Ben Felts

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Felts is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Felts has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ben Felts's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Ben Felts is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Ben Felts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Ben Felts's co-authors include Forest Rohwer, Peter Salamon, James Nulton, Mya Breitbart, Joseph M. Mahaffy, Robert A. Edwards, Scott T. Kelley, Ian Hewson, Florent Angly and Matthew Haynes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Ben Felts

21 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions

2006 709 citations Florent Angly, Ben Felts et al. PLoS Biology profile →
A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes

2014 567 citations Bas E. Dutilh, Noriko A. Cassman et al. Nature Communications profile →
Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces

2003 549 citations Mya Breitbart, Ian Hewson et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Felts

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Learning Models of Chest X-rays Accurately Segment Lung Parenchyma Independent of Datasets and Disease States 2023 ·Douglas Conrad, Kamyar Afshar, Ben Felts, (unknown), Barbara Bailey, (unknown)	1
2	Race-Specific Spirometry Equations Do Not Improve Models of Dyspnea and Quantitative Chest CT Phenotypes 2023 ·CHEST Journal ·Amy L. Non, Barbara Bailey, Surya P. Bhatt, Richard Casaburi, Elizabeth A. Regan, Angela Yee‐Moon Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Alejandro A. Díaz, Arianne K. Baldomero, Gregory L. Kinney, Kendra A. Young, Ben Felts, (unknown), Douglas Conrad	12
3	Space-filling and benthic competition on coral reefs 2021 ·PeerJ ·Emma E. George, (unknown), (unknown), Barbara Bailey, Clinton B. Edwards, Ben Felts, Andreas F. Haas, Aaron C. Hartmann, Benjamin Mueller, Ty N. F. Roach, Peter Salamon, Cynthia B. Silveira, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Forest Rohwer, Antoni Luque	10
4	Application of Finite-Time and Control Thermodynamics to Biological Processes at Multiple Scales 2018 ·Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics ·Ty N. F. Roach, Peter Salamon, James Nulton, Bjarne Andresen, Ben Felts, Andreas F. Haas, (unknown), (unknown), Forest Rohwer	40
5	Viruses as Winners in the Game of Life 2016 ·Annual Review of Virology ·Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes, Merry Youle, Adrian Cantu, Ben Felts, James Nulton, Forest Rohwer	207
6	Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins 2015 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Savannah E. Sanchez, Daniel Cuevas, (unknown), Tiffany Y Liang, (unknown), Matthew Haynes, Jim Nulton, Ben Felts, Barbara Bailey, Peter Salamon, Robert A. Edwards, Alex B. Burgin, Anca M. Segall, Forest Rohwer	6
7	Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics 2015 ·PeerJ ·Andreas F. Haas, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Emma E. George, Mark Hatay, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Ben Felts, Phillip Dustan, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer	42
8	Subdiffusive motion of bacteriophage in mucosal surfaces increases the frequency of bacterial encounters 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jeremy J. Barr, (unknown), (unknown), Sam Kassegne, (unknown), Natasha Bonilla, Mark Hatay, (unknown), Barbara Bailey, Merry Youle, Ben Felts, Arlette R. C. Baljon, Jim Nulton, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer	149
9	Phage Phenomics: Physiological Approaches to Characterize Novel Viral Proteins 2015 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Savannah E. Sanchez, Daniel Cuevas, (unknown), Tiffany Y Liang, (unknown), Matthew Haynes, Jim Nulton, Ben Felts, Barbara Bailey, (unknown), Robert A. Edwards, Alex B. Burgin, (unknown), Forest Rohwer	2
10	The Upper Respiratory Tract as a Microbial Source for Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis. Parallels from Island Biogeography 2014 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Katrine Whiteson, Barbara Bailey, Megan Bergkessel, Douglas Conrad, Laurence Delhaès, Ben Felts, J. Kirk Harris, Ryan C. Hunter, Yan Wei Lim, Heather Maughan, Robert A. Quinn, Peter Salamon, James C. Sullivan, Brandie D. Wagner, Paul B. Rainey	80
11	A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes breakdown → 2014 ·Nature Communications ·Bas E. Dutilh, Noriko A. Cassman, Katelyn McNair, Savannah E. Sanchez, Amaro E. Trindade‐Silva, Lance Boling, Jeremy J. Barr, Daan R. Speth, Victor Seguritan, Ramy K. Aziz, Ben Felts, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, John L. Mokili, Robert A. Edwards	567
12	Assessing Coral Reefs on a Pacific-Wide Scale Using the Microbialization Score 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·Tracey Somera, James Nulton, Katie L. Barott, Ben Felts, (unknown), Mark Hatay, Hochul Lee, Marc O. Nadon, Bahador Nosrat, Peter Salamon, Barbara Bailey, Stuart A. Sandin, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, Merry Youle, Brian Zgliczynski, Russell E. Brainard, Forest Rohwer	64
13	Reference-independent comparative metagenomics using cross-assembly: crAss 2012 ·Bioinformatics ·Bas E. Dutilh, Robert Schmieder, Jim Nulton, Ben Felts, Peter Salamon, Robert A. Edwards, John L. Mokili	46
14	Viral diversity and dynamics in an infant gut 2008 ·Research in Microbiology ·Mya Breitbart, Matthew Haynes, Scott T. Kelley, Florent Angly, Robert A. Edwards, Ben Felts, Joseph M. Mahaffy, (unknown), James Nulton, (unknown), Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer	259
15	Power law rankâabundance models for marine phage communities 2007 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Mya Breitbart, (unknown), Florent Angly, Ben Felts, James Nulton, Forest Rohwer, Peter Salamon	42
16	The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions breakdown → 2006 ·PLoS Biology ·Florent Angly, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, Peter Salamon, Robert A. Edwards, Craig A. Carlson, Amy M. Chan, Matthew Haynes, Scott T. Kelley, Hong Liu, Joseph M. Mahaffy, (unknown), Jim Nulton, Robert Olson, Rachel Parsons, (unknown), Curtis A. Suttle, Forest Rohwer	709
17	Power law rank-abundance relationships in marine phage populations 2005 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Peter Salamon, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, Mya Breitbart, (unknown), Florent Angly, Ben Felts, James Nulton, Forest Rohwer	2
18	PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information 2005 ·BMC Bioinformatics ·Florent Angly, Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito, (unknown), (unknown), Mya Breitbart, Peter Salamon, Ben Felts, James Nulton, Joseph M. Mahaffy, Forest Rohwer	128
19	Diversity and population structure of a near–shore marine–sediment viral community 2004 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mya Breitbart, Ben Felts, Scott T. Kelley, Joseph M. Mahaffy, James Nulton, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer	217
20	Metagenomic Analyses of an Uncultured Viral Community from Human Feces breakdown → 2003 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Mya Breitbart, Ian Hewson, Ben Felts, Joseph M. Mahaffy, James Nulton, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer	549

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