Alejandro Reyes

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
94 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Reyes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Reyes has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Reyes's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Alejandro Reyes is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (12 papers). Alejandro Reyes collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United States and Germany. Alejandro Reyes's co-authors include Jeffrey I. Gordon, Gautam Dantas, Forest Rohwer, Bin Wang, Elizabeth M. Selleck, Kevin J. Forsberg, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Andrew C. Heath, Nicole Hanson and Florent Angly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Reyes

87 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Huma... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2012 2010 2011 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens
    2012 1.2k citations Kevin J. Forsberg, Alejandro Reyes et al. Science profile →
  2. Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers
    2010 855 citations Alejandro Reyes et al. profile →
  3. Extensive personal human gut microbiota culture collections characterized and manipulated in gnotobiotic mice
    2011 571 citations Alejandro Reyes, Gautam Dantas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alejandro Reyes Colombia 30 2.7k 1.8k 1.2k 893 764 94 5.9k
Derrick E. Wood United States 7 3.8k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 989 0.8× 556 0.6× 560 0.7× 10 7.1k
Jennifer Lu United States 13 3.2k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 736 0.6× 532 0.6× 410 0.5× 26 6.0k
W. Florian Fricke United States 38 3.3k 1.2× 1.1k 0.6× 888 0.8× 416 0.5× 805 1.1× 63 6.2k
Brian Ondov United States 15 2.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 666 0.6× 291 0.3× 787 1.0× 22 5.3k
William Klimke United States 17 2.1k 0.8× 987 0.5× 525 0.4× 308 0.3× 1.1k 1.5× 24 4.3k
Claudine Médigue France 55 4.6k 1.7× 1.7k 0.9× 814 0.7× 517 0.6× 793 1.0× 150 9.5k
Martin Hunt United Kingdom 32 3.6k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 275 0.3× 1.3k 1.7× 66 7.5k
Douglas R. Call United States 55 2.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 1.6k 2.1× 250 9.5k
S. Brook Peterson United States 25 2.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 411 0.3× 342 0.4× 525 0.7× 37 5.4k
Todd J. Treangen United States 28 4.9k 1.8× 1.7k 0.9× 740 0.6× 249 0.3× 865 1.1× 92 7.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Reyes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Reyes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Reyes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Reyes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alejandro Reyes. Alejandro Reyes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reyes, Alejandro, Claudio Durán, Deborah Delgado Pugley, et al.. (2025). A Latin American perspective on microbiome research. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10691–10691.
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Castillo‐Ramírez, Santiago, et al.. (2025). Geographic variation in abundance and diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii Vieuvirus bacteriophages. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1522711–1522711. 1 indexed citations
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Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Jacobo de la, et al.. (2024). Gut microbiome diversity within Clostridia is negatively associated with human obesity. mSystems. 9(8). e0062724–e0062724. 14 indexed citations
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Rangel-Piñeros, Guillermo, Alexandre Almeida, Martín Beracochea, et al.. (2023). VIRify: An integrated detection, annotation and taxonomic classification pipeline using virus-specific protein profile hidden Markov models. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011422–e1011422. 17 indexed citations
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López-Leal, Gamaliel, et al.. (2022). Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 86(2). e0000421–e0000421. 21 indexed citations
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Dutilh, Bas E., Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, et al.. (2021). Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses. Current Opinion in Virology. 51. 207–215. 35 indexed citations
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Rangel-Piñeros, Guillermo, Andrew Millard, Slawomir Michniewski, et al.. (2021). From Trees to Clouds: PhageClouds for Fast Comparison of ∼640,000 Phage Genomic Sequences and Host-Centric Visualization Using Genomic Network Graphs. PubMed. 2(4). 194–203. 20 indexed citations
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Clavijo, Viviana, et al.. (2021). Bacterial meta-analysis of chicken cecal microbiota. PeerJ. 9. e10571–e10571. 21 indexed citations
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Dieterle, M. Eugenia, Mariana C. Allievi, Ezequiel Sosa, et al.. (2020). Genome Sequence and Characterization of Lactobacillus casei Phage, vB_LcaM_Lbab1 Isolated from Raw Milk. PubMed. 2(1). 57–63. 1 indexed citations
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Corrales-Agudelo, Vanessa, et al.. (2020). Diet Quality, Food Groups and Nutrients Associated with the Gut Microbiota in a Nonwestern Population. Nutrients. 12(10). 2938–2938. 33 indexed citations
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Dieterle, M. Eugenia, Ezequiel Sosa, Darío Fernández Do Porto, et al.. (2020). Isolation and Characterization of vB_MsmS_Celfi: A New Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacteriophage. PubMed. 2(1). 43–49. 3 indexed citations
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (2020). Fine Resolution Analysis of Microbial Communities Provides Insights Into the Variability of Cocoa Bean Fermentation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 650–650. 35 indexed citations
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Seedorf, Henning, Nicholas W. Griffin, Vanessa K. Ridaura, et al.. (2014). Bacteria from Diverse Habitats Colonize and Compete in the Mouse Gut. Cell. 159(2). 253–266. 286 indexed citations
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Forsberg, Kevin J., Alejandro Reyes, Bin Wang, et al.. (2012). The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens. Science. 337(6098). 1107–1111. 1237 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (2010). Production and partial purification of Aspergillus ficuum hydrolytic enzymes in solid state fermentation of agroindustrial residues. Revista Colombiana de Biotecnología. 12(2). 163–175.
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (2010). Producción y purificación parcial de enzimas hidrolíticas de Aspergillus ficuum en fermentación sólida sobre residuos agroindustriales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (2002). Asymmetric calmodulin distribution in the hypothalamus. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 72(1-2). 189–195. 5 indexed citations
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (1988). Constituents of sophora tetraptera sensu reiche. Revista latinoamericana de química. 19(1). 32–32. 2 indexed citations
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Reyes, Alejandro, et al.. (1988). Escopoletina y escopoletin - 7 - 0 glucosido en solanum valdiviense y solanum gayanum. Revista latinoamericana de química. 19(1). 33–33. 1 indexed citations

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