Aleksandar D. Kostic

24.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
51 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

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Aleksandar D. Kostic is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleksandar D. Kostic has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Aleksandar D. Kostic's work include Gut microbiota and health (31 papers), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (7 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (6 papers). Aleksandar D. Kostic is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (31 papers), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (7 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (6 papers). Aleksandar D. Kostic collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Aleksandar D. Kostic's co-authors include Ramnik J. Xavier, Dirk Gevers, Wendy S. Garrett, Matthew Meyerson, Monia Michaud, Curtis Huttenhower, Eunyoung Chun, Jonathan N. Glickman, Thomas E. Clancy and Georgina L. Hold and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Aleksandar D. Kostic

43 papers receiving 8.0k citations

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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.

Fusobacterium nucleatum Potentiates Intestinal Tumorigenesis and Modulates the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment

2013 1.9k citations Aleksandar D. Kostic, Eunyoung Chun et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →
Genomic analysis identifies association of Fusobacterium with colorectal carcinoma

2011 1.4k citations Aleksandar D. Kostic, Dirk Gevers et al. profile →
The Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Status and the Future Ahead

2014 1.4k citations Aleksandar D. Kostic, Ramnik J. Xavier et al. profile →
Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism

2019 579 citations Jonathan Scheiman, Jacob M. Luber et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleksandar D. Kostic United States	21	5.6k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	51	8.2k
Carey Ann Gallini United States	13	5.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	999 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	13	8.3k
Anthony A. Fodor United States	39	5.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	995 0.7×	678 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	108	7.9k
Christian Jobin United States	53	6.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	160	10.2k
Monia Michaud United States	21	7.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	27	10.7k
Jörg M. Steiner United States	54	4.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	316	9.8k
Emma Allen‐Vercoe Canada	42	5.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	974 0.7×	932 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	143	10.3k
Xiang Qin United States	46	4.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	918 0.7×	719 0.6×	180	9.1k
Chaysavanh Manichanh Spain	32	4.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	513 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	75	6.8k
Franco Scaldaferri Italy	48	3.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	688 0.5×	2.3k 1.9×	1.4k 1.2×	247	8.9k
Barry J. Campbell United Kingdom	48	5.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.8×	924 0.8×	190	10.1k

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Islam, Md Zohorul, Anders Lindahl, Jon A. Weidanz, et al.. (2025). Single-cell RNA-seq reveals disease-specific CD8+ T cell clonal expansion and a high frequency of transcriptionally distinct double-negative T cells in diabetic NOD mice. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0317987–e0317987.

Bongiovanni, Tindaro, Marina Santiago, Jonathan Scheiman, et al.. (2025). A Lactobacillus consortium provides insights into the sleep-exercise-microbiome nexus in proof of concept studies of elite athletes and in the general population. Microbiome. 13(1). 1–1. 5 indexed citations

Zimmerman, Samuel, Braden Tierney, Chirag J. Patel, & Aleksandar D. Kostic. (2023). Quantifying Shared and Unique Gene Content across 17 Microbial Ecosystems. mSystems. 8(2). e0011823–e0011823. 2 indexed citations

Proctor, Alexandra, Tanner Richie, Sonny T. M. Lee, et al.. (2022). Resources to Facilitate Use of the Altered Schaedler Flora (ASF) Mouse Model to Study Microbiome Function. mSystems. 7(5). e0029322–e0029322. 4 indexed citations

Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2022). Systematically assessing microbiome–disease associations identifies drivers of inconsistency in metagenomic research. PLoS Biology. 20(3). e3001556–e3001556. 19 indexed citations

Islam, Md Zohorul, Melissa Tran, Tao Xu, et al.. (2022). Reproducible and opposing gut microbiome signatures distinguish autoimmune diseases and cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Microbiome. 10(1). 218–218. 12 indexed citations

Tierney, Braden, et al.. (2021). Gene-level metagenomic architectures across diseases yield high-resolution microbiome diagnostic indicators. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2907–2907. 38 indexed citations

Tierney, Braden, Elizabeth C. Anderson, Kajal Claypool, et al.. (2021). Leveraging vibration of effects analysis for robust discovery in observational biomedical data science. PLoS Biology. 19(9). e3001398–e3001398. 15 indexed citations

Moreau, F., Bruna B. Brandão, Hui Pan, et al.. (2021). 1178-P: Portal Vein Metabolites as Intermediate Regulators of the Gut Microbiome in Insulin Resistance. Diabetes. 70(Supplement_1). 3 indexed citations

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Chavkin, Theodore A., Loc−Duyen D. Pham, & Aleksandar D. Kostic. (2021). E. coli Nissle 1917 modulates host glucose metabolism without directly acting on glucose. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23230–23230. 9 indexed citations

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Lavoie, Sydney, Kara L. Conway, Kara G. Lassen, et al.. (2019). The Crohn’s disease polymorphism, ATG16L1 T300A, alters the gut microbiota and enhances the local Th1/Th17 response. eLife. 8. 98 indexed citations

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Tierney, Braden, Zhen Yang, Jacob M. Luber, et al.. (2019). The Landscape of Genetic Content in the Gut and Oral Human Microbiome. Cell Host & Microbe. 26(2). 283–295.e8. 218 indexed citations

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Mallick, Himel, Eric A. Franzosa, Soumya Banerjee, et al.. (2019). Predictive metabolomic profiling of microbial communities using amplicon or metagenomic sequences. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3136–3136. 173 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guoyan, Tommi Vatanen, Lindsay Droit, et al.. (2017). Intestinal virome changes precede autoimmunity in type I diabetes-susceptible children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(30). E6166–E6175. 212 indexed citations

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Luber, Jacob M., Braden Tierney, Evan M. Cofer, Chirag J. Patel, & Aleksandar D. Kostic. (2017). Aether: leveraging linear programming for optimal cloud computing in genomics. Bioinformatics. 34(9). 1565–1567. 4 indexed citations

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Gevers, Dirk, Subra Kugathasan, Dan Knights, et al.. (2017). A Microbiome Foundation for the Study of Crohn’s Disease. Cell Host & Microbe. 21(3). 301–304. 41 indexed citations

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Forero‐Torres, Andres, Shanu Modi, Jennifer M. Specht, et al.. (2017). Abstract P6-12-04: Phase 1 study of the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) SGN-LIV1A in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancer. Cancer Research. 77(4_Supplement). P6–12. 1 indexed citations

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Wlodarska, Marta, Aleksandar D. Kostic, & Ramnik J. Xavier. (2015). An Integrative View of Microbiome-Host Interactions in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Cell Host & Microbe. 17(5). 577–591. 230 indexed citations

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Kostic, Aleksandar D., Eunyoung Chun, Lauren Robertson, et al.. (2013). Fusobacterium nucleatum Potentiates Intestinal Tumorigenesis and Modulates the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment. Cell Host & Microbe. 14(2). 207–215. 1910 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kostic, Aleksandar D., et al.. (2011). The TPR-containing domain within Est1 homologs exhibits species-specific roles in telomerase interaction and telomere length homeostasis. BMC Molecular Biology. 12(1). 45–45. 8 indexed citations

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