 | 462 |
| 38 | ConSurf: Using Evolutionary Data to Raise Testable Hypotheses about Protein Function | Israel Journal of Chemistry | 2013 | 459 |
| 39 | A hydrogen-based subsurface microbial community dominated by methanogens | Nature | 2002 | 452 |
| 40 | Outer Membrane c -Type Cytochromes Required for Fe(III) and Mn(IV) Oxide Reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 443 |
| 41 | Microbial Communities Associated with Electrodes Harvesting Electricity from a Variety of Aquatic Sediments | Microbial Ecology | 2004 | 440 |
| 42 | Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar | Scientific Reports | 2014 | 429 |
| 43 | Humic Substances as a Mediator for Microbially Catalyzed Metal Reduction | Clean - Soil, Air, Water | 1998 | 428 |
| 44 | Cellulose Degradation in Anaerobic Environments | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1995 | 398 |
| 45 | Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires | Nature | 2020 | 398 |
| 46 | Bioremediation of metal contamination | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 1997 | 397 |
| 47 | Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(iii) oxide by chemotaxis | Nature | 2002 | 397 |
| 48 | Selection of a variant of Geobacter sulfurreducens with enhanced capacity for current production in microbial fuel cells | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 2009 | 383 |
| 49 | Live wires: direct extracellular electron exchange for bioenergy and the bioremediation of energy-related contamination | Energy and Environmental Science | 2011 | 376 |
| 50 | Enrichment of Members of the Family Geobacteraceae Associated with Stimulation of Dissimilatory Metal Reduction in Uranium-Contaminated Aquifer Sediments | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 373 |
