Amber Benezra

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Amber Benezra is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amber Benezra has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Amber Benezra's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (4 papers). Amber Benezra is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (4 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (4 papers). Amber Benezra collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Amber Benezra's co-authors include Jeffrey I. Gordon, J. J. DeStefano, Tanya Yatsunenko, Qunyuan Zhang, Sathish Subramanian, Rashidul Haque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Brian D. Muegge, Michael J. Barratt and William A. Petri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Amber Benezra

7 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children

2014 868 citations Sathish Subramanian, Sayeeda Huq et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amber Benezra United States	7	635	334	222	195	120	8	1.1k
Mohammed Ashraful Alam Bangladesh	8	564 0.9×	383 1.1×	221 1.0×	178 0.9×	109 0.9×	8	969
William Schweizer United States	6	738 1.2×	218 0.7×	207 0.9×	190 1.0×	66 0.6×	9	1.1k
Laura V. Blanton United States	9	1.1k 1.7×	426 1.3×	377 1.7×	362 1.9×	83 0.7×	11	1.7k
Alexandra R. Sitarik United States	16	855 1.3×	261 0.8×	202 0.9×	425 2.2×	71 0.6×	52	1.6k
Samia Valéria Ozorio Dutra United States	9	667 1.1×	163 0.5×	148 0.7×	214 1.1×	48 0.4×	32	1.1k
Thomas Gensollen United States	9	1.1k 1.7×	253 0.8×	277 1.2×	292 1.5×	44 0.4×	9	1.7k
Zoya Grigoryan United States	9	481 0.8×	153 0.5×	206 0.9×	126 0.6×	49 0.4×	15	905
Nelly Amenyogbe Canada	12	570 0.9×	268 0.8×	219 1.0×	169 0.9×	26 0.2×	28	1.2k
Derrick Chu United States	18	988 1.6×	375 1.1×	151 0.7×	277 1.4×	86 0.7×	49	1.9k
Adrienne Rollie United States	6	613 1.0×	379 1.1×	145 0.7×	114 0.6×	39 0.3×	6	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Amber Benezra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amber Benezra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amber Benezra

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Farmer, Nicole, Amber Benezra, Katherine A. Maki, Suzanne L. Ishaq, & Ariangela J. Kozik. (2025). Prioritizing precision: guidelines for the better use of population descriptors in human microbiome research. mSystems. 10(10). e0064025–e0064025.

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Bader, Alyssa C., Matilda Handsley‐Davis, Rosanna A. Alegado, et al.. (2023). A relational framework for microbiome research with Indigenous communities. Nature Microbiology. 8(10). 1768–1776. 12 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Travis J. De, et al.. (2021). Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research. mSystems. 6(5). e0060421–e0060421. 34 indexed citations

4.

Benezra, Amber. (2021). Microbial Kin: Relations of Environment and Time. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 35(4). 511–528. 8 indexed citations

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Benezra, Amber. (2020). Race in the Microbiome. Science Technology & Human Values. 45(5). 877–902. 54 indexed citations

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Benezra, Amber. (2016). Datafying microbes: Malnutrition at the intersection of genomics and global health. BioSocieties. 11(3). 334–351. 17 indexed citations

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Subramanian, Sathish, Sayeeda Huq, Tanya Yatsunenko, et al.. (2014). Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children. Nature. 510(7505). 417–421. 868 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benezra, Amber, J. J. DeStefano, & Jeffrey I. Gordon. (2012). Anthropology of microbes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(17). 6378–6381. 80 indexed citations

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