Ali Pirani

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ali Pirani is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Pirani has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Epidemiology, 6 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ali Pirani's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (6 papers), Urinary Tract Infections Management (5 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (5 papers). Ali Pirani is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (6 papers), Urinary Tract Infections Management (5 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (5 papers). Ali Pirani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and France. Ali Pirani's co-authors include Weiping Cao, Bali Pulendran, Evan S. Snitkin, Sudhir Pai Kasturi, Hua Tang, Niren Murthy, Santhakumar Manicassamy, Mark J. Mulligan, Ricardo Z. N. Vêncio and Dirk E. Teuwen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Ali Pirani

27 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Systems biology approach predicts immunogenicity of the yellow fever vaccine in humans

2008 809 citations Troy D. Querec, Rama Akondy et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Pirani United States	12	681	587	466	390	163	29	1.6k
Neelam Dhiman United States	26	566 0.8×	576 1.0×	987 2.1×	551 1.4×	126 0.8×	64	1.9k
Christopher Wilson United States	24	850 1.2×	374 0.6×	550 1.2×	234 0.6×	183 1.1×	36	2.1k
Giovanni Matera Italy	19	393 0.6×	333 0.6×	475 1.0×	285 0.7×	174 1.1×	128	1.6k
Daniel A. Powell United States	15	826 1.2×	1.0k 1.8×	443 1.0×	467 1.2×	155 1.0×	31	2.1k
Aisha Nazli Canada	21	768 1.1×	613 1.0×	374 0.8×	335 0.9×	82 0.5×	39	2.0k
Anuradha Chakraborti India	21	251 0.4×	529 0.9×	499 1.1×	365 0.9×	194 1.2×	98	1.7k
Sandip K. Datta United States	28	1.5k 2.2×	716 1.2×	409 0.9×	391 1.0×	100 0.6×	47	2.9k
Christy S. Barrios United States	15	617 0.9×	412 0.7×	407 0.9×	237 0.6×	76 0.5×	27	1.4k
Jenna Rychert United States	19	359 0.5×	230 0.4×	484 1.0×	433 1.1×	125 0.8×	31	1.4k
Elena Sbrana United States	25	312 0.5×	509 0.9×	643 1.4×	738 1.9×	191 1.2×	43	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Pirani

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pirani, Ali, et al.. (2025). Klebsiella pneumoniae evolution in the gut leads to spontaneous capsule loss and decreased virulence potential. mBio. 16(5). e0236224–e0236224. 3 indexed citations

Sansom, Sarah E., Alla Aroutcheva, Ali Pirani, et al.. (2025). Antibiotic-resistance plasmid amplified among MRSA cases in an urban jail and its connected communities. Nature Communications. 17(1). 420–420.

Severin, Geoffrey B., Ali Pirani, Melanie M. Pearson, et al.. (2025). Multiplexed PCR to measure in situ growth rates of uropathogenic E. coli during experimental urinary tract infection. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(8). e0238224–e0238224. 1 indexed citations

Frick-Cheng, Arwen E., Anna Sintsova, Sara N. Smith, et al.. (2022). Ferric Citrate Uptake Is a Virulence Factor in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 13(3). e0103522–e0103522. 26 indexed citations

Pirani, Ali, et al.. (2022). Strain Variation in Clostridioides difficile Cytotoxicity Associated with Genomic Variation at Both Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Loci. mSphere. 7(3). e0017422–e0017422. 6 indexed citations

Pudlo, Nicholas A., Karthik Urs, Ryan Crawford, et al.. (2022). Phenotypic and Genomic Diversification in Complex Carbohydrate-Degrading Human Gut Bacteria. mSystems. 7(1). e0094721–e0094721. 42 indexed citations

Lolans, Karen, Ali Pirani, Robert A. Weinstein, et al.. (2022). Threshold-free genomic cluster detection to track transmission pathways in health-care settings: a genomic epidemiology analysis. The Lancet Microbe. 3(9). e652–e662. 7 indexed citations

Lapp, Zena, Ryan Crawford, Ali Pirani, et al.. (2021). Regional Spread of bla NDM-1-Containing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147 in Post-Acute Care Facilities. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(8). 1431–1439. 30 indexed citations

Anderson, Mark T., Ali Pirani, Sara N. Smith, et al.. (2021). Replication Dynamics for Six Gram-Negative Bacterial Species during Bloodstream Infection. mBio. 12(4). e0111421–e0111421. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Joyce, Betsy Foxman, Ali Pirani, et al.. (2020). Application of Combined Genomic and Transfer Analyses to Identify Factors Mediating Regional Spread of Antibiotic-resistant Bacterial Lineages. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71(10). e642–e649. 9 indexed citations

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Lapp, Zena, et al.. (2020). prewas: data pre-processing for more informative bacterial GWAS. Microbial Genomics. 6(5). 9 indexed citations

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Eslamian, Fariba, et al.. (2020). Relative Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture and Biofeedback in the Treatment of Neck and Upper Back Myofascial Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 101(5). 770–780. 20 indexed citations

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Toopchizadeh, Vahideh, et al.. (2020). Faulty posture: Prevalence and its relationship with Body Mass Index and Physical Activity among female adolescents. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(1). 25–33. 8 indexed citations

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Eslamian, Fariba, et al.. (2019). Determination of Body Composition Analysis in Association with Pain and Functional Status of Patients with Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain. 1(3). 125–135. 1 indexed citations

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Forsyth, Valerie S., Chelsie E. Armbruster, Sara N. Smith, et al.. (2018). Rapid Growth of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli during Human Urinary Tract Infection. mBio. 9(2). 79 indexed citations

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Eaton, Kathryn A., Ali Pirani, Evan S. Snitkin, et al.. (2018). Replication Study: Intestinal inflammation targets cancer-inducing activity of the microbiota. eLife. 7. 11 indexed citations

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Snitkin, Evan S., Sarah Won, Ali Pirani, et al.. (2017). Integrated genomic and interfacility patient-transfer data reveal the transmission pathways of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a regional outbreak. Science Translational Medicine. 9(417). 40 indexed citations

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Snitkin, Evan S., Nicole Perfito, Alexandria Denis, et al.. (2013). Study 41: Replication of Arthur et al., 2012 (Science). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Weiping, Santhakumar Manicassamy, Hua Tang, et al.. (2008). Toll-like receptor–mediated induction of type I interferon in plasmacytoid dendritic cells requires the rapamycin-sensitive PI(3)K-mTOR-p70S6K pathway. Nature Immunology. 9(10). 1157–1164. 327 indexed citations

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Querec, Troy D., Rama Akondy, Eva K. Lee, et al.. (2008). Systems biology approach predicts immunogenicity of the yellow fever vaccine in humans. Nature Immunology. 10(1). 116–125. 809 indexed citations breakdown →

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