Amanda Miguel

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Amanda Miguel is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda Miguel has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Amanda Miguel's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers). Amanda Miguel is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers). Amanda Miguel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Amanda Miguel's co-authors include Kerwyn Casey Huang, Ryan McQuillen, Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu, Jie Xiao, George K. Auer, Douglas B. Weibel, Enrique Rojas, Gabriel Billings and Pascal D. Odermatt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Amanda Miguel

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria

2018 420 citations Enrique Rojas, Gabriel Billings et al. Nature profile →
GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis

2017 338 citations Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amanda Miguel United States	9	648	550	306	190	170	11	1.1k
Gabriel Billings United States	10	752 1.2×	398 0.7×	261 0.9×	116 0.6×	175 1.0×	10	1.2k
Benjamin P. Bratton United States	17	830 1.3×	537 1.0×	310 1.0×	104 0.5×	129 0.8×	30	1.2k
Tina Jaeger Switzerland	13	721 1.1×	447 0.8×	143 0.5×	172 0.9×	200 1.2×	15	929
David W. Adams Switzerland	9	695 1.1×	573 1.0×	411 1.3×	171 0.9×	142 0.8×	12	1.0k
Alexander J. Meeske United States	15	957 1.5×	580 1.1×	451 1.5×	132 0.7×	81 0.5×	22	1.3k
Yen‐Pang Hsu United States	12	677 1.0×	376 0.7×	309 1.0×	161 0.8×	65 0.4×	15	1.2k
Anindya S. Ghosh India	17	499 0.8×	351 0.6×	151 0.5×	426 2.2×	176 1.0×	59	1.0k
Viviane Robert France	14	643 1.0×	483 0.9×	133 0.4×	131 0.7×	187 1.1×	23	1.1k
Jürgen Lassak Germany	20	1.4k 2.2×	516 0.9×	343 1.1×	64 0.3×	175 1.0×	37	1.7k
L. Buts Belgium	19	940 1.5×	470 0.9×	310 1.0×	236 1.2×	251 1.5×	46	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Amanda Miguel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amanda Miguel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Amanda Miguel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Amanda Miguel. The network helps show where Amanda Miguel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amanda Miguel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amanda Miguel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amanda Miguel 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 Amanda Miguel. Amanda Miguel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Miguel, Amanda, Matylda Zietek, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2025). Modulation of bacterial cell size and growth rate via activation of a cell envelope stress response. mBio. 16(11). e0228125–e0228125. 1 indexed citations

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Zietek, Matylda, Amanda Miguel, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2025). Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses. The EMBO Journal. 44(20). 5816–5833. 1 indexed citations

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Miguel, Amanda, et al.. (2019). Differential modes of crosslinking establish spatially distinct regions of peptidoglycan in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology. 111(4). 995–1008. 13 indexed citations

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Rojas, Enrique, Gabriel Billings, Pascal D. Odermatt, et al.. (2018). The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria. Nature. 559(7715). 617–621. 420 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Xinxing, Zhixin Lyu, Amanda Miguel, et al.. (2017). GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis. Science. 355(6326). 744–747. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bratton, Benjamin P., Amanda Miguel, Ying Sheng, et al.. (2017). A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis. Cell. 168(1-2). 172–185.e15. 68 indexed citations

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Auer, George K., Timothy K. Lee, Manohary Rajendram, et al.. (2016). Mechanical Genomics Identifies Diverse Modulators of Bacterial Cell Stiffness. Cell Systems. 2(6). 402–411. 44 indexed citations

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Shi, Handuo, et al.. (2016). Disruption of lipid homeostasis in the Gram-negative cell envelope activates a novel cell death pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(11). E1565–74. 123 indexed citations

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Sundararajan, Kousik, et al.. (2015). The bacterial tubulin FtsZ requires its intrinsically disordered linker to direct robust cell wall construction. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7281–7281. 55 indexed citations

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Desmarais, Samantha M., Carolina Tropini, Amanda Miguel, et al.. (2015). High-throughput, Highly Sensitive Analyses of Bacterial Morphogenesis Using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(52). 31090–31100. 26 indexed citations

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Miguel, Amanda, et al.. (2015). Variations in the Binding Pocket of an Inhibitor of the Bacterial Division Protein FtsZ across Genotypes and Species. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(3). e1004117–e1004117. 23 indexed citations

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