This year marks 15 years since the launch of The ISME Journal. During this time, The ISME Journal has grown into a internationally respected and leading title in microbial ecology, publishing major advances and contributing to the global understanding of microorganisms and their communities. In this collection, we present a set of content to commemorate this anniversary. Free to view for the next four weeks, you will find our top cited article each year since the journal launched, and our top downloaded content from the last two years, showcasing the leading research that The ISME Journal has published since its launch, and continues to publish today. We would like to take this chance to thank our authors, reviewers, and readers for their support and contributions to The ISME Journal, and we hope you enjoy reading this collection.
Editorials
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal
George A. Kowalchuk, Mark J. Bailey
Comment
12 Apr 2023
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Introducing our 15th Anniversary article collection
Joanne B. Emerson
Editorial
25 Apr 2023
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Top cited papers
Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms
J Gregory Caporaso et al.
Short Communication
Open Access
8 Mar 2012
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Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis
Benjamin J Callahan et al.
Perspective
Open Access
21 Jul 2017
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Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil
Johannes Rousk et al.
Original Article
6 May 2010
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Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming
Martin Hartmann et al.
Original Article
Open Access
31 Oct 2014
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Disease-induced assemblage of a plant-beneficial bacterial consortium
Roeland L. Berendsen et al.
Article
Open Access
8 Mar 2018
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Rhizosphere microbiome assemblage is affected by plant development
Jacqueline M Chaparro et al.
Original Article
7 Nov 2013
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An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea
Daniel McDonald
Original Article
Open Access
1 Dec 2011
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Geographic patterns of co-occurrence network topological features for soil microbiota at continental scale in eastern China
Bin Ma et al.
Original Article
Open Access
15 Jan 2016
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Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes
Bing Li et al.
Original Article
28 Apr 2015
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Agricultural intensification reduces microbial network complexity and the abundance of keystone taxa in roots
Samiran Banerjee et al.
Article
Open Access
8 Mar 2019
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Pyrosequencing enumerates and contrasts soil microbial diversity
Luiz F W Roesch et al.
Original Article
5 Jul 2007
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Plant host habitat and root exudates shape soil bacterial community structure
Feth el Zahar Haichar et al.
Original Article
28 Aug 2008
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Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae
Andy O. Leu et al.
Article
Open Access
27 Jan 2020
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Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe
Mark A. Anthony et al.
Article
Open Access
10 Jan 2022
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Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data
Micah Hamady et al.
Original Article
27 Aug 2009
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Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks
Damian J. Hernandez et al.
Article
15 Jan 2021
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Top downloaded papers
Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data
Philip Hugenholtz et al.
Review Article
Open Access
6 Apr 2021
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Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes
Felipe Bastida et al.
Article
Open Access
9 Feb 2021
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Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer
Zhigang Yu et al.
Article
Open Access
15 Feb 2021
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Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality
Liping Qiu et al.
Article
Open Access
12 Mar 2021
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Colonization of gut microbiota by plasmid-carrying bacteria is facilitated by evolutionary adaptation to antibiotic treatment
Peng Zhang et al.
Article
Open Access
13 Dec 2021
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Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe
Mark A. Anthony et al.
Article
Open Access
10 Jan 2022
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In vitro interaction network of a synthetic gut bacterial community
Anna S. Weiss et al.
Article
Open Access
2 Dec 2021
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Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
Eric D. Becraft et al.
Article
Open Access
6 Apr 2021
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Species interactions constrain adaptation and preserve ecological stability in an experimental microbial community
Jake N. Barber et al.
Article
Open Access
22 Jan 2022
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In situ electrosynthetic bacterial growth using electricity generated by a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
Masahiro Yamamoto et al.
Article
Open Access
23 Sep 2022
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Organochlorine contamination enriches virus-encoded metabolism and pesticide degradation associated auxiliary genes in soil microbiomes
Xiaoxuan Zheng et al.
Article
Open Access
17 Jan 2022
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Synthetic bacterial community derived from a desert rhizosphere confers salt stress resilience to tomato in the presence of a soil microbiome
Lucas Schmitz et al.
Article
Open Access
20 Apr 2022
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Small changes in rhizosphere microbiome composition predict disease outcomes earlier than pathogen density variations
Yian Gu et al.
Article
Open Access
22 Jul 2022
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Decreased efficacy of antimicrobial agents in a polymicrobial environment
Thomas James O’Brien et al.
Article
Open Access
19 Mar 2022
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