Austin D. Swafford

33.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Austin D. Swafford is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biological Psychiatry and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Austin D. Swafford has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 5 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Austin D. Swafford's work include Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (6 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers). Austin D. Swafford is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (6 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (3 papers). Austin D. Swafford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Poland. Austin D. Swafford's co-authors include Rob Knight, Shi Huang, Ellen S. Vitetta, Paul Pantano, Rockford K. Draper, Pooja Bajaj, Inga H. Musselman, Radu Marcheş, Daniel McDonald and Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Austin D. Swafford

35 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults

2019 270 citations Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Scott T. Kelley et al. mSystems profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Austin D. Swafford United States	17	720	235	217	166	144	35	1.4k
Jianqiong Zhang China	22	970 1.3×	204 0.9×	145 0.7×	54 0.3×	144 1.0×	77	1.9k
Dongliang Li China	25	367 0.5×	146 0.6×	184 0.8×	74 0.4×	265 1.8×	69	1.6k
Bertrand Toussaint France	22	952 1.3×	189 0.8×	65 0.3×	66 0.4×	97 0.7×	54	1.9k
Merritt Gillilland United States	15	1.2k 1.6×	128 0.5×	313 1.4×	78 0.5×	205 1.4×	33	2.2k
Francesca S. Gazzaniga United States	14	1.1k 1.5×	427 1.8×	316 1.5×	33 0.2×	101 0.7×	21	1.8k
Shenghui Li China	25	1.7k 2.4×	109 0.5×	392 1.8×	49 0.3×	233 1.6×	99	2.6k
Yanping Huang China	23	904 1.3×	267 1.1×	118 0.5×	52 0.3×	92 0.6×	99	2.0k
Viviana Teresa Orlandi Italy	23	551 0.8×	472 2.0×	107 0.5×	338 2.0×	74 0.5×	57	1.7k
Thomas Gurry United States	20	1.6k 2.2×	145 0.6×	488 2.2×	98 0.6×	373 2.6×	32	2.4k
Shih-Hsin Chang Taiwan	19	452 0.6×	92 0.4×	135 0.6×	89 0.5×	68 0.5×	38	1.2k

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Bhute, Shrikant S., Jon G. Sanders, Se Jin Song, et al.. (2025). ChIP provides 10-fold microbial DNA enrichment from tissue while minimizing bias. Molecular Biology Reports. 52(1). 258–258. 1 indexed citations

Shaffer, Justin P., Carolina S. Carpenter, Cameron Martino, et al.. (2022). A Comparison of Six DNA Extraction Protocols for 16S, ITS and Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing of Microbial Communities. BioTechniques. 73(1). 34–46. 35 indexed citations

Aleti, Gajender, Jordan N. Kohn, Emily A. Troyer, et al.. (2022). Salivary bacterial signatures in depression-obesity comorbidity are associated with neurotransmitters and neuroactive dipeptides. BMC Microbiology. 22(1). 75–75. 12 indexed citations

Jiang, Lingjing, et al.. (2022). Bayesian multivariate sparse functional principal components analysis with application to longitudinal microbiome multiomics data. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 16(4). 2231–2249. 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Lingjing, Niina Haiminen, Anna Paola Carrieri, et al.. (2021). Utilizing stability criteria in choosing feature selection methods yields reproducible results in microbiome data. Biometrics. 78(3). 1155–1167. 9 indexed citations

Javier‐Desloges, Juan, Rana R. McKay, Austin D. Swafford, et al.. (2021). The microbiome and prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 25(2). 159–164. 29 indexed citations

Swafford, Austin D., et al.. (2021). Potential Immune-Microbiome Interactions in Breast Cancer May Advance Treatment: What's Holding Us Back?. Critical Reviews in Immunology. 41(6). 27–42. 1 indexed citations

Labarta-Bajo, Lara, Romana R. Gerner, Katelynn R. Kazane, et al.. (2020). CD8 T cells drive anorexia, dysbiosis, and blooms of a commensal with immunosuppressive potential after viral infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(40). 24998–25007. 16 indexed citations

Nguyen, Tanya T., Tomasz Kościółek, Rebecca Daly, et al.. (2020). Gut microbiome in Schizophrenia: Altered functional pathways related to immune modulation and atherosclerotic risk. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 91. 245–256. 57 indexed citations

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Kohn, Jordan N., Tomasz Kościółek, Clarisse Marotz, et al.. (2020). Differing salivary microbiome diversity, community and diurnal rhythmicity in association with affective state and peripheral inflammation in adults. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 87. 591–602. 15 indexed citations

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Labarta-Bajo, Lara, Steven P. Nilsen, Gregory Humphrey, et al.. (2020). Type I IFNs and CD8 T cells increase intestinal barrier permeability after chronic viral infection. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(12). 27 indexed citations

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Martino, Cameron, Liat Shenhav, Clarisse Marotz, et al.. (2020). Context-aware dimensionality reduction deconvolutes gut microbial community dynamics. Nature Biotechnology. 39(2). 165–168. 51 indexed citations

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Taylor, Bryn C., Kelly C. Weldon, Ronald J. Ellis, et al.. (2020). Depression in Individuals Coinfected with HIV and HCV Is Associated with Systematic Differences in the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome. mSystems. 5(5). 13 indexed citations

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Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Jacobo de la, Scott T. Kelley, Yingfeng Chen, et al.. (2019). Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults. mSystems. 4(4). 270 indexed citations breakdown →

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Swafford, Austin D. & Todd H. Oakley. (2019). Light-induced stress as a primary evolutionary driver of eye origins. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(4). 739–750. 11 indexed citations

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Badal, Varsha D., Yannis Katsis, Ho‐Cheol Kim, et al.. (2019). Challenges in the construction of knowledge bases for human microbiome-disease associations. Microbiome. 7(1). 129–129. 33 indexed citations

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Mustafa, Mohammed Ahmed, Giulia Donvito, Austin D. Swafford, et al.. (2019). In vivo evaluation of the CB1 allosteric modulator LDK1258 reveals CB1-receptor independent behavioral effects. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 190. 172840–172840. 7 indexed citations

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Maricic, Igor, Idania Marrero, Akiko Eguchi, et al.. (2018). Differential Activation of Hepatic Invariant NKT Cell Subsets Plays a Key Role in Progression of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. The Journal of Immunology. 201(10). 3017–3035. 78 indexed citations

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Kapa, Lenkov, et al.. (2015). Epigenetic DNA Methylation Linked to Social Dominance. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144750–e0144750. 30 indexed citations

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Cooper, Nicholas, Corina Shtir, Deborah J. Smyth, et al.. (2014). Detection and correction of artefacts in estimation of rare copy number variants and analysis of rare deletions in type 1 diabetes. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(6). 1774–1790. 12 indexed citations

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