Bas E. Dutilh

25.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
145 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Bas E. Dutilh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bas E. Dutilh has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Molecular Biology, 86 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bas E. Dutilh's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (51 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers). Bas E. Dutilh is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (51 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (44 papers). Bas E. Dutilh collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Brazil. Bas E. Dutilh's co-authors include Annemarie Boleij, Harold Tjalsma, Julian R. Marchesi, Robert A. Edwards, John L. Mokili, Martijn A. Huynen, Felipe H. Coutinho, Forest Rohwer, Franklin L. Nóbrega and Stan J. J. Brouns and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bas E. Dutilh

142 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

A bacterial driver–passenger model for colorectal cancer:... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 2012 2018 2016 200 400 600
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.

  1. A bacterial driver–passenger model for colorectal cancer: beyond the usual suspects
    2012 682 citations Annemarie Boleij, Bas E. Dutilh et al. profile →
  2. A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes
    2014 567 citations Bas E. Dutilh, Amaro E. Trindade‐Silva et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery
    2012 419 citations Bas E. Dutilh et al. Current Opinion in Virology profile →
  4. Targeting mechanisms of tailed bacteriophages
    2018 404 citations Franklin L. Nóbrega, Bas E. Dutilh et al. profile →
  5. Genome-based microbial ecology of anammox granules in a full-scale wastewater treatment system
    2016 392 citations Bas E. Dutilh et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Robust taxonomic classification of uncharted microbial sequences and bins with CAT and BAT
    2019 327 citations F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Felipe H. Coutinho et al. profile →
  7. Molecular and Evolutionary Determinants of Bacteriophage Host Range
    2018 303 citations Franklin L. Nóbrega, Stan J. J. Brouns et al. profile →
  8. iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria
    2023 182 citations Simon Roux, Felipe H. Coutinho et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bas E. Dutilh Netherlands 45 4.5k 4.0k 1.3k 1.2k 874 145 8.6k
Shinichi Sunagawa Switzerland 50 5.7k 1.3× 3.8k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 413 0.5× 98 9.8k
Louise M. Judd Australia 46 5.7k 1.3× 2.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 113 12.3k
Nicholas J. Loman United Kingdom 39 7.0k 1.5× 3.2k 0.8× 2.0k 1.5× 998 0.9× 1.6k 1.8× 93 12.2k
Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén Denmark 38 5.2k 1.2× 2.1k 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 716 0.8× 95 9.8k
Nielson T. Baxter United States 16 4.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.4× 875 0.7× 616 0.5× 579 0.7× 21 7.9k
Dörte Becher Germany 60 6.8k 1.5× 2.9k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 710 0.8× 294 11.7k
Ulaş Karaöz United States 29 4.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 558 0.6× 54 9.8k
Waleed Abu Al‐Soud Denmark 46 4.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 914 0.8× 761 0.9× 99 9.8k
Daniel Dalevi United States 15 5.1k 1.1× 3.0k 0.8× 747 0.6× 969 0.8× 520 0.6× 27 9.4k
Derrick E. Wood United States 7 3.8k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 989 0.7× 714 0.6× 861 1.0× 10 7.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bas E. Dutilh

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bolduc, Benjamin, Olivier Zablocki, Dann Turner, et al.. (2025). Machine learning enables scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy. Nature Biotechnology.
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Zieleziński, Andrzej, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast and accurate sequence alignment and clustering of viral genomes. Nature Methods. 22(6). 1191–1194. 5 indexed citations
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Zomer, Aldert, Colin J. Ingham, F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, et al.. (2024). Structural color in the bacterial domain: The ecogenomics of a 2-dimensional optical phenotype. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(29). e2309757121–e2309757121. 3 indexed citations
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Pappas, Nikolaos, et al.. (2024). Integrating taxonomic signals from MAGs and contigs improves read annotation and taxonomic profiling of metagenomes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3373–3373. 12 indexed citations
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Schön, Max Emil, Cédric Lood, Lingyi Wu, et al.. (2024). Seasonal dynamics and diversity of Antarctic marine viruses reveal a novel viral seascape. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9192–9192. 10 indexed citations
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Zomer, Aldert, et al.. (2024). Graphite: painting genomes using a colored de Bruijn graph. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 6(4). lqae142–lqae142.
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Dijk, Bram van, et al.. (2023). Identifying and tracking mobile elements in evolving compost communities yields insights into the nanobiome. ISME Communications. 3(1). 90–90. 10 indexed citations
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Bruggeling, Carlijn E., Daniel Garza, Irıs D. Nagtegaal, et al.. (2023). Bacterial Oncotraits Rather than Spatial Organization Are Associated with Dysplasia in Ulcerative Colitis. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 17(11). 1870–1881. 5 indexed citations
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Snoek, Basten L., F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Jan Gerritse, et al.. (2022). A metagenomic portrait of the microbial community responsible for two decades of bioremediation of poly-contaminated groundwater. Water Research. 221. 118767–118767. 22 indexed citations
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Meerstein‐Kessel, Lisette, Konstantin Barylyuk, Jordy P. M. Coolen, et al.. (2021). A Prioritized and Validated Resource of Mitochondrial Proteins in Plasmodium Identifies Unique Biology. mSphere. 6(5). e0061421–e0061421. 15 indexed citations
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Dutilh, Bas E., Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, et al.. (2021). Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses. Current Opinion in Virology. 51. 207–215. 35 indexed citations
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Nóbrega, Franklin L., et al.. (2020). Prophages are associated with extensive CRISPR–Cas auto-immunity. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(21). 12074–12084. 33 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Laura, F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Alexander B. Westbye, et al.. (2020). Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 168–182. 70 indexed citations
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Balvert, Marleen, et al.. (2020). OGRE: Overlap Graph-based metagenomic Read clustEring. Bioinformatics. 37(7). 905–912. 3 indexed citations
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Taddese, Rahwa, Daniel Garza, Marien I. de Jonge, et al.. (2020). Growth rate alterations of human colorectal cancer cells by 157 gut bacteria. Gut Microbes. 12(1). 1799733–1799733. 28 indexed citations
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Vliet, Daan M. van, F. A. Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Bas E. Dutilh, et al.. (2020). The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters. Environmental Microbiology. 23(6). 2834–2857. 86 indexed citations
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Walter, Juline M., Felipe H. Coutinho, Luciana Leomil, et al.. (2020). Ecogenomics of the Marine Benthic Filamentous Cyanobacterium Adonisia. Microbial Ecology. 80(2). 249–265. 3 indexed citations
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Yin, Bojian, Marleen Balvert, Bas E. Dutilh, et al.. (2019). Using the structure of genome data in the design of deep neural networks for predicting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from genotype. Bioinformatics. 35(14). i538–i547. 35 indexed citations
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Siddell, Stuart G., Peter J. Walker, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, et al.. (2019). Binomial nomenclature for virus species: a consultation. Archives of Virology. 165(2). 519–525. 45 indexed citations
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